The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1877-05-03
qELEGRAMS IN BRIEF.

Thomas Foster, who has been missing
for some DAYS, was found in Chester
Creek this afternoon. Foul play is sus-
pected.
London dispatches say Thos. Kirchen!
Sons & Co., hop merchants, are reported
failed. Liabilities, 100000
The Dominion House Of Commons
has passed tariff bill, and bill to
further secure the independence of Par
lament.
The Comptroller of Currency has de-
clared dividend of twenty per cent. IN
the case of the Fourth National Bank oil
Chicago.
A Petition is being numerously signed,
asking the President to appoint only re-
sidents of the District as District Uom'
missionerss
A dispatch from Berlin says that the
uncle OF the Emperor Of Japan, who has
been studying in the Prussian war Aca-
DENY, has been summoned home to take
command of the army against the insur-
gents.
Forged checks and notes amounting
to SI2, 900, purporting to have been
signed by Henry w, Carter, and lndors'
ed by Stephen Thayer & Son, have been
discovered at Ipswich, N, H., and it is
expected the fabricated paper will aggre-
gate Sax, 900. Samuel A, Thayer writes
his family that he issued false token
Accounts from various points in Min
nesota, Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska
and Missouri are encouraging with res
pect to the prospects for wheat and corn
A vast amount Of seeding has been done
within the past two or three weeks, the
farmers being moved to extra efforts in
order to offset as far as possible the raw
ages of the grasshopper, so that the ac-
reage will largely surpass that OF previ'
Gus years.
Harrisburg, Pa April 55.- The motion
for a new trial in the case of Frank Will
son, convicted of the murder of pedler
named Rudy, last summer, was overruled
to-day, and the prisoner was sentenced
to be hanged,
Bethlehem, Pa, April 25.-Six burg
lars, while attempting to enter the store
of VIM, McKeen, were surprised by an
officer who shot two of them, instantly
killing one named VIM, Mack, of Phil
lipsburg, N. J. The balance ofthe gang
including the wounded man, escaped.
Four of the Chico incendiaries have
ben sentenced to the penitentiaries, as
follows: H, S. Jones, twenty years
Pleasant Slaughter, ten years, and A.
Holderbaum, five years. A motion tor
a new trial in the cases Of Jones and Fay
was made and denied.
Col. S. D. Harris, for a number OF
wears editor of the Ohio Farmer OF
Cleveland and a prominent contributor
to agricultural literature, died suddenly
at his residence at Hudson, Ohio, Fri
day.
The Panama Star has letter from the
commander of the Darien Exploring
Expedition, expressing the conviction
that the International canal will soon be
made through Columbia, provided there
is no lack of faith and persevering sup
port from an intelligent public.
A Joint resolution, recommending the
passage of the Texas Pacific Railroad
bill pending in Congress, and instruct
ing Senators and requesting Represen'
tatives of the State OF Missouri to vote
for its passage, almost unanimously
passed both houses of the Missouri Leg
islature,
The declaration Of war by the Gar
was read simultaneously on board the
three vessels forming the Russian squad
ron in New York harbor, and received
with loud huzzas by the officers and
crew, followed by the singing of the re
Deum and prayers for the success fthe
Muscovite arms.
All the Republican newspapers in
Maine are conducted in the Blain interest
but an effort is making to secure capital
to establish one of different character
in Portland. Ten thousand dollars have
been subscribed by Ex Collector Wash
burn and five thousand dollars by Ex-
Representative Burleigh. Mr.. Washburn
says that the first number will appear
about the Ist of July.
A Baltimore dispatch says suspicious
circumstances developed go to show that
Rev. Joseph Jones of the Independent
Methodist Protestant Church, who died
suddenly on Monday, really committed
suicide in fear of his pecuniary transac-
tons. The dispatch says he had used
the church funds on his account and had
been requested to resign. His life was
insured for $4,000.
At Springfield, Georgia, on Tuesday,
George Williams (colored) was hung for
the murder of his infant son William. On
the 9th of August, 1875, the partially de-
composed body of child, apparently
about two years of age, was found in the
woods near Williams house. The body
showed thst the wretched child had un-
dergone orrible'mutilation before death.
The right foot was burned off and the leg
shrivelled nearly to the knee. The evil
dence showed that the father committed
the deed in fit of rage, because of the
child's backwardness in learning to
walk.
A tragedy, unparalleled probably in It's
sadness, occurred at the Farmers Hotel,
Cincinnati, Wednesday morning 26 ult.
Mrs. Sallie Dill and her daughter, Ida
May, were found in their room about
eleven o'clock lying on the bed-the
daughter dead and the mother dying from
poison. Itwas at first considered double
suicide, and did not excite the sensation
that was raised when finally after inves-
it became almost certain that
one was murder and the other suicide.
The two women were at first believed to
be sisters; but later in the day the bodies
were recognized as those of Sallie Dill,
a Shakeress from the village in White
water township, Hamilton county, and
her sixteen year old daughter, Ida May
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