The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1869-03-03

county, Ohio, w. 7. Smith, commit
ted suicide on Saturday last. Finan-
cial embarrassment is said to be the
cause of the rash act.
Wednesday today is the twenty
first anniversary of the second inau-
guration of republican government
in France. All public gatherings on
hat day have been positively prohib-
tied by the French Government.
Prof. Donders, of Utrecht, has in
vented an instrument by means of
which he a measure, with the
greatest accuracy, the interval between
an impression on the senses and its
acknowledgment by some action of
the will.
The publication of Mr.. TroIloye's
He Knew He was Right is resumed
in this weeks number of Every Sat-
urday, and will be continued, says
the conductors of that journal, without
interruption until the story is COM
pleted.
There was q considerable rage for
velOcipeding in England thirty years
ago, and among those who distin-
guished themselves as velocipedists
was Michael Farraday, the chemist,
who frequently drove his machine
through the suburbs OF London.
In the Illinois Senate yesterday a
joint resolution to investigate the
charges of corruption preferred against
members of the General Assembly
was passed. 1t previously passed the
House. The charges mainly grew out
of the Chicago Lake Front bill which
passed the House on Saturday, and
which grants the submerged lands to
the Illinois Central Railroad Com
pany.
The Viceroy of Egypt is making
great preparations for the reception
of the Prince and Princess of Wales.
A large caravansary is being con-
structed near the great pyramid of
GiZeh for the accommodation of the
royal party and suite. The royal
steam yacht will be placed at their
disposal for the trip up the Nile.
Robert Dale Owen comes out in the
Boston advertiser in VIGOROUS oppO-
sition TO the latest Constitutional
prohibits discrimination on account
of education. He thinks the amend
ment ought to be defeated if proposed
to the Legislature in its present shape.
The New York Herald says there
arc AlCl III NlldE City "iOSC DIO4CbSlOu
is to serve on Coroner's iuries.
John Bright wants America to
abolish capital punishment as an
experiment for England's benefit.
Bliss and Masterman, the two
Americans imprisoned by Lopez in
Paraguay have arrived in New York.
The editor of the Richmond (Ky.)
Register 't5tOps the press to acknOWl-
edge the receipt Of a bottle of
whisky"
A letter from the Island of st.
Thomas states that the people there
still entertain hopes Of annexation to
the United States.
Gen. Grant is said to receive letters
and pamphlets addressed to him on
fnaucial and other subjects to the
amount Of 600 pounds daily.
A cotton factory Is to be erected at
BellYilie, Illinois. A citizen gives
the water privilege, and the Board of
Trade presents an acre of ground.
Among the Mormons, at Williams
ty years, who has eleven wives, the
youngest being only thirteen years
old, and already q mother.
1t Is said that, in seventy-two ma.
tional cemeteries, are the graves of
800, 900 soldiers whose names n I'M
known. A monument might be ap-
propriately erected TO their memory
with this inscrIption-"I0 the memo
Ty of the deceased young men tChO tcere
6GSeLy murdered for the glory Of ne
9rOeS!"
The municipal election in George
knwrrv, II ~ ,n1vINlI T., H. NS,-,wh
of the Democratic candidate for May
or, Henry M. SWeeny, by q majority
of 50, over Charles H. Cragin, Repub'
lican. The whole vote cast was 2,041.
DR.. Schaeppe, charged with admin
istering poison to Miss Stennecke,
thereby causing her death, was bro't
mp on a writ of habeas corpus, at
Carlisle. Penn, but was remanded to
prison for trial at the April term of
the court, on the charge of murder.
In st. Louis On Friday, a platform
upon which four painters were stand
ing at work on the side of a building
gave way and preci Gitated them a
distance of seventy Ave feet. Three
of the men were injured, but none
MORALLY; one escaped with nothing
worse than a terrible scare.
A man answering the description of
the murderer of Conductor Corwin, at
Peru, week before last, has been ar
rested at Wapakonetta, and Is held
in custody until the authorities from
Peru decide what to do with him.
DIR. Abram g. Haring, of Spencer,
Medina county, and DasiHs Nichols,
of La Grange, were arrested, charged
with procuring an abortion upon the
person of a young woman in the | IT
ter place, on or about the 9th of May.
Both POrties waived an examination
before Justice Downing, and Nichols
gave bail in the sum of $500. DIR.
Harling did not procure bail, and was
lodged in Jail.
A meeting OF the stockholders OF
the Fort Wayne, Jackson & Saginaw
Railroad, and of the Jackson, Fort
Ways & Cincinnati Railroad compa-
MES, vas held at AuOqrn, Indiana,
yesterday, to consider and vote upon
the articles Of consolidation, as agreed
upon by the directors of the aforesaid
companies. Four thousand shares,
worth $4,000, were represented, and
the vote wa unanimous o the con-
solicitation of the two divisions.
The Dayton ledger says that the
occupant OF the judicial chair, now
presiding over the Court of Common
Pleas of that county, seems to be par,
tial to woman suffrage, al least 81 il
would seem from two decisions zen,
dered by him on last Monday. While
he sentenced a man to ten years i'm
prisonment for killing a woman, he
sentenced a woman 10 three years
imprisonment for killing a man. The
former killed the lady he loved. and
the latter her husband
There was a large fire in Newark.
Ohio. on Thursday night, commenc
ing about twelve O'Clock, consuming
four stores on tho west side oil thu
Park, occupied by Hugh n. Wallace
dry-goOds, w. Baldwin & Son. bOot
and shoe store; two grocery stores
and a flour and harness store. Los
about $4,000, mostly covered by in
surance
Hon. Sampson Mason, NJ. G. from
Ohio 1889 to 1919, and for forty year
past an active politician, is dead
aged T6.
The Tuscarawas GhSonioLe says it /
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