The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-02-09

CLEVELAND, o., Feb. 4. Especial. +
The extensive plant of the Britton Iron
and Steel Works, on the lake shore, at
the foot of Wason street, was destroyed
by fire this morning. Loss $4,000; in,
surance $4,000. The fire was caused
by the burning of escaping oil, used for
firing furnaces and boilers.
CHICAGO. Feb. 4.-[Special. The
workmens train which usually carries
about thousand employees of the Chi
cago & North western Railroad Shops,
collided with an empty box car stand
ing on the east bound track of the conf
panv's road near Western Avenue last
evening. resulting in the instant death
of an employe named Riley.
NEW YORK, Feb. Especial 1T is
reported in the sugar trade that Secre-
tary Searles, of the Trust, has gone to
San Francisco to make a treaty of
peace with Claus Spreckels, the sugar
king. Spreckels is to rule the country
west of the Rockies on the condition
that Hawaiian sugar is not to interfere
with the reign of the Trust in the rest
of the United States.
ATLANTA, Ga, Feb. Especial. l.
Gov. Gordon has committed the SEN
tence of Eliza Randall, who was to be
hanged in Clay county, tomorrow, to
imprisonment for life. Eliza murdered
her father. killing him with an axe.
All details are of the blOodiest descrip-
ton and rot one word in eXtenuatiOn
can be urged in her behalf. Public
sentiment against the intliction Of cap
ital punishment is what saved her from
the gallOWs.
LoNGvGEw, Tex, Feb. Especial ]
A passenger train on the Texas Il
Pacific Railway was derailed yesterday
by a defective switch, six m le; from
here. The engine and baggage cars
were demolished and several employees
Of the road were killed and injured.
Michael Cain. engineer, whose residence
is at Marshall, Texas, was killed. TIE
following were injured, all fatally: 4.
II. Johnson, engineer; Mat JORDAN,
iaboTer, and Peter Begler, laborer.
ST. JOSEPH. Mo-, Feb 2-T Especial. l.
The women living in the southwestern
partof the city are circulating petitions
to have IIooneck and Buelling, wife
murderers. lynched. Mr. Augustine,
the man in whose house Hooneck com
mitted the murder, says that the women
have grown weary of delay in trying to
work up the feeling among the sterner
sex to induce them to take the law into
their hands. The petitioners have OBJ
tanned several hundred signatures.
CHICAGO. Ill.,, Feb. Especial. +
While crossing the fOrty-tifth street
eros sing on the Ft. Wayne road last
night. Mrs. Matilda Carlson and Miss
Amelia Mowers wers. struck by the
north bound work train, which was
going at high rate of speed. Mrs.
Carlson was thrown under the wheels
of the engine, and both legs were crush
ed below the knee. besides sustaining
other injuries. She died few hours
later. Miss Mowers was thrown some
distance, receiving fractured hip, a
scalp wound, and other injuries. She
still in an unconscious condition.
PIrTSBURG, Pa, Feb. Especial l.
In an interview with Thomas w. Phil
lips one of the Executive Committee
of the Petroleum Producers Protective
Association. stated that 100000 bar
relS of oil that had been set aside to be
sold in due time, for the compensa-
ton of oil producers and drillerS who
iOined the movement to decrease the
production. 1t is not to be thrown on
the general market, but will be pur-
chased from time to time by the Stand
ard Oil Company, as it may need it to
be manufactured into Illuminating oils.
This is in order not to diSarrange the
petroleum market
WOOSTER. O., Feb. Especial.
The Circuit Court gave decision this
morning on the pleas in abatement in
the motion ror new trial for Fred
Roth, sentened to hang March 10, for
wife murder. The decision favors the
defendant hence he gets a new trial
The state considered that the law re-
garding the selection of iuries exempt
ed instead of disqualified Jurors who
had served within two years previous.
The defense argued for disqualification
and as one of Roth's jurors had served
within two years previous the court
held ne was disqualified, hence new
trial was granted
NEW ORLEANS, La, Feb 4.-[Spec-
ial Jim Cornelius, negro 10 years
old, was hanged at Minden yesterday,
for the murder of the four year old son
of Z. Wren, a member Of the legislature
from that parish. The negro struck
him with an ak, the handle crushing in
the skull, mangling the head so that the
victim died almost instantly. The boy
charged with the crime confessed, and
was Sentenced to be hanged. THE Gov
ernor approved the death sentence six
weeks ago. Up to the time of death the
condemned man was stolid and indif-
ferent. He was visited by white and
coloTed preachers. The latter's work
seemed effective, for when he assembled
the scaffold he declared he was going
right to the Lord to be an angel in
heaven. The fall was seven feet but
his neck was not broken, and he strang
led to death in eight minutes. The
parents are well to do, honest people
They refused to receive the body OF
their boy murderer, and he was buried
by the Sheriff.
CLEVELAND, o., Feb. 3.--ISpecial. +
Shortly after about 8 O'clock this morn
ing some puffs of smoke issuing from
the American Paint Cos works LED
policeman Harrison to open the door
for the purpose of examining the cause
when violent explosion took place
which blew him clear across tbe stree