The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1878-11-07
THE Penny Press is a new paper just
started at Cleveland

THE Penny Press is new paper just
started at Cleyeland.
UNDER the reign of Jack Frost the
Y Yellow fever pestilence has about
played out.
THE Board of Investigation of the
Fitz John Porter case have adjourned !
to meet at West Point on the 18th of !
December.
CHARLES MCGILL has been sentence |
ed TO be executed on Thursday, Feb
ruary 18th for the murder of Mary
Kelley in Cleveland.
THE total liabilities of the suspended
firm of Dodd, Brown & CO., Of st.
Louis are now stated at 81, $50, 900 and
the assets at 81 100000.
The failure of Cowan, Sheets & Co.,
private bankers, at Bellaire, is an
nounced. The liabilities are $4,000
and the assets $4,000.
OVER 100000 people of China have
died of starvation during the present
famine. The yellow fever scourge in
the South has stricken down 1900.
DoDD, BROWN & Co., one of the
largest wholesale dry goods houses in
St. Louis has suspended. Their lia-
bilitles are reported over 81 100000.
BEN BUTLER thinks this country has
been most shsmefully swindled in the
fishery business, and advises that we
hold on to the $5,5OO,OOO award till
John Bull comes to terms.
The Ashtabula rolling mill is to be
offered for sale by the Sheriff on Mon
day next. 1t is appraised at $11 $780,
66. There's chance for anyone want
ing to buy rolling mill.
THE annual Report of the Commits
sioners of Monroe county, occupies
oyer eight columns of fine type in the
Monroe Gazette. That would seem
to be a detailed" report.
A FEW days ago, while Samuel Foltz,
Esq, President of the First National
Bank of New Castle, Pa, was out
riding in buggy, he was accidentally
thrown out and instantly killed.
r. f. HuLBURT, formerly Private
Secretary Of Governor Bishop, died OF
cancer of the tongue, at the residence
of his brother-in-law, at Beaver, Pa,
on the 2Sth uIt.
THE oyster shuckcrs of Baltimore
have been on strike for over week,
demanding twenty-five cents gallon,
which the packers refuse to pay, de-
claring that their profits will not jus.
tify it.
THE jewelry store of George Beck,
of UrichsvilIe, was broken into on
Friday while the proprietor was at
dinner and robbed Of eight gold
watches and other jewelry, amounting
in all to 81 900.
AT the ore mines, near Boyertown,
Penn, on the 3Oth ult., four men were
precipitated to the bottom of the shaft,
q distance of $50 feet, by which three
of them lost their lives and the fourth
was badly injured.
MRS. DUNNING, of Kent, attempted
to commit suicide on Friday by stab
bing herself in the region of tho heart
with pair of shears. The wound
will not prove fatal. She is an aged
lady, and slight mental arrangement
probably led her to attempt the act.
Two plasterers, NJ. Murphy, mar
| ried, and Patrick Conley, single, work
ing in the new Produce Exchange
building, at Toledo, Saturday, stepped
upon the end of a swinging scsffold,
aud fell eighty feet to the cellar. Con-
ley was instantly killed and Murphy
will die.
The grand jury Of ColHmbIana
County did rushing business at its
late session. 1t examined four hun
dred witnesses, sent two TO Jail for
contempt aud found one hundred and
thirteen criminal indictments, eighty
seven of which were for violations of
liquor laws.
A MOST fearful famine is raging in
| Morocco. Living skeletons may be
seen cropping in foul refuse h.aps for
hideous bits of ofial, beggars swarm
the streets, the dead, the sick and the
well are huddied together in foul,
foetid dens and to add TO the horrors
of the situation the small pox is raging.
THE application to the Supreme
Court of this State for leave to fife a
petition in error in the case of George
B. Kennedy VS. the State of Ohio has
been granted by the Supreme Court,
so the proceedings in Trumbuil county
under which Kennedy was convicten,
will be reviewed by the highest court
in the State.-[ Warren Record.
The Court at Cleveland on Satur-
day overruled the motion for a new
trial in the case of G. Z. Minor con-
victed of body snatching, and Minor
was committed to the Workhouse to
serve out his four months sentence.
Minors fine is 500 and costs, the
whole amounting TO over 5000.
RETIRED.-The Marion Democratic
Mirror of last week, announces the
retirement of J. X. Newcomer, Esq,