The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-08-15
NOTES OF NEWS.
All the Important Happenings of
the Day
Gathered and Boiled Down Into Readable
ltems-Cream of the Current
Events.

The Spanish uprising has been put
down and four of the officers shot.
Mitchell and Slade are in training at
Kansas City for their fight on the 11th.
Wells, Fargo g. Co.'s stage robbed of
$1,000 near Riverside, AriZ., and driver
killed.
The effest of abolishing tolls on the
Erie canal will increase the business
100000 tons this season.
All the Spanish officers who Dartici-
pated in the revolt are to be cashiered-a
comparatively light punishment.
The Star Theater at Sunderland burn
ed Saturday night. The audience, 1900
in number, got out safely in four min
utes.
BALTIMORE, Aug. 13.-The old Board
of Fire Commissioners has been indicted
by the grand jury for Irregularities, and
held to bail in $1,000 each.
MILLERsBURG, o., August 14.-RObert
DOty shot George Blanchard in saloon
row at Black Creek last night, the bull
let lodging in Blanchard's hip.
Fires: Medford, Ont, Methodist
Church, Mobiles & GibsOn's hotel and
nine stores; loss $4,000. Utica, N. Y,
Costello's tannery; loss 100000.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 13.-The Devon
TwO-thirds of the guests baggage was
destroyed. The building and surround
ings cost over $5O0OO0.
WARREN, O., Aug. 14.-Mrs. 8. NJ. Per-
kins, living near here, attempted sui
eide for an unknown cause last night
by taking a dose of eXalic acid. Prompt
medical aid saved her life.
BOHEMIAN, MONTANA, Aug. 1.-THE
conductor of the passenger train which
came in last night reports IL men were
killed in the BOzeman tunnel yester-
day. No particulars or VerihcatiOn yet
received.
Gladstone has offered to secure the
passage of bill apprOpriating S150,O0O
to aid immigration from the thickly
settled part Of Ireland if Parnell will
abstain from obstruction for the rest of
the session.
At the secret meeting of the New York
operators, Friday evening, John Camp
bell explained the situation and asked
all who favored a continuance OF the
strike to stand. Every man of the 600
present stood up.
RoxANNA, IND, Aug. 11.-Rev. w.
Winans, a country preacher, committed
suicide by taking stryehnine last night,
on an expose being made of the fact
that he had remained over night with
the daughter of one OF his parish1Oners.
NEW PHILADELPHIA, o., Aug. 13.-
While picking blackberries this after
noon, Mrs. Joseph Helmick, in Old Town
Valley, near here, was bitten on the
hand by a cOppeT-head snake, and at a
late hour tonight she lies in a danger
GUS condition.
A man named Lewis was discovered
trying to secTete the remains of young
woman at Dillon, Montana. He explain
ed that he accidentally blew her brains
out with q shot gun, and fearing arrest,
tried to conceal the matter. His story
is very much doubted.
The Kimball house, Atlanta, Ga, one
of the finest hotels in the south, was de-
strOyed by fire Sunday morning. The
guests were aroused in time and all got
out safely. The loss on building and
furniture is over 100000; insurance
about 100000. The Gate City national
bank was also burned.
The little village of Vineyard Haven,
on the island Of Martha's Vineyard, Mass,
was almost totally destroyed by fire on
Saturday, including large number of
cottages belonging to summer visitors.
| The whole business part OF the cOmmun-
| ity was wiped out. The loss will be
about S250,000. Many Of the people are
destitute, and an appeal for aid has been
/ issued.
AKRON, O., August 13.-An unknown
man, aged about 40 years, lying on the
| G. A. So G. track at New Portage, near
here, was run over and killed by an ex-
cursion train last night.-Jane Lennon,
a cOlored centennarian, and the oldest
survivor of the slaves emancipated in
1927, in the State of New York, died
here last night. She had lived here 40
years.