The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1875-12-02
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Charles D. Whyland was shot and in
stantly killed by a drunken gamblel
named Hank Davis, in Cairo, on Thurs
day night, rerU' Nm.
Hon. Benjamin P. Avery, Ameri, al
Minister to China, is dead.
A Are at Oberlin on Tuesday foots up
loss Of $4,000 u
The new election bill has passed III,
French Assembly by 532 to 81. ~
At Bellevue, Canada, the Grand Trunk
railway station burned Tuesday. Los
$l50,000.
A fire at Lowell, Mass, caused los
Of $4,000.
st. Paul has population of 33, 720.
Governor Allen has appointed Mill
ken, State Treasurer elect. TO succeed
Welsh, deceased.
Avery, the Washington ofiici ! who
was agent for the ST, Louis whisky RUG
will soon know his doom.
At Pony Hollow, near Elmyra, N. Y.
on Tuesday, Albert Woods house burned
and his wife and three children perished
III the flames. |
Father Ryan is on trial at Caldwell, o.,
for shooting with intent to kill. 1t seems
the two young men had made threats,
and hence Father Ryan raised the window
and fired " them, the balls striking the
ground near them. The jury found him
guilty of shooting with intent TO wound,
Captain ROthwell, of Milan, Ohio, OF
the schooner Ross, suicided at Chicago
Saturday by taking morphine. Liquor
and business troubles. 1aH Hal
The Mexican cattle stealers are still
active on the Rio Grande. Trey run off
Texas cattle by thousands. Cortina is
the great leader.
Providence, r. l., Nov. 29.--In Grams
ton, Saturday night, during family
quarrel, William Manning fatally shot
hls mother, nIistaking her for All officer
called to quell The disturbance.
London, Nov 90 Accounts from IT.
aas represent the Russian losses heavy
in the recent rising at Khokand Part of
The garrison was massaCred. A telegram
from Alexandria says the AbyssinaLs
surprised and killed twelve hundred
Egyptians, including twelve officers.
Buffalo, Nov. 2S.-A woman, forty
years of age, named Wllhelaire, is ar
rested charged with numbering her step
son, aged fourteen, who had been miss
ing since the End inst The body WAS
found in an old well on the premises,
and was in nude state except shirt.
A chain and other weights were attached
TO his neck. rhe property belonging to
him, and reverting to her own child in
Ease OF his death, is the supposed cause.
About 4 o'clock on the afternoon of the
Goth ult., a most distressing accident oc-
Cured in all excavation near Third
street, Brooklyn. While Thomas Dodd,
aged eight years, Frank McCardy, aged
seven years, and Joseph Halleck, aged
ten years, were playing in the excava-
tion, part OF the bank gave way, sud.
denly burying them alive. When as.
sistance came they were taken from be-
neatEr the mass of earth, but life was
extinct.
Springfield, Mass, Nov. 30. - Moses
Dickinson, aged sixty-fOur, farmer of
Amherst, was murdered Saturday night.
A tramp recently employed by Dickin-
son is suspected.
Milwaukee, Wis, Nov. 25.-The Jury
in the case of Werth & Kiewalt, distil-
lers, returned verdict this morning of
not guilty as 10 Werth. AS to Klewart,
they could not agree and were discharg-
ed. William MCKenney and Judge DIX
on conducted the case for the prosecrl.
ton, and N. S. Murphy and George B.
Goodwin for the defense.
MOllar, the Gauger. who was convicted
severalSlays ago and was awaiting SEN
tence under bail, has disappeared.
Paris, Nov. 25.-The journals of this
city have been officially warned that
they will be prosecuted if they repro
duCe M. De Cassavnac's speech to the
Bonapartists of Bellevile. Proceedings
have already been taken against LIE Gau-
lois, and this evening lie Pays was seized
London, Nov. 26.-The Berlin CORE
spondent of the Morning Post states that
the police are searching the houses of
Socialist Democrats.
The steamer Phil Sheridan burned on
Lake Erie, near Buffalo, Wednesday. No
lives lost.
The steamer Sunnyside, on the Hud-
son, was cut into by the ice, broke in
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