The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-07-29

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OBITUARY.
A ~grandchild of General Hancock, four
months of age, died from the effects of the
heat in New York.
Joseph Rrinkerhoff, author of the orig.
NAL draft Of the celebrated Wilmot pro
Ylso, and for many years judge of the
Ohio supreme court, is dead.
Hon, j. A. Campbell, at one time Gov
ornor of Wyoming, and later Third Assis-
tant Secretary of State, died at Washing.
ton, July, IA. He served with distino-
tiOn in the Army of the Cumberland from
the first days of the war until its close,
where he was one Of its ~best-known staff
officers, having acted as Gen. Schofeld's
Adjutant General during the closing years
of the war.
The funeral of the late Judge Stephen
I. Logan, took place at Oak Ridge Gene
terry, Sprinfeld, ILL.,, amid q vast concourse
of people and brilliant representatives and
luminaries of the legal profession, on Mon
day afternoon, the 10th inst. In the death
of Judge Logan, Illinois has lost one of its
oldest and most distinguished citizens, a
man who was distinguished in law and
politics thirty years agoin the State, when
Illinois was developing as a common
wealth. Judge Logan was one of the in
tellectual giants of the West, q contem-
porary Of Hardin, Harris, Lincoln, Doug.
las, Bates, and John I. Stewart the latter
still living. 1t was Abraham Lincoln who
said that Judge Logan was the ablest law
yer he ever knew. They travelled the
circuit together, and were ever warm per-
sonal friends, they being at one time part.
ners. Stephen T. Logan was born Feb.
"a, 1900, in Franklin county, Kentucky,
and at the time of his death was in his
S1st year. In 1917 he studied law in
Glasgow, KY. He vas married in Glas-
gov in June, 1923, to America T. Bush,
who was born there in 1906. They had
four children in Glasgow, two of whom
died young. Mr.. Logan moved his family
to Springfield, ILL.,, arriving May l6, 1882,
Stephen Il. Logan was elected Judge of a
circuit thai included about one.fourth of
the State. After serving a short time he
resigned in 1887. He was again elected
in 1889 without his consent, but resigned
III a few weeks, both times because he
could not live on the salary, and could do
better by private practice. Judge Logan
served four terms in the Legislature. and
was a member Of the State Constitutional
Convention in 1871. In 1854 he was a
Wing candidate for Congress, and was de-
teated by Thomas l.. Harris. In 1861 he,
with Gen. John NJ. Palmer, was appointed
from his district as u member Of the
Peace Congress, and in that body he APP
piled his great ability toward bringing
about a peaceful settlement of the pend
ing conflict between the North and South.
Stephen L. Logan never had any desire
for public position. A natural lawyer, he
chose to devote his life to the legal profess
sion. The law he loved, and in his devo-
tion to it became successful and eminent.
LABOR ITEMS.
A strike is IN progress among the Job
printers of Chicago. Employers are sup
plying the places of the strikers with nom
Union men.
A mob of white strikers refused to per-
nit a gang of Colored laborers to work at
East Atchison, Kan. The negroes had en-.
gagged at $1.25 per day, whereas the eau
casians demanded $3.50. Many of the lat
ter were drunk, but no violence took
place. The citizens furnished a guard for
the black men, and If the strikers again
there will be war.
Stevedores employed in loading the
Wabash vessels at Toledo, o., have been
receiving twenty-five cents per hour for
vessels, and struck for thirty. The
agent says the men have been better paid
than other laborers for similar work, and
the company not only refuse to pay the
advance, but will hereafter employ their
own men.
ACCIDENTS AND CASUALTIES.
About two hundred miners were killed
Thursday morning, by an explosion in a
coal pit IN South Wales.
A violent wind-storm IN South Chester,
Pa, unrOofed thirty-five houses, and Sc
yerely injured two men.
While Joseph White, neal Gaylord,
Mich, was removing lumber from his we'll
it caved in, burying him forty feet down.
He leaves three children.
A Mrs. Frye, of Keokuk, insane and
locked up with her badly IN the Jail at
Fort Madison, Iowa, for safe keeping,
killed the child by hanging it to the bed.
The Northwestern hotel, at Fort How
ard, Wis, was destroyed by fire, late on
Thursday night. Many of the guests were
to jump from windows. The loss
about $4,000,
A young man calling himself John II.
Jhristiancy, and claiming to be a son of
Minister Christiancy, has been committed
% the Inebriates' home, at Fort Hamilton,
New York on his own motion.
A poor woman, living near Fort Wayne
nd, who had been deserted by her hus-
,and, poisoned herself and five children,
tut they were discovered by ~neighbors in
line to save their lives.
Tony Defuates, a deaf and dumb boy,
vas run over in Jackson, ILL.,, by THE fast
train on the Wabash, St. Louis
md Pacific Railway, He was literally
orn to pieces, and killed instantly.
A passenger train on the Republican
Valley railroad ran into a flood-wrecked
at an early hour Tuesday morn
ny. The engineer, Mike Egan, and the
John Rest died at thar ,,osts