The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-04-24
NEWS OF THE WEEK.


Four hundred and fifty negroes left b. Louis
Monday night for Wyandotte, Kansas, and other
points by the steamer Joe Kinney.
IT. Wayne, April 21-Viotor Jacobson, retail
clothing merchant, was closed tonight by the
Sheriff on executions aggregating S6,OOO liabili-
ties $4,000 to $4,000 assets small
Allentown, Pa, April 21.-The Millerstown Iron
Company at Mazulzle Pa, suspended this morn
ing. Liabilities are about $4,000.
The Cincinnati Enquirer suggests Thurman
and Tiden for 1880 and thinks that ticket
"mighp be good thing to capture both Ohio
and New York with.
The New York Star says It is generally whis-
pered that Henry Stanton, the son Of Elizabeth
Cady Stanton is to have the Judgeship from
which Plnckney was recently ousted. The Office
Is worth $4,000 year.
"0ur Boys" was recently played in London for
the one thousand three hundred and fttleth
time certainly a marvellous run II is to be sue.
ceeded by "0Or Girls" new fsrcical comedy by
the same author Mr., Byron.
Beloit man who saw JEFF Davis recently says
he is tall but slender. His erect, gaunt form,
sharp, thin features, gray hair, short, grizzly
beard, and defective eye give him speCtre-like
appearance. He is very affable.
Charles H. Hartwel, the conductor Of the
freight train on the Old Colony Railroad that
caused the frightful disaster at Wolaston Heights
MaSs last fall is to be put on trial at Dedham on
Tuesday, for manslaugher
An Irish cab driver, having driven gentleman
long stage during a storm of rain, the gentle
man said to him: Paddy, are you not very
wetT "Arrah, I don't care about being wet but,
plase yer honor I'm very dry"
John Crossin OF Cincinnati, while drunk, fell
across the Baltimore and Ohio railroad track at
Somerset o. The express train came up soon,
but Crossln was saved by a heroic young lady
who rushed up and pulled him away,
The liquor dealers of Newark, New Jersey who
forced citizens protective society to compel the
BtOppage Of all business on Sundays If saloons
were to be closed have made one hundred and
twenty-six complaints against persons for viola
tions Of the Sunday law. Among those COM
planned of was Mr.. Blanchard, President Of the
Law and Order Association.
Chillicothe, April 21.-A cutting affray took
place in a groggery, at Yellowbud in this coun.
ty, last night VIM. Murphy got into difficulty
with man named Gorsuch. Other parties inter
fered, and general row resulted in which
W. Hart the keeper of the saloon A. ]. Barlow,
VIM. Carroll, jr,, were cut, and Rob't Anderson
were considerably hurt, but not dangerously
Hart has four severe cuts in the region of the
heart and Barlow has an opening through the
abdomen through which the intestines pro-
truded
One hundred and sixty.three moonshiners at
Nashville have accepted amnesty and been dis
charged.
The United States steamer Alaska leaves Vic
toria Tuesday for Sitka, to remain until relieved
by the Jamestown.
The transport Clyde has been wrecked on Dy
er's Island. All the crew were saved, but the
stores were lost and the ship went down.
Governor Phelps recommends the prosecution
of Gates, Treasurer of Missouri, by whom the
State lost large amount of money.
An unknown man jumned from the Suspension
bridge at Nashville into the Cumberland River,
one hundred feet, on Tuesday He died
General scobeloff thinks it will be utterly i'm.
possible to avoid war If the Turks enter Rouma |
MIA, no matter under what circumstances.
Owing to heavy rise in the ConnectcutsRiver
several hundred thousand leet of lumber were |
washed over the boom of Blood Point, Loss be. |
tween $4,000 and $4,000.
In the United States Circuit Court at Charleston !
Tuesday, Judge Bond instructed the jury to find |
for the defendants in the Barnwel county elec.
tion conspiracy case, on the ground of the defect
in the information.
The following is the list of Representatives of
the present Congress, whose seats are to be con.
tested, together with the names of the contestants
From the Sixth Massachusetts District Benton vs,
Loring from the Second South Carolina, Mackey
VS. 0'COnnOr from the Twentieth Pennsy lvania,
Curtin VS.. YoCum from the First North Carolina,
Yates VS.. Martin from the Fourth Alabama, Har-
alison Va. Shelley from the Third Louisiana, Her.
bert VS., Acklin; from the Second Arkansas, Brad
ley VS.. Slemmons; from the Second Florida, Bis
bee VS. Hull from the Third Minnesota, Donnely
VS.. Washburn; from the State of Oregon Mellow
ell VS.. Whitaker.
Davenport Iowa, April 2O-A special gives the
70 lowing particulars of brutal murder last
night, which occurred nine miles northeast of
Montezuma: Off Cannet killed his mother about
midnight by beating her on the head with stick
of stovewood After the man had committed the
horrible and unna ural crime, he threw the body
out OF the house upon the wood-ple. The MUIR
dered woman was in her seventy.ninth year. AZ
ter doing the work. Cannet left the house, and It
was with some difficulty that he was captured.
Insanity is the only cause that can be assigned
fOr the deed
Baltimore April 1S.-The remains OF Isaac D.
James whose tragic death at the hands .of Den.
wood R. Kinds on Wednesday rest to day in Lon.
don Park Cemetery, The grave is alongside the
tomb of his daughter, who, it is charged, was
brought to an untimely death by her betrayer,
now the murderer Of her father. The tragedy
continues to excite painful interest in the com.
munity, remaining as 1t Is without parallel in
The criminal history of the city The trial of the
Kinds brothers will probably lay bare all the de.
tails Of the shocking scandal that has already
caused three deaths, including the unborn child,
and wrecked the peace Of two households.
San Francisco, April 2O-A dispatch from As.
'oria says THE Great Republic is going to pieces
No lives were lost Passengers were all trans.
erred to Astoria The captain and crew are all
shore at Sand Island, and will be taken off this
lfternoon. Freight and baggage are total loss, y
last night the wind rose and heavy sea began
o roll in and is breaking now where the vessel =
les. All accounts agree that the disaster was
Iue to the attempt to enter at night when 1t was
cry dark. The ship was badly out OF her course,
A bubble rises on the stream, a
And dances down the tidei q