The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-12-06
ceive favorable consideration in Con-

In Ross county, Ohio, Barbara Sauer-
brio took a dose of poison (but not with
fatal resulD because her father abused
her for marrying his hired man. HeT
father subsequently fred bullet into
his brain.
At Belleview, Pa, a miner, FOrsythe,
placed several sticks of dynamite in the
stove to dry and after a time they ex-
plOded, wrecking the house, killing one
child and so injuring the wife that she
will die.
PICTOU, ONTARIO, December 2. The
schooner H. FOlgeT, coal laden, from
Cleveland to BrOOkville, went ashore
Thursday night on Salmon Point reef.
The crew all drowned. Two bodies were
recovered.
The continued depression in the iron
trade has caused temporary stOppage
of work in the guide and bar depart
ments of the Allentown rolling mill,
throwing three hundred men out of en-
plOyment.
A dispatch from Halifax states that
the schooner Parole was sunk Thursday
off Canso. by the steamer Liddesdale.
The captain and lady were lost. The
lost from the wrecked steamer Cedar
Grove number five.
A woman named KOthi, one of twenty
six women arrested several months ago
for poisoning their husbands, was hanged
at Nienna, Friday. She confessed muir
dering two husbands. -Four other wO-
men were convicted. Il
A boiler exploded in Suphin g. Wrenn's
paper mills, MillerstOwn, O., Friday
morning, killing instantly Adam For
ester and seriously injuring John Lee
ling. Two others, John Ross and Con.
Dillon, received slight injuries.
GOvernOr-elect Grover Cleveland spent
an hour at Utica on Friday, and met for
the first time Ex-Governor HoratiO Sey-
mOuT. The two men stood in the cold
it was showing at the time-and talked
politics until both of them were shiVer-
ing and happy.
The bribery cases of Representative
Wright and Bloch have been reassigned,
at Columbus, o., for December 15tl.
Watson, lobbyist, will be tried on
another Indictment December 18th.
Another hearing on the old Watson case
has been postponed till January.
Bill Allen, the negro who, on last
Wednesday, after fracturing the skull
of fellow emplOye, shot dead Police
Officer Wright, was himself shot dead at
Chicago Sunday, after seriously wound
-
excitement attending his capture.
Henry C. Murphy died on Friday
in Brooklyn. He was Presi-
dent of the East River Bridge Trustees,
was elected Mayor of Brooklyn by the
Democrats in 1912, and narrowly es-
capped the DemOcI attic nomination for
President of the United States in 1852.
Thanksgiving morning at 1AybTeak
the attention of citizens of SciOtOVille,
o., was attracted by the prolonged yelp-
ing of small dog in front Of the Chris
tian Church. On investigation he was
fOund standing over the body of his
master, who was lying in the snow
frozen to death.
A New York special says: This is the
usual season of tight money in all the
financial centers, and this tendency
might naturally increase until the end
Of the year, but in the present situation
there seems to be no special tendency in
that direction, and possibly may not be
unless brought about by artificial means.
Albert Morse immigrated with his
family from Virginia to Indiana, and
had not been there a week before his
wife evinced a desire to elOpe with Mr.. |
FULLY, neighbOr. Morse proposed that |
FULLY should take her in consideration |
If transporting the remainder of the |
amily back to their old home. This |
vas done.
A vacancy on the Supreme Bench of |
indiana, caused by the retirement of /
Judge WOrden, was filled by the Cover |
lOr appointing VIM. H. COOmbs, of Fort |
Wayne. The Supreme Bench, therefore, |
or the present month, stands three Re- |
)ublicans to two Democrats. In jan
lary the political complexion will be ex-
Ictly reversed.
Clayton McMichael, proprietor of the
North American, was on /
sunday notified by the President of his
as Marshal of the District |
# Columbia, to succeed Mr.. Henry. He /
erVed on General HancOck's staff dur
ng the war. He has never held Office,
)ut the appointment is regarded by
as good one.
The annual Ohio Agricultural COnven-
ion will be held in the Senate Chamber
It Columbus, on Wednesday, January
9th. The Presidents of County Agricul-
ural Societies, are, by law, required to
resent to the President Of the Ohio
jtate Board of Agriculture, at the time
f the Convention, a written report of
he condition of agriculture in their re-
pective counties.
A Canadian weather prophet, who
GEMS anxious to Out-VennOT VennOr,
las proclaimed to trembling continent
hat the Jumbo of all storms will sweep
he Atlantic coast on the eleventh day
f next March. 1t will destroy all ship
ing at sea, and devastate a belt several
hundred miles in extent this side the
Rocky Mountains. There is some COM
Ort in knowing that as the day named
5 Sunday people will have plenty of
ime to see the fun.
A St. Louis grand jury has, on full
earing of the evidence, decided that
he shooting of the late Colonel Slay-
ack by Editor John A. COckerill was an
ct of pure self-defense. The testimony
8 not outlined, but it probably followed
he hints given Immediately after the
ragedy. This was the purchase of a
istOl by Colonel Slayback, and the fire.
uently repeated threats of killing
ockerill in case he continued his press
riticisms of Colonel Slayback's course
n local politics.