The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-09-15
LATE NEWS.

Five murderers, Brown, Padgett and
McGewley, white and Abel and Amos
Manly, (Creek Indians were hanged at
Fort Smith yesterday, The execution
was private, only 40 or 50 persons being
admitted. The doomed men died easily
with the exception of the Manlys.
A gang of land pirates three or four
miles east of independence, Missouri,
stopped the Chicago & Alton night ex>
press and went through the express
car, and also robbed the passengers,
making haul of $500 or $4,000,
Several have been arrested.
The Union chainmakets at work for
Peter Hayden at Columbus, Ohio, struck
on Saturday for higher wages.
J.W. Gillewater. arrested at sanatobia
Miss, for the murder of Thomas Cason,
The car and repair shops of the Cairo
Short Line Railroad at east St. Louis,
were destroyed by fire Saturday morn.
ing. Loss estimated at $4,000.
E. E. Chandler, jeweler, committed
suicide at Lincoln, Neb., by throwing
himselfin front Of moving freight train.
He has divorced wife at Logansport,
Ind.
The Lumberman's Exchange at Chi
cago on Saturday forwarded to the Mich
igan sufferers $500. Contributions of
every kind are received by the lumber
men, who are actively pushing the work.
The subscriptions at New York up to
Saturday evening amounted to over
$1,000.
Lieut. Governor Tabor of Colorado;
next winter will found at Denver an ex>
tensive public library, to be literally en-
dowed. The building is to cost $500
600, and is to contgin 100000 volumes
to start with, His opera house, which
was opened on Monday by the Emma
Abbott Opera company, has seating
capacity of 800 and is one of the larg-
est in the country. The entire building
when completed will cost $4,000
The Produce Exchange of Toledo will
examine into the charges against E. R.
and Geo. Williams, now suspended.
Two miles north of Findlay little
son of Mr.. Shuler, I9 months old, fell
into well twenty-seven feet deep, hav-
ing ten feet of water. When the little
fellow rose to the surface he caught hold
of scantling which extended,across the
we'll just above the water. AThe child
received no injuries except few slight
scratches.
Ten dollars day is the wages now
offered for men to work in the New Or
leans cotton congresses, where great
strike is in progress.
The funeral of Archbishop Hennt oc-
cured at Milwaukee Saturday. About
twelve Bishops and hundreds of priests
were present.
The Indians killed four men fifteen
miles beyond Flagstaff and one in Verge
Valley, and also on Cash Creek, Arizona.
Mayor Kelley has applied for fifty stand
of arms and ammunition for the town,
and will give bond therefor, in conse-
quenCe Of which they are being shipped
from the Prescott post, and will be with
out weapons to defend this section of the
country.
Fresh shocks of earthquake have oc-
Cured at various points in the Neapoli-
tan province of Italy. A few persons
were killed and many injured, and seri
Gus amage done to property,
An official telegram announces that
three battalons of troops and battery
of artillery occupied susa Saturday.
They met with friendly reception from
the Tunisian authorities and principal
inhabitants.
John Bright says the bad harvests OF
Great Britain the past three years have
cost the country G2oo, ,ooo, 900. He adds;
The way in which we have passed
through this time Of trial is strong proof
of the wisdom Of the free trade policy.
On Saturday morning while wagons
were leaving Cooper's cotton press, New
Orleans, strikers interfered with the
teamsters. Police Sergeant Reynolds Or
dered the strikers to disperse when he
was knocked down and beaten. He
drew q revolver and shot one of the
strikers, a negro, through the head, kill
ing him instantly. Two white men
were wounded. The Mayor called out
the entire force of police. Captain F. 0.
Minor, while driving along.in cab, waS
shot at twelve times.
A telegram from Long Branch says
Attorney General MacVeagh has re-
tanned the Hon. Benjamin II. Brewster,
of Pennsylvania, and George Bliss, Of
New York, to conduct the star route
prosecutions. Mr. Bliss was at Long
Branch to-day in consultation with the
Attorney General about the cases,