The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-08-22

o. road Sunday afternoon and danger
Ously hurt.
In scuffie between Holmes Warren
and Daniel DriscOll, two employees of the
Beckel House, Dayton, to obtain possess
sion of a revolver, 1t was accidentally
discharged and Warren fatally shot.
LITTLE Rock, Ark, Aug. 21.-DenO Ca
sat, white man, was hanged in the
Jail yard yesterday for the murder of
George Barnes, timekeeper in the Saint
Louis and Iron Mountain r. r. shops.
The San Francisco Bulletin publishes
letter announcing large gold discOV-
cries near the Yukon River, Alaska. The
cold weather (twenty-eight degrees be-
low zerO) prevents much prospecting.
STEUBENvILLE. Aug. 2O.-James Bird,
boss at GOuld's tunnel, while walking
on the Panhandle Railway track near
MingO Junction last night was struck
by train of cars. His skull was crush
ed in and he is in critical condition.
DR.. T. Allison, a believer in the worth
of vegetable food, says that diet is the
philosophers stone. "AllOw me to diet a
man." he declares, 'and 1 will make
him lively or sad, good OF bad tempered,
lazy or studiOus, long or short lived, OF
give him almost any known disease"
As Mr.. Isaac Halbier, of Clark's Corn
eTs, Summit county, was attempting to
hitch fractions horse in his barn Fri
day 1t kicked him in the neck, breaking
it at once. The blow was of sufficient
force to break in the unfortunate mans
skull as he struck the side of the build
ing.
George W. Bromley, a soldier of the
Mexican war, and who is claimed to
have killed the Seminole Chief OsceOla
in the Florida Indian war, was buried
M norh q nf philaHaInhio Gnn
day. He was born in 1917. He has been
a soldier in the regular army forty eight
years.
DoYLESToWN, Aug. 20.-During the
prevalence of thunder storm this noon.
lightning struck the house of George
w. Bird, about two miles from
here, instantly killing his daughter,
aged fourteen years. The shock also
slightly affected other members of the
family.
William GarwOod, the Cleveland frescO
painter. tarred and feathered at Lexing-
ton, Michigan, for marrying mulattO
girl, lies at Croswell in a critical condi-
tiOn. The plank on which he was ridden
fell and broke two toes. The better
class of citizens at Lexington condemn
the outrage.
VIM. ChitwOod, Dep. Sheriff of Scott
county, Tenn, was shot by rOughs and
his body placed upon the track of the
Southern railroad at Pine Knot, the
next station. A young mal named
Sprangle was murdered by his uncle.
Wm. Sprangle, who shot him with a
Winchester rifle.
writer to a London newspaper says
that, after spending months among the
poor of the city, he has come to the con-
clusiOn that large numbers of them
a farnRifu ri
wealth and aristOcracy which could not
be surpassed by any Russian Nihilist or
French Communist.
The MOrmOns are simply out of place
in history. They belong to an Old Testa-
ment age. Their pOlygamy is the sur
vival of an institution which most civil
lized men have already abandoned as
useless or detrimental, and they will
ultimately abandon it themselves in the
same way.-N. Y. Sun. 5
The postal service of Great Britain
has been transformed by the recent ar
rangement for transmitting parcels,
into gigantic express system. Grocer
les and marketing for the country are
delivered by post. The carriers are eX-
pected to take thirty pounds, and they
grOan under the load.
A team of horses belonging to Allen
Mills and driven by John Thompson,
took fright at BaTnum's elephants in
Akron Saturday morning and ran away.
A boy named Thomas Campbell, who
was in the wagon, was violently thrown
to the ground, fracturing his skull. His
recovery is very doubtful.
Peter Smith, a turnpike contractor,
was killed by blow from a board in
the hands of Pres Lawson, one of his
employees, near Helena, Mason county,
Kentucky, on Friday evening. The
quarrel was a hasty, foolish one, and q
murderOus result was evidently not in
tended. Lawson escaped by flight.
MEMPHIS, August 18.-At the dental
office of A. WessOn Il Son, Thursday
morning, Mrs. Samuel Schiebler, wife
of the senior member of the wholesale
leather establishment of Schiebler &
Co., took chlOrOfOrm while having u
tooth extracted, from the effects of
which she died before the operation was
completed.
According to decision of the Com
mon Pleas Court of Clinton county, the
business of liquor selling under the To-
cal option feature of the Scott law may
be continued and the liquor drank on
the premises, provided the man does not
become disOrderly, and the person pat
rOniZing 1T, however frequently, does
effects Of the liquor.
The conservative theory as to whether
bottom has been reached in the stock
market is that much will depend upon
the corn crop. If it is good, a strong
bull movement may be expected. If it
should be failure, or nearly so, there
are roads that would be reduced to bank
ruptcy. The acreage of corn is the lar
gest ever known, but the crop is two
| weeks late. FrOsts may destroy it.
CINCINNATI, Aug. 20.-Burt Seheible
shot and killed Josie Stubb, a sporting
woman, in her room at No. 141 George
| street, this morning, and then shot him
self in the face, dying instantly. The
discovery was not made until noon.
Both were dead. The girl was undressed
and in bed, with both her hands up
| lifted; and the man was lying on the
floor. Scheible had slept in the house
during the night, and the girl did not
| get home until o'clock this morning.
INDIAN RAID.
DEMING, N. NJ, Aug. 21.-0n the 4th
| inst, near Bepispe, Sonora, the Indians