The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-03-23
INTELLIGENCE DOTS.
A Weeks Record of the Worlds
Happenings.
Interesting Items Of Importance Inter-
spersed With Itinerant Invoices
of Intelligence.

William Beecher, convicted of killing
Patrick Hughes in Cincinnati, has been
sentenced to be hanged July IA.
The factory of "Ponds Extract" at
Williamsburg, N. Y, was destroyed by
fire Oh Saturday. Loss, $4,000.
The mixing house of the Lake Supe-
riOr Powder Works at Marquette blew
up ON Sunday. Four men narrowly es-
capped death.
The twenty-third annual Convention
of the Ohio Sabbath School Union will
be held in Springfield, o., commencing
Tuesday evening, June 9th, 1882.
LANCASTER, PA, March 2O.-A freight
train ran off the track last night near
DOWningtOn, and William Filley, engi-
neer, and Glenn Keeser, fireman, were
killed.
A fire occurred in Dayton, Ohio, on
Saturday, which resulted in the total
destruction of M. b. PaTmeley's dry
goods store and heavy loss to adjoining
buildings. Loss, $60,OO0.
LYNCHBURG, VA, March 20.-At the
sale of the Montgomery White Sulphur
Springs property to-day the hotel porch
fell, killing Burwell Robinson and seri-
Ously injuring twelve others.
Charles S. Wells, an assistant astrOn-
Omer at the Dudley Observatory, Albany
N. Y, has discovered the first comet of
the year. 1t is in the constellation
Hercules and has tail about five min
utes long.
The snow blockade on the Central Pa
cific Railroad continues. Adyices from
emigrant Gap say that snOw-plOugh
with eight engines has just cleared the
road between Truckee and Blue Canon.
Several trains are stuck in the snow.
The storm continues with great fury.
Frederick A. Palmer, late Auditor. of
the city of New. York, was sentenced to
States prison for twenty years, by Judge
Depue, on eight indictments for OBJ
tanning money from the City Treasury
on forged warrants. The sum alb
stracted is about $220,O0O.
YOUNGSTOWN, March 2O.-James De-
lauey, of COalburg, laid down on the
Lake Shore road near Thornhin to-
night, and was run over by the cars
and instantly killed. He is a coal miner
and employed by the MahOning Coal
Company. He is about fifty years of
age.
Distress in the inundated districts of
the South is increasing. Unless relief
reaches them Immediately, many of the
victims must staTYe. The Government
continues to forward supplies of food
as fast and in as large quantities as
possible, but they are inadequate to
meet the pressing demand.
A dispatch from Santa Fe, N. NJ, says
band of Mountain Apaches made a
raid on the settlement on ella river
and killed Michael COnnell. Governor
Sheldon communicated the information
to General Mckenzie who at once pre-
pared a command consisting of two
/ n1 Nf in 1rU Al nf "
airy to go to the scene of disorder.
WASHINGTON, Pa, March 1E-JOnas
HeyWOOd was to-day sentenced to nine
years in the PenitentiaTy for the muir
der of Thomas FOrsythe. He was found
guilty of murder in the first degree,
new trial was applied for, he withdrew
his plea of not guilty and the District
Attorney accepted plea of murder in
the second degree,
CANAL FULTON, March 20.-Another
death occurred here from smallpox on
Saturday night, that of little babe, in
the Cashenheiser family. 1t was re-
ported as recovering until it died.
Theodore Cashenheiser, the one who
first had variOlOid, and communicated
smallpox to those here who have died,
is now reported by the attending physi-
clan as being down with the Yarioloid
Governor Hoyt, of Pennsylvania, has
examined the papers in the case of
Frank Small, who shot Nicholas JacOby
| in Allegheny county three years ago,
and who is also to be hanged on Friday,
to assist him in determining the action
he shall take ON the application for a re-
spite. The Governor is unable to say
whether the request will be granted,
but thinks it revolving to hang man
while he is suffering from terrible
abscess in the throat, which is said to
be the case with Small.
Hugh Miller, reported to the police
| last night, had his pocket picked of $3.50
at the Bavarian Hotel on Liberty street.
He was released from the Penitentiary
last Thursday, where he had served six
years of an eight years sentence, gain
| ing two years by communication. The
money, he claims, was his earnings by
overtime work in the prison. He fell
| in with another convict at the hotel
whom he suspects Of the robbery
| Pitts. Post, goth.
Florian Bucket, a boy about twelve
years old, and son of Anthony Bucket,
| of Strasburg, was walking between the
side and main tracks of the railroad
west of Strasburg on Monday, and as he
states, the cabOOse steps of a passing
train struck him and knocked him
down and the wheels of the cabOOse
passed over his right arm, cutting ii
nearly off. DR.. Jump, of Strasburg, was
called and DIR. Tressel, of this city, tele-
graphed for, who went over and ampu-
tated the arm close to the shoulder. AT
last accounts the boy was doing well.-
| [Alliance Review.
DEADwooD, d. T., March 17.-After
many p0stpOnements the trial of Grow
4 Dog for the murder of Spotted Tail, the
| famous chief of the Brule Sioux, was
began in this city to-day. Much diff
Guilty was experienced in getting a
| jury, owing to the prejudice of the
whites against Indians. A large num-
Der of Sioux, including the widow and
| son of Spotted Tail, are here as wit
nesses. The indictment contains two
cOunts-muTder and manslaughteT-
which is attached the plea of the pris-
Oner to the effect that he was convict
ed, punished, and forever discharged of
the offense by the Judgment ofa court of
the Sioux nation, at Rosebud Agency,
August 9TH, 1881, according to the local