The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-09-08
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Refreshing rains are reported in many softer
ing localities.
Henry Mswson, negro, was hanged at Chatta.
nOCga Friday, for rape committed July 4th.
Tobacco crop and fail crops generally are
complete failure in Virginia on account Of the
drouth.
New OlesDs police will be increased 100 men
to protect laborers who have taken the places OF
strikers
James Duncan, charged with killing Thomas
Lowlie in Chicago, Wednesday, died in his cell
Friday.
Failure Of Wolfe, Mayer & Co. manufacturers
Of woolen clothing hila, for $780, 600 is reported
A tkif containing three men, crossing the ca.
mai at Louisville, was lut in two by steamer
and one man drowned,
Miller Bros powder mill wrecked at SunnytoWn
Pa, and foreman killed
Heller, tTeasnTes Of 81 Louis carbon works.
was arrested on charge Of fraud amounting to
$4,000.
ChristIancy says every charge made against him
by that woman" so far as he knows is based on
falsehcod and perjury,
Ptetty Jenny CtameT took arsenic enough FOR
her complexion to produce death, as as exRmina-
tion OF her stomach reveals.
Two women, one Irish and ore German, were
sent TO the insane asylum from New York, each
imagining she was Mrs Garfield.
Drunken John Johnson, OF Troy, Ga, was en-.
gagged in performance with a fence rail upon
his wife and children. A bullet from his sons
pistol interrupted It,
Central Pacific Isi,Toad offers 81 COO for each Of
the highWaymen who removed the rail from the
track at Cape Horn mills Wells, Fargo d Co. OF.
fer 200 eacu, aid the State 500. Naturally, the
officers are in hot pursuit.
From the clue afforded by a coat stolen from
the Sherman House, in Chicago, two years ago,
with counterfeit coupon bonds in the pOcketS,a and
a picture left in boarding house by the owner Of
the coat an extensive gang Of cOunterEeiters
have been unearthed
Chicago, Sept 2-James Duncan who shot and
killed Lowerie, the printer, whom he suspected
Of having improper intimacy in his family, died
this morning Of injuries received In the struggle.
- Chicago, Sept D George Knowlton, known as
"Rebel George" who killed David Rauck, al Fort
Pierre, April 1st was arrested here today by
United States Marshal and locked up TO await
transfer to Dakota,
The clearings for the week In Chicago were 800.
5OO,OCO which Is more than double the usual
amount, and is thirty five millions greater than
any previous week in the history Of the city,
Bukh fires continue to rage In various parts OF
the Ottawa Valley. Already II is estimated that
farm property to the value Of $4,000 has been
reduced to ashes, and some sixty families render
ed homeless,
German farmer named Meining, living eight
miles from Detroit while fighting FIRE in one Of
his fields Wednesday last was overcome by heat.
Being sufocated he fell in the path OF the flames,
and was burned to death. He was an old nan
and leaves q family.
Lorenzo Delmonico, proprietor Of the famous
New York restaurant, died at Sharon Springs, last
Friday, aged 6S.
The Union Mail Steamship Company estimates
the total loss Of life by the ioundeiing OF the Teu.
ton at the Cape OF Good Hope at 226.
The French Minister Of War has ordered or 9th.
er brigade to Africa. Five are already there. The
new brigade will be 1000 strong.
The dead body Of an unknown woman was
found three miles north Of Ypkilenu, Mich, Fri.
day night badly decomposed. Under the body
was found whisky and gentian. The body had
evidently been taken to the spot where foundand
thrown over the fence into thick cover Of hazel.
Supposed to be murder.
| Mrs Margaret Kane died in WillIamSport, N Y,
Tuesday, aged 1O7 years,
The defalcation In the Brooklyn Board Of Edu.
cation amounts to 100000.
Ber ], shorroch, while playing base bSll Of Pat.
terson, N j., Monday, was struck in the stomach
by the ball from the bat and died in few min.
utes
A small schooner was capsized on Lake Mchi
gan at the mouth Of Muskegon Halbor Monday
Three men on board were drowned. Their names
and residences are not yet known.
General NoyeS late Minister to France, who re.
turned, Monday, to his home In Cincinnati, was
given a reception at the Gibson House in the
evening. Speeches were made by Judges Higby
and Taft to which Gen. Noyes responded:
The Cornell crew, excepting shinkel, arrived,
Monday, by the steamer Spain, OF the National
Line. shinkles name was on the passenger List,
passage having been engaged in advance, but he
was left in London, others Of the crew refusing 10
associate with him.