The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-11-07
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

made an assignment or Saturday. His liabilities
are stated to be $4,000.
seven prisoners escaped from the jail at Stan
ford KY, on Friday night by prying the iron bars
apart in the cells and outer windows
Detweler & Welsh, Philadelphia milliners, have
failed for 100000
The eruption OF Mount Vesuvius has recon-.
menced with great activity.
The British Government recommends media
tion on the Greek frontier question
A Berlin dispatch says Russia intends to raise
her army in Turkey to 30 900 men.
JOS. A. Hemann Il Co., bankers, Of Cincinnati,
suspended Friday Liabilities about 100000
Discomfort 10 Spain. it is reported, is not con-
fined to the handful of sgitatoIs, but exists to a
serious extent in the army.
scheme for shipping coolies from Trinidad
and Demerara to! Haysnns. and selling them to
Cuban planters, has been broken up.
The London Telegraph says that with The loyal
support of France England and Austria, the treaty
of Berlin will be sustained to the letter.
Burglars entered the house of two brothers
named Buson, in Camden, N, j., Wednesday
night, gagged the occupants and stole SIG coo worth
of valuables.
A Bombay dispatch says that the Indian princes
are Offering their aid to the Government Of In
dia, and that the native troops are eager to Rd'
vance on Afghanistan,
The cholera is making fearful ravages in Mo-
rocco. Smallpox and malignant ievers are also
prevailing. Large numbers of persons are sarv-
ing in the streets of Tsngier and the Europeans
and Jews have fed from the city.
The directors and oficials OF the suspended
Bank of Glasgow, nine in number, have been
committed to jail TO await trial. All efforts to OBJ
tain their release on bail failed. The general i'm
preston 10 that they will be sentenced to long
terms of imprisonment,
Detroit, Nov 2-The schooner Graham Brothers
Is reported ashore at Riddles Point, near the head
OF Lake Michigan,
Moses Allen, cOlored, was hanged on Friday at
Gibson, Glas cock county, Georgia, for the murder
of Benjamin Ivey in December last lVey was
Sheriff of GlHscock county.
Wheeling, Nov. 3.-DOowan, sheets & Co,
bankers at Bellaire, Ohio, failed yesterday. Liza
bilies, $50 OOO assets, $4,000; assets OF the indi
vidual members at large, estimated at Sl25OOO. IL
is believed the depositors will lose nothing. The
failure was caused by the shrinksge in real es-
tate.
Amsterdam, N. Y, Nov. 3.-The storage depart
ment Of Green's knitting mill was burned this
morning. The falling walls crushed Into schuy'
Ter Il Bloads MILL burying three men IN the shat
tered machinery. Charles Luton lost leg; the
other two men were slightly injured. Green's
loss is 5OOOO insurance. $500; Schuyler d
BloOd's loss, $4,000; insured
Boston, Nov 3-Andrew P, Anderson was ar
rested to day on the charge Of manslaughter, in
having caused the death Of Betsey Rivoldo, whom
he assaulted October 18TH She was his washer
woman and not having his clothes ready when
he called, he assaulted her, from the effects oi
which she died on last Tuesday.
On Saturday morning two plastererS, NJ. Muir
ply married. and Patrick Conley, single-work.
ing in the new Produce Exchange Toledo,
stepped upon the end Of swinging sCaffold and
fell eighty feet to the cellar, COney was instantly
killed and Murphy will die.
Baltimore, Nov. O. Captain MunrOe, Of the
British bark Beaconsheld, reports that October
18th he took off the crew and passengers of the
Portugese schooner Julio and Victoria, sixty tons,
Captain julius Vacura of New Bedford, for Cape
De Verde with cargo of provisions and mer'
chandise, capszed in hurricane October 18th.
Five psssengers-lhe men, woman and child
were lost. The crew and other passengers, four
teen persons, we're rescued after being three days
and two nights on the wreck without food.
Oil City, Pa, Nov. 1--Thursdsy afternoon Rob.
ert Frazers "Humpty Dumpty' troupe gave a
family matinee at the Grand Opera House in this
city, which was attended by little girl Bamed
Kingsbury, aged about twelve years. She was so
frightened by the trick in which man is appar-
emily beheaded that she went into spasmS, from
the effects of which she died to day.
FIG. Minor, of Cleveland, convicted Of body
snatching, was sentenced on Saturday TO undergo
four months imprisonment in the WorkhOuse,
and pay fine Of one hundred dollars and costs
Advices from Lansing, Michigan, states that
the Supreme Court of that State has just decided
in two cases tried before it, that the American In
surance Company of Chicago cannot collect its
instalment notes in Michigan.
Robert A. Pedrick, who defrauded his employ
ers, Benkark Il Hutton, importers OF cloths aud
silks in New York of SlOSOOO, and by means Of
torgeries swinded the customs Of duty amount:
ing TO Sl2OOOO. He says his wrong doing was
brought about by speculatiOns in stock aud that
when he had retrieved his first losses and had
considerable money in hand, his broker failed
and he lost ALL He states he is filed with re-
morse on account Of his wrong doings and asserts
he alone is to blame.
Dispatches from sedalia, Mo-, say Thomas G.
Cockrell, nephew Of United States Senator Cock.
rel Of that State, was found murdered last Friday
morning in the store of F. NJ. slotts at Ridge Prai
rie, Saline county, His skull was crushed in three
places and his throat cut The suppOsltion is he
was murdered by tramps during Thursday night
as the victims pockets and money drawer Of the
store had been riAed. CoCkrell was clerk In the