The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1877-07-19
LATE NEWS.

sident Jackson's Secretary of War, whose
life has been more eventful than most
romances, is now very infrm and i'll at
Washington.
st, Louis, July 14.-The Butchers and
Drovers Bank of this city has suspended
to-day. Nothing definite an be learned
yet.
ST. Louis July Poindexter Ed
mundson was hung yesterday at Bloom
field, Mo-, for the murder of VIM. Shaw,
last summer. There was about four thou
sand people witnessed the execution. He
pleaded innocent to the last.
London, July 14.-The Steamer Bolivia
from Glasgow for New York has returned
t. G'agOw, having broken her shaft on
Monday when $50 miles west of Tory
Island.
New York, July l4--A correspondent
at Rome writes that on June % Copious
shower of sand fell upon Rome. Carried
over from the deserts of Africa, il filed
the upper atmosphere like a great cloud,
and to such an extent that the sun at
four o'clock in the afternoon seemed en-
tirely shorn of its rays, appearing like
pale moon of greenish tin. In some pla.
ces the sand, mixed with water, fell in
little drops of mud. In color, the sand
has reddish brick tinge, mixed with
grains Of vegetable pollen. The same at
mospheric phenomenon was observed at
Naples; but although Vesuvius was in a
partial state oferuption, no sand or cind-
ers fell there.
The Turks assert that the Russians
massacred 200 refugees from Sistova, as
well as the whole population of several
villages through which they passed.
A severe storm has broken and wreck
ed the Russian bridge across the Danube
at Simnitza, causing serious interruption
to supplies for the army now operating in
Bulgaria.
The directors of the Upper Canada
Bible Society have forwarded five hum
dred dollars worth of Bibles to st. Johns.
Bread and cheese would do them more
good for the present.
Joseph and his band of Indians in lido.
no surprised party of31 Cinnamon COM
ing down the Clearwater in canoes and
killed the whole party.
An explosion at the ore mines near
Allentown Pa, on the 18th killed three
and fatally wounded five more.
Teresa Williams, who was recently bap-
tized and admitted to church in Hart
ford, proves to be thoroughly trained
thief from New York. She says: II
whooped in on religion as a matter of
biz"
Auburn, N. Y, July 16-At Sterling
Valley yesterday Edward Hoppin killed
Phillip Proudfoot with ball bat. Alleged
cause: seduction of Hoppin's sister by
Proudfoot.
Thirty Thousand people viewed the
remains of HaCkett, who was killed in
the Montreal riot last Thursday.
st. Louis, July 16.-The Bank of st.
Louis has closed its doors. It's President
Jacob S. Merrill, says the depositors will
be paid in time.
San Francisco, July 49, General How
ard reports that on the 18th the troops
attacked the Indians, who made for
Kamia, keeping up fire on the pursuers,
two of whom were wounded. William
Bunling died yesterday.
New York, July 16.-The death by
drowning at Coney Island of William A.
Moore, provision dealer, at No. 102 Broad
street, has caused sad feeling on the
Produce Exchange, of which he had been
a member for over ten years.
A duel was avoided in Kansas City at
the expense ofa wife and $500. A gam
bier had eloped with the wife of a'citizen
of Joplin, Missouri, who followed the
couple to Kansas City, and the two men,
were on the point of firing at each other
when such a crowd collected that they
withdraw to a private room. The hus-.
band claimed that he had spent $500 in
searching for his wife, but was ready to
give her up if her paramour would pay
the money. The agreement was made
and the Joplin man went home.
A sudden draught of hot air rassed
through a cotton field and peach-oIChard
in Western Texas few days ago, scorch-
ing and killing every green thing it
touched for a space of one hundred and
forty yards wide and four hundred yards
long.
An old man named Robert Stowe, on
his way to Warsaw, ILL.,, fell from the
steamer Clinton at St. Lewis, on Monday
md was drowned. George W Best, mate
Of the Clinton and recovered the body.
James E. Monahan, a roustabout of the
steamer, plunged into the the river to
ave the old man and was also drowned,
le being struck by the wheel of boat,
which was in motion at the time.