The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-01-26
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drowned.
Jacob Kelly was arrested at Cleveland
for grand larceny, and taken to Pitts
burgh. The steal was $3.50.
On Saturday and Sunday the Cumber-
land and Tennessee rivers were very
high, higher than for many years. ---
A French financial journal estimates
that during the year 1881, S470,OOO,OO0
were invested in new enterprises in
France.
Captain Myers, editor of the Columbus
Dispatch, has been appointed postmaster
of that city, on the personal request of
Senator Sherman, it is said.
Amos Townsend, Congressman from
the Cleveland district, has introduced a
bill in the House to provide and estab-
lish uniform system of bankruptcy
throughout the United States.
Alexander Stephens says it took him
ten long years 10 learn that nine men
out of ten who want the favor of
small loan, have no intention of repay
ing it until they want larger one.
1t is estimated that 378, ,151 persons are
employed in coal mines in Great Britain,
working in galleries extended over at
least 5S, 745 miles. The greatest depth
of the coal mines is estimated at $500
feet.
A. +. Parish's shOddy mill at Hinsdale
was destroyed by fire last Saturday
morning, together with the stock on
hand. 7. Harold & Co., Hinsdale Bros,
and other manufacturers are among the
losers.
A colossal statue of Sir William Wal
lace is about to be erected at Aberdeen
by the executors Of Mr.. Steel, of Edin-
burgh, who left e3,5OO for it. The figure
is to face the south lin defiant atti-
tude."
Paul Pringle and Jim Mobile, colOred,
sentenced to be hung in DesOtO parish,
La, December 30th, but who escaped !
from Shreveport Jail December 9th, |
were Tecaptured at New Orleans on |
Fred. w. Newburgh, late clerk of the |
Board of Public Works, has had fifty-twO |
indictments found against him by the
Grand Jury at Columbus. He took
about $4,000 from the State Treasury.
A sharp young Republican.
Politics is whetted to wire edge in
Cincinnati by the candidacy of seven
applicants for the pOstmasteTship. The
two Congressman canuOt agree upon
man, and the canvass has resolved itself
into a sort of rough and tumble scTam-
BILE.
Two boys, named Burchfield and Gard
neT, living at NewcOmerstOwn, while
skating near COshOctOn on last Saturday
morning, broke through the ice and
were both drowned before assistance |
could reach them. They were both about |
ten years old.
THF young Republicans of New York |
City are about to organize to fight the |
bosses, and much alarm exists among |
the latter. 1t is said that such veteran |
POI hl 90 nd
others encourage the revolt, and want |
the machine broken.
A detective has found that two youths
who were inmates of the Imbecile Asy-
lum set it on fire last summer causing
a loss to the State of 100000. Their
names are Gwinn and LignOr, and were
nstigated thereto by another inmate,
GOOdeTick, who promised Gwinn 81 80,
but who has not paid it.
Mr.. D. T. DeWOlf, State Commissioner
of Public Schools, reports that the num-
Der of youth of school age in the State
of Ohio in September, 1881, is placed at
l ,051 500, and the number enrolled, 744,-
756. Receipts for the year to September
1st, 81 ,55L ,348.95, and expenditures, ST.
553,971.86.
1t is announced by way of BuenOs
Ayres that treaty of peace has been
The latter power agrees to surrender to
Chilli her territory along the coast of
ihe Pacific, and to break off all relations
with Peru. Chilli evidently means to
get full reparatiOn for her losses in the
war.
The Iowa Legislature voted for United
States Senators. In the Senate, all but
three votes were cast for Wilson and
McDill for the long and short terms re-
spectively. In the House the vote stood:
Wilson, Republican, SO; Kinne, Demo-
crat, II; Stubbs, Greenbacker, z votes.
For the short term: McDill, 65; Hall, II;
Campbell, IS,
W. L. Howe, son Of ex-Postmaster
Howe, of Portland, Me-, was killed at
Hanover, VT, Saturday, by the accidental
of gun inthe hands of Joseph
Il. w. Flint, of Concord, n. II. The
young men were members of the SOphO-
more class of Dartmouth College and
most intimate friends.
A Slav rebellion, breaking out in
and spreading into Bosnia,
Albania, and probably into
has become so formidable
that the Austrian Government has been
called on to send troops to suppress the
and restore order. Con-
scriptiOn is said to be the cause of the
John Sherman, the great 81 am" of
the Republican party of Ohio, says he
didn't steal anything in the building of
his Washington tenement houses and
his own palatial residence, but admits
that he had a wicked partner, named
Pitney, who ''gOt things mixed" and
did the stealing-fOr his beneft-but
mistaken and misplaced friend
ship.
The new State Capitol at Albany, New
York, has cost already $13,000,000, and
when completed will cost at least $780,
100000. 1t is said to be ill adapted to
State purposes, it being impossible to
hear any debate in the Assembly Cham
ber, the Court rooms being dark, and |
the offices in general damp and un-
pleasant. An Ex-COmptroller of the |
State pronounees it magnificent
fraud"
The Governor of South Carolina has
made a suggestion to the Legislature
that is of great interest to farmers in |
that State. A new stock law has been /
all of which he favOTs except |
the provision abolishing common of |
pasturage,' which is the right of every !
person 60 Craze his cattle on the unim
proved lands of his neighbOrs. The |
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