The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1871-05-25
GENERAL AND PARTICULAR

Henry Wittock. of Greene county. H.
aged seventy years, was killed in his own
house on Thursday afternoon by two
neighbors, named Moses and Dec Sheer
The instrument of death was a hoe. THE
only cause assigned for the act is an old
neighborhood feud. Moses Speer has been /
arrested, but the other man is at large.
A horrible casualty occurred at Cincin-
natl on Friday last. VIM. ]. Jones. a
Welshman, employed at a rolling mill in
the capacity of a "hooker-up"-his bust
ness being to manage the hook by which
the bloom" or bar of incandescent IRON
Is lifted up and passed between the rollers
was by some accidental means jerked
from the ground, thrown. several feet into
the ar, and, coming down, fell upon the
great belt which moves the rollers. By
this he was carried feet-foremost toward
the rollers, caught and drawn slowly be-
tween them, and fattened out into a
CHASTITY and shapeless mass of extinct hui
mainly. The machinery was stopped and
chin.
The official reports of the military au-
thorltles of Arizona on the late massacre
OF the Apaches, at Camp Grant, have been
published by order of the Department
Commander. They charge that the in
dams were peacefully engaged on the res
ervation, were entitled to the protection
of the United States as prisoners of war,
and that of the whole number killed only
eight were men, the others being women
n children. The butchey is denounced
as simply an unprovoked murder.
Ducks are said to do good service in ex-
terminating the potato bug. A gentleman
of Piqua, Ohio, put a pair of Muscovvs
into his potato patch, which was literally
swarming with the bugs. The ducks ate
the bugs with such avidity that the latter
were soon exterminated, and the patch
has not since been troubled with them
The ducks did not appear to suffer any i'll
effects from eating the bugs, and were not
slow in taking IN" all that they could
discover. The duck remedy is certainly
worthy of attention.
The Abilene Kansas Chronicle gives
some interesting items about the Texas
cattle trade "From the best information
we can obtain, we think that the number
of cattle now on their way from Texas to
Abilene, is not less than ninety thousand.
The trade viii be larger during the coming
season than ever"
Alex. F. Kennedy was brought to
Cleveland Friday, having been arrested by
the state authorities at Tfin, Ohio, and
lodged an jail, charged with burglariously
entering and robbing the post office at
Tifhn. United States Commissioner White,
before whom the prisoner was brought,
Will give the case a hearing on Tuesday
next.
PHILADELPHIA, May 2O.-The miners
| &c AhA no1o-rn~1 W.
ern Coal Comdany, have accepted the
compromise offered by the companies. and
will resume work Immediately. The Del.
aware and Hudson men will undoubtedly
accept it to-day. The Pittston minets arr
already at work, and g general resump.
/ ton Is confidently predicted by Monday
next.
, HIGHWAY RoBBERY.-On Friday night
last, a young man, foreman of the planning
mill of Earnest & Sens, while riding in {
buggy a short distance from Niles, wa!
stopped by two men who demanded hi
| money. They got him into the bottom o
2 the buggy, took a pocket book from hi
breast pocket and disappeared. The bool
I contained one dollar and twenty-five cent
4 and some papers. He had money witt
him, but in a different pocket. He think
he knows the robbers and will attempt T.
bring them to justice.
A sad accident occurred on Friday even
, ing at the residence of Mr.. Hendricks
g No. 545 Columbus street, Cleveland EN-
e ma, fourteen years old, daughter of Nj
r a., vas carrying a lamp through tn
: house, when the chimney to it topple
over. She turned the wick down in orde
o to replace the chimney when the oil caugh
o fire. an EXPLOSION eusued and she was en-
Yeloped in flames and so frightfully burn
: ed that she died in q few hours. N,
Schroeder was also fearfully burned Will
assisting the girl. The house took fl
: but the fire was soon extinguished.