The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-06-01
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Recent Occurrences in This And
Other Countries.


Garield's old friend, has been elected
Superintendent of the Cleveland Public
Schools.
DETROIT, May 27.-John MOselt of
NewaygO county has been sent to Jack
son State Prison for twenty-five years
for rape on a nine-yeaT-Old girl of that
county.
Mackey was seated yesterday in the
House and Dibble displaced as member
of the House from South Carolina. The
DemOcIa ats pronounce it an outrage only
worthy of the party of fraud.
A man named Lawson, who arrived at
st. Petersburg from Stockholm, Saturday
morning, was arrested on suspicion of
being one of the Ph9niX Park assassins.
He had taken up quarters at the Grand
HOte |, and was recognized by scar on
his left cheek.
WORCESTER, MASS, May 30.-In the
Superior Court Jesse j. CObuTn was
fined 800 for manslaughteT, on aC-
count of the death of Capilla and two
children by the lake disaster on the 4th
of July, 1879. CObuTn owned the boat
which was overloaded and tipped over
at the wharf.
CHICAGO, May 27.-A Kansas City
special says: Gus Miller and Matthew
B. Jones were arrested on a charge of
on April Sd, hung Levi Harrington, a
cOlOred man. Sufficient evidence is be-
lieYed to have been obtained to convict
Miller and Jones.
A London dispatch says: In cOnse-
quence of a report that an attempt
would be made to destroy the Govern
ment magazines at PuTfleet, containing
fifty thousand barrels of gunpOwdeT the
garrison there has been strengthened
| and the public has been warned to keep
to the main road.
In Pittsburgh 18OO0 iron and steel
WOTkmen are out; 1900 in Youngstown;
several thousand i'll Cleveland; about
| 5000 in Wheeling, and in Cincinnati,
st. Louis and other places the strike
starts in to-day, June 1st, for the en-
plOyees generally refuse to accede to the
| demand for an increase in wages.
Fred Jackson, a young married man,
of Olmstead, near Cleveland, shot and
killed Thomas Y. Merriam on Sunday
evening. jackson and wife claim Mer-
Tiam came to their home in liquor and
when jackson went out Merriam as
saulted him with knife, when jackson
shot him with fatal result. Merriam
was a single man, aged 27. Jackson is
under arrest.
The Khedive of Egypt was compelled
by the military, threatening revolt to
take back Arabi Bey as Prime Minister.
The police are forcing the pOpulace to
sign a petition to the Sultan praying for
the reinstatement of the late Ministry,
the withdrawal of the ultimatum, the
departure of the squadrOns, the recall
of the COnsuls General and the deposit
tiOn of the Khedive.
WHEELING, W. VA, May 27.-News has
just been received here that Robert
Bailey shot and killed VIM. Mcdaniel at
Linside, Monroe county, this Stale. The
men were hunting, and Mcdaniel, who
lived several hours after the shooting,
said that Bailey shot him Intentionally.
Bailey first said that Mcdaniel shot him
self, and afteTwaTd that he was putting
a cap on the gun when it was accident
ally discharged.
MEMPHIS, May 37.-An Avalanche Tus-
calOOSa, Alabama, special says: Eight
prisoners, two muTderers, one highway
rObber, and one rapist, broke Jail here
this evening by saving off the iron door
to the cell with razor saw, and run
ming over the jailOr when he opened the
hall door. Two have been Tecaptured,
and the others are in swamp. Hounds
have been telegTaphed for, and a re-
capture and some fun is expected to-
morrow.
LITTLE Rock, May 27.-Edward Isom,
clerk in DR.. Mather's store at Kerr Sta
tiOn, fourteen miles from this city, on
the Memphis Railroad, was murdered
by an unknown assassin last Friday
night, the contents of a shotgun being
fred into his body. A considerable sum
of gold and silver, shotgun, and
small quantity of goods were taken. A
colOred man who came to the store drunk
several days ago, and who was roughly
handled by lsom, is suspected.
General Ramsey, of the army retired
list, who died last Tuesday at Washing
ton was born at Dumfries, Va, February
21st, 1902, and was graduated from West
Point in 1920. For his gallant services
in the Mexican war he was made a
Major in 1916. During the civil war he
was in command of the Washington
Arsenal from 1861 to 1868, and was made
Chief of Ordnance of the United States
Army, September 14th, 1868. He was
then made Brigadier-General.
CHICAGO, May 27.--A Salt Cake, Utah,
special says: News has been received
of a terrible tragedy near Milford,
twenty miles southwest of here. John
A. Smith, an old ranchman from Cali
fOrnia, quarrelled with his wife, and
seizing a double barrelled shotgun,
fired at her twice, both charges taking
effect. He then cOOlly reloaded the
weapon, went out doors, fastening a
string to the trigger, and placing the
muZzle against his breast, fred six navy
bullets into his liver. He died two
hours afterwards. married daughter
witnessed the tragedy. The old man
was subject to fits of lunacy.