The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-06-17
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
great Soldiers reunion at Milwaukee closed

The great Soldiers reunion at Milwaukee closed
Friday.
General Grant left Milwaukee Friday for Green
Bay, where he spent Sunday with General
Howe.
The meeting OF the National Democratic Com
mittee is called for June Dist, at noon, in the
Grand Hall, Cincinnati.
A Leadvile special says citizens organization
three thousand strong. was formed Friday to pro-
tect working miners
report from White Roche says four men were
hangedlat Upper Edge Friday by mob, 1t is be-
lieved, for crookedness with cattle.
Maurice Barrymore, the actor, who witnessed
the killing Of B, F. Porter at Marshall, Texas LEFT
New York to testify in the trial OF Curry, the
accused.
At Roger Springs, seven miles north Of Clifton,
E. f. Ellison killed his cousin, Robert Dickey.
The latter struck Ellison over the head with
pistol,
Mr.. R. Morris, the County Judge Of Baylor
county Texas, was shot and instantly killed In
the Court House Friday by W, A. Taylor, saloon
keeper, Taylor escaped,
Charles A. Hill lawyer of st, Louis, was ar
rested In his office Friday on charge Of counter.
feiting and uttering bogus money. He was
caught in the act Of changing 81 bill into $40.
Warner & Merritt's fruit schooner, the Ella
Merritt, plying between Philadelphia and San
Antonio, was Ared at on her homeward voyage
while on the high seas by the Spanish man of-war
Nuncio
The First National Bank of Newark, N. closed
Fiiday and applied for receiver. The cashier
sailed for Europe last week on leave of absence,
but will be recalled. Reports Of irregularities
are ahOat.
A special from Marshall, Texas, says, W. s,
Coleman was Friday morning fatally shot by
Burt Jennings, EDITOR and proprietor OF the Mes
sengT. An offensive editorial was the cause Of
the shooting. Jennings was arrested.
The failure Of Handleth, Ellis Il Co., iron deal.
ers at Boston, Is announced. Liabilities estimated
q. S750000 The suspension, they say, is caused
by decline in the value Of their merchandise
and the refusal Of customers to carry out con.
tracts,
special from Keytesville Mo-, says John
Knapp, negro was hanged there to-day for kill
ing young farmer named Noah Forest at Forest
Green, Chantor county, last Christmas Day
About four thousand people from the surround.
ing country witnessed the execution.
A terrible tornado swept through Pattawattane,
Mimi, Thursday, killing fifteen to twenty persons
and doing much damage to property.
The estimated loss OF property by the tornado
Monday in Massachusetts amounted to 100000.
Acres Of trees from two to four feet in diameter
were snapped like pipe stems.
A train on the Pennsylvania Railroad Monday
raa from Philadelphia to Jersey City, ninety
miles, in ninety.three minutes, stopping four
times and slowing up twice to cross bridges
The American schooner Eunice P Newconb
arrived at Boston Monday from Port Antonio, re.
ports May 90th, II miles off the Cuban coast, she
was fred upon by q spanish frlgate, which fred
two shots,
Dispatches from Cincinnati and other points in
the West are to the effect that the heaviest rain
storm that has visited those sections for some
time passed over Monday night doing considera
BILE damage to property,
w. ". Bailey, respected farmer, residing near
Como Miss, was shot and killed by man named
shivey, on Saturday evening shiYey rented
land from Bailey out Of which grew the Difficult.
Guilty, Report says the killing was unprovoked.
shivey escaped
New Brighton, Pa, June 1l.-A coal miner
named Jack Hill shot himself in the heart about
1OA, NJ. to-day. He has been melancholy and
desponding man for many years past. He was
present at the time Middleton was murdered at q
tavern at the mouth Of Brady's Run, below Falls.
ton fifteen or eighteen years ago He took no
part in It, l believe, but has been very melancholy
since that time.
Moses seltzer a horse buyer, living in Coventry
township. just south Of Akron, while riding along
near Brewster's coal mine, Monday morning,
reached under the seat for the whip, lost his bal
ance and was preceipitated violently to the
ground. His neck was broken and he died in.
stRntly. He leaves wife and three or four
children.
The most destructive cyclone thathas ever visit.
ed that section Of Virginia, passed over Peters.
burg Saturday,
DR., L, r. Aldrich was shot by his wife Saturday
at Allentown, Pa. He was not seriously hurt, but
the woman shot herself fatally Jealousy is be.
lieved to have been the cause
Henry Quarles, a negro barber, was hanged at
Houston Tex, Friday, for the murder Of his wife
0ae Of party Of tramps encamped near Peru,
Ind, assaulted a young girl, and when the City
Marshal undertook to arrest the offender, one OF
the tramps presented pistol. The Marshal shot
one Of the tramps dead, after which a running
fire was kept up between the officer and the
tramps until four Of them we're captured.