The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-01-17
THE NEWS
From Near and Far---Giving the
Pith and Points
Of Interesting Incidents, Events and Hap
penlngs Gathered in Many
Fields.

washed away by floods.
At Mexico, o., the National Hotel
burned Friday morning. Loss $4,000.
The James river is frozen from Rich
mond to the lower Branden, eighty
miles.
Fitz John Porter's friends say that
the bill for his relief will pass the
House.
B. NJ. MOrgaridge, of Dudley Station,
o., committed suicide with Winchest-
er rifle.
Bradlaugh was defeated in his suit
against Erskine, Deputy Sergeant-at-
Arms OF the House of Commons.
| Governor CullOm has been nominated
by the Republican joint caucus at
Springfield, Illinois for the Senate.
At Ravenna, last Saturday, Albert
Cartwright, a young brakeman, was
killed while making a chain coupling.
Geo. W, Mcdonald, a Chillicothe specu-
lative broker, is charged with abscond-
ing leaving liabilities to the amOmnt of
$1,000.
The fifty-eight principal railroads of
the country report their earnings for
the month of December, 1882, at $21,-
,623.
Seventy-three Thousand emigrants
passed through Cleveland last year, and
| $500 settled there, nearly half of them
| German.
| Republicans of the Illinois Legislative
caucus have nominated Governor COllum
but some Republicans would not go into
the caucus.
Governor Butler, of Massachusetts,,
with his staff, has accepted the invita-
tiOn of the citizens to attend the Mon
treal carnival.
O'Reilly, Of Rochester. who made con-
fessiOn that he was one of the assassins
of Cavendish and Burke, has retracted
his confession.
| At Montreal the police found four
bodies in the medical students apart
ments stolen from the vaults in st.
Martins Cemetery.
Democrats and Greenbackers of the
Michigan Legislature have nominated
Byron G. Stout, of Pontiac, as their Sem
atOTial candidate.
Edward K. Shaw, cashier of Jersey
| City Bank, has been Jailed in default Of
| $4,000 bail. BOice, the president of the
bank, has been arraigned.
The Probate Judges Association, last
week, at Columbus, adopted resOlu-
tiOn recommending an additional in
sane asylum for the State.
In a Cleveland runaway, Mrs. Gather
inc Condor and her nine year old daught-
er were dangerously, perhaps fatally
hurt, Mrs. COndOn's skull being frac-
tured.
Shaw, cashier of the suspended City
Bank of Jersey City, is held in $4,000
bail, charged with perjury in swearing
| TO false statement as to the banks con-
ditiOn.
Gaor0a GavD,onr 4ho Dh;IoIoI.L;
negro diamond thief, is committed to
await a requisitiOn from Illinois. Mrs.
Julia Done, of Chicago, identified the
stolen diamonds as her property.
Before suiciding at Erie, Pa, Reeder
Moore confessed to committing a rape
on young lady eight years before for
which Charles Stafford was serving q
twenty years sentence in the Peniten-
tiary.
William Window got the Republican
caucus nomination for Senator in the
Minnesota Legislature, but twenty Re-
publicans would not go into the caucus.
1t will take seVenty-fiye votes to nOmi-
nate.
The revenue steamer Oliver WOlcOtt
has gone to Simpson, B. c., to quell In
dian disturbances there, thus reciprocal
| ing British courtesy in sending a gun
boat to Alaska in 1879 on similar
| errand.
At COhoes, n. Y. sleigh containing
Henry Dewey, Charles LOngrean and
Harry Bass, aged respectively 16, 10 and
13, was struck by the Montreal express
and aIlreceived atalinjuries, LOngrean
having since died.
ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 14.-During the
performance yesterday at a circus in
Berditscheff, Russian Poland, a fire
broke out, and, before the spectators
| could escape, the whole structure was
ablaze. Three hundred persons per-
ished.
| CherOtee, Chief of the Creek Indians,
has again called out the militia to pro
tect the capital against an apprehended
uprising on the part Of the SpiOchee
men, and United States soldiers have
been ordered from Fort Gibson to pre-
serve order.
| DUBLIN, Jan. 14.-KniVes supposed to
have been usod by the Phoenix Park as
sassins were found near the premises.
Carey, Of the Dublin municipality, has
been arrested with twenty others, on
the charge of conspiracy to murder gov
ernment officials. The Lord Lieuton-
ant declines to interpOse in the case of
Patrick Higgins, one of the persons SEN
fenced to death for the Huddy murders.
CINCINNATI, o., Jan. 12.-John B. HOff-
man, tailor living at No. 40 Elder
/ street, fatally shot his son Robert, aged
| twenty-five, at home this morning.
Hoffman was drunk and had a quarrel
| with his son last night. This morning
he arose early and hid behind the door
till his son started out for work, when
he fred, the ball taking effect in the aD-
dOmen. Five years ago Hoffman killed
another son, but was not convicted. He
has escaped.
In the Senate at Washington Friday
the bill for the relief of General Fitz
John Porter was passed by vote of 80
to q, with an amendment that Porter
shall receive no pay nor allowance prior
to his reinstatement. Messrs. Cameron,
HOar and Sewell were the Republicans
who voted for the bill. The tariff bill
was subjected to some additional amend
men,. In the House resolution was
adopted calling ON the President for a
statement of the aggregate amount on
river and habor improvements since the
beginning of the Government, The con-