The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-01-31
LATE NEWS.

A citizen of Mounds, ILL.,, was assassin.
ated last week, by some one unknown.
In addition to the other resources of
the Black Hills country oil has been dis.
covered,
The Virginia Legislature elected State
officers, choosing the nominees of the
Conservative caucus and defeating the
Repudiationists.
General Ewing made speech to the
Maryland Legislature on Tuesday even
ing, discussing financial questions.
The Massachusetts House of Repre>
sentatives adopted resolution approv>
ing the course of the Senators from that
State and denouncing Senator Blaine.
The three brothers Freese, of Trenton,
N. J., have been arrested on complaint
of the State Savings Bank, charged with
conspiracy in taking and using the funds
of the institution,
A German named Namuth was arrest,
ed last week in Chicago, by United States
detectives, charged with abstracting let
tiers from street mail boxes. Over two
thousand letters were found in his pos~
session.
AT Somerville, Ala, night before last,
Graham McCarley, in custody charged
with illicit distllling was shot and Instant
ly killed by man named Davis Poteet.
The shooting was unprovoked and un~
called for.
An appalling famine is raging through
out the four provinces of North China.
Nine millions of people are reported
destitute. Children are daily sold in the
markets for food,
The Montenegrins Saturday Captured,
after violent bombardment, three forti-
fed islands in Lake Scutari and were
preparing to attack the important fortress
of Zabliac Monday.
A car on the Pennsylvania railroad in
transit from Philadelphia to New York,
was robbed of silks, cigars, cloths, linens
and other valuable goods.
A desperate attempt was made by
band of masked robbers to rob a train
on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
railroad at Kinsley, Kan. early yesterday
morning, but it was frustrated by the cool.
ness and courage of the train>men. A
large party is in pursuit of the robbers.
A Constantinople correspondent says.
The Government has received a telegram
to the effect that the preliminaries of
peace have been signed, and that the
Grand Duke Nicholas would reach Adri>
anople Saturday. The same correspon>
dent states that England had the Porte's
permission to enter the Dardanelles.
Two bills have been presented by Cov>
ert, a member from Cuyahoga county,
which do not harmonic well with each
other. One is for an increase Of the levy
for library purposes, and the other to sus-
pend the payment ofthe December taxes
until June next. 1t does not seem quite
the thing to add to the taxes, when the
people are not able to pay those already
Levied C0lnwbNS DiSbakeh. Il aI.
The Rhode Island Supreme Court has
delivered a decision to the effect that the
Roman Catholic parochial schools are
not public schools in any such legal sense
as to entitle tie land and buildings occu-
pied by them to exemption from taxation,
the schools in question not being estab~
lished under the laws of the State, not
under the control Of State officers-and
that parsonages attached to churches are
not exempt from taxation. The decision
was rendered in suits instituted by St.
Peter and Paul's and other Roman Cath
olic churches in Providence against the
assessors of taxes.-Pitks. Post.
AT Pittsburg Frank Lynch was arrested
on the Fort Wayne railroad bridge Tues
day night when about to jump into the
river: He admits having dropped his
little boy 81 years old into the river on
the night Of December 18th.