The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-12-29
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Condensed Items of Interesting
News.

News.
Chicago shOemakers are on a strike.
Congress has adjourned until Janu-
airy ..
Chicago boasts of thirty-eight murders
this year.
Michigan fire sufferers want more
money and provisions.
Isidore Herman, wOrsted goods dealer
of New York, has failed for $4,000.
Monroe county, n. Y, Irishmen have
| contributed 81 900 to the land league
fund.
Ex-Postmaster General James urges
| the bringing of civil suits against the
Star reuters.
Mayor Harrison is inspecting the
means of fire escape of the different
| Chicago theaters.
w. II. Howard, clerk in the Atlanta,
| Ga, pOstOfFice, has been arrested for
| rObbing the mails.
David MOnat was last week sent up
| for two years and fined $1,000 for
| stuffing ballot box.
Among the callers upon President
| Arthur at New York, Sunday, were
Grant, Hancock, COnkling and James.
Another forgery for $4,000 has been
| ing city auditor of Newark, \. j.
Blazes: Industrial iron works at
Memphis. loss $1,000. A hotel and bust
ness block at Red Bank, n. j.; loss S4O,-
| 600.
Signal service department has COM
pleted arrangement for a number of
new obseryatOries in different parts of
the country
A collision between a passenger and
freight on the Pennsylvania road near
Holmesburg, Pa, Sunday, did $4,000
worth of damage to both trains.
Independent Republicans of PennsyI-
vania have issued an address to the
party in the State, urging it to throw
off the tyrannical yoke of personal
dictator"
Secretary Frelinghuysen has cabled
the Z. S. minister at st. Petersburg to
turn of the officers and crew of the
Jeanette.
ORAN, AFRICA, Dec. 24.-The flood hav
ing subsidized, POI bodies have been re-
covered in the plain of Havre. OF these
163 were natives, 33 of Spaniards and ?
of Frenchmen.
Last week the AtchisOn & Santa Fe
railroad company damned up a mill
ditch in Pueblo, Col, to drown out
squatters on the cOmpany's land. The
squatters migrated.
The losses entailed by the burning of
the Z. S. bonded warehouse at New
York Saturday night are estimated at
81, 100000. A fireman has been arrested
for attempting to break into safe dur
ing the excitement.
A man giving the name of Charles
Fisher, supposed to be a professional
cracksman, has been arrested at Hanni-
bal, Mo. A set of burglars tools and
1850 in greenbacks and bank notes
found in his possession.
CHICAGO, Dec. 24.-The arrival at New
York of the steamship Westphalia, with
1900 steerage passengers infected with
smallpox, nearly all of whom are book
ed for points west Of Chicago, has caus-
ed considerable alarm here. If the pro-
tests of the Illinois authorities against
the scattering of these cases throughout
the West are not needed, the State board
will use all its power to protect itself.
Last Friday night party of incar-
nate fiends visited j. W. Gibbons dwell
ing at Ashland, KY, during the alb
sence of the older members of the fam
lily, outraged 14-year old daughter and
17-year old companion, Saturated
their clothing with oil, murdered Rob-
ert Gibbons, a son, who attempted to
protect the girls, split open the heads of
all three with a hatchet, and fred the
house. No clue to the devils.