The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-03-28
LATE NEWS.

Boston, March 2I.-Captain Thomas
Peabody of the bark c. o, Whitmore,is
held for trial on charge OF the murder
of his mate, James H. Elwood.
Cambridge, Mass, March 2I-Abiel
F. Fifeld, defaulting Water Register, has
been sentenced to three years in the PEN
itentiary.
Boston, March 2I.-The bill granting
female suffrage at municipal elections
has been defeated in the House by I27 to
90.
Plymouth, N. H., March 2I.--Isaac
Adams died at Sandwich, N. H., yester-
day, leaving fortune estimated from
$4,000, 900 to Sc, 900, 900, He bought what
is known as the Adams printing press
from the inventor for an old gun.
Richmond, March, 2I.-A Richmond
dispatch says three men named McFadN
den, ,one Moody and a colored man were
drowned in attempting to cross the James
river near Patterson's Landing last night.
Providence, March 81 The House of
Representatives defeated, Io to IS, the
Constitutional amendment giving unmar-
ried women and widows the same privis
leges as men in voting upon PROPOSE
tion to impose tax or appropriate mon
ey or for City Council,
New York, March 2I.-A dispatch
from Montreal states that John Phelan,
contractor Of the Government work on
the Lachine canal, has disappeared, it is
said, leaving $50, 900 due merchants and
bill discounters, besides six weeks wages
to $50 workngmen.
E. M. Kennedy, young attorney of
McConnelsville, has been suspended
from the practice of law in the Courts of
the States for irregularities of practice"
The State Geologist of Georgia reports
that her agricultural, pastoral, and lum~
Der resources are equal, if not superior,
to any State on the Pacific Slope, or in
the Northwest. She has water power far
more valuable and more generously difs
fused than New England. In gold she
is equal to California, in copper to Ten
nesee, in coal to Pennsylvania, in iron to
the most productive country,in in pasturage
to Kentucky, in soil to Iowa, in lumber
to Maine, and in climate she is better and
more Interchangeable than any of them.
Four Polish doctors were hanged by
the Russians at Sophia. The Turks left
the town on the approach of the Russ
slams in such haste that they had no time
to remove their wounded; these remains
ed in the military hospitals under the
care of five doctors, who trusted in the
Geneva Convention to protect them. All
the doctors referred TO were Poles, but
four of them were Austrian subjects and
none of them had taken up arms against
Russia. They formed part of the sani-
tary department of the Turkish regular
army, and had been permitted to serve
in it by their respective Governments.
Three of them, doctors of the Cracow
University were at once thrown into pris.
on. The fourth, DR.. Gebhardt, was sup.
posed from his name to be a German,
and he was employed for few days as
surgeon to the Russian wounded; but
soon after the Russians discovered that
he also was Pole, and he was according
ly sent into prison with his comrades. In
vain did he prove that he was an Austri-
an subject, that his elder brother was
secretary to the Supreme Court of Justice
at Vienna, and that he could not have
taken part in the Polish insurrecton Of =
1868, as he was then only I3 years, old.
He and his three colleagues were taken
to public square in Sophia and hanged.
The fifth doctor, M. Czerwinski, fortu.
nately possessed an English passport,
and this saved his life, the British Cons
sui having interfered energetically on
his behalf. DR.. Czerwinski was present
at tile execution, and brought the terrible
news to Dr. Gebhardts brother at Wen