The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-11-24
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Condensed Items of Interesting
News.

COnkling has opened a law office in
New York.
Commissioner of Patents Marble has
resigned.
James Reilly, centennarian, burned to
death in New York Sunday.
Smyth IL PeTksOn, provision dealers of
! Atlanta, Ga, have gone under.
John Orman killed Monday by gas
, explosion in Milwaukee blast furnace.
The five survivors of the French shin
! France arrived at Charleston, Monday,
Blaine says he will be permanently
out of politics when his Cabinet term
expires.
Governor Jerome, of Michigan, thanks
Patti for $4,000, the proceeds of her
! concert.
Angelo Capello Italian immigrant,
! found dying in the streets of New York
! Sunday.
f. 7. T. Tuttle, murderer, sentenced to
Imprisonment for life at Indianapolis,
! Saturday.
The Indiana State Female Suffrage
! convention IS III session at Jefferson
| vile, Ind.
Seven masked men, Sunday, boarded
and robbed a freight train near Pales-
! tine, Texas.
Mrs. WaldrOn, Stafford N. H., invalid,
Monday cut her grandmOther's throat
and then suicided.
Policeman Gillim of Little Rock, Ark,
was mOrtally shot by an unknown as
| sassin Sunday night.
Seven persons were drowned Saturday
by the capsizing of skiff in Eel Bay,
near Clayton, n. Y.
Mrs John Hayes, wife of a Detroit la
borer, was smOtheTed to death in a burn
ing house Sunday night.
ChenangO county, n. Y, grand jury
have found 30 indictments for forgery
against Henry T. Robbins.
Jos. Baum 81 Co., wholesale liquor
dealers, Memphis, Tenn, failed Friday
for $4,000; assets $4,000.
Postmaster General James will, in his
forthcoming report, favor giving his
subOrdInates raise of salary.
Official figures give the population of
the United States at the time the last
census was taken at 30, l55, 7S3.
Editor Ben House, of the indianapolis
Herald, attempted suicide by cutting his
throat Thursday. He will recover.
Schooner +. P. Dorr, lumber laden,
from Toledo to Buffalo, overdue a week.
Supposed to be lost with all hands.
Secretary Folger has issued an order
to steamboat inspectors that every re-
quirement of the law must be enforced.
DepOsitOTs in the Newark Mechanics
Bank will prosecute the directors, and
have retained Ben Butler and Roger \.
Pryor.
W. c. Bartlow, keeper of the Faralone,
Cal, lighthouse and four fishermen We're
drowned Saturday by the wrecking of
plunger.
International stage was halted by
masked men and robbed of the mail
pouches near LafedO, Tex, early Sunday
morning.
Supreme court yesterday decided that
the capital of home bauk, invested in
a foreign country, can be taxed by the
United States.
S. C. Strant, of Portland, Maine, has
brought suits against six BOwdOin col
lege students for hazing his son; $4,000
damages asked for in each suit.
COLUMBUS, GA, November 21.-Osborn
Pitts drank quart of whisky on a wager
and was carried home dead. DenisOn,
keeper of the grOg-shOp, was arrested.
Justice Wallace, of Chicago, fined the
L. S. 81 NJ. S. railroad company $50
Thursday for burning soft coal in their
locomotives without smoke consumers.
A mob of $50 coal miners in Kanawha
county, W. Va, drove out 65 miners who
took their places, and Governor Jackson
liuo OlNClCu OuG lIAC llllIllld W DItStIN6
order.
Trestle bridge on the Pekin division of
the Wabash road, near Springfield, Illi-
nOis, broke down with train on Friday.
None killed, but fourteen passengers
were injured.
Pacific National Bank, of Boston, closed
its doors Friday. Loaned too much
money to a speculatOr who failed. Bank
presidents will subscribe sufficient funds
to enable it to resume.
GALVESTON, TEXAS, November 21.-
The construction train on the Texas 81
Michigan Railroad crossed the temporary
bridge near Laredo City to-day, the first
train to cross the Mexican border.
The Pittsburgh Labor Congress on
Friday adopted resolutions asking Con-
gress to prohibit Chinese immigration,
and also resolutions denOuncing the
manufacture of tenement house cigars.
Emeline L. Meeker, the child murder
ess, has been sentenced at Montpelier,
VT, to be confined in the State prison
till the last Friday of March, 1888, the
last three months solitary, then hanged.
Ed. Maxwell, the notorious desperado,
on trial for round dozen cOld-blOOded
murders at DuTand, Wis, was seized by
an armed mob while being conveyed
from the court room to the Jail, Satur-
CLAYTON, n. Y, November 21.-Frank
Cuppernul, keeper of the Hub House, his
wife and two small children, and Charles
Wilson, keeper of the Cliff House, his
wife and two children, were drowned
in Eel Bay on Saturday morning while
going to Gananoque in small boat.
CLEVELAND, O., November 21.-JOhn
Gibbons, of No. II Nassau street, this
city, his wife and four children, to-
night went to the New York, PennsyI-
vania & Ohio depot to see off some
friends. The father of the family was
struck, terribly mangled and instantly
killed by pony engine.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL, November 1S.-Fif-
teen passengers were injured by the
falling of a train through the trestIe
bridge across a creek on the Pekin
Division of the Wabash, four miles from
here to-day. The bridge was eighty feet
long and twenty feet high. The recent
rains weakened the supports and the
bridge gave way beneath the weight of