The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-04-17
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
lstrous prairie fires have been prevailing
Forts gtevenson and Lincoln, ID. 4,

Peter Kehl and Patrick Monday, miners, were
Saturday killed by a fall Of coal at Locust Gap,
Penn.
large Illicit distillery has been destroyed In
Putnam county, Tenn, and number Of arrests
made
Charity Williams was.found dead on the floor
at her home in Indianapolis Saturday. Supposed
suicide.
Rathbone's saw and grlst mills at Palestine, W.
Va, were burned Friday night Loss $1,000; no
insurance.
General Richard Taylor, Of the late Confederate
Army, only son Of the late President Taylor, died
In New York on Saturday
Bridget Gradley, fourteen years old, while CROSS
ing the railroad was killed by locomotive, at
Shenandoah Pa, Saturday.
william G. Martini Philadelphia real estate
agent, the victim Of q mysterious assault in his
office on the 9Th inst died Saturday
Willie Sweeney, aged ten years, was run over
and instantly killed on the Atlantic Great West.
ern Road at OIL City, Penn Saturday.
Louisa A. Wallace (Colored), convicted of the
murder Of her infant child in April 1868 has been
sentenced to be hanged at Washington, D, c., the
Doth of June,
Mrs. Matilda Waddington, Of Fort Wayne, Ind,
mentally insane for some years and under treat.
ment at the State Institution, committed suicide
Saturday.
A man supposed 10 be John Young Of Frleders-
burg schuylkill county Pa, was killed in rail-
road accident at Reading, Saturday HeWas steal.
ing a ride.
Julia Mccarthy, aged twenty-five years. Of New
York, who has been employed as a cook, is now
in Canada as claimant for s9O,OOO,0OO fortune
left by Major oKeefe.
The one hundred yard foot race atlstockton,
CAL, between Cranston, Of LeaVenworth, and
Stone, of New York, for $4,000 was won by the for.
mer. Time, 1OI seconds,
NJ. D. Robertson and j. T. Ross recently, while
assisting Deputy Sheriff W. H. King to arrest one
Rusk Holloway, in Earth county, Texas, were
ahot and mortally wounded
Isaac A. Barnes Cashier of the Foxboro (Mass)
Savings Bank, is accused Of irregularities" Men
are guarding the bank, Barnes having refused to
surrender the keys to the safe.
Henry Clark, man who was working his way
up on the steamer Boone to Coalburg, fell between
the steamer and the wharf boat at Charleston, W.
Va Saturday, and was drowned.
The Nationals of Indianapolis who favored co
operation with the Democracy, tin Convention
Saturday, but finding their proposition rejected
adjourned without making nominations
A number of st. Louis gamblers were arrested
Saturday on indictments recently found by the
Grand Jury, and number more perhaps all in
the city, will be arrested as soon as cdpidSeS are
issued,
Senator Window, who Is active In aiding the
migration of the negroes Of the South to the North
west, thinks that If the exodus can be properly
guided and regulated 1t will result In great good
to the whole country.
gentleman travelling with General Grant,
writes home that Grant says he will not be can
didate for President under any consideration,
and at the proper time will make his intention
known. He does not wish to re-enter public life
and will decline the nomination for any political
office,
The residence of William Hauser at Celina, o.,
was burned to the ground Saturday.
A two,year.old child Of William Kenney, OF
Niles, Ohio, fell in washtub Saturday and was
drowned.
! Jacob semler died Saturday from the fleets ofa
fall from roof in Springfield, Summit county,
Ohio Friday.
Frank ". .Rauney, book keeper Of the Globe Iron
Works, Cleveland, Ohio, has been arrested for al
legged embezElement.
Daniel Bradley, Conductor of freight train,
while trying to make coupling at North Amherst,
Ohio, Saturday, was crushed between the bump
ers and died in few minutes
Mrs. Darnell, wife Of Taylor Darnell Of WinChes
ter, o., In attempting to put out fire that was
sta ted in the garden Saturday afternoon by her
children, caught her clothing on FIRE, and was Sc.
verely, If not fatally, burned. One side Of her
clothing was burned entirely off.
The Providence Savings Bank and Trust Com.
pany Of Providence, Pa, suspended on Saturday,
being unable to meet It's obligations after having
taken advantage of the sixty days law. The lia.
bilities are $4,000 and assets 100000 principally
in notes and bonds of which probably not more
than half can be collected.
The United States grand jury at Chicago found
John W Gregg guilty Of embeZzlement Of Govern
ment funds 10 the amount Of $4,000 while Super
intendent OF the Money Order Department Of the
Chicago pOstofice.
At Hastings, Kansas, the trial Of Olive and Fish
or, for numbering and burlDg Mitchell and Ketch-
um in Custer county, last December, ia in progress
and the defendants are using every means which
their wealth will secure for acquittal. The testl
mony Tuesday was chiefly as to identity.
At starns's sawmill near smithville Wayne
county Ohio, on Saturday the chOpping burrs
burst throwing the broken stone, which tore
through The side OF the building. A piece Of fly.
ing stone broke the leg Of Jacob stulsey and dis
located his ankle. Andrew starns was hit on the
head and for some time was thought to be dead
Two other men were slightly hurt. There were
ten men In the mill at the time. The wounded
are doing well.
Hans Holt the desperate OF Pilot Point, Texap,
who shot and killed Clark L, Powers former
resident of youngstown, o., will probably swing
as the grand jury found two Indictments against
him, one for the Powers murder and one for the
murder Of Beard in 1863
II is claimed gold has been found in small quan.
titles in Monroe and Brown counties, Indiana.
George c. Clary committed suicide at Windsor
Canada, by taxing morphine. He belonged at
Birmingham, sandusky county, O., and leaves a
wife and two children. BE had outraged the per
son Of German girl and hed to escape arrest He
was 2S years old.
Hezekiah shafer is to be hung to day, Thursday,
at Chambenbulg, Pa, for the murder Of his wife.
He claimed she fell down stairs He attempted
suicide on Monday by opening an artery in each
arm. He was low when found and 1t was doubt,
full II he survived.