The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-05-13
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The baggage and express and second.class pas
senger car were detached and turned over, The
other cars remained on the track,
At Girard, Pa, scientific citizens are quite en-
thusiastlc over the discovery Of the tusks OF a
huge mastodon, which were found on Mr.. Pal
mer's farm by men plowing in a marsh Both
tuSks being found near together leads to the
opinion that the entire skeleton is buried there
Further search will be made.
Bradford, Pa, May 9--This afternoon by a gas
explosion In the house Of Justice Cline Rixford
town IL miles southwest OF Bradford, the build
ing was set on fire and all the adjoining build
ings being light frame structures, the fire spread
rapidly, and before the fury spent 80 buildings
were laid in ashes. The list embraces the prin'
Cipal stores and business places, including the
Kendall Edred railroad depot. The fire also
burned pump station of the United Pipe Lines
tank containing T. 900 barrels was burned and
an iron tank containing 25 1000 barrels of oil.
or the ten regular delegates and ten alternates
from the city of Philadelphia to the Chicago Con.
VentiOn, and two delegates at large, only two
are for Grant. The remainder are outSpOken in
their opposition to the Great American Traveller
Allen 0Myers, "Pckaway" of Columbus, has
been retained as travelling correspondent of the
Cincinnati Commercial. He is to write from a
Democratic stan udpoint,
Hudson, N. Y, May 9.-Fire at Kinderhook
last night destroyed the business portion of the
village. Loss, $40 000; insurance, $4,000
Chicago May 9-From the result of to days
primaries, 1t is evident that Cooke county, with
1tp ntn1, L.. 4
the Republican State Convention, In Chicago
Grant has 5S delegates to the County Convention,
Blaine 25 and Washburne 63
A mining company at st. Clair, Ill., dispensed
with the services of hundred men at 81 a day
by the use Of labor.saVing machinery; but the
gain is not yet apparent, for they have had to
employ fifty men at s2a day to guard the appa.
ratus,
A general strike among the employees of the
Connellsville coke fields was inaugurated Friday
morning, The works suspended operations The
coke men agree that the wild vagaries Of their
business during the past two months have been
without parallel in the history of this great in.
duktry. The price now is back 10 $3.50 and So
per ton at the ovens after a swift advance to S5
per ton and an equally swift depression to the
present anti-boOm rates. Before the present ad.
vance in iron there were in round numbers 80, ).
900 coke ovens In the Connellsville and adjacent
regions. When furnaces long cold began to fire
up, and coke max RS saw big demand coming,
new ovens were begun, and to-day intelligent
men in the trade estimate these new enterprises
at two thousand additional ovens completed, OF
in the process Of construction, and, with the old
ovens, making q grand total of FIVE thousand
ovens.
Almost disastrous fire broke out in Jackson
vile, ILL.,, at O'Clock Friday morning and de.
stroyed most of the business houses on the south
side of the Square. Losses not stated. partial
list Of the insurance foots up $4,000.
Supervisor White of Philadelphia, has made a
good beginning in appointing two women al
enumerators. There is no reason why an intelli
gent woman should not do the work required
as we'll as the average man.
One night last week the house Of James Gage
ex Councillor Of the township of Eupbemia, On.
tariO, was destroyed by FIRE and four Of Cages
children and daughter of. a nelghbor named
Watts, perished in the flames.
A dispatch from Portland, Oregon, says while
feet Of fishing boats were returning after lay.
ing their nets opposite Point Adams at the mouth
of the Columbia river squall came up and %
boats were blown upon the bar and many
swamped. Twelve fishermen, at least. were
drowned.
OF Mr.. Hugh ]. Jewett, of the Erie Railway,
Gath" writes that in his youth he went to
school on his fathers farm in Maryland, then to
two other schools not far away; then he taught
school himself and after studying law awhile
went West and praCticed it, He married the SIS
ter OF Governor Of Ohio. And soon after he
went into the railway work wherewith ne still
pleases himself
LykenS, Pennsylvania, dispatch states that
the explosion Of gas In the Short Mountain col.
liery killed George West Simon Kreilly and
Michael Douglass and probably fatally injured
ThOs. Evans and Robt Thomas.
The directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company have elected George r. Roberts a mem.
ber Of the Board and President of the Company,
to take effect the 1st Of June. committee has
been appointed to prepare for the next meeting a
revised organization for the management Of the
company.
Judge Daingerfed Of the Superior Court San
Francisco, fell dead on the bench Friday.
heavy snow storm passed over Chicago and
Cincinnati Monday night, doing considerable
damage to property
The chain OF evidence is fastening about Gen
B. A, Morton, who is in jail at ST. Louis, charged
with forgery,
The explosion Of boiler at Rome, New York
in the Merchant iron mill killed four Workmen
fatally injured one and severely injured mum.
Der Of Others
A Prescott dispatch says, the Chilehuiva In.
dians who have been committing some depreda.
tions in their vicinity by killing several white
men, have surrendered to Col Price, command.
ing the department at Colorado.
Memphis, May 1O.-Rufus Armlstead foreman
Of Ed. Harris plantation, four miles south Of the
city, was asssssinsted last night by an unknown
negro. Armisead was shot with double barrel
shot gun while in the back yard. The assassin
escaped.
st. Louis, May 1O.-Thomas Horne, school
teacher, and John D. Taylor, between whom
there existed bad blcod met at Arrow Rock sa'
line county, Saturday. Both Immediately drew
revolvers and at the third shot by Horne, Taylor
fell dead.
Wichita Kansas May lO,-The ringleader of a
mob OF tracklayeTB that was attempting to release
one Of their number from the Augusta Jail, where
he had been placed in default Of o fine which
had been imposed for an indecent exposure OF
his pereoD, was shot dead by City Marshal Rich
Rrdson Saturday night, Augusta is town in
Butler county, the present terminus Of the St.
Louis Il San Francisco Railroad, The marshal
is under arrest, and the IsCklayeR when last
heard from were swearing vengeance on the
town,
Hon, George Brown, editor Of the Toronto
Globe died last week, aged 60. He was assaulted
by discharged hand short time since, and in
the struggle was shot in the thigh, from which
death resulted. He was an able man and a
prominent Liberal leader.
AtFt McHenry, near Baltimore, on Tuesday,
some laborers were breaking ,up abandoned
shells when nna pxnlOdeds MILNE siV ynan a nd