The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-07-22
CleOpatra's Needle in the Steamer
DessOnk arrived at New York.
Efforts to Secure a Change in the Orders
Relating to Importation Of Cattle in
England.
Generosity of Minister Gladstone with
His Tenants,
The Indian Territory Squatters
Arrested by the Troops.
HOME INTELLIGENCE.
GENERAL NOTES.

The health authorities of New Orleans
certify that there is not a case of yellow
fever in that city.
Charlie Green will match Great Eastern
against any trotter in the world for four
races over one track, for $1,000 a race.
Capt. Payne, the Indian Territory
suuatter. and twenty-five of his followers
have been arrested by United States
troops.
The steamer Dessonk, bearing the
Egyptian Obelisk presented to the United
States by the eX-khedive of Egypt, has
arrived at New York.
Wisconsin miners are said tohave found
gold and silver in paying quantities, in
Hamilton county, New York, and great
excitement prevails.
A dispatch from Deadwood says it is
reported there that two companies of the
Tth Cavalry, under Capt, Ilsley, recently
engaged a large band Of Sioux, and sus-
tanned heavy loss.
Coy. Tabor, the mainstay of Leadville
speculative interests since the retirement
of Chaflee and MOfat, is paralyzing New
York dealers in mining stocks by selling
out his holdings at ruinously low rates.
The Tennessee Board of Health has pro-
hibited the importation into that State
from New Orleans of certain articles of
merchandise which experience has demon
strated frequently contain the germs of
yellow fever.
Dispatches from various localities in
the northwest show that crops are gener-
ally in good condition, Wheat is poor in
some localities but unusually fine in 9TH
ers, and the prospect is that the yield
will be fully IN average one. Oats and
corn promise well.
The Comptroller OfCurrency has ordered
an assessment of 100 per centOn the stock
holders of the suspended First National
Bank, of Newark, N. j., to make good the
deficiency, one-half payable in thirty days,
the other half in sixty days. If not paid,
suit will be brought.
Cubans In New York have received in
formation to the effect that the Spaniards
have killed several patriot prisoners, most
of them sick, recently taken by them.
One of the victims of the Castilian saw
agery was Pho Rosado, the %Insurgent Min
lister Of War.
The site selected for the Obelisk, in Gem
trial Park, New York, is near the museum
of art. There has been some objection to
the location because, as the trees IN that
portion of the park attain a higher growth
the obelisk will be entirely hidden except
from those who pass up and down the
east drive or walk adjacent thereto.
A night express train on the Vandalia
road ran off an open switch at Amo, Ind,
demolishing the engine and one car. The
engineer was severely hurt, and a tramp
who was stealing Il ride received fatal in
injuries.
An excursion train on the Wabash Rail
way, from Toledo to Indianapolis, jump
ed the track on account of Il broken rail,
near KnOX's Siding, o. Edward Stuart,
of Noblesyille, Ind, was killed and nine
other passengers injured.
CRIMINAL BULLETIN,
Chastine Cox, the murderer Of Mrs.
Hull was hanged IN the Tombs at New
York Friday.
Rev. p. W. Harrington, of Silver Lake,
NCus3 HuhllGlChN Win q utlSuDOl dDOuI u
COW, and finally shot and killed him.
Two tramps entered the farmhouse of
Mr.. McGraw, near Mason City, H., and
being ordered away by a little girl, the
only member of the family at home at the
time, threw some kind of an explosive at
the child which burned her severely.
Edward Hayward, of Chicago, was ar
rested for committing an alleged incest
upon his daughter, 70 years of age. The
mother has been dead but three weeks;
yet the unnatural fatherIs alleged to have
made four attempts to outrage his child.
RAILROAD INTELLIGENCE.
Articles of incorporation of the Chicago,
Hannibal & st. Joseph Railway Company
have been filled at Quincy, Ill. 1t is the
intention of the corporation to build a
road from Quincy to Chicago.
An official statement shows that the net
earnings Of the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy Railroad company for the five
months ending May 81, 1880, were So
&c., 1885,, against 50, 1881 for the CORES.
ponding period in 1879, the net increase
being 1884, 1874, and the gross increase ST.
S64,978.
MINOR MENTIONS.
1t is thought in Pittsburgh that the
combined loss of the iron firms of that city
by the defalcation of j. NJ. Whaling, the
collapsed Chicago broker, will not exceed
$4,000.
The report of Judge Advocate Gen.
Dunn on the Whitaker case, in which he
approves the verdict of the West Point
court of inquiry, is in the hands Of the
secretary Of war.
A man in Davis county, Iowa, who re.
fused to make answers to the inquiries of
a census enumeratOr, has been found
guilty of a misdemeanor, in the United
States court at Dubuque, and fined.
Each of the three hundred and six dele
gates to the Chicago Republican cOnven-
ton who stood by Grant to the last will
be given u bronze medal by Chauncey |.
Filley, the enthusiastic Missouri third
termer.
RANDOM NOTES.
D There have been excessive rams in
England, and farmers are complaining.
A C%Onstantinople dispatch reports that
some Christians have been massacred in
Adana, in Asia Minor.
A London newspaper gives currency to
n rumor that Lady Burdett-Coutts and
Ashmead Bartlett, NJ. c., are soon to be
married.
A cartridge company at Bridgeport,
Conn., has commenced work on an order
from the Turkish government for foul
and one-half millions Of cartridges.
Members of the English cattle trade are
making an effort TO secure a modification
of the orders of the Council, relative to
the importation of cattle. Notwithstand-
ing the restrictions, the importation of
American cattle has steadilysincreased.
LATE NEWS.
Pfttson, Pa, July 19-Justus Hoffman, a German
shoemaker ofthls place, shot and killed his wife and
baby this evening. GHe had been drinking hard all
day.