The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-02-09
NEWS IN BRIEF,
Condensed Items of Interesting
News.

COLUMBUS, February 3.-W. V. Saw
by shooting himself through the heart
to-day. Cause unknown.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass, February 3.-ROsa
Roscoe, aged Ia, while kindling a fire
with kerosene in Jacob Yetter's house, at
Turner's Falls, was fatally burned, as
also was Yetter's wife and infant.
WALLA WALLA, W. T., February g.
Last night fire broke out in the farm
house of julius Missick, five miles from
this city. Mrs. Eliza Medler, Emma
Medler and Arthur Medler were burned
to death. The other inmates escaped.
The Cleveland Herald's Youngstown
correspondent says: "Ex-State Treasu-
rer HOwells, of MassillOn, while in this
city last week purchased from the Lead
vile Coal Company a large pump for
the Pigeon Run mine, near MassillOn,
in which Mr. HOwells is largely inter
ested."
WASHINGTON, February 3.-In the Sem
ate to-day Senator HOaT, from the Com
mittee on Privileges and Elections,
reported Edmund's bill regulating the
election of President and Vice President.
The funding bill came up at Ills o'clock
and Sherman appealed to the Senate to
set out the bill to-day. The bill passed
the Senate by a vote of 38 to 18.
CANAL DOVER, February "A pistol
in the hands of Willie Hammond was
accidentally discharged Thursday morn
ing, the ball passing through his hand,
and also through the thigh of Willie
Arnold. 1t happened during school
hours. The ball was extracted with no
difficulty from the latter's leg, and no
serious results will follow.
TOLEDO, o., February 3.-RObert
Hughes, young unmarried man, about
21 years of age, was found lying dead
in barn on Cherry street at noon to-
day, where, from all the circumstances,
he seems to have shot himself through
the heart short time before. The de-
ceased was formerly passenger brake
man on the Air Line Division of the
Lake Shore road, but was a victim of
consumption, and the deed was un-
dOubtedly the result of dependency.
DETROIT, February 4.-Last Wednesday
evening Wilson Decker started across
Crooked Lake, Barry county, pushing an
old cutter before him containing his
wife and little boy, aged two years.
When near the middle of the lake, in
crossing a hole only recently frozen
over, the ice broke beneath the load,
precipitating all three into the water.
Some boys skating on the lake succeeded
in rescuing Decker, but he was so nearly
frozen that his wife and child, in their
struggles, slipped from his grasp and
were drowned in fifty feet of water
The bodies have not been found.
CLEVELAND, o., February 3.-A fright
full explosion occurred this morning in
| the Bessemer Steel Works, in New
| burg, Eighteenth Ward of Cleveland,
which broke all the windows of the
mill, cracked the walls and made a
panic all over the neighbOrhOOd. An
emplOye had tipped over a converter to
examine a leaking crack. The'stream
blinded his eyes and he tipped too far
| throwing mass of molten steel into
the water in the pit below. The explO-
sion followed, throwing the melted
metal in all directions. A mass of il
struck John ReardOn in tie back, set
ting his clothes on fire, aud injuring
him so seriously that his life is des-
paired of. Joseph HeXtable was badly
burned on the arm and side. Patrick
Fitzgerald was injured about the head
his hair being singed and his eyes in
| jured. s.. ..Quiltz was also burned, but
so seriously. Martin Murria was stand
| ing alone at the nOIL. emu of tine build
| 1C cn- Nee struck on the head by q
huge piece of scrap-irOn, which knocked
l him senseless.