The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-12-23
PERSONAL VARIETY.

Alexander Mason, negro, struck H. Rohsn.
sanyel on the head with club at Brenhom Tex.
as, Friday, killing him.
Mr., Dafy, an old man, who lived alone in La.
mark county, oltsrio, was burned to death on
Thursday, his house having taken Are.
A reward of 81, 900 has been Ioffered for the re.
covery Of the diamonds stolen from the residence
of Mrs. Tod at Youngstown, Ohio.
The jury In the Borlree .shouse murder trial, at
HOnesdale Pa, at late hour Saturday evening,
brought in verdict OF murder in the second
degree.
Mary Elizabeth Gurd, four years old, while
crossing King street, Toronto, was killed by a
street cal, Her mother on viewing the remains
became insane.
Company Of militia were ordered under
arms at COVingtOn, KY, to protect the Jail and to
prevent the lynChiug of Hickt, the supposed
murderer of Henry Williams.
Alexander Drake's store in Florence Ont was
robbed Sunday night of 5000, Of which $1,000
belonged to Robert Gum, the treasury of the
township The safe was opened with a key.
Charles slckler, of Scranton, Pa, accidentally
poisoned his wife by giving her carbolc acid in.
stead of choral. She died in a few hours. Sick
Ter has gone crazy at the fatal mistake.
Mrs. Harriet Lane johnson, who presided at
the White House during the administration of
uncle, James Buchanan, is expected to pass
some weeks in Washington this winter at the
house Of Mis-. HOrsby, daughter Of Judge
Black.
Daniel Davis Of Washington, Me, died recently
at the age of one hundred and three years. He
was in possession Of his faculties until the last
and until within few days Of his death was
able to be about when stroke paralysis ended
his life. He was well.to do farmer and veter
en- of the war Of 1872.
A lad In Georgia was arrested as a suspected
murderer, and to escape the gallows established
an alibi by producing a watch which he had
stolen at certain time and place. That brought
him In danger of the penitentiary, and then he
proved that he had escaped from the lunatiC
asylum and was returned TO his old quarters.
A mean fellow in Taunton, Massachusetts,,
whose aged mother has made over TO him large
and well stocked farm, under a promise that he
would care for her as long aa she lived recently
applied to the city authorities to extend aid to
her as a pRuper. The disoreditable facts were
asCertained, and he was given very forcible re.
minder Of the advisabillty OF hlial obedience.
Colonel Stephenson of the United States Geo.
logical Survey has turned another page IN the
long sealed volume Of American antiquities. A
large village Of cliff dwellers has been discovered
between the Jemez Mountains and the Rio
Grande River in New Mexico. The cliffs rise to
the hight Of from fifty to 500 feet. Some Of them
I'm thRaa nd nlhara mn hf0h' a
ave lines Of dwellings rising line above line, and,
back towards the mountain tier above tier. The
houses on the top Of the cliff in the abandoned
city are rectangular in form, but the caves are
circular, being ten to fifteen feet In diameter,
with arched roofs. Within the excavations are
numerous small rooms. Before each line Of
dwellings there appear 10 have been pavements
sometimes four and Ave feet in width, on the
brOadest Of which Colonel Stephenson found i'm.
prints Of feet. Many pictures and hleroglyphiCs
adorn the face Of the rock.
Governor Long, Of Idaho gives schurz HB for
driving the Poncs indians from their possessions.
Crew Of the schooner Union Flag rescued la
starving condition by the steamer Bristol City
when four days out from Bristol, Eng.
Secretary Sherman and Commissioner Raum
are now quarreling over the appointm eDt Of
negro clerk in the comp tIoller's department.
Two human Aends chloroiormed and then
burned man named Brown, his wife and lit.
10 daughter at Turpolo, Miss. Lynchere caught
one Of the brutes, piled pine chips around him,
and roasted him alive, Lynchew are preparing
lolmake a similar roast OF the other villain.
"A thief at st. Louis was chased out upon the
great bridge by policeman, and rather than be
arrested dropped ninety feet and was drowned,
| A Cincinnati man turned his blind daugh hter
into the street. though amply able to support her,
Because she refused to commit suicide with the
poison which he provided.
A woman at Lodi, Pa, deliberately starved her
self to death The process required six weeks Of
tolsl abstinence from food, though she drank
lpsrlngly Of water The had long been eccentric
| and the death Of her mother destroyed her rea.
son. Thereup she went 10 bed with the
AVOwed intention Of dying, and never ate again,
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