The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-05-19
her in few hours. She was t84 years
old, and born in England.

old, and born in England.
Gen. A. Wiley of Wooster, has been
selected as the orator at Massillon on
Memorial day.
p At Pittsburgh the miners met Thurs
/ day In Interstate Convention, and
adopted constitution.
The Cincinnati NeWs-JOurnaI suspi-
| ciOusly guesses that the Foraker boom
only has Foster father.
At Urbana, Noble Sprague was fined
$500 and jailed three days for beating
inhumanly his little child of four years.
Yesterday another execution of one of
the PhoeniXPark murdereTs took place at
Dublin. The victim was Daniel Curley,
who did not turn infOTmer.
KOch's bOndsmen have settled with
the Commissioners of Wayne county by
paying $3,271,47, being % cents on the
dollar. This after years Of costly liti-
CATION.
William M. Smith, for the past eight
months Master of transportation of the
Connection Railway, has resigned, to ac-
cept similar position on the Valley
Railway.
AS the testimony in the Wallace-Mc-
| Kinley contest draws to a close, it is be-
| coming evident that Major j. III. Wallace
received a majority of the votes cast
/ Kent News.
Miss Minnie Carrill, of Millersburg,
| Holmes county, aged twenty-three years,
and dwarf, has run away with Sells
| Bros show. Steps will be taken to COM
pei her to return home.
Near Lafayette, Allen county, o., an
eleVen-year-Old girl, Nettie EbersOle, on
her way to school, VAS seized by tramp
and outraged. He is in jail and gives
the name of Edwin Wynn.
The reunion of the Army of the Po-
tOmac took place at Washington City,
on Wednesday, and the turn out was
splendid. General Newton was elected
President for the ensuing year, beating
General Grant.
FrederiektOwn, o., was visited by a
miniature cyclone on Monday afternoon.
The oldest inhabitant was dumfOunded.
He had never seen storm half so bad.
few persons, among them the post
master, were injured.
COLUMBUS, May I'D. f. WiOn, of
Darke county, who shot and killed a
man named Her, three weeks ago, and
then fled from justice, was captured in
LewistOwn, Pa, was lodged behind the
bars in the city prison last night for
safe keeping by Darke county officers,
and was taken to GreenVille this morn
ing.
AKRON, May 17.-At the Buckeye Works
to-day an elevator chain broke and the
car dropped ten feet, throwing a wheel
barrow load of pig iron, weighing
several hundred pounds, upon 1ames
Falor, aged fifty, workman in the
mOlding room. Both legs were broken,
one just below the knee and the other
near the ankle.-Last night while the
family of James KOplin was attending
the circus, their residence was Tansacked
by burglars, and gold watch and lot
Of jewelry all valued at about $3.50 were
made away with. No clue.
NEW YORK, May 18.-Alice thinner
man, the young and cultured wife of
Frank Zimmerman, artist, killed her
12-day old daughter, and attempted to
kill her mother. Some days before her
confinement she took an aversion to her
husband, mother and friends, and when
the baby was born she declared she ha-
ted it. Twice she has attempted sui
eide. Today she induced her mother to
leave the room, and then plunged the
scissors into the infants neck. She Inn
mediateIy attacked her mother, but was
OVerpOwered. She was sent to the asy-
lum.
SARATOGA, May 1.-THE Ninety-fifth
General Assembly of the Presbyterian
Church of the United States convened
this morning. The session opened with
TIE Deum chanted by the church choir.
The Divine blessing was invoked by
Rev. DR.. Brown, of Fredericksburg, Va.
Rev. DIR. j. Addison Henry, of Philadel-
phia, read the lesson, 122 Psalm, and al
so Matthew vi. 10. Rev. DR.. EVeTard
Kempshall, of Elizabeth, N. j., then lead
in prayer. The retiring moderator, Rev.
DR.. Herrick Johnson, of Chicago, then
appeared at the desk and delivered the
annual sermon from the text, Matthew
vi. %, last clause. "If therefore the
light that is in thee be darkness, how
great is that darkness"