The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-03-09
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of Intelligence.

Lewis Anderson, river pilot, fell off
boat at Huntington, W. w., Saturday
night and was drowned.
The recent loss of four Gloucester,
Mass, fishing schOOners makes twenty
two widows and sixty-two orphans.
General Butler, with Robert Strong,
of Washington, has bought 10000 acres
in Bath county, Va, and POcahOntas,
w. Va.
The mildness of the winter in Sweden
has prevented the transportation of pro-
duce, and there is great distress among
the farmers.
MADRID, March 4.-FOur hundred ri
fles were discovered in connection with
the plot in CATALONIA. 1t is believed they
were the property of Carlists.
LONDON, March Especial prayer and
thanksgiving services were held in
nearly all the churches and chapels of
England to-day, with reference to the
Queens escape.
The Free Traders propose to capture
the strong Republican State of Iowa,
and are starting leagues, circulating
documents and holding meetings
throughout the State.
The little island of Herm, near Guern-
sey, in the English channel, has been
bought by French Carthusian monks
for $35, 200 to raise daffOdils on, the
same being used in their liquors.
VIM. Sturgis, of Chicago, prominent
grain operator, was arrested at KeOkuk,
Iowa, Saturday night on a charge of de-
frauding Francis L. Kennel 81 Co., of
Chicago, out of $4,000 worth of grain.
Culbertson CoOmbs, old blind soldier,
drew his pension at Columbus and was
rnhhad nv tUUO man immp1iatalU aftar
who assaulted him on High street,
nearly opposite the courthouse. No
clue.
Colonel Jon Miller, of SharpsbuTg,
Washington county, Md, was born, and
has slept in the same house and in the
same room for 81 years, and is still hale
and hearty. He gained the title of Col
Onel in the war of 1912.
YOUNGSTOWN, o., March 4.-James
Powers general store at BrOOkfield, IL
miles from this city, was robbed last
night, tho safe blown open and $4,000
in cash taken, also $1,000 in fine goods.
A large reward will be offered.
ST. PETERBURG, March Am ennis
sary started for Berlin Tuesday with an
important letter from the Gar to the
Emperor william. 1t is believed the
Czar wrote the letter Immediately after
the reception of SkObeleff.
The Recorder of Elmira, N. Y, was
somewhat surprised last week by having
a man who was arrested as a common
drunkaTd pull out of his pocket a roll of
bills and drafts amounting to $4,000,
with which to pay fine of $5.
A child with two feet on the top of
| it's head, in addition to its two natural
pedals, has come to life within few
miles of Elkhart, Ind, the mother be-
ing a young girl but fourteen years of
age. 1t is quite mOnstrOsity.
A railroad collision occurred Satur-
day night near Earlville, n. Y, George
Collins, engineer, John Sullivan and
John BrumenkrOn, firemen, were killed.
| jured severely. The accident was
caused by misinterpretation of orders.
LAWRENCE, MASS, March 4.-The ice
going out of the river carried away the
supports of a span of the bridge here,
| letting the unfinished portion of the
| bridge into the river. The loss will fall
on the Canton Bridge Company, of Can
ton, Ohio. Two employees were thrown
| into the river and number of others
placed in very dangerous positions, but
all were rescued in various stages of
exhaustion.
STEUBENVILLE, o., March 4.-FOr some
months Mrs. w. E. Owens of the Sixth
Ward, of this city, has been a confirmed
invalid. Thursday afternoon she read
the Bible and then prayed that her
health might be restored. Her prayer
was answered, and she arose and dressed
herself, and then seemed to have en-
tirely recovered from her sickness. She
had been helpless for months.
CLEVELAND, March 4.-Aliee Wright,
nineteen years old, sOubrette of Harri-
sons "PhOtOs" theatrical troupe, jumped
from a fourth story window of the
Stribinger House to-day, and was in
stantly killed. 1t is believed she was
demented, since an attack of typhoid fe-
yer last fall. She acted her part at the
matinee, but after the performance she
went to the hotel and took the fatal
jump.
NEW YORK, March 5.-The steamer
Vile D'Alger arrived to-day from BOr-
deaux, reports that February 28th she
| fell in with the overdue steamer City of
Berlin, Liverpool for New York, with
machinery broken; took her in tow and
tOwed her for eight hours, when the line
parted; lay by her twenty-eight hours,
when the steamer Samaria came up and
took the Berlin in tow for Halifax The
Berlin had broken her screw four days
before and was drifting helplessly, al
though under partial sail. She carries
90 cabin and nearly 400 steerage pas
sengers. No casualties reported.
COLUMBUS, OHIO, March 4, 1882
There is a big lobby at Columbus to
steal the canals for railroad purposes.
Besides the Cincinnati Belt Railroad
scheme, there is a scheme among Co
lumbus capitalists to steal the canal
from that city to the Hooking Valley.
Fifteen years ago the Hooking Valley
Railroad was built. The first effort of
the Columbus capitalists after it was
built was to depreciate its stock to
nominal price, and then buy up the
stock of the small owners along the
line. The stock was then wateTed by
declaring stock dividends, which was to
hide the large dividends then on the
actual original cost of the road. Last
year these same capitalists allowed
themselves to be caught by the CIeye-
land Syndicates, who. were either de-
termined to buy the road at premium
OF eighty cents on the dollar or build
competing line. This we have from
two of them. They now ask the State
to give them the canal from Columbus
to the Hooking Valley to build line to
compete with line they sold at very