The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-08-19


Tanner came to successful end Saturday
Aeon. Now the Doctor can indulge in wa.
lcc melons to bis hearts coutent, rs also
tor has been eating almost continuously
since he stopped fasting, and in twenty
four hours he added five pounds to his
weight. His stomach digests anything it
can get, and when he isn't eating he's
drinking milk, wine, and beer.
Fourteen young Plegans of Bear Chiefs
band in Montana, put on their war paint,
and, against the orders Of their elders,
sailed forth in search of something to
| fight. After two days searching they
happened to stir up a couple of hundred
Sioux warriors, who surrounded them.
Two of the Plegans escaped The rest
used their Winchester rifles with fright
full effect so long as their ammunition
| lasted, and then made charge in which
every one of them was hacked to pieces
with the knives and tOmahawks Of the
| Sioux, infuriated at the losses inflicted on
them. Bear Chief lost two sons, and is
reported to be maturing scheme Of re-
Venge.
OBITUARY.
Ex-Governor Bigler, of Pennsylvania,
| died at his home at Clearfeld, on Monday
last. The Ex-Governor was in his Goth
year, and was born at Shermansburg, Pa.
In early life he was printer and journal
ist, and for several years the editor of the
Clearfeld Democrat. In 1S41 he was elect
ed to the State Legislature, and was
member of the State Senate to 1S47.-
From 1852 to 1855 he was Governor Of the
State. Afterwards he was made President
of the Philadelphia & Erie Railroad Co.
From 1855 to 1861 he was in the U. S. Sem
ate.
ACCIDENTS AND CASUALTIES.
The propeller Cleveland was destroyed
by fire in Saginaw bay.
An insane woman at Bellevlle, Ill.,
took mattress, saturated it with coal oil
ignited it, and threw herself into the
flames. She was burned so severely that
she died in few hours.
The indianapolis and st. Louis railroad
freight depot and warehouses, the Cairo
Short line warehouse, and fifty freight
cars, at East st, Louis, were destroyed by
Gre,
A train on the Wabash road ran through
an open switch at Clark Station, near
Moberly, Mo-, ditching the locomotive and
mail and baggage cars. The fireman was
killed and the engineer was dangerously
scalded.
Two or three boys at Pocasset, Mass,
undertook to teach their little brother,
years Of age, to swim by taking him to the
middle of swift-running river and drop
ping him. He got out all right, once or
twice, but they succeeded in drowning
him at last.
Near Martinsville, o., freight train
was ditched. -Four loaded cars were
mashed into kindling wood, and the tender
into a shapeless mass, and one badly
wrecked. The track was torn up and the
road bed plowed out for several rods. No
one hurt.
At grand ball at the residence of
wealthy planter, near Dallas, Tex,
young man danced revolver out of his
trousers pocket. The weapon was dis
charged, the ball striking young lady in
the leg and glancing Off into the shank of
an unsuspecting youth near by. Ampu-
tatiOn will be necessary in the case Of the
latter.
Click, the Tyro, N. g., somnambulistic
murderer, has been discharged from Gus.
tody, He went TO sleep with merchant
who anticipated raid on his store by
| burglars. Some time during the night
Click got to dreaming of u fight with ne
groes in which he was killing them right
and left, when he awoke and found him.
self standing over the dead and mutil.
ated body Of his companion.
RANDOM NOTES.
A doctor at Lyons, France, has under
taken, on wager, to so fifteen days with
out food.
A house at La Sale, H., occupied blythe
| principal Of one of the public schools is
said to be haunted.
1t is reported that Eugenie intends to
| leave Chiselhurst and take the remains
Of her unfortunate son with her,
A notorious Italian woman is on trial
at Rome for feigning the birth Of u child
and foisting it on prominent gentleman,
French Republicans are highly elated
over their success in the recent elections
for members of Councils General They
have gained 236 seats, and lost only Is.
During the past year more than seventy
thousand Canadians, who declared their
intention of becoming permanentresidents
of the United States, crossed over from
| the Dominion ut Sarnid.
Sukey Hart, cOlored woman, aged l40
years, has just died in Kinney, Tex. As
| proof of her great age it is stated that she
| nursed her mistress, now rs years old,
after her own sixteenth child was born.
A negro at Savannah, Ga, saw young
cOlored girl with whom he had quarreled,
in the custody Of an officer, and going up
I to her, placed revolver to her temple and
fired, killing her instantly.
Various special dispatches indicate the
Porte will probably conform to the de-
mands Of the powers on the Montenegrin
| question, and that the threatened naval
| demonstration will not take place,
The concession for the preliminary
works of the proposed tunnel beneath the
English channel, granted for five years in
1915, has been renewed by the French
government for three years.
About two hundred Indians at Sitka,
Alaska, got a supply of whisky, and start
ed on spree. When they commenced
fighting, the crew of the man-of-war
jamestown went ashore and suppressed
them. The ringleaders are now dieting
on bread and water.
A Milwaukee detective chased a burg
lar under q building where there was
room for but one man to crawl at time.
The two fought desperately for while,
lying on their faces, but the officer finally
bit his antagonist until he surrendered.
CRIMINAL BULLETIN.
A deputy sheriff at Brennan, Tex,
who undertook to arrest w. P. Aliens
mistress, was met at the door Of her room
by Allen, and shot dead.
Michael O'Hara, returned Black Hill
miner worth $4,000, is under arrest in
Maryland for raylshing the wife of a