The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-12-23
THE NEWS
From Near and Far---Giving the
Pith and Points
or Interesting Incidents, Events and Hap.
penings Gathered in Many
Fields.

| Alhl 5uOChS Oh edTLnQudKe were
In New Hampshire, Tuesday.
Dispatches from CapetOwn report con-
tluued lighting in Zululand.
Three men were killed in a powder
mill explosion near Patterson, N. j.
The farm house Of John Clark, in Linn
county, Kansas, burned, and three chill
dreu perished.
Josiah King, senior partner of the
Pltts6urg COmmercial-GaZette Publish
ing Co., Is dead.
Rear Admiral James F. Schenck died
In Dayton, Thursday, aged 70. He was
retired in 1869.
twenty-five thousand people are in
danger Of starvation at Carrick, county
Donegal, Ireland.
Arunaway couple from Oneida county
| n. Y, were found suifOcated in their
room, at Rochester.
The Superintendent says the South
| Chicago rolling mills will be TeOpened
| the first week in January.
At Vincennes, Ind, Mrs. Jones, on the
! way TO hOr sons funeral, was thrown
from the train and killed.
I Leva Maltzberger, aged 65, was fatally
| stabbed while in bar-TOOm, by Conrad
| Bretmann, at Reading, Pa.
A night watchman peTished in the
| burning of house connected with the
county Jail at Syracuse, NY.
The House Wednesday passed the bill
| permitting retired army officers to hold
civil offices in the Territories.
Senator Logan, Tuesday, exposed the
| farce and fraud of maintaining schools
| and farms at Indian agencies.
Forty Irish farmers have been arrest
| ed for taking part in calling meeting
at Balleymena, county Antrim.
Fifteen women, injured by the explO-
sion of the cartridge factory at Mount
Valerein, France, Monday, have died.
DR.. Forbes, of the Jefferson Medical
College, Philadelphia, has been indicted
for completely with resuTrectiOnists.
By the burning of the Sisters of Char
| ity Hospital at Big Rapids, Mich, val
liable library was destroyed. No lives
| lost.
A son born to Mr.. and Mrs. Nicholas
Wilmer of Lafayette, weighs but a
pound and half, is lively, and bids fair
| to live.
Jas. H. Wilson, Treasurer of Dewitt
county, Illinois, cOmmi ted suicide by
hanging himself in his barn. No cause
assigned.
The sentence Of Andrew Biggar, who
was to be hung at Ouray, Col, was COM
muted to imprisonment for life by the
Governor.
Three lives and 100000 in property
were lost by the burning of the Cope
land Hotel and adjoining block at Penn
broke, Ont.
Brigands captured town in Pueblo,
Mexico, and carried away a number Of
captiVes, intending to hold them for
large ransom.
A bill has been introduced in Con-
gress limiting the number OF liquor
saloons in the district of UOlumbiana to
two hundred.
In prize fight near PittsbuTg, We'd
nesday, the men mauled one another
through ten rounds, and then the battle
was declared draw.
Gen. Curtis, the political assessment
offender, has paid his thousand dollar
fine like little man, and has been dis
charged from custody.
Dan Shehan was fOully murdered in
his own house in Perry township, Nor
row county, o., Monday night, by Val.
Wagner, his brOtheT-in-law.
The rolling mill at South Chicago,
one of the largest in the country, which
has been partially closed for some time,
shut up all departments Tuesday.
Governor Foster has issued a prOcla-
nation for a special election, to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Senator
O'Hagan, in the thirteenth Ohio district
In livery stable fire at Mcpherson,
Kan, twenty-nine horses were burned.
In farm building fire at CharlemOnt,
Mass, $50 sheep and fifty calves were
burned.
Lawyer Merrick's office in Washing
ton was set on fire the other night, and
it is thought for the purpose of destroy
ing papers damaging to the Star reute
defendants.
The Consular and Diplomatic bill, as
amended by the Senate committee, in
creases the aggregate appropriations
$1,000. AS reported, it calls for an ap-
preparation of $1,316,755.
The heaviest wind and snow storm
| for fifty years prevailed along New
| foundland for 48 hours. Twenty-Five
vessels were wrecked in Green Bay.
Great loss of life is feared.
At the Middlebury Coal Company's
| shaft, few miles south of Akron, Ohio
/ George Reese and John Jones, miners
were crushed to death by stone, weigh
| ing fifty tons, falling upon them.
While George Halliday, of HillsbOrO,
| Ohio, was returning home from deliver,
| ing drove of cattle, he was confronted
by two masked men, who, with drawn
reVOlvers, forced him to give up the pro-
ceeds of the sale, amounting to several
| hundred dollars.
ROCHESTER, N. Y, December 2O.-The
City Bank, rated the strongest in the
| city, closed its doors this morning.
There Is said to be deficiency amount
ing to 100000. The cause of the sus-
pension is said to be speculation in
stocks and oil by the president, Charles
E. Upton. Great excitement prevails.
Gen. Raleigh E. COlston, who serv-
ed as a Major-General in the Confeder-
ate army, and afterward as an officer of
high rank in the Egyptian army, deliv-
cred lecture in New York, last Satur-
day night, in which in closing, he said.
II have rOamed in many strange lands
have seen the beauties Of other land
Coma hack tn INV natiun la nd NTH n a-..a