The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-08-19
NEWSY NOTES.
Condensed From the TelegraphiC
Reports Of the Week.
The Arrest of the Supposed Benders
Proved to be another Failure,
The Fight with Victoria's Apache In
dians kept Up.
HOME INTELLIGENCE.
BRIEFS.

Crop prospects in Ireland are exciting
some anxiety.
Gen. Roberts with 5000 men has left Ca
1ul for Candahar,
A transport with thousand soldiers
left England for Bombay
Electric lights are to be used on Long
Island Sound steamers.
The census bureau credits Illinois with
q population of 100000.
A convict in an italian prison starved
himself to death IN thirty days.
The commissioners of the worlds fair
of 1883 met at New York city Tuesday.
Gen. Grant has returned to Colorado,
from the Gunnison country.
The population of Massachusetts, is l.
7S3,S12, a gain of over 100000 in ten
years.
Several Pittsburgh firms are said to
have been badly squeezed by the Chicago
pork corner.
Floods and much damage are reported
In North Carolina, by the oyerfowing of
rivers.
Four attempts to fire rilwaukee's
Grand Opera House building have been
made lately.
Colorado is having disastrous drouth,
No rain for many weeks, and everything
is drying up.
California's census shows population
of $4,000, beng an increase of 100000
since 1870.
DR.. Tanneris gorging himself with oys.
ters, crackers, milk, wine, stewed potatoes,
boiled eggs, bread, and other tritles.
The city of Evansville, Indiana, S
troubled with incendanes. There have
been six incendiary fires there within a
week.
1t is expected that it will take four
weeks to reach the bodies of the men en-.
tombed in the Hudson river tunnel more
than a fortnight ago.
During a portion of last week the
weather was so cold and rainy in Tennes.
see and Mississippi that oyercOats and
fires were comfortable.
The Wabash Railway has opened its
Chicago connection at last Its freight
trains and one daily passenger train CON-
menced running Monday.
Col. Grierson reports several engage
ments with VictOria's Apaches in the vi
cmity of Snake Springs. He killed four or
five sayages and lost one soldier.
The old man and woman recently capt.
ured at Fremont, Neb., had preliminary
examination, at Oswego, Kan, and were
discharged, the evidence that they were
not Benders being conclusive.
Col. Cash, the slayer of Col. Shannon,
has been attempting to bully Senator But.
ler, of South Carolina, but the latterstates
publicly that Cash is either lunatic or a
blackguard, and that he does not propose
to pay any attention to him.
GENERAL NOTES.
One hundred and thirty-fve chiefs and
head men of the Utes have signed the
Ouray treaty.
The king of Siam sends word that he
has not relinquished his intention Of visit
ing the United States.
The schooner Augustus has arrived at
New York from Port Depaiz with five
cases of yellow fever on board.
Gen. Sherman says that if Dalrymple,
the Texas lilibuster, undertakes an inya-
sion of Mexico, he will be set upon by
United States and Mexican troops.
The Mexican troops who have been pur.
suing Victoria's Apaches, for some time,
have grown tired Of the chase and aban-
doned it, Col. GriersOn, of the United
States army, is still on the war-path.
A Spanish subject who paid a Philadel-
phia doctor factory $500 for bogus med
ical diploma now makes oath that he
never attended the "unIyersity" and
never even resided in the United States.
A man.of-war has been ordered to pro.
ceed to Cuban waters and patrol the
coast. Members Of the cabinet believe
that the presence of an armed American
vessel will have a restraining influence
on the Spanish iron-clads.
The Interior Department is in receipt
of dispatches from Los Pinos, Col, stating
that the Utes now appear to be satisfied
with the Ouray treaty, and that the pros.
pect is that all the Indians will be OIL the
reservation by next spring.
Congress having made an appropriation
for that purpose at the late session, the
work on the Washington monument in the
city of Washington has been resumed af-
ter twenty years suspension, 1t will be
completed in about four years.
The master and the pilot of the eXcur.
sion steamer Garland, which ran into the
yacht Mamie, in the Detroit river, recent
ly, causing the loss Of sixteen lives, are
blamed for "gross Careossness and Grim.
inal negligence" by the COroners jury.
The old man and woman captured at
Fremont, Neb., have been taken to Oswe.
90, Labette county, Kan, the scene of the
Bender atrocities, where they are pro-
nounced crazy tramps. They are said to
bear no resemblance to the original Ben
ders.
The Iowa wheat crop, the harvesting
of which is about completed, averages
from fifteen to twenty bushels to the acre,
and oats from fifty to seyenty-fve bushels
to the acre. The growing corn crop of
that State, and Of the West generally, is
literary enormous
The soldiers reunion at Galesburg, Ill.,,
opened Wednesday, with sham battle,
in which several hundred veterans par
tcip&ted. In the course of the engage
ment young man who was serving q can.