The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-12-25
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! 'lt,f'OHN yohIs
/ Horatio Seymour says that to see gray
boards scrambling for place and power
reminds him of "Holbein's Dance o.
Death" and he will never be found max.
ing one Of such cotillion.
The King of Sweden, in very large.
minded manner, is returning good for
evil he has charged himself with the
education of the lad who recently wrote
a threatening letter to the Queen de.
manding money for refraining from kill
ing the Crown Prince. The youth, it will
be recolleCted, declared that it was want
or means to continue his studies which
led him to his crime.
The liabilities of Thomas Neill, of Pc.
oria, ILL.,, are now believed to be 100000.
Nothing has yet been heard from him,
and detectives are on his track. Among
the heaviest losers are the Second Ma
tional Bank, $l3OOOO; Mechbnics' Bank,
$4,000; Kingman & Blossom, $26 900; M.
Henebery, $4,000; G. R. Cummings, $685.
900; New York cattle shippers, $4,000; |;
spruck'g estate, $4,000. All creditors
are very retiCent. Some have not scrap
of paper to show for thousands of dollars
indebtedness.
TAT Carlisle, Pa, last week, Judge Hs.
min sentenced Mrs. Catharine Bell to be
hanged.
The Virginia City Bank, Nevada, has
suspended. Too much mining stock.
AT Warren, o., Dennis Hickey, who
murdered his wife last march, plead
guilty to murder in the second degree,
and was sentenced to the Penitentiary
for life.
At Wooster, on Monday, Rev. DR.. G.
W. Coan died of Bright's disease of the
kidneys on the evening of the 2lst inst,
after long and painful illness. DR.. Coan
was for twenty years missionary in Per-
sia under the management of the Pres.
byterian Board of Foreign Missions. His
health failing him he returned few
years ago with his family and located in
Wooster.
AT Pittsburg, on Monday. S. Leopold.
travelling salesman for Louisville, Ky.,
tobacco house, was killed by the cars at
the Union Depot Deceased was en-
route for New York and was waiting for
a train at the time OF the accident.
National debts were of little import.
ance until the French revolution. They
now amount to about 100000 900 OOO |
mostly owed by European States for
wars incurred by dynasties, and in which
common people had no voice. These
debts and standing armies are now the
cause of poverty.
The man who holds some gas stock is
the man who is the surest that Edison's
electric light is ridiculous failure.
The Afghans have got through with all
heir fall labor now, and are ready to
while away the long winter evenings
with fighting the English.
A man fell from bridge at Bocca,
New, and broke his thigh. 1t was a
onely place, and the weather was very
'old. He could not stand in consequence
If his hurt, and therefore slowly froze
% death. There were indications that
le tried hard, by rolling about, to keep
warm, but death could not be fought of,
The next General Assembly of Ohio
will contain twelve lawyers in the Sen.
tie and twenty in the House. There are
our farmers in the Senate and thirty.
even in the House.
Sunday in Paris seems to be oecom.
ng, in one respect at least" says a Paris
correspondent, "more like Sunday in
1ondon than it was formerly. Nearly
il the respectable shops are closed and
be business traffic in the streets is small.
John B. Inskeer. a well.to do farmer
f Alma Center, Wis. recently eloped
nth his wife's sister. He sold all his
rain, paid up all his debts, and left his
'ife with young babe four months old
ie owned two farms and had always
tnod uall in tha commemorate