The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-04-10
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

truck South. About Charleston the loss is est
mated at two hundred thousand dollars.
At Pittsburgh, last week, Small was found gull
ty Of the murder Of Jacobs last January.
Baltimore, April 4.-Madame Patterson Bona
parte died this afternoon at a little past one.
Greenville, Miss, April 5.--Yesterday orning
Matt Chrismore, a well known sporting character
was found murdered In his bed his head crushed
by an iron bolt his throat cut and the body rip
ped open its entire length. Suspicion points to
an associate, who is now In jail.
At Galveston, last week, the ship Lancaster
loaded with cotton, took FIRE, and was total loss
The breeze was brisk and drove the fire fast 80
that the captain and crew had to jump overheard
TO save their lives
The Secretary of the Treasury will issue 0
call for s87 436 6OO being the total amount OF the
consols of sixty.eight now outstanding.
Dallas Texas, April 5.-In a difficulty over q
game of cards at Kaufman, Thursday, John Kell
shot and killed Charles Smith, nephew Of ex
Congressman Brown, of Kentucky.
A subscription Of S4O,OOOOOO of per cent bonds
was made Saturday by the National Bank Of
Commerce in behalf Of syndicate Of New York
bankers. The present funding operations Of the
Government are virtually closed by this subscrip.
tion.
A Colored man named Washington was shot
and killed at Millersburg, KY, while attempting
to release his brother from the custody of officers
of the law.
John Lamb, convicted recently in Chicago OIL
the murder of Officer Rice, has been sentenced
by Judge Williams TO be hung on June 12.
The jury in the case of Warren Tate, who mur
dered VIM. Love in the corridor of the Court
House in Indianapolis, on the 10th OF last Sep
tember, has brought in verdict Of not guilty.
call has been issued by many colored cler.
gymen teachers and school directors TO the col
Ored people of Louisiana for a convention, to
meet in New Orleans, April 18th, to consider the
condition of their race in that State,
Professor Daniel Waugh, we'll known through.
out the United States and Europe as an astromo.
mer, linguist and mathematician, died In hos.
pital in Cincinnati yesterday, aged 5S. Professor
Vaughn was born in Ireland, but came to this
country when quite young, and for the past 25
years has been resident in Cincinnati
AhC ueCOlhLOu VI tuG OOulGueIht6
In Greenwood Cemetery, New Orleans, took place
Sunday afternoon. Between 5000 and 10000 peo.
pie were present. Local military organizations
and associations participated. The prominen
feature Of the ceremonies was the reception of
delegations Of the Grand Army of the Republic
and Union sailors and soldiers who presented
floral offerings.
Portsmouth, N H., April 5.-The United States
steamer Plymouth with yellow fever on board, is
ordered into quarantine here.
The two iremen, Neissen and Rentz, killed at
st. Louis, Friday night last were buried on Sun.
day with special and imposing ceremonies. The
bodies lay in state at Seventh street engine house
and were visited by thousands Of people. The
remains we're followed to the cemetery by one Of
the largest funeral corteges ever seen In st. Louis
The band Of the oath Reg't on marching out Of
Natal for Zululand, played John Browns Body"
the soldiers singing in chorus as did our soldiers
when they left for the civil war.
The experiment Fighting the reading room Of
the British Museum by electricity seems to be
perfectly successful. The smallest print was as
leglble as by daylight The room is a vast Circu.
lar apartment
A former French Deputy for Neuchatel who
shot and killed man in his own house, was re.
Gently acquitted on the ground that he was 30
drunk that he didn't know what he was about.
The wake scene in the "shaughraun" was in.
terrupted by shower of cabbages and decayed
Orang from the gallery in Montreal theater a
few nights ago, and the curtain was rung down.
When 1t went up again 1t was for the next scene.
By the capsizIng Of q schooner in Chespeak
Bay, Saturday, Captain Hagar and three men
were drowned.
Friday afternoon freigbt.train on the Louls-
Vile Road, ran through a trestle near Browns.
Vile, Tenn, killing the engineer, Frank Riley,
and wOunding the fireman and brakeman.
Ignatiz Waldron, a Cincinnati laborer out Of
employment took arsenic.
J. P. Huston, Green Castle (Ind) photogra-
pher, sick and financially embarrassed, cut his
throat with razor.
Because physician insisted upon payment for
attendance upon the sick daughter OF Bethle.
hem, Pa, farmer, the latter committed suicide,
leaving $4,000 in bank besides q good farm.
The health OF Archbishop Purcell is fast falling
under his financial troubles. or late he has
been attacked with faintiDg spells, and on Tues.
day last he remained SO long unconscious in one
OF them that his attendants feared that he
might die.
Two mothers.in-law in one house produced a
tragedy In Louisville. Each tried to rule the
household and Of course was opposed by the
other, while the young couple endeavored to
keep the peace. There were frequent fights and
police court episodes. The wife's mother claim
ed that the husband was brutal, and attempted
shoot him. Then the husbands mother retail.
ated by poisoning his wife, and is now in jsil.
special from Bolton Texas, says negro man
and woman living near there witnessed agair st
Canterbury and Dobbins in rape case, were muir.
dered Sunday night. The man was killed in.
stantly. The woman lived till morning, and
stated that one Of the assRssins said they
shouldn't live to appear against Centebury and
Dobblns
Early Monday morning. Matthias Merkle COM
mitted suicide in rear yard, at the corner of
Taylor and Lorain streets, Cleveland, by shoot.
ing himselfin the head with revolver. Excess
sive drink Is alleged as the cause OF the deed.
Deceased was so years old, and leaves wife and
two children.
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MURDERED ON A STEAMER.