The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-05-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Recent Occurrences in This And
Other Countries.

| OIncT SOuhIElCSs
DR.. LamsOn confessed his guilt, and
acknowledged the business of his SEN
tence.
Before the summer is over we will be
| able to go direct to the city of Mexico in
Pullman cars.
Earl Spencer has been appointed lord
| lieuten ant of Ireland, and will release
Dillon and Parnell.
william HadeleT, merchant tailor of
| Painesyille, suicided with morphine.
Dependency and drink led to the act.
Ex-SecretaTy Blaine.is building new
| house at Washington which Is expected
to cost 100000. He has made politics
pay.
Columbus policemen identified the
murderer of Crestline's marshal as
Thomas O'Hagan, professional burg
lar.
Judge Grasser was buried at Newark,
Sunday, under auspices of knights
templar, and in presence of 5000 peO-
pie.
Wesley Langstaff, of Salem, was
struck by a freight train near COlum-
biana, Saturday night, and instantly
killed.
Ohio PrOhibitionists have called a
State Convention at Columbus on Aug
Sd. The State is to be thoroughly can
vassed by counties.
At Celaya, Mexico, loose woman en-
ticed Valentine Mancera, noted ban
dit, into town, and he was surrounded
by soldiers and riddled with bullets.
KENT, May 1.-Since the Pond law has
taken effect nearly all of the saloons
here are closed; only five out of twenty
two are open and doing business to-
| day.
The portrait of Franklin ]. Moses, Jr.,
Ex-Governor of South Carolina, is now
No 1,6O1 in the New York rOgues'' gal
lery, and the Governor himself is in the
TOmbs.
From three to six presses are kept
constantly running on Webster s quarto
dictionary, in order to supply the de-
mand, which is in excess of 10000 copies
yearly.
At Lismore on Black River, La, Clark,
tramp painter, shot and killed Thomas
S. Harper, postmaster and justice of
the peace, in a row about drink OF
whisky.
The six Chinese companies of San
Francisco have cunningly bought
ranch on Puget's Sound, where they will
land coolies from China and bring them
into the United States as called for.
Judge Macarthur of the United States
Court of the District of Columbia has set
aside the verdict of 100000 damages in
the case of KilbOurn VS.. Sergeant-at-
Arms Thompson on the ground of exces-
siYe damage.
Alderman Harry o. Jones, of Brook
lyn, who has been on trial for six
weeks for alleged completely In the en-
beZZlement of over $20O,OOO Of the funds |
of the Brooklyn Board of education, has
been acquitted.
NEW PHILADELPHIA, May III. P. |
Parsons, jeweleT of this place, skipped |
out early this morning, taking most of |
his stock with him, and leaving nu- |
merOus debts behind. He was tracked |
as far as Grafton.
Another nihilist mine discovered un- |
der the guise of lighting the Kremlin |
at Moscow with electric lights, intend |
ed to blow up the whole structure dur |
ing the Cars coronation. Bog and 300 |
nihilists arrested.
The Jesse James craze seems to have |
invaded Pennsylvania. Two mere boys |
waylaid an old farmer near Wilkes |
barre the other night, and though he |
made no resistance one tired ball into |
his head, while the other proceeded to |
go through his pockets.
Monday was the ninety-seventh ami |
versary of the inauguration of George
Washington as the first President of the
United States. The numerous body
servant who was there and promised to
tell us all about it has for once failed to
put in an appearance.
A Rochester inventor claims to have
perfected a plan by which the vast
power of Niagarais to be utilized in gene
rating electricity for Illuminating pur-
poses. He proposes to take electricity
by underground cables to Boston and
Chicago in quantities to light the streets
and residences.
A bird merchant of Boston added a
yearling leopard to his stock in trade.
Late on Saturday night he discovered
that the animal had escaped from his
cage and was devOuring birds. The
merchant was assaulted as he opened |
the door, and the fight which ended in
his victory lasted twenty minutes.
The men who tried to assassinate Cyrus |
W. Field and VIM. H. Vanderbilt by send |
ing Internal machines to them through |
the mails must have been cOnfOundedly |
awkard bunglers, or else have been plot |
ting a tremendous hoax on the POstOtfice |
The one that exploded in |
the car was small ad did not do much |
damage. Did not tear the mail bag very |
badly.
The trial of the Malley boys for the |
of Jennie Cramer, Is now in |
in New Haven, Conn. The tes- |
timony thus far develops nothing new
beyond the opinion of those who saw the |
body when first taken from the water, |
and of the physician who made the post |
mortem, that death did not ensue from
There was an entire absence
of the usual symptoms of drowning. 1t
Ia auDnoaad the 0irl was frat poieoned