The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-07-18
NOTES OF NEWS.
All the Important Happenings of
the Day
Gathered and Boiled Down Into Readable
ltems-Cream of the Current
Events.

The Telegraphers' Brotherhood de-
mand an advance in wages of 10 per
cent.
The twelfth juror in the Polk trial at
Nashville has been secured, and the
trial has been commenced.
The Massachusetts Legislature passed
bill fixing the State tax at $1,5OO,OOO
10 place of the 100000 levy vetoed by
the Governor.
NEWPORT, R. l., July 16.--It is ru-
mOred the Lolita EmerrilI, a fishing
steamer, is lost with all hands off the
Georgia Banks. .
The salOOn-keepeTs of Kansas City
have decided to close on Sunday, and
Will see that the Sunday law is enforced
against all other work.
HoagstrOn & Cousins shingle-milI, at
Custer, Mich, was blown to pieces by
the explosion of the boiler. John McIn-
tosh was killed and several others Sc
veTely injured.
AT Ellsworth, Kansas, a worthless fell
low named Jones stabbed his wife fOur
times with butcher knife because she
refused to live with him. The woman
can not recover.
NEW YORK, July 16.-News received
TINS morning says the steamer Niagara
which took fire and was beached near
Indian Key, has arrived at Havana
slightly damaged.
BRISOL, Ct, July 16.-Edward Hyland.
living in the outskirts of FOrestyille,
killed his wife in a drunken row. The
DOuy was found badly mutilated. Near
ly every rib was broken.
READING, Pa. July ia boiler ex-
pl0siOn occurred at KuabetOwn furnace
this morning, resulting in the death of
Frank WOOlman and Murray Good,
Harry WOOlman was injured.
The store of VIM. Weaver of Montours-
Vile, Pa, was burglarized Sunday
night of $1,000 in Catawissa railroad
bonds, $1,000 in miscellaneous securi-
ties, $500 in checks, and 5000 cash.
BY the fall of stone weighing two
tons distance of forty feet, at Fall
River, Mass, Dennis Sullivan was killed
and John Manchester, John Sullivan,
Thomas Hicks and George Savine se-
verely injured.
In an alteration between j. +. Hut
ton and Mr.. Van Alstyne, old citizens of
BrOwnsbOrO, Tex. the latter was shot
and Instantly killed. During the melee
Mrs. Van Alstyne had an arm broken
and three fingers shot off.
Thomas Whitehead, a farmer, took
dinner with Andy Francis, friend and
neighbOr, near Waynesville, N. G. I'm
mediately afterward Whitehead died in
great agony. Francis was arrested on
suspicion of poisoning him.
Samuel Holmes, wealthy man, has
been discharged from the alms-hOuse at
New Haven, Conn.,, where he had been
committed as insane, upon complaint of
woman who claimed to be his wife, but
to whom he was never married.
Two female pauper emigrants and
children were sent back to Europe from
New York on the City of Rome, by the
Emigration Commissioners. One female
pauper emigTant and children we're
also returned on the steamer Egypt.
The boiler in Philip Hendricks's saw
mill, at MillsdDre, Wis, exploded, doing
damage to the extent of $2,5OO. Half the
boiler was hurled three hundred feet,
just over the heads of twenty men. An
emplOye named Mead was slightly in
jured.
COLUMBUS, o., July 16.-At II a. m, a
man named James Kelly, while at work
tearing down the Broad street bridge
across the SciOtO river at this place, fell
into the river, distance of 20 feet,
struck the water on his side, was knock
ROCHESTER, N. Y, July 16-A fright
tul accident occurred this morning at
the Delaware, Lackawanna 81 Western
K. r. crossing near Leroy. A carriage,
containing Mrs. Walter Phelps and Mrs.
Gen. Phelps and child, while crossing
the track was struck hy an express train
and dashed to pieces. The two ladies'
and child were instantly killed. Their
bodies were horribly maugIrd, the track
being strewn with the fragments for a
long distance.
BUFFALO, July 15.-It is currently re-
ported that Frederick Smith, of TOnaW-
anda, one of the largest lumber dealers
there and recently interested to a con-
siderable extent with j. A. Bliss, who
failed and disappeared, Is insOlyent. au-
thOritatiye statements being to the eff
feet that his creditors will be unable to
realize % cents on the dollar. Smith
went from home about two weeks since
and it said he has fled.
In the Ocean Grove meeting of the
Sons of Temperance General Sam f.
Cary, of Ohio, said he believed the tenn
perance work is an educational work;
that it is useless to pass prOhibitOry
laws until the people are educated to
an appreciation of them. The doctrine
he advocates is the proper one for Pro-
nlOlLlOnlSIS TO Iall III Win II they eX-
pect ever to accomplish the purpose for
which they claim to be labOring.
Mr.. Justice MOule sentenced a rural
prisoner in England in the following
words: Prisoner at the bar, the cOun-
sci for the prosecution thinks you in
nOcent, | think you innocent. But
jury of your cOuntrymen, in the exer-
else of such common sense as they DOS
sesS, which does not seem to be much,
have found you guilty and it remains
that should pass the sentence of the
law. That is, that you be kept impris-
Oned one day, and as that day was yes
terday, you may go about your business
PARIS, July 15.-The unVeillng in the
Place Chateau d'Eu of the great statue
Of the Republic, one of the chief fea-
lures of the days festivities as the ma
tional fete day took place this morning,
with appropriate ceremonies in the pres
ence of Senators, members of the CHAIN
Der Of Deputies, municipal councillors
and vast cOncOurse of people. The
Prefeet of the Seine made an address,
in which he said: France is unwill-
ing to impose her own will upon other
nations, but wishes to live at home free
and respected" The President of the