The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-03-09
LATE NEWS,
Recent Occurrences in This And
Other Countries.

OIner countries.
Steamers are plOughing Lake Erie.
Prince Frederick, Md, had $4,000
fire last Sunday.
The floods South continue and much
suffering is reported.
Six hundred miles in six days was
what HaZael accomplished in New York.
A flood on the Merrimac caused a sus-
pension of the mills at Lawrence and
other points on Monday.
Senator Edmunds also refused to ac-
eept the Associate Justiceship of the
supreme Court. Who next?
bill for uniform system of bank
ruptcy throughout the United States
has been reported in the Senate.
Members of Congress are beginning
to realize the value and importance of
Eads' ship railway project across the
Isthmus.
Thomas Gibbons, of Youngstown, fell
through railroad bridge at Alliance,
Tuesday night, sustaining probably
fatal injuries.
ObeTlin had large fire on Monday,
$5O,OOO loss; some insurance. The
buildings were mostly old wooden
structures.
At Boston, Mass, the banking house
of Charles A. Sweet & Co., suspended on
Monday. 1t IS stated they borrowed
about TWO million dollars from Boston
banks on collateral.
Mahone's readjusting reappOrtion-
ment failed to pass the Virginia Legis-
lature, before it adjourned on Saturday.
Malone proposes to have his Governor
call an extra session.
Near GTeenfOrd, MahOning county, on
last Thursday, John d. Bush shot and
killed John Burbick. They had been
drinking and had been struggling to
get possession of the gun.
Mrs. Garfield, Mrs. Polk and Mrs Ty-
Ter, have been added to the pension
rolls for $1,000 year each. Tie first
and the last named do not need the
money, but Mrs. Polk does.
motion in the British House of
Commons in favor of permitting afflr-
nation on the part of Bradlaugh, was
rejected, 207 to 242. 1t does not look as
if Bradlaugh would make it.
TrescOtt and the Chilian Minister of
Foreign Affairs have agreed on terms to
submit to the Peruvian Government and
TrescOtt has so days in which to fix up
a competent government acceptable
to Chilli.
Seven miles from Mt. Vernon, Ky., on
Monday night, Mary Sigman, the mother
OF five children, and soon to be confined
again, and her mother, eighty years old,
were shot and killed in their own room.
James Bishop, A. s. HendesOn and VIM.
Hysinger are arrested.
Three miles from Marquette, Michi-
gan, ton and a half of powder ex-
plOded in building of the powder mill
on Monday morning, killing four men.
Nothing remains to show where the
ltnnh " 11fU nf hV,
man remains were picked up.
Bob SarVer, cOlOred, was lynched in
Simpson county, KY, Monday night for
attempted rape on bright young white
girl named Sina Ruley, on last Friday.
Her screams brought help and the fiend
got off but was arrested on Monday
and while going to Jail the train was
stopped by a crowd at Franklin, and
roped off from the limb of tree.
When Robertson, the dramatist, after
many hard struggles, saw fame and for
tune at last within his grasp, he said to
a friend: 81 have just got everything
l want. have known every kind Of
trouble, disappointment, and discOur-
agement, even hunger, and now have
every luxury-just as l am going
away" He died a month afterward.
The London Times says: eff no
more can be said for MacLean, the
wOuld-be assassin of the Queen, than
could be said for the assassin of Presi-
dent Garfield, or LEROY, the murderer
of Gold, he can as little expect to es-
cape punishment" Minister Lowell
rendered to the Queen the congratuIa-
tiOns of the American Nation on her
escape. The would-be assassin's ante
eedents show him to be a drunken
crank"
David j. Murphy, ex-District Attorney
and leading criminal lawyer of San
francisco, was shot in open court on
the 25th of February, by MOrOny, a wit
ness whom he had crOss-examined in
an aggravating way, and in addressing
the jury insinuated MOrOny had been
an Australian convict. When Murphy
got through, MOrOny put pistol at the
back of his neck and fred, making a
terrible wound. MOrony was prevented
from firing again and is in prison.
Dennie Dunlay was three-card
monte man attached to a circus. A
greenhOrn, whom he had swindled out
of $500 at Assumption, La, complained
to Justice, who not only issued war
rant but went to the tent to serve it.
Dennie was operating on another vic
tim, and he quietly offered the Justice
$50 not to interrupt him for ten min
utes. This proposition was declined.
Then the gambler angrily drew a re-
volver, but the Justice fired quickest,
killing him instantly, and cOoliy recoy-
ering the 800 from his pocket. The
gambling privilege Of that circus
now for sale.