The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-03-17
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The steamer James Howard, Of the Anchor
Line was destroyed by fire last night, at st. Louis
Loss s75, 900 and no insurance.
Tileston & HOlliDgSwOrth's paper mills, at Hyde
Park, Massachusetts,, burned Saturday. Consider.
able paper pulp, etc., was destroyed. The loss IL
estimated at S75, 900; insurance, S450OO
A. G. Smith, receiver Of materiR for Governs
ment works at Muscle Shoals Canal, Tennessee,
was robbed by three men Of $500, on Friday,
while going from the bank at Florence, Alabama
to the chief camp on the canal.
A burglar who attempted to ply his profession
at 459 West Madison street, Chicago, early Friday
morning was spotted by E. Bigely, a clerk, who
slept in the store, and who shot him in the mouth
at close range, iDhicting painful wound The
rascal escaped.
Ex-Tweed rlngster Harry Genet, was sentenced
in New York to eight months. imprisonment and
S9604 fine.
Fourteen cars passed over and ground TO death
John Neil, at Hamlins station, near steubenville'
Ohio, this morning.
The Government has purchased the whaling
steamer Helen and Mary, to be used In the jean
nette expedition, for 100000
Cumberland, Nd, March 11.-Alex. Thrasher,
aged 90 last evening, at Mount Savage, stabbed
TO the heart Joseph Pratt, aged 90 killing him In
stantly. He also cut Frank Pratt younger
brother Of the deceased, but not dangerously,
The young men are all respectfully connected.
The cause Of the difficulty is unknown.
Wakefield, Mass, March 12-The rattan works
here were partially burned early this morning.;
loss, 100000. Eight hundred people are thrown
out of work by the Are. The company will re-
build at once.
Buffalo March ia Boiler in the Phoenix
boiler works this city, exploded yesterday after
noon, killing six men, iDjuring seven others and
literally leveling the building Robert Patterson
one Of the proprietors Of the works, was hurled
across the street and through solid board fence,
IN which portion Of his entrslls and fragments
of his limbs clunR, while one Of his legs was
found fifty yards further away. Portions OF the
boiler were landed half mile from the scene OF
the explosion.
Chioapo. March 12.-All railroads.in Iowa are
again biockaded with snow, which ls foot deepI
Storms have ragged all day yesterday and last
night In Chicago about two inches OF aleet and
snow fell,
New York, March 1l.-surrogate CALVIN granted
letters OF administration upon certain personal
estate In this CITY, left by the late Antonio Lopez
de- Santa Anna, once President Of Mexico. The
property consists Of diamonds, which are valued
at $500 900. The applicant for letters Is Manuel
Maria de Meza, a creditor OF decedent The
Sn N,a
inc in some unknown place in Mexico, are Dol
ores Fosta de Santa Anna, the decedents wid'
ow: Manuel Lopez de Santa Anna, Garcia, his
sons, and Guadalupe Lopez de Santa Anna, bis
daughter.
Mrs. Schneider, OF St. Charles, Mo-, slapped her
twelye.yearold son Willie, because he was
naughty, and, when MIR. Schneider came home to
dinner, he whipped Willie. Willie then went to
the barn crying. When they found him an nour
OF two later, he was hanging dead, suspended Dy
a leather strap from beam In the hay loft
Senator Davis, Of Illinois, created something o.
a sseusauon by declining the Chairmanship OF tne
Judiciary Committee. 1t had been whispered
oniet,v that the Democrats had accorded Davis
This monument position to hold him fast, th'
rumor having prevailed that there was poss''
bilitv that he might vote with the Repub licans In
thematter Of Senate organization. Davis could mo-
afford to rest under this imputation and to silence
the charge publicly declined the Ohsirmans hiT
announcing; however, that he would vote with
the Democrats to reorganize the Senate. 1t may
be that there will be no reorganization Of the
Senate until 1t is full In the end all WILL res
with Malone. II he votes with the Republicans
they will control the Senate; II with the Demo-
Gratis, vice versa,
The quantity Of coal annually produced In tn?
world ia estimated at 9OOOOO,OOO tons. OF thi'
quantity Great Britain produces about lS2OOO,9OO
and the United States less than 80 100000 But
this country will have an abundance Of coal
when that Of Great Britain is exhausted