The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-01-05
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Topics OF the Times Given in a Terse and
Spicy Manner.
| Fire at CarrOlton, Ky destroyed property
1 10 ths value Of $50, 900
! Louis Butler was shot ard killed by Louis
| Schlecht at Wausau, Wis
John B. Hoglen, Of Dayton, o., died at Los
Angeles Cal, Saturday night
William Williams was crushed TO death in
an elevator shaft at Youngstown, 0.
The greater portion Of the business part
OF Egg Harbor City, N j., was destroyed by
fire.
A four-fOot vein of almost solid silver has
been struck at the Iconoclast mine, New
Mexico
George Halyerson, a fireman, was crushed
to death in u railway accident at Wabash,
Indiana.
John Heushaw was kicked to death in
Brooklyn saloon by four roughs, who vera
arrested
B. Belding one of the oldest locomotive
engineers in Ohio, died at Findlay o., Satur.
day evening.
At St. Louis, James Cullen while celebrat-
ing tine New Year, accidentally shot and
killed his wife
Fireman Van Buren, ard Roberts vera
killed by their train running into landslide
near Albany, Ore
James Hendricks brother of the late Vics
President Hendricks, diediat Shelbyville, Ind,
aged ffty-six years.
A. c. Keeber, presidena Of the A. C. Kssb
Ter company Of Chicago, has been arrested
for embezzling 100000
James A. Daniels, one Of Cincinnati's Old.
est citizens, died at his residence on Mount
Auburn, Saturday night.
Barney Grady and. Harry B. Williams I,
were drowned i'll the Ohio river, Cincinnati,
by breaking through the icra.
Petitions for the redUctson Of railroad fares
30 two cents mile are in circulation, and
will be presented to the Ohio legislature.
In bare knuckle. fight between Frank
Martin and William Sweeney, at Pittsburg,
Sweeney was knocked out i'll the sixteenth
round
burglar was satalLy shot by Private,
Watchman Charles Hanson, at Columbus,
o., while in the act OF roSbing the shoe stora
Of j. e, Elliott
A drunken white man, elected from a
colored dance az Fulton, Ky, returned
with a double-baEreled shotgun, and fired
into Che crowd, wOUnding seven persons, ono,
fatally.
Judge Johnston has rendered Adhesion in
the cases of Robinson and CougdIin, at Ra-
VIENNA, o., Coughlin was granted a new trial
and Robinson sentenced to be. hanged on
April 81
Johnny, tho eleven-year-old4 sou Of g. B.
Mercer, of Barnesville, o.. while playing
with his sister, tied towel aroand his neck
and attached it to the door, and was StraAgled
to death
In quarrel over politics. in a New Orleans.
saloon Patrick Healy was mOrtally wounded
Mike Walsh dangerously, and Daniel MaSkey
slightly hurt, Louis Glaze, and Johh Gibson
we're arrested for murdeE
The explosion at the Equitable Gas COM
pany's works. New Yoric is thought 10 have
resulted from bomb thrown into the engine,
house. The body Of Frank G, Plaished, en-
gineer, was found buried in the ruins
At Baltimore, white celebrating the advent
Of the new year, Stephen J. Conroy Drained
Patrick O'Donnell with an ak, and when
Mrs Conroy upbraided her son for his mur-
derous assault, be struck her with the ak.
killing her Instantly
William Rockefeller, head Of the Standard
Oil Company, came near losing his life at
Greenwich, Conn. While feeding a pet buck
it knocked him down, and was preparing for
another attack, when a farm hand rescued
the unlucky gentleman and saved his life