The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-07-21
and the case win be bitterly contested

and the case will be bitterly contested
in the courts.
Gum, Curtis & Co., of Boston, have
failed for $120.OO0.
At Pittsburgh on Friday the Man
chester Iron q Steel Company failed;
liabilities about 100000.
K. W. HOlbrOOk & Co., of New York,
have assigned. Liabilities about 1926
coo. They manufactured cotton goods.
Dan Timberlake, a negro, was hanged
at Lexington, KY, yesterday, for the
rape of little cOlored girl nine years
old.
Ex-senator Kellogg of Louisiana, is
now in court fighting a star route in
dlctment. He Is trying to quash the in
dictment.
Mrs. Harriet Arkell and Miss Eliza
beth Morley we're drowned while bath
ing In the lake at Port Stanley, Ontario,
Thursday evening.
At MineralsPOint Harry Walters's gun
fell down and discharged, the ball pass
ing through the hip of his little son,
who is in a critical condition.
At Beach City, W. 8. Hobbs, car
penter In the employ of the G. l.. & w.
Ry. Co., fell from a pile-driVer distance
of twenty feet, striking some timber.
He is very seriously injured.
The strike of the telegraphlc opera
tors extends even into Canada, east and
west, north and south. The officials
claim they will soon have sufficient
working force all over in spite Of the
strikers.
At New York, Thursday, a spark from
an engine set a ship on fire, and the
flames spread rapidly as on the dock was
hemp, jute, sc. Three ships in all were
burned, and it is said eight lives were
lost and several fiTemen injured. Loss
100000.
CINCINNATI, July 19.-The Commercial
Gazette's jackson, o., special says: Will
liam Jones was found guilty of murder
in the first degree for killing Anderson
Lackey. This is the second man found
guilty Of this murder. Still another is
to be tried.
Georgia Is one of the strongest Demo-
cratic States in the Union, and yet 48
out of the 63 counties in this State have
been carried in favor of local option,
which is in contrast with Republican
Allegheny Co., Pa, which voted whisky
straight, and continually whimpers
about the drunken South and Northern
morality.
MEDINA, o., July 19.-The judicial
convention to nominate two common
pleas judges for this district, embTac-
ing the counties of Summit, Medina and
LOrain, was held here today. The can
didates were Lewis of Medina, BOyntOn
of LOrain, and KOhler and Green of
Summit. The struggle between the last
two named was particularly bitter, but
notwithstanding the fact that KOhleT
captured the caucus and was Summit
cOunty's chosen candidate, 4. p. Green
received the nomination for the short
term today by one majority, getting 81
votes to KOhler's go. j. W. Lewis of Me-
dina was nominated for the long term.
CLEVELAND, o., July 18.-AbOut mid
night last night Marshal George Brain
ard, of Wellington, saw from his window
two suspicious men prOwling around,
and rushed into the street partly dressed.
The Marshal ordered them to halt, but
they ran and began firing. He shot at
them twice without effect, when one of
their bullets struck his collar bone, and
glancing, severed the jugular vein, anG
he died soon after. His wife, who saw
the occurrence from the window, helped
him into the house. Early this morning
one of the muTdererS was arrested at
Wellington and confessed, but claimed
his pal fired the pistol shot. The pris-
OneT's name is John Young. He is Just
released from the penitentiary, having
served four years for burglary and
shooting an officer. The other man,
Augustus Frank Timer, was caught
about noon, near KiptOn, by a Lake
Shore brakeman, who took him to Ober-
lin, and delivered him to the authorities,
who resent him to wellington,