The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-06-26
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

street hand cart, and q man Of bad repute, s
Baulted bis divorced wife In the back yard OF her
residence. He plunged large knife Into her
right side, Il iHicung wounds from which she died
q few minutes after. Erb was arrested shortly
After and locked up. ~
Near Tltusvllle, Pa, on Thuuday last, when
Mrs. James Devin went to put her hveyearold
boy to I'd, he was missing aud twilight search
found him drowned In an eight foot oil tank.
Detroit, June 90 Wednesday boy having one
side crippled by paralysis. was hanging around
the Grand Trunk Junction trying to beg ride to
Smiths Creek, near which place he said he lived
The trainme , under existing orders, did not
dare 10 acceed to his request, and The boy went
away Last night when the train for Port Huron
was near New Haven, the conductor discover cd a
are burning between two cars, stopped the train
and found the crippled boy ablaze and clnging
10 . car. Il Is supposed that the boy clothing
must have taken fire from spark,
Wheeling, June 20 Early this evening Charlie
Meredith a little son Of Charles Meredith, while
sitting on pile of lumber attempted 10 jump Of
when the whole mass fell upon him, Il jurng him
90 severely that he died in twenty m nutes,
A sailor named Doherty assaulted bis wife in
her millinery store, in Frankford, a suburb Of
Philadelphia aud shot her twice, once through
the waist and once In the back the ball passing
into her abdomen. He then fred three ShoB at
himself B ,th are in d critical condition,
Mrs Patrick Cullen OF Lancaster, Ohio, sui.
Cided by hanging Saturday.
The Pope is endesvorng to bring about restor.
alton Of diplomatic relations between England
end Mexico. "
Mrs Sliebe, living nine miles south Of Milers
burg, Ohio, was found dead In bed on Saturday
morning.
The brewery OF Burkhardt & Gessler, at Akron,
Ohio with part Of the contents, was destroyed BY
Gre on Friday night.
The Hoosio Powder Company's glaze house,
near Jermyn, Penn exploded Friday night. A
watchman was probably killed,
Daniel o Sullivan, a halter OF Philadelphia,
murdered his wife saturday by cutting her throat
with raSJr. Cause, whisky.
Friday afternoon parney Merriam, nineteen
years old, WAS drowned In the Maumee River, ten
miles east Of Fort Wayne, Ind.
coloYed deck hand on the steamer Thompson
was drowned in the mouth ofthe Little Kanawha
al Parkersburg, W. ", on Saturday.
A two year.old son OF William Hilliar, near
Doylestown, Ohio, drank q solution Of conctn
Irated lye Friday. causing his death in few
hours.
At Wheeling Saturday evening Michael Rourke
stabbed Benjamin Frazier twice in the abdomen
The wounded u an is not expected to live,
In an interview with Peter Cooper OF New
York, on the OHIO canvass he declared 1t would
be folly for the Nationals not to vote for Ewing.
The body Of an unknown man was picked up
in the river opposite st. Oair, Mich, Saturday aE
tsrnoon with bullet hole In his head and two
RtabS In the breast,
z Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte third son Of Lucen
Bonsparte, brother Of Napoleon l. died al Yer
ssilles on saturday.
Miss Potts, the woman who is walking from
Philadelphia TO New Orleans and return in five
months for wager, arrived at Atlanta, Ga, Sat
urday afternoon.
Near Highspre, Penn, a colored boy fourteen
years uamed Samuel Harley, brutally mur:
dered joseph Tennis, aged eleven Harley is IN
jail at Harn burg.
An old man named Mast, belonging to Liver
pool, OHIO, while walking on the railroad track
near Wellsvile, was struck in the head by loco.
motive and badly injured.
Oliver saSe, employed at the Miami City Com.
pauy's mill, at st Clair Mich was instantly
killed Saturday by a log rolling of a car, while
being drawn into the mill.
Alexandria and Cairo kilograms state that the
abdlcatiOn Of the Khedlve is imminent. Other
kilograms say that, though willing to pay his
creditors, he will not abdicate.
The relations between Senator Thurman, GEN
eral Ewing and John G. Thompson are most cor
dial, aud they are working harmOniously togeth-
or for splendid triumph in Ohio.
Captain Goldsmith and wife, from Boston,
bound around the world in q small boat, arrived
at Halifax Friday evening, and they sailed Mon
day for England, via Newfoundland.
Mrs Yeton, residing near Vlsalia, Ky, one OF
the pioneers Of Kentucky was instantly killed
Saturday afternoon by q horse running of with q
buggy in which she was riding.
Thos. LAyman, convict, committed suicide in
the Philadelphia Penitentiary Saturday after.
noon. He was clerk Of the Philadelphia and
Reading Express Company, ard was In for en-
bezSllng H,7.0.
Gus Draper, an old and respectable citizen, had
his brains knocked out and instantly killed while
cumming a saw by the bursting Of an emery
wheel Rear stanford, Ind, Saturday morning
A man named Payne, employed at the Ashta.
bula, Ohio, hsrbor, was Instantly killed Saturday
morning by being thrown from car by the sud
den starting OF train. His head was crushed
from his body.
The younger OF the brothers Andrew, who to.
gether crossed the Atlantic from Boston In the
doEy NauIilas last summer, intendB to return in
her alone, except for the companIonhhip OF q
small dog. He will start from Brighton.
During the summer packing season, from March
lst TO date the number Of hogs slaughtered In
Chicago sums up l ,0O3 oOO The number slsugh.
tered during the corresponding speriod in 1878
was /, 1,0O5, 900 and in 1877, 7O5 ,O0O.
By the sudden ignlting OF quantity Of powder
In his pantaloons pocket Cornelius Mcfarland
aged fourteen, of Akron, Ohio, on Friday night
received terrible burns in the abdomen, horri
BILE wound, exposing the body, being inflicted.
Albert T. Sanford, son Of Professor Sanford, Of
Chicago. University, and Olive c. Holmes, daugh.
ter Of Judge HolIles, Of Syracuse New York
were drowned saturday in 0nondsga Lake. They
were rowing, and in changing. places in the boat
It was capsised.
A party Of young men, while bellipg Thomas
HAttefy and bride at Van Vert Ohio, Saturday
evening, commenced shooting fire arms among
themselves, aud Benjamin Hs'tery was accident
ally shot, the ball entering the leftlung. He car
not possibly live.
ID
An eastern bound freight train on the Chicago
Northwestern Railroad, was dilched Saturday
morning near London, Iowa. Four trsmps con.
cealed In car loaded with corn we're killed, and
ne conductor, Mr.. Moore, received injuries which
aoae aoae Prove fatai.
Ine.aieamsbip Italy, hence from New York fol
Liverpool Saturday ran into the German ship
BaroMossA, arrived from Havana on the 18Th
Inst. and a annhnr h. The hau ainhinr har