The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1869-11-24
NEWS ETEIES.

Work is very brisk at the Brook
ley Navy-yard. Over >, 500 men are
employed.
Major c. o. Howard, Of the Pitts
burgh and F,ro Wayne Road, COM
mirJed suicide at Milwaukee, on the
18th.
james Bowman was killed in Co
lumbia Township, Dubois County,
Indiana, q week ago. Bowman and
another man were engaged IL saw
ing off log on the side OF hill.
Bowman Was standing on the lowe =
side when the log started down hill,
rolling over him, and injuring him
80 badly thathe died in a few iuiuu-
ties.
The Gaiety Theater NiiiW3ukee,
was burned at = late hour on Mon
day night Nov, 18th. Two Of the
audience were burned TO death.
uImed Willie Brewer, employed Ia
the puily NelrS office, and q yuung
man named Brown, a clerk for K am
mel & Kemp. Several others were.
more or less burned the IRE was
caused by a kerosen eTp!osioue,
\ member Of the Ohio Geological
Survey COrls has lately examined
certain stone in the Aug!aiZc River,
in the neighborhoOd Of:Defiancp. aud
DrOnouuces iU the kind of which W.
ter lime is made. If the opinion
proves correct, the deposit viii be Of
immense value, and its manufacture
will ada greatly to the wealth of the
district
The late General Wool teftprapor-
~ valued al S6J0,UU0 which will lie
divided principally between his
ntUbeWS and meace-. AmUng his ben
efactiou- Were 80, 600 To the RenSSela'
er Polytechnic Institute, and So, O0C
To the Episcopal Orphan Asylum y
few days before his death heset aside
sal, 600 for a monument to himself
and wife.
The walls of the Cleveland Rink
were blown down by the gale Iast
week. Loss estimated at over Sl2.
600. ..,. ....- ... ........
Itis said that the Government ha.
been dgfrauded out of nearly 81 GEO,
600 by lottery anttpuItcy dealers il
New York. -f g, .-
Nineteen students OF The " esley
an University, at A4uUnt Pleasant
Iowa, have petitioned for the remov
al of a colored student from theil
class.
a boy aged sixteen years, named
Sharp johnson, living in s'Eutah,' ,
near Columbus, Georgia, on Wed
nesday last, shot and killed his step
father, Emansel PapI, a man O
about fifty years of age. The cause
| given is; the man was beating th(
boys mother. The weapon useC
was q one 'barreled shot gun.
A man was found g few days ago
near Van Vert, Ohio, in a thicket
hanged by the neck toa tree. H,
| had been seen about the town before
and represented to farmer as being
pursued by Chicago detectives. Hi
undertaking was marked John d
Way. No papers were found by
which to identify him. -
Two hundred, and fifty coIonist!
| from Austria reached Richmond
Virginia, on Friday last. They came
TO settle on land purchased in Henri
co for them They are substantIa
| people, and. all have something Il
commence with. They bring d prizes
from Fatherland, with them, ant
| will have their own chapel IN which
to worship, .-.g
The total receipts o. the Ohio Stat,
| Treasury for the fiscal year ending
| November Is amounted tc- s., 35I,
| S35 "a. ana the Disbursements .
mounted 10 S3E913' G75 10, leaving
| balance of $43S, coo II. The receipts
! for general revenue purposes WeF,
$I.723 .OS5 81, for sinking fund, 50,
| 0J3 724 81. aud for school purposes
81 40 ,7O5 O3. The disbursements from
the general revenue found were 81,
775, 939 52, and from The cOmmuI
school fund, Sl,496, G83 so.