The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-09-07
BREVITIES.
The Summer Catalogue of Pass
ing Events.
How the Country Amuses Itself in Making
Interesting Facts for the Regular
Newspaper Record.

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The first of the new three per cent.
bonds were issued from the Treasury
Tuesday.
The striking 'lOngshoremen at Boston
have given up the strike and asked to be
reinstated.
The Bedouin hOrEemen are prowling
about the British camp, picking off the
strangers.
British agents are at Odessa to pur-
chase 28OO0 head of sheep and cattle
for soldiers in Egypt. ....... .
Fifty persons were killed and many
injured by railway accident at Kar7
hugstetter, Germany.
The first bale of new cotton to arrive
at Memphis was classed as middlings
and sold at 26 cents per pound.
Mr.. Allen c. North, leading photogra-
pher of Toledo, was found dead in his
room Monday, having committed suicide
by taking poison.
At the army manOeuVers at IshOra,
Russir, the Emperor and Empress had
but just passed over the bridge of ra-
vine when it fell.
The Democrats of the Seventeenth
Ohio District nominated Ross j. Alex
ander, of Bridgeport, for Congress, at
St. ClairsVille, Tuesday.
Sam Rives, of Dallas, Texas, in a dis
pute with his brother about the divis-
ion of lands, killed him with a shot
gun. Sam surrendered to the officers.
Byron Smith, express agent at Salem,
Ohio, shot himself twice in the head
Monday evening with revolver. He is
still alive, but in a precariOus cOndi-
tiOn.
At Kansas City, Mo-, Monday night,
Frank Evans, who Objec ed to Mills
marrying his sister, on account of social
standing.
In York county, s. c., two Mormon
Missionaries have been making many
converts. A citizens committee noti-
fed them to leave or be hanged. They
left.
The Tariff Commission iwere in Gin
cinnati on Sunday and listened to fell
lows on Monday and Tuesday who want
more protection" Like the horse leech
they want more.
1t is believed that the falling of the
bridge at IshOra,, Monday, was caused
by torpedo which had been placed in
the ravine for the purpose of injuring
the Gear and the Grand Duke Michael.
Little Lizzie Selden, two or three
year child at Brooklyn, N. Y, was kid
mapped last week on Monday and was
found Thursday. Maggie Keppel alb
Quoted the child. She was imprisoned.
A fact brought out by the British Post
master-GeneraPs annual report is that
during the last fiscal year the United
States sent Great Britain 100000 news
papers and received from her 100000.
A boiler in the rolling mill of Swift
& Harper, at Riverside, Ohio, near Gin
cinnati, exploded Tuesday morning.
Five or six persons were more or less
injured. None were killed outright,
The Sultan's proclamation to the
Egyptians has been issued. 1t declares
ATabi Pasha a rebel, for disObeying or
ders of the Khedive and Dervisch Pa
sha, and thereby provoking the inter-
VentiOn Of England.
John Miller, formerly of Newcomers
town, O., who is charged with deserting
from the army in 1877, and who has
since settled down and married near
Dresden, was arrested Monday and TAX
en- to Columbus barracks. ''
jay Hubbell says he will succeed Mr..
Ferry, of Michigan, in the United States
Senate. And to aid him in his ambition
he will squeeze the 'sugar" out of the
OffieehOlders. He will assess the assess
ments to elect himself.
The Amalgamated Association met in
Pittsburg Tuesday and voted against
compromise, and resolved to stand out.
At Youngstown intense interest existed.
1t is said that Brown, Bonnell & Co. will
start up at once anyway. .r....-.
A dreadful rumor comes from Chau-
tauuua. A deficit of several thousand
In kha &c,
of the Baptist Association, and there Is
gloom among those who annually as
semble on Opposition Point.
Hon, John McSweeney, besides doing
what he can to defend his client Dorsey
in the Star-route trial, turns his atten-
tiOn to temperance meetings and has al
ready achieved quite reputation In
Washington as temperance orator.
In Sergeant Mason's case, Judge Ad-
Yocate General Swain adheres to the Ie-
gal opinion expressed in his original re-
port, that the proceedings of the court
martial which tried Mason were irregu-
lar, and that his confinement under its
sentence is Illegal.
A Kentucky man while out hunting
discovered an object few spaces ahead
of him in a elump of bushes, which he
supposed to be a squirrel. He blazed
away at it and was Mortified upon find
ing that he had killed his fatherin-law,
the shot producing instant death. ~
Albert E. Boone, Star-route cOntrac-
tor, was arrested in Jersey City on Ca
pias issued by Chief-Justice Beasley and
lodged in the Hudson county Jail. Suit
has been entered against Boone at Tren-
ton by Robert Reilly and Joseph VOL
ford, who lay their damages at $9,O50. {
The Prohibitionists of Crawford coun-
ty believe that the way to sustain the
temperance cause this fall is to vote a
straight ticket of their own. Governor
Foster they do not recognize as entitled
to confidence. They believe the Repub-
lican party, as party, viii go no fur
ther than the advocacy of license sys-
temA and in accordance with their old
traditions, they would prefer. free trade
in fire and brimstOne. lfFlEts}
PITTSBURGH, September IA special
from East Liverpool, Ohio, says: "a few
days ago an offer was made by the pot
terry firms of Wallace, Chatwin 81 Co.,
Goodwin 81 Co., Vodrey & Co. and Hark-
er 81 Co. to their employees of an indi-
vidual guarantee of the old wages for
the year and their recognition of the
knights of Labor If they returned to