The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-05-18
SHIFTING SCENES.
Reflections of the Worlds Mir.
rOr Photographed.
Actual Acts Abridged and AbuHdantIy Alb
stracted Out Of the Daily
News Calender.

Irwin Mann, well-tO-do young farm
er of Carmel, Mich, hung himself forty
eight hours after his marriage. No rea-
son is known.
The Admiralty Court Of Liverpool has
awarded e8OO0 salvage to the steamers
Samaria and Vile Dalzer, for towing the
steamer City of Berlin into Boston Har-
Dor.
The Democrats of the Seventh Con-
gressiOnal District of Indiana have NOM
mated W. E. English, son of Hon. W.
ii. English, as their candidate for Con-
gress.
The police and people of Dublin are
beginning to discredit the theory that
Irish h-Americans were imported to COM
NIT the murder of Cavendish and Burke,
leading further to the deduction that
some ribbon lodge was implicated in the
crime.
The Pension Appropriation Bill as
completed apprOpriates $100,000,O0O. Ap-
preparations for the current fiscal year
are $5O,OO0,OOO, and it Is estimated fur
ther appropriation of $50,OO0,OO0 will be
necessary to complete the service for
that period.
Up to the present time there have
been shipped this year and deposited by
the United States Fish Commission six
million shad. The work of the entire
season will probably embrace the dis
tributiOn of nearly eighty million shad
and countless millions of herrings.
The United States Senate last week
passed the Court of Appeals Bill. The
House passed the Geneva Award Bill
The Five-per-cent. Military Land War
rants Bill was then taken up in the Sem
ate, and the Democrats filibustered
against the Bank Charter Bill in the
House.
The terrible cyclone that passed over
McAllister, mining settlement in In
dian Territory, Monday night of last
week, killed twenty-One people,
and fOrty-twO injured, some. dangerous
ly. Fifty-nine houses were totally de-
mOlished and thirty others badly wreck
ed.
Isaac B. Nuner was thrown from a
passenger train near Skelley's Station,
Ohio. He was picked up and taken to
Steubenyille, where he is lying in an
unconscious condition. His home is in
way to Indiana accompanied by his
uncle.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
opened their new Louisville and Wash
ingtOn Line on Sunday, the 14th. Solid
trains with Pullman coaches will be
run daily between the cities named, thus
affOrding another great highway by
Washington between the East, West and
Southwest.
The Pond Act is to be discussed as to
its constitutional merits before the SUI
pTeme Court of Ohio on the 23d inst.
The Both is decision day and it Is prOba-
bic that decision will be rendered up
on it that day. If that decision be faV-
Orable to the law liquor dealers then
have one day to comply with its terms.
A couple of firemen in a New Jersey
city have been arrested on the charge of
being the incendiaries who caused a re-
cent destructive fire by which the Town
Hall was destroyed. The story goes that
these men, impressed with the belief
that the department, which has had lit
tie or nothing to do for weeks, was
about to be abolished, entered into a
plot to change public sentiment and
adopted this unusual and novel method.
The chief of the Wheeling, W. Va, fire
department has been found guilty of
feeding horses and shOeing horses at
the city's expense and retaining rents
of city property; selling oats belonging
To the city and pOcketing the proceeds;
cOnspiring to ruin city property; telling
falsehOOds to conceal derelictiOn of
duty; .cOncealing accounts, and exceed
ing his authority" All of which seems
to furnish ample foundation for justi-
fable ceremony of bouncing.
CLINTON, ILL.,, May 12.-At II a. m, to-
day, the twice convicted murderer of
Aaron, Patsey Devine, was hanged in
the county Jail in the presence of $50
persons. In short speech on the scat
fold, he denied his guilt, and asked for
Wronged. He faced death without a
tremOr-neyer was cooler, more self-pos-
sessed, or more intrepid man on a scaf-
fold. His last words, previous to put
ting on the black cap, were: "Wait a
moment till / take this chew out of my
mouth" Before stepping on the trap he
carefully tested it with his right foot.
He died by strangulatiOn. He was at
tended by Fathers Welden and Grogan,
of Bloomington.
NEW YORK, May 14.-While entering
the German Exchange Bank, on the 9Th
inst, Charles Hoffman, a messenger-bOy
for the Mechanics National Bank, was
robbed of checks, drafts and notes
amounting to $47. .96S, thirty coupon in
terest warrants on the New York Cen
trail and Hudson River Railroad, and
four coupons on the Lake Shore and
Michigan Southern Railroad. Yesterday
afternoon one of the New York Central
coupons was presented to clerk in the
Treasurer's office of the New York Cen
tral Road for payment by John Bowen,
of BayOnne, who said he received it from
Arthur Young, No. 80 Perry street, who
was waiting for him in the hallway.
Bowen and Young were arrested and the
latter implicated Alexander DennisOn,
26 Carmine street, who was also arrest
ed.
At Youngstown last week, W. A. Liv'
ingstOne was granted divorce from
Flora Livingstone. On the 9Th of last
August, LiyingstOne's wife elOped with
a man named Anderson, who left wife
and two children. Mrs. Livingstone
also left her two children. Both Living
stone and Anderson are telegraph opera
tors. Some weeks ago John A. Ladd, at
tOrney for Livingstone, hearing that
the runaway couple were living in Will
liams county, this State, went there and
found them living at AlverdtOn. The
woman tainted when she saw Ladd,
thinking he had come to arrest them.
Anderson held the position of operator
there and was getting $65 month. He
has since thrown up his position and
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