The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-12-18
NEWS OF THE v egIK.
Amos Tuck. ex,member q Congress from W
rs,w Hampahire, Is dea


to make no more arrests for Sunday theatricalS
es1s3l the pending cales have been disposed Of
" AZ 4.Sia. Ky, Mrs James Dutton made mis-
take last blight which cost her infant child its
life. shei ave It an overdose ofmorphine, think
ing it was nome other medicine
a San Francisco dispatch from Victoria, B. c.,
says a China woman and man were chopped to
pieces with an ak by another Chinaman who set
fire to the house to burn the bodies, but the Yua
,vos mn, ont and the crime discovered. ,etii
Frank widner at Lafayette, Ind, Purchased
railroad ticket to Philadelphia, an ocean pass to
Switzerland atd started to the depot He i'm
bibed too freely with some boon companions,and
now states that he was robbed ofS5O
The Agricultural Convention had their final
session in New York yesterday. The Executive
Committee includes Col. W. s. King Of Mime
gots. A paper was read on the American prob
lem OF land holding, followed by addresses on
different subjects.
Abraham Annetta, West India negro, and
Francis Adams, a Manila, sailors, were arrested
In Baltimore yesterday by the Deputy United
| States Marshal, on warrants Issued on the charge
OF murder on the high seas, and destroying the
schooner NJ. E. Henderson Of Philadelphia, bound
to Baltimore from Bull River.
For the past FIVE days there have been myste
rious parties stoning the night trains on the
Evansville & Terre Haute railroad, at the first
crossing south of Shelburn, Ind, An engineer
lately recognized the party as composed OF three
men. Wednesday night, as the south-bOund
freight came along, the stoning was resumed,
when brakeman shot one Of the stoning par
| ties .-.
Last week, at Toronto, oRt', John Ross Robert
son, proprietor Of the Evening Telegram, bought
at auction Masonic diploma Of Souter Johnnie
for SITS. In the corner of the diploma is tasten'
ed a lock Of Highland Mary's hair The certih-
cate bears the seal of St. James Lodge, Ayr, Scot.
land, 9Th Oct, 1895. 1t is regarded as the Oldest
Masonic relic on this continent.
The heirs Of the late Gen. w s. Hlllyer mem.
ber of Gen. Grants staff during the wal, who died
at Washington City in 1874 entered suit in the
Floyd Circuit Court at New Albany to obtain
$40 900 left their father under the will of the late
Elias Ayers, an uncle of Gen. Hillyer. The title
Of the case is ulysses Grant Hillyer VS.. Jesse
Brown and sllas c. Day, executors Of the estate
of Mary A, Lapsley, deceased" The action In.
wolves tome nice points Of law
At Oxford, Michigan, is much excitement over
some grave robberles. The robbers were tracked
| to Rochester station where two men having three
bodies in their possession were arrested this
morning. One Of the bodies was identified as
that OF Robt Ensley, buried on Sunday last, an
other as that OF Jas. Dove, buried on Wednesday,
and the third that Of Mrs. Plumford, who at the
time of her death was 80 years old.
At Milwaukee on Saturday was arrested James
M. Norval, aged 50, charged with numbering in
July last, a MrB Vickers, living near Bunston,
Cooper county, Mo. Shortly after the murder,
he left the neishborhood, and was suspected as
the perpetrstor OF the crime. He was tracked
and arrested on reQuisition from the Governor
OF Missouri.
At Otterville, Buchanan Co., Mich, German
named Wiser, aimed, playfully, q supposed emp.
| ty revolver at his tWoyeRr old child, and acci.
dentslly discharged the weapon, the contents en-
tering the childs heart and passing entirely thro'
the body.
Julian Clark, q convict In the saltwater Minn.,
PenitentIary, was shot and instantly killed by
Deputy Marshal Hull for refusing to obey orders
to go to his cell. he made deadly assault on 3
felloW.prlsoner last week. He was serving ten
year sentence, and was formerly in the Joliet,
ILL.,, Penitentiary, .U.
By an explosion Of dynamite at TRDgeer, Nova
Scotia, on Friday, Geo. Ferguson, his son James
and nephew Joseph Ferguson were instantly
killed.
| An embankment caved in upon 10 or IL per-
Just before noon, at Plathmouth, Nebraska near
the new railroad bridge which is being con.
structed Three men were taken out dead and
seven badly injured. It is feared others may be
buried under the ruins. ..
Two or three tons of nitro glycerine exploded
on Fox Island, In the river opposite Amherst
burg, 20 miles below Detroit on Saturday. 1t Is
said the shock was ielt some 80 to 40 miles
distant,
train on the Central Vermont railroad, Sat,
urday evening, ran off tho track EeRr Addison
Junction drawbridge The engine went down
the embankment 40 feet, killing engineer stin.
sen, fireman Markham, and Lyman, the engineer
Of the drawbridge .....s
At Fort Huron, Mich, Mrs. Lawrence Saunders
suicided by taking stryohnine Her husband had
run away with another woman.
West Winchester, Ont, Dec 14-The bodies of
John Brown and his daughter Addie, for whose
murder Clark Brown son Of the former was re-
Gently hanged, has been exhumed for further
| examination. 1t is rumored that Mrs. Brown,
wife and mother OF the murdered persons, will
be arrested as consequence OF this examina-
| tiOn.
Col, W. R. Cook, nOLed copnterfeiter, at Mich
olasville, KY, resisted u 8. Deputy Marshal and
was shot and killed. .a.... ...
In the extreme Northwest Government, Agent
Usher is reported killed by the Indians and also
John Kelly. herder at Stump Lake Others are
reported killed, and force has left Victoria with
arms by special steamer,
Nicelo Iuiantlno, Antonio Ardito, ssro Chiva.
rie, ViDcenzo Bandeiro and Joseph Donat, char.
ged with the murder OF Joseph +. Frye, were ar.
raigned in Boston on Monday. Infantino and
Ardito pleaded guilty and were sentenced to i'm.
prisonment for life, The others will be tried as
accessories.
Rev A. G. ByerS Secretary Of the Board of Ohio
State Charities has Issued q call for COnven-
tion OF Slate superlntendents and others inter.
ested or connected with the management of
County In6rmaries, The meeting will be held
Jan, 2Oth and Dist.
At Little Rock, Arkansas, on Sunday morning,
3o'clock, two.story brick livery stable belong.
ing to ], Gillis, took FIRE He made a narrow es,
cape, and his wife was suffocsted and burned.
They occupied rooms in the building.
Advices from spencerVille, DeKalb county,
Ind, state that on Friday night Mrs sa' a4luey
was awakened by the presence OF two burglars in
her room. She opened fire on them, and they
returned, until 10 shots had been exchanged.
They then fed leaving traces Of blood after
them. One ball passed through Mrs. Barney's
night dress.