The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-10-14
NEWS OF THE WEEK .

Friday night Isaac Lettenhouse Of Teegarden
four miles from Leetonia, Ohio, while drunk
drove his family out doors and then set fire to
his dwelling with lighted torch. He was de-
stroyed in the fames handful of bones only re.
naming to tell the tale,
Alliance o., October 2-About 10 O'Clock this
morning span Of Indian pom les owned by E. 4
BrOsius, provision dealer, became frightened and
ran away. Edward Sheets, the driver, aged IS,
was seriously injured int rnslly. He was picked
up unconscious and lay so for three hours, Ith
now thought he will recover.
Brockway, the forger, has been sentenced tos
years in the Rhode Island State PRISON.
Mrs. Mary Doyle Of jersey City, temporarily In
sane nom malarial fever, threw her two months
old baby out Of the third story window and it
was killed
AT Sacramento, California, Friday, Mrs. George
Hamilton asked an interview with her husband
from whom she had separated, He called on her
and during the conversation she shot him dead
Cause, jealousy. Last winter she shot and Sc
verely wounded young girl who had excited
! her Jealousy.
The steamship Isaac Bell when nearly ready
to sail from Norfolk Saturday for New York took
fire and burned to the waters edge. The vessel
had aboard 72O bales of cotton, forty hogsheadE
of tobacco and forty barrels of resin.
Robinson, Lord & Co., wholesale dealers in
wood and willow ware, New York, have sus
pended The failure was occasoned by the sus
pension OIL ord & Robinson of Baltimore, and Of
Oliver & Robinson of Richmond, Va. The three
Fa{1 -
known to be embarrassed. Liabilities are esti-
mated at from $500 900 to $500 900.
Walter Wnson, aged 16, has been found guilty
of the murder Of Miss Amelia Potter, a maiden
lady 75, in June last In the town of Jamestown
Rhode Island, by beating her with an iron bolt
about the head and concealiDg her body in dis
used cellar on the premises wherein he sought to
ravsh her after death. He was sentenced to a
life ofimprsonment.
The jury In the trial at Milwaukee OF MrR Mack
for numbering her husband, after being out 50
hours, failed to ag ree On the first trial she was
convicted with ma named Dckerson and the
latter Is now serving sentence for the crime. The
| Supreme Court allowed Mrs. Mack a new trial
with the above result.
petition, had law forbidding the passage thro'
the State Of herds from Texas, but United
States Court has declared the act unconstitu-
ional.
James Hanna of Oakland, Pa, and male
companion we're found dead in bed at the Bur.
nett House, Cincinnati. They blew out the gas
when retiring and were suffocated.
H.B. Wnber, aged 80, prominent Philadelphia
lawyer, and woman said to be his mistress,
have been found drowned 1t is supposed he
threw her in and followed himself.
A daughter OF ex President Zachary Taylor
was paid SIC, ,0O0 the balance Of the salary which
General Taylor would have received had he
lived until his term Of office expired.
The epizooty is sweeping over Philadelphia,
and already five per cent Of the horses there are
affected,
A terrible tornado visited Garry county, Mich.
last night, blowing down houses, barns, stacks OF
grain, fruit trees etc.
About 1000 horses In New York aud 1000 In
Brooklyn and jersey City, are sick, and there IL
no abatement OF the distemper.
Heegheny's wholesaler drug store and Reardon's
hardware store at Troy, N. Y, were burned last
night Loss, 100000 insured.
Mr. Russell, memb er Of the Ute Commission,
has arrived In Washington with the ratification
papers signed by 577 Ute Indians.
Seven prison ers escaped from the jail at syca'
more, ILL.,, Saturday, by making hole abouts
foot in diameter through the stone wall.
Mrs. John Murray and SON. Angus, Miss Me-
Kenzle and Miss Mcdonald were drowned by the
upsetting Of q boat on Lake Mesan tic, Cana do.
Two men were run over by an express train on
the Fort Wayne Railroad at Delphos, Ohio, last
night Both were lying on the track in drum.
ken stupor.
The extensive pork packing establishments Of
Foys & Horner, and Paul Gable, at Baltimore,
were destroyed by fire Monday. Loss, $4,000; In
surance, $4,000.
w. H. Fairchild, the man arrested In Chicago,
charged with the murder Of Rober. French, the
step father Of his wife, in Harper county, KyntWo
years ago, has confessed.
The failure OF David Douglas q Co., importer
Of linens, one of the Oldest houses in the trade In
New York, was announced Monday. Liabilities
| about 500 900; good assets $4,000.