The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-08-05
THE NEWS.
Discovery Of Gold at LeayenwOrth,
Kansas.
The Indian Treaty Negotiations Going
on Satisfactorily.
Yellow Fever on Board a Guaranteed
English Ship.
THE NEWS.
HOME INTELLIGENCE.
GENERAL NOTES.

MllN uuhCC > lluuSIllbl HApuSlIlO' AN-
ISOLATION has accepted plans for u building
which is to cost 100000.
Gold is said to have been discovered in
the coal shaft beng sunk by the State at
the penitentiary at Leayenworth, Kan.
Joseph Pedrahita, an American citizen,
CLAIMS 100000 damages from the Spanish
government for false imprisonment in
Cuba.
Col. johnson, a native Of the United
States, in the insurgent army of Cuba,
was killed recently in a skirmish with
Spanish troops.
A shark nine feet in length has been
caught in the Potomac, near Washington.
1t will be stuffed and placed IN the Smith
sonian Institute.
The Ute Indians wisely demand the
privilege Of viewing the land to be as
signed them in severalty before they will
agree to surrender their present reserya-
ton.
New Brunswick, N. j. claims the honor
of having captured the first sea lion Of
the season. 1t is eight feet long, and is
supposed to have escaped from Coney Is
land.
Officers {" the American vessels fired on
in Cuban waters deny the statement of the
Spanish authorities that they were within
three miles of the Cuban coast when over
hauled,
The editor of a "comic weekly" the first
number of which was issued on Saturday
at Denver, Col, has several libel suits on
his hands, and two or three men with guns
are looking for him.
Friends of Capt. Payne, the Indian
Territory land-grabber, now held a pris-
oner by United States troops at Wichita,
Kan, are indignant because no trial has
been ordered in his case,
Secretary Schurz had a long talk with
the Piutes at Pyramid Lake agency, in
the course of which they agreed to send
their children to a boardIng-School to be
established by the government.
Ouray is having some trouble in c|onvinc-
ing the Utes that the treaty negotiated by
him at Washington is a wise Ole. Some of
them who object to the severance of tribal
relations denounce the arrangement in
fOrcible language.
Gen. Grant has been elected president
of the San Pedro and Canyon De Lagua
company. The company was recently or
ganized under the laws of Connecticut by
New York and Boston capitalists. The
head Office of the company is in Boston.
In the international rifle-match at VIM
bledol, the Americans were defeated by
the English team by u total score of 1,G47
to 1,5GS. A foolish quarrel between Brown
and Farrow of the Americans, led to the
retirement Of the latter and the demorali-
cation of the remainder,
The Indians of eastern Oregon threaten
to make trouble for the whites who have
taken possession of Camas prairie, the
red mans f~ayorite place for gathering
camas root and other big medicine.
One II. 9. Nicholson, of Kentucky,
claims that he is the inventor Of the vital
principle in the construction Of the quad
rupleX, and asks the Patent Office to set
aside Edison's patent.
Citizens of Chatham, Mass, recall the
case of Ensign Eldridge, once Il citizen of
that place, who, in 1860, resolved to COM
nit suicide by starvation. lie had alb
stained from food Of every kind for seventy
days, when he died.
A careful comparison of the exchanges
i'm the large cities of the United States in
dicatcs that the business of July, this
year, has been but little larger in value
and not as large in the quantity of goods
exchanged as during the corresponding
month in 1879.
A woman whose name IS not given, has
confessed to Judge Nelson, of Brooklyn
that she had just discovered that the mar
she had married, and with whom she haC
been living for the past three years was
her brother, an illegitimate son of hel
mother. They were born in Sweden, ant
her mother came to this country some
years ago.
The iron trade in England shows sign.
of revival. One of the largest iron manu-
featuring firms its inability Il
fill contracts ut rates previously agreed
on, owing to the advance in prices, anC
the Board of Trade returns indicate
large increase in the export of iron fr
June over the corresponding month o
last year.
During the last ten years Chicago ha
advanced from the ninth to the sixth cit.
in the United States in the magnitude o
its direct importations. In 1870 tn
goods imported were valued at 81 ,03S,2 "a
ON which the duty collected was 1897, l3C
) In 1879 the value was $4,02l, 543, and tn
duties $1,SO7, 053. The number of pack
/. ages in 1870 was 1856, and in 1879 6,59c
The present year will show a still large
increase.
There Is a threatened conflict over th
obelisk. The Park Commissioners refus
to take possession of it. They say the
don't know to whom it belongs, whethe
the Khedive, or Vanderbilt, or the Unit
ed States Government. They will no
take possession until authorized to do Sc
They say they have no right to eXpen,
money to remove the obelisk, for whic
not n of the expenses is authorized b
law. The obelisk still remains on boar
. the Dissonk.
An investigation of the reports of gol
discoveries in the Adirondack mountain
shows that the metal has really bee
found, or that q swindle of gigantic pro
portions is in progress. Many capitalist
: are on the ground investigating the ri
mors for their W satisfaction, and &C
venturers are numerous, A compan
, from Wisconsin is said to be taking on
several hundred dollars worth Of ore
day, buj the members are very reticen
, and will say nothing about their plans.
ACCIDENTS AND CASUALTIES.
A young man at Denton, Md, who's
sister had been seduced by a man Of fan
: lily, so years of age, got a big club an
I pounded the old reprobate into insens
: bility.
4 Mr.. Power, chief constable at Winnipe
= Manitoba, undertook to cross a river wit
Q a prisoner in a skitf, when the latter,
5 desperate fellow, upset the boat, an
! both drowned.
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: The New York Herald a few years a
in commenting on the political death