The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-05-23
GENERAL VARIETY.


Indictments against u. s. Marshal StrO-
bach Of Alabama.
The estate Of Louis G. Hammersley Of
New York, valued at 5000, 900, is be-
queathed to his widow.
At the Cooper sale Of Jersey cattle in
New York, 5S animals brought $780, ,6S5.
One COW sold for $4,000.
Carson Lake of the Akron Sunday Ga.
zette, has been arrested for libel at the
instance OF Walter K. Wellman Of the
News.
The funeral Of Bishop Jesse T. Peck
took place Monday at Syracuse, N. Y.
Bishop. Simpson delivered the funeral
address.
Lydia Pinkham is dead. She spent
$4,000 a year advertising her medi-
cines, and secured a trade worth $500
600 year net.
]. d. Purcell, President of the Cincin-
natl Lumber Co., has been bound over
to the Common Pleas Court for shooting
]. II. w. Webber.
Proceedings have begun at Havana
for the extradition of Halliday and Sin
clair. the abscOnding clerks Of Robinson,
Lang 81 Co., New York.
For the first week of free canals in
New York state, 216, 100 tons of goods
W6I6 ClbhI hRhllSI l4 q lOt lOu6 III Lub
corresponding week year ago.
Eight gamblers and lottery dealers
plead guilty to the charge of lettering,
in New York, and were sent to the peni-
tentiary for from ten to thirty days.
The newspapers at Plnar del Rio COM
plain bitterly of the quality of Ameri-
can lard exported to Cuba, and ask the
Government to enforce the regulations.
Two men, CharbOrne and StOuge, cros-
sing in a carriage, the Canada Pacific
Railway, at Montreal, were killed by
freight train. Several cars were wreck
ed.
At Freehold, N. j., the jury in the case
of Alex. Kier returned a verdict of not
guilty of manslaughter. Kier was con-
ductOr OF train that was wrecked with
loss of life.
RObt. b. Morrill,, ex-Chief Auditor of
the Philapelphia Gas Trust, was arrest
ed Thursday, and held in $4,000 bail, to
answer to the charge of embeZZling the
funds of that institution.
st. John, N. B., centennial celebration
was participated in by the entire pOpu-
latiOn, as we'll as people Of neighbOring
towns. The parade of the firemen and
Calathumpians was the great attraction.
The people of the Pennsylvania oil re-
giOns are greatly excited over the pro-
posed petroleum oil tax, and formida-
BILE remOnstrance was yesterday circu-
lated and signed, to be sent to the Leg
islature.
The production Of rolled iron In Penn
sylvania in 1882 was 1,123S88 tons,
decrease of 120,980 tons compared with
1881. The production in Ohio was 356-
6O8 tons, or 1O,881 tons in excess of the
previous year.
1t is proposed by some English scient-
lists to drag and examine the bed of the
Red sea, in the interest of science. Just
what they may find 1t is not possible to
say. Probably the remains of King
PharaOh's army.
SAVANNAH, GA, May 22.-Henry
Knight, cOlOred, was publicly executed
at WaycrOss Friday for the murder of
Edward Hunter, a cOlOred bandmaster,
near that place July 1, 1882. The muir
derer mounted the gallOws protesting
religion, asked the crowd to take warn
ing and profit by his example, and meet
witnessed the hanging.
John Cooper, while driving near Ur-
bana, o., allowed himself to be persua-
ded into unhitching his horse, and try
ing colt two strangers wanted to trade.
The result was his wagon was kicked
into splinters by the colt, and when he
had recovered sufficiently from the shock
to look around, he beheld one Of the
strangers gallOping half mile away on
his horse, and the other trader had mys-
teriOusly disappeared. He has lost
good horse, but he knows more.
CRAWFORD, GA, May 22.-JOs. jones'
alias Cohen, who committed a brutal
murder last Christmas, was hanged at
Lexington Friday, the county seat of
county. He attempted sui
eide several days ago by cutting vein
with piece of tin, but his life was sa-
we'd, and the condemned was chained to
the floor. The Governor telegraphed to
hang him If he was able to mount the
gallOws. The gallOws was erected in
meadow near the town, where the hills
are on all sides, forming a natural am
phitheatre, and fully ten thousand peO-
pie were present. The drop was four
and half feet.