The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-06-27
NOTES OF NEWS.
All the Important Happenings of
the Day
Boiled Down Into Readable Items
Cream Of the Current
Events.

Df. isaac Hathaway OF Philadelphia, ia
committed for numerous murders of in
fants by abortion.
Il. ". Vance, while raising barn
near Eaton, o., was struck and fatally
injured by falling timbers.
Michael Flanagan and son were
drowned at Hamilton, Ont., by the nm
setting of a boat. Three others were
saved.
Richmond, LOganspOrt and Evansville
nave the new insane asylums in Indi-
ana. They will be constructed on the
cottage plan.
Andrew McHale, aged thirteen years,
tell several hundred feet to the bottom
OF cOlliery, at Wilkesbarre, Pa. He was
horribly mangled.
AKRON, June 25.-Beck & Johnston.
prominent boot and shoe dealers, as,
signed this morning. Liabilities, $22,-
600; assets, $20,500.
Perry P: Long, aged seventeen, was
Killed by James Glydden, aged nineteen.
at Dover, N. ii. The latter says the shoot,
ing was accidental.
:. Near Cynthiana, KY, Bud Hunger
iOrd, farmer, while blowing up stumps
with dynamite, was mOrtally injured by
the premature explosion of a cartridge.
The handsOmest herd of POlIed cattle
that ever left Scotland for Amer lea was
snlpped from Glasgow the past week to
MT; hill OF 81. Paul. For one 2-year old
bull Mr.. II. paid $4,000.
The passenger vessels Hurunui and
Walara, OF the New Zealand Shipping
Co.' c0ilided OIL Portland, Eng land, and
the Waitara sank in two minutes.
Twenty-Five persons were drowned.
Tho nnnutVurnffn, -
ern Pacific have reached Missouri. There
Is gap of one hundred and twenty
miles to close between Missouri and
Helena. The work is progressing at both
ends rapidly.
At Petersburg, Va, Friday last Lewis
Carter, cOlOred, who murdered his wife
at the farm of d. r. B. Pretlow, South
amptOn, was executed at the county
court mousse to-day, in the presence Of
z'UOO people, mostly negroes.
In an engagement between the Gov
eTnment troops and the insurgents in
Haytl, Gen. Casimer was killed. TWen-
ty-tOur ringleaders of the insurgents
were shot at st. Louis and ten at Cayal-
Ion. Troops are besieging Jacmel.
Madison Dyke, above st. Louis, has
broken In two places, and 1t is expeeted
that the entire bottom of east st, Louis
embracing 90 or so square miles, will
De inundated. Farmers are fleeing from
their homes, There will probably be
great destruction of property.
There were 50 deaths from yellow fe-
yer In Havana during the week. At
vera cruz the fever is making frightful
TaVages among the Europeans and Amer
leans. There have been one thousand
deaths within two months. The heat
has hppnnn n lmndf
At the trial in Paris of Louise Michel.
the prisoner spoke in her own defense.
She attacked the Government, and de-
clared that the issue of pamphIets to
soldiers, 1nciting them to burn barracks
and murder officers, was justified. She
said the soldiers at Sedan would have
done well to have shot their officers
and saved their honor.
SMITHS FERRY, Pa, June 25.-On
sunday morning, Mrs. Joseph Ammon
gave her eighteen months old child a
Oottle containing strychnine to play
with. AS a consequence the child eX-
tracted the cork and swallowed a Dor
tl0n OF the poison, dying in fifteen min
utes. The Coroner who held the inquest,
blamed no one, but held that the child
died by its own hand.
SUSQUEHANNA, Pa, June 25.-There ia
cOmmOtlOn among officials of the Erie
railway over the mysterious disappear
ance OF $4,000 In transit from New
York to this place. A package contain.
ing that amount was expressed by the
Marine Bank of New York to the Susuue-
hanna Valley Bank. Officials here found
the package filled with blank papers.
CLEVELAND, o., June 26.-The body of
Charles Goodwin was found in the lake
this morning near the breakwater.
Goodwin had been missing since We'd
nesday last. He had held the position
OF cashier at the Union Freight Depot
for fifteen years, and was trusted en-
plOye. Large amounts of money passed
through his hands, and an Investigation
OF his accounts revealed the fact that he
was defaulter in the sum of $500.
GOODWIN was well connected, and lived
on Prospect street. His wife Is the
daughter of MIR. Leek, of the firm of
Leek, Dering IL Co. He was 80 years of
age. 1t Is thought he made bad specula-
tions, and sought death by his own hand