The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-12-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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Uuited States currency outstanding at this date
SS62, ,7s4,119.
Specie to the amount Of a,7O5,OOO arrived at
New York Sunday.
The tendency Of Saturdays stock market in
New York was downward;
General Grant will not visit Washington until
after his return from Mexico.
or 50 members Of the London School Board
elected Thursday, nine are women.
One Mirsky, Nihilist acknowledges the at
tempted assassination Of General Dreutelm.
Near Logansport, Ind, Saturday, Edward M.
Eldridge was struck by falling tree and killed.
The Delaware and Hudson and Lsckawana
Companies have increased the wages Of miners 10
per cent.
H. @. Culver, City Marshal Of Cameron, Wis,
was shot and killed Saturday while endeaVoring
to arrest two men for dlsorderly conduct
Dan Adams aud Jer Huffman cut Sam Black
at Chrstiansburg, KY, Friday night, in such
manner that will cause his death. The parties
are colored,
King Alfonso, of Spain, and the ArchDuchess
Marie Christine, of Austria, were married at
Madrid on Saturday with great pomp and cere.
mony,
Iron workers In England are advised not to
emigrate to America until assured of work as
hundreds Of iron workers in the United States are
unemployed.
Near Henderson, KY, Saturday, Mr.. Carter
and lman named Barker became involved In
yuha fho photo Ia
ter. Carter is in jail.
There is a bolt In the Greenback Labor party
Of Boston, and the boilers nom mated the present
Mayor, Prince, the nominee OF the Democratic
and Citizens' Conventions,
The spaniards claim to have again defeated the
killed.
Fifteen thousand people attended an Irish agi-
tation meeting in Liverpool on Saturday, Par
nell was the speaker.
Hutchison and Dinlon were killed yesterday
by the bursting Of cirular saw In Coopers
shingle mill at Elmdale, Ont,
Twenty seven persons were dancing on the
ground floor OF factory in the course Of con-
struction at Foggia, Naples, when two upper
floors fell on them. Seven persons have been
extricated, but there is no hope of regCuing the
others alive.
II is stated that st. Louis merchants and capi
talsts will subscribe 100000 to carry out the
proposition 10 make Port Roysl, 8. c., a great ex.
porting and importing point for the West and
South,
The Methodist Church at Christiansburg KY,
was demolished by storm Friday morning in.
volving loss of $4,000. The damage to fences
timber and other buildings In the neighborhOod
was considerable,
By compromise between the heirs Of the
Henry @. Taylor estate and the Trustees Of the
Chicago Home for the Frlendless, the Home be-
come possessed of the muniAcent sum of $3.50 ,OOC
in cash and first class securities
Henry b. Brennan was given one hour in the
pillory and twenty lashes at the whipping post in
the Newcastle Del, Jail yard, Saturday, which is
paIt of his sentence for felonious assault upon a
little girl yearsold.
Saturday Mr. John Replogle, who lives two
miles north Of Hagerstown, Nd, while passing
behind fiery stallion in his stable, was kicked
in the abdomen by the animal, and received iDju-
ries that will without doubt cause his death.
In a speech at Edinburg Saturday Gladstone
denounced the Conservative finance manage
ment as extravagant and dishonest The Afghan
war expenses, he said, like those of the Abyssin.
ian war, were underrated and kept secret pend
ing the elections,
The Protectiohist Association Of French Indus
try has presented petition to the Government
tott hat thn nrir hau nd
tlons than ever during the last ten months, ant
that the very existence Of the chief French indus
tries is menaced
A decision given In the United States Crcui
Court in st. Louis Saturday, in which all the
Judges concur, is vastly important upon III
effect upon banking interests. The court deCide
that when a bank receives deposit after 1t hal
reached condition which the law defines as in
solvent, each Director of the Concrn is liable fo
the amount Of the deposit, and the depostOr may
proceed against the Directors Of the bank indi
Vidually to recover. Moreover, plea Of igno
rance as to the insolvency Of the bank shall no
protect Director. The decision makes grea
Autter.
A gentleman from near Batesville, Ark, give
details Of q furious and fatal affray near tina
town. Three strangers with teams camped nea
the bayou and got roaring drunk. They shot a
citizens, and, attacking young man namec
Reed, beat him nearly 10 death with rsvolvers
An armed posse charged upon them and captur
ed one, with the teams. The next night anOthe
one reappeared and was ordered to halt, but as h
dlsobeyed some one unknown shot him through
the head and he fell dead, He was identified a
Bob Layton, from Cranberry, Mo- The who'll
gang was bad lot.
Jefferson @. Davis, Colonel OF the Twenty .thirt
Infantry and Brevet-Brigadier General Of tn
United States Army, died In Chicago Sunday O
pneumonia Of the lungs
Friday night squad Of sixteen deputies wen
on raid to Towns county, Ga, to capture Dav
Benjamin, who Is noted as desperate man AM
Illicit distiller. 1t was said he had force Of 20
armed men at his call, By surrounding his hom
he was captured, but his i7.year.old daughte
arrayed in her chemlss and robe from her be-
fed like deer to the mountain. top, and ther
blew a fox-horn three times. In an hour tn
deputies were completely surrounded by an ur
known force Of armed men, who demanded Ber
jamin Of the deputies In the attack q deput
was wounded and captured, and the deputie
seeing that resistance was useless, gave up thei
prisoner and retreated rapidly, They report this
twill take heavy force 10 dislodge the moor
sinners, who are at home In the mountains
Corporal Nicholson, charged with causing Oh
death Of private soldier by throwing him into
ciatern at Fort Adams, has been turned over
the civil authorities at Newport RI,
The butter trade Of New York city is cOnslde
ing the fraudulent sale Of oleomargarne, to d,
wise means hV which DefrOng selling the articl
In violation Of the law can be prosecuted to th
fullest extent.
Meadville, Pa, Nov. 29-The two year oil
daughter Of Benjamin spaulding, Of this city, WI
killed this morning by falling from chair on
pair Of shears, which entered her throat SEVERN
the jugular vein.
Navasola, Tex, Nov, oO.-sherif Wood an
three deputies, Green, Backshore and Dayi