The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-06-05
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Near Hampstead, Texas, Saturday, Dan'el Nor.
rll shot and killed Thomas LogglnS.
Alexander Cohen, the Milwaukee forger, got OF
with two years in the House Of Correction.
A Committee Of the French Chamber has de.
oided in favor OF the prosecution Of DeCasag.
mac.
william James, q well known farmer living
near EtnG Green, Ind, committed suicide sAtur-
day by cutting htS throat
MSjor CRVAgnArl will accompany the AmeeT Of
AfghGpistan to CAbul, escorted by detachment
Of guides. CAbul Is tranquil
The wife Of John g. b. johnson, at Belhalto,
ILL.,, was drowned In we'll early Saturday morn.
ing. Supposed case Of suicide.
Ebou s. Ingersoll Ex.Re preventative In Con.
gress from Illinois, and brother OF Robert Inger-
soil, died in Washington Saturday.
man named King was killed aud two others
fatally injured Saturday, at Lindsay, Ont, by the
explosion Of q saw mill boiler.
The residence Of Fred Miller, a-cosl merchant
Of West Charleston, W. Va, was entirely destroy
cd by fire Saturday morning. Lots, 82OO).
General Gourkoi Governor'General Of st, Pc
tersburg, has Issued an order placing restrictions
upon the purchase and sale Of strong poisons
Saturday morning Joseph Furste, eleven years
old, was drowned In the st. Joe River, IT. Wayne
Ind, while swimming with some companions.
young man named Thomas Evans was In
stanty killed In LAGRANGE county Ind, by fall.
ing distance Of twenty feet from a swing on
last Saturday.
The Supreme Court Of Tennessee has decided
that the old City Of Memphis is legally defunct,
and that the present taxing District Government
is valid,
Eaton d Wilson's mill at Medway. Mass was
burned Friday night. A fireman named Edward
Hart was killed, and fire engine exploded her
boiler.
Greece has addressed note to the Powers and
the PORE relative to the concentration OF Turkish
troops on the frontier, which, 1t Is contended,
threatens invasion,
Colonel Richard Il. Rowe, q member Of the City
Council, Wilmington, Del, was fatally shot satur-
day, by the accidental discharge Of pistol by
Hugh Dugan, saloon keeper.
A man man named Saunders Of Blount coun.
" Alabama, was instructed In dream that he
should fast for forty days and then die. He has
held out for thirty.Ave days, and. .is mere skele
ton.
The Portuguese Cabinet has resigned In conse-
quence Of internal disSension, and Auselmo ].
Bradmcamp, Commander Of State and Progressist
leader. has been invited to form a new Ministry.
Edward Harris, OF Chicago pleaded guilty In
Court Saturday TO the embeEzlement Of Sl2, 900 or
more from the firm Of Yoe d Co., of that city, and
was sentenced to seven years in the Penitentiary.
Saturday morning two frame cottages belong
ing to Thomas Coleman In Ohio Falls, a suburb
Of JeAerSonville Ind, were burned to the ground.
The FIRE originated from the explosion Of a coal
oil lamp.
Near Lancaster, O., Friday evening, John
Horstman, q respectable farmer, while shooting
rats In his barn yard shot his wife in the breast
She was milking and was hidden from his notice.
Her wounds are.dangerous
:. The Clermont county, Ohio, Grand Jury, after
examining fifty Witnesses Saturday, came to the
conclusion that there had been no attempt to
lynch VIM. Allen that there was no evidence Of
the fact and nobody knew anything about the
mob until told,
Blsmarck's note inviting the cities of Hamburg
and Bremen to surrender their privilege as free
ports and to associate themselves with the Impe.
rial fiscal system, is couched in such terms as to
leave no choice between submission and certainty
Of compulsion.
At Silver Reef Utah, Saturday, the Harrison
House, Pioneer Restaurant the stores OF Histen.
burg & Ponjade, Jacobs Sutton, siegel & Marks,
l. Schwartz John NJ. Cassidy's saloon and the
new PostoffiCe were consumed by fire. Some
twenty residences were also destroyed.
A dlsp. t,h from Harrlsville, Mich, states that
proVidential rain storm extingulshed the fire in
r. A. Alger & Co.'S mammoth rollWay, and that
only 1900 900 feet of long lumber has been de.
strOyed, which makes the loss amount to the
comparatively triAlng sum Of $4,000.
During the thunderstorm Saturday morning
Edward A. Smith, about thirty years Of age liv.
ing near Mastersville, Ohio, was struck by light,
ming while attending to some sheep, killing him
instantly, and also several sheep. His clothing
was somewhat burned, and his body mutilsted.
Little Rock, Ark, May 91.-A man named Blsh.
op had been whipping his wife, when bis father.
in.law, Abner Green and brother. .in.law, Patrick
Green, went to see about it, Bishop fred at them
as they entered the yard killing the first instant.
ly, eighteen buckshot entering the body. Pat was
severely wounded, and had had an arm broken.
Bishop fed,
London, May 81.-William Henry Punchard,
partner in the engineering firm OF Clark & Pun.
chard, who has been connected with Baron Grant
In floating the disastrous Lisbon Tramwsy com
pany, has failed. Liabilities, 100000 Edwin
Clark, the other member Of the firm, failed In the
early part Of last month for s76OOCO.
Baltimore, May 8l-The body Of Captain W.
W. Huntington, Of this city, who has been missing
from his home since May r. was found in the
woods, about two miles from this city, last eve
ming, by boys. II was In an advanced state Of de.
composition. A bottle containing laudanum was
found by the side Of the body.
Island Pond, VT May S1.-The terrible poison.
ing case In the town of Newark, ten miles from
this place, is exciting the most profound senss.
tiOn throughout all this region. The latest reports
state that ten OF the children are dead. Twenty.
seven caseR Of poisoning are reported, and 1t Is
not believed that one half of the afflicted chill
dTen can recover. There Ia talk of arrestinR the
man on whose premises the carrion was thrown
into the stream, who lives near the schoolhouse.
San Francisco, May &C. G. Bemis superyis
ing Inspector of the First District, has overruled
the findings OF the Portland, Or, local inspect.
tors against Captain Carroll in the wreck of the
Great Republic, and restores his license, which
Tho local Board suspended six months.
THE PENNSYLVANIA BRIBERS.