The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-05-06
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

mother. The father seized butcher knife and
stabbed Samuel, killing him almost instantly.
Ban Francisco, April 0O-A Seattle dispatch
says David Ball, Arthur ]. Dempsy, William Muir
ray William H. GOucher, James scanlin ant
Captain Stephen Meanley, Miners returning
from the skaget mines, while descending the
rapids Of the skaget river were drowned by the
capsisIng Of their canoe.
The Vulcan Steel Works, Of 81, Louis, have re-
sumed operations in all departments, on basis
Of fprices adopted by the company.
Big Peter and Abe Coakley who were impli
Gated In the robbery Of the Manhattan Savings
Bank In 1878, when nearly 100000 worth Of se'
curltles were carried off, were arrested in Phila'
delphia
Hayes is working off his Cabinet on the supreme
bench ss rapidly as possible. MCCrary is to have
his seat in the West, Key ito have his In the
South. It's pretty arrangement for the benef
Charles.
1t was a cowardly mob that lynched Hank Long
at Hancock Chapel, Ind. They ran like sheer
when he shot one Of them, and only dared return
and hang him when 1t was certain he had ex
hausted his ammunition,
Col, Fred Grant is Of the opinion that his father
has a mission to perform in breaking up the
thrd.term superstition. This is the doctrine Oi
the Harry White letter. In order to do the thing
completely the 80 called Republican tickett
should be Grant & Son. We may need to dispose
Of the superstition that this is republic.
Mexican herders stole all the eggs that Shaeferl
hens laid at Webb, Texas so he bored holes in
several eggs and drugged them with tartar emetic
There were several very sick men In the neigh
borhood next day and shaefer was delighted
but that night he was mobbed and so nearly
killed that his recovery was at first deemed i'm
possible,
Lightning last Friday struck the house Of Joseph
Decker, near Des MOines, Ia, and passed through
the roof making hole six feet square, and thence
went to the cellar, breaking the cIOckery melting
bronze clock and throwing milk and -four Ovel
the kitchen. Yet not one of the persons in the
house were injured
Philadelphia proposes to put some Of It's con
victs at work cleaning Its streets, and expects t
make saving Of at least S15O,OOO year, The
work is to be done at night, and 200 inmates o.
the House OF Correction and twenty extra guard
are to do It,
The exasperated owner Of a corner stone IL
Augusta, Me-, has put up sign reading: Want
ed, tAe ten LATEST men In town-to loaf on thi
corner"
The Boston Journal tells this "My DEAR" sale
a fond father to three yearold as he entered
the nursery, you have little sister baby" "oh
let me run and tell mamma" was the quick de
mand OF the happy brother.
Loot mid ma kha -
married again. and his new wife asked him Il
take her out riding. He REPLIED you dink.
ride out NIT anoder woman so soon after thI
death Of mine frau2"
1t is stated In San Francisco that the city has
within the past few years, invested S65OOO 900 II
mines by the assessment process, and that from
these mines less than 5000 has been received al
dividends.
The excitement in Patterson, N j., over thu
shooting of John VanhOuten by William Dalzell
at the May festival Sunday, has subsided. Dal
zell remains In the Newark jail and his son is IL
Patterson jail, bail being refused.
The chairman of the New York delegation tt
Cincinnati is Lucus Rob inson, and the chairman
Of the Vermont delegation is Lucius Robinson.
Resolutions were adopted by the National But
/ ter and Egg Convention recommending a Tepea
of the duty on salt and protesting against tht
farmers being mulcted in the interests Of a few
monopolists Of the State of New York,
Gath" writes that he met Galusha A. Grow
who said: II do not think Grant is going to ge
the nomination. Blaine's chances seem the best
and, after Blaine, Washburne or Sherman. ThC
Pennsylvania delegation is not going to votC
Soidly for Grant. There are twenty-five men OF
It who will not vote for him Oh any ballot"
Mrs. Charlotte Krause, of New York, on Friday
leaped from the bridge to Harlem river, fifty fee
below. She took her four children all arrayet
In their best clothing to the bridge with her. that
they could see her take her .own life. She was
rescued and will be removed to the Insane
asylum,
Lagow telegraphed to his wife at Palestine, III.
to 90 to the railroad with a heane to meet Ger
tain train, as he would then arrive dead. She die
so and found him dead-drunk. Angry at hi
joke and possibly disappointed, she had hin
thrown into the hearse, in which she conveyed
him home.
The last, entry in the Presidential race is made
by the Brooklyn Eagle, which names Judge Cal
vim @. Pratt of that city, for the Cincinnati nomi
nation "The Judge" says the Eagle, "was borr
and grew up to manhood in Massachusetts,, anC
no man ever was a Democrat in Massachusetts
except upon principle"
new oil field is reported at Cape Breton, of
Novs Scotia. The people there are preparing t
sink test wells. As the whole island is about one
third the size Of the Pennsylvania oil field the
new territory is not regarded as much Of a beal
on the market,
The various branches OF the Federal service ID
Chicago, with the exception Of the Post Office
occupied the new Custom House bull ding on the
Al inst