The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-08-01
NEWS OF THE WEEK.


killed,
Little Rock, Ark, July 27,-A freight train on
the st. Louis d Iron Mountain Railway was
ditched at 1890 this morning at Gardner Station,
forty miles north of this city. The Engineer Rob-
ert Wilkinson, was killed The fireman Hastings,
was badly injured. A broken rail was the cause
OF the disaster
Fl. Wayne, July 26.-Judge Alexander Mcintosh
Of this county was killed to-day on his farm, ten
miles SOUTH by being kicked in the head by
wild horse that G was trying TO break He wasa
very prominent farmer and politician. He leaves
al large family in comfortable circumstances. He
was 55 years old.
Peter Bresban, who murdered Michael Daul'
thier In April last, was hanged at Canton, N. Y,
Friday.
Twenty. two tons Of fine silver bars, valued at
s75OOOO were shipped from the Assay ofice at
New York last week to the Philadelphia Mint for
coinage into standard silver dollars.
Mayor PIlsbury Of New Orleans, in view Of the
action of the ice ring in raising the price to sixty
dollars per ton, has negotiated for supplies by rail,
to be sold at cost to the consumers
The Steamer City of Toxic arrived at San Fran
cisco Friday She has been under sail for the last
Chinese Ambassador and suite were on board.
The Miners Journal, at Pousville, in weekly
review Of the coal trade, announces one weeks
suspension in the Schuylkill region, beginning
Monday 1t says the market is still suffering from
from the large amount of coal thrown upon it
from this region in June.
Among the passengers by the City of Toxic
which arrived in San Francisco last Friday, was
| G. f. Seward U. s. Minister at Pekin en- route 10
Washington, and the Chinese Ambassador and
party, who will leave for Washington in few
days No formal reception was rendered to them
on their arrival
| Considerable excitement was caused in La
Crosse, Wis, by the imprisonment Of Mrs Ida
Pierce in the co mon jail for contempt Of court,
she having refused to deliver up her child to
divorced husband The case was brought before
the Supreme Court, which, Friday, ordered herr
lease on the ground that she was improperly i'm
prisoned Chief Justice Ryan dissents, holding
the Supreme Court has no Jurisdiction.
The COnhnen Register published in Paris,
SAYS that an immense lottery is to be organized at
the end Of the Exhibition, containing two million
tickets at fifty cents. This sum will be devoted to
the purchase of works Of art in the Exhibition,
which will be distributed by lot amongst the pur.
chasers of the tickets
The Q. S. Consul at Geneva advises the people
of that city to import anthracite coal from Phia-
delphia He says the supply Of fuel in switzer-
land is so scarce and dear that good American
coal could be sold for less han inferior fuel now
fetches, and might be discharged at Antwerp or
Marseilles as opportunities afforded.
The Smith Family" are making arrangements
| 4 uotb vnaP q
pack, N. j., on grander scale thau ever. The
picnic will be held on Wednesday, September A..
Insults to Imperial German Majesty have been
prosecuted with vigor and dispatch of recent and
German papers report sentences for this offence,
in four weeks aggregating 476 years of imprison-
. ment
Witness Anderson has at last rizen from the
: depth into which he was dropped by the Oldest
daily paper of North America to position upon
the youngest and about the sauciest one-the
Washington Post,
According to the Mount Pleasant IoTn the
skeletons Of three of the British General Brad
docks men have been dug up near Black Lick,
t In one of the graves was an old-fashioned flint.
lock musket, bearing the simple 'l7l5 Lon"
Piusburg, July 25-A special from Sharon Pa,
|
ing in the Bowden carriage factory and spread TO
several buildingsadjo and to large business
block on State street. The principal losses are as
follows; Dowden's carriage factory, $1,000, in
sured John Evans, two dwellings. $1,000 Fred
Holtze, So GOO, insured for 81 OOO Jacob Heelher,
So 900, insured Mrs Perry, $1,000, insured.
I Consantlnople, July 26-The British AmbOssy
received official reports of the continued wantOn
&, 4 fnNl
Phillipolis district by the Bugarians and Rus
slams.
London, July 26- Fourteen children and three
teachers were drowned by the caps2ing of boat
to-day in the river Blackwater, near the town Of
Baillieborough, County Cavan, Ireland.
( Louisville, KY July 26-At picnic in Lewis
. ounty, Thursday Thomas and William Blanken-
ship were stabbed to death by Daniel and Joseph
Morgan. Ten or fifteen persons were stabbed in
, in the melee Daniel Morgan is under arrest; Jo-
seph escaped.
Damariscotta, Me-, July 26.-Laura Linscott and
Addie Wech, girls Of about 16 years, were drown
| ed by the cspszing of q boat in Adams Pond
\ Bootbay, yesterday afternoon. Another girl and
three boys who were in'the boat were saved. The
accident was caused by the rocking of the boat
; Thomas Kelso, an influential and wealthy citi'
zen of Baltimore died Friday, at the advanced
age of "a years. Mr. Kelso was born in Ireland
in 1884. His parents emigrated to this country
when he was years old.
Kearney, the California sgitstor, arrived at Bos
, ton, Sunday.
The MARQUIS Of Lorne will succeed Lord Duf
fering as Governor General Of Canada.
, United States Minister Noyes sailed from New
, York on Saturday for France on the steamer City
of Richmond. Br. Noyes is accompanied by hi
son.
Information has been received that bale o
cotton, entered by the Memphis Cotton Exchange
has been awarded the first premium at the PaTi
Exposition.
At Highland near Baldwin Station, Pa, Oh Sat
urday morning, the wife of William Flowerfeld
4, while assisting her husband in raising bucket
fr ON newly made we'll, "a feet deep, accidental
" fell in, and sustained injuries which will prob
ably result fatally.
The Tallapoosa, with the Secretary Of the NAVY
and party, arrived at Portsmouth, N. H., on Fri
s day night, from Glocester, being delayed by the
giving out Of one Of the boilers, After breakfast
ing on board the vessel, the company visited th'
navy yard.
} Lit Ming Cook, who has Just arrived IN saI
Francisco from Toxic, 10 take the position OF chi
nese Consal at that port says the Chinese govern
eminent has no desire to abrogate the Burlingamt
treaty, nor does 1t feel any fear FOR the Its subjects
in the United States believing this government
has the will and power to protect them.
Atsilyer Lake, Mennonite settlement forty
miles north from Ysnkton, D. T., cloud burst oc
Cured on Monday last, by which large portion
of the country was submerged and seven personl
drowned. The west branch OF the Vermillio1
Width of over q mile and depth from ten tC
thirty feet. Much destruction of property is re
; ported
Can u caward limited States Minister in China