The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-03-02
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The News of the Day Squeezed
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Interesting Items of Importance In
terspersed With Itinerant Invoices
of Intelligence.
j. F. Burket, of Findlay, has been
elected Grand Master of |. o. 0. f.

| j. F. Burket, of Findlay, has been
elected Grand Master of l. o. OF.
Bishop Lynch, Catholic, died at Charles
ton, S. c.. Sunday morning; aged sixty
five.
Frank Bull, fOurteen-year-Old post
Office clerk, has been arrested at Marion
on charge of TObbing the mail.
The Baltimore & Ohio round house at
Mansfield burned Monday night; incen-
diary. Loss on building $1,000 and one
engine $4,000.
The assets of Menken Bros, Memphis,
recently assigned, are $44OOOO; debts
about $5OO,OOO, due principally among
New York city banks.
The Miami Oil and Soap Works, on
East Fifth street, Cincinnati, were
burned Monday night. Loss about $780,
600, fully covered by insurance.
Judge S. H. Pitkin, ex-President of
Summit County Agricultural Society,
and three terms Probate Judge, died sud
denly at Akron, Thursday.
Senator PendletOn left for Ohio Sat
uTday, on receipt of a telegram an
nOuncing that his sister, Mrs. Dan
bridge, is fatally stricken with paral-
ysis.
After just beginning to feel sighted,
Ashtabula has at last genuine case of
pest house at the gulf, at the towns ex-
pense.
The steamship Britannia which sailed
on Tuesday for Europe, takes $1,O25,000
in double eagles and $4,000 in silver
bars. The Elbe takes 1000 in Mexican
silver dollars.
The Indiana Greenbackers held their
State Convention in Indianapolis. The
perennial Hugo Preyer was on deck. He
paid his expenses in selling mining
stock at one cent on the dollar.
Near Apple Creek Wayne county, an
infuriated bull attacked Mr.. Jameson
driving along in his buggy. The buggy
was upset, the horse gOred to death, but
Mr.. j. escaped by jumping fence.
Joseph Taylor was killed and eight
others injured by the falling of new
railroad bridge near Hamilton. Forty
men at work on and about the bridge re-
pairing damages from the flood.
NEWARK, February 25.-This morning
William Leet, aged II, in Crabb & Co.'S
needle factory, was passing a coil of
wire when the wire broke and cOiled
around him, cutting him in two.
Miss Ella, daughter of Probate Judge
Elect Johnson, of Wooster, is the first
lady in Wayne county qualified and in
vested with the power to administer an
oath. She is said to be competent, viva
ciOus and handsome.
After NOOnan had received his seven
years sentence, he took leave of his old
father, brother and little son. Sheriff
then put on the irons and took him to
Jail. He seemed defiant, and took his
sentence very calmly.
ALBANY, N. Y, February 26-RObert
II. Pruyn, Minister to Japan under Presi-
dent Lincoln, died suddenly Sunday.
Mr.. PTuyn, at the time of his death, was
President of the National Commercial
Bank and Dudley Observatory.
John Wyatt was shot while resisting
two officers in Louisville. He remarked:
doctor, L will live to drink the milk
that comes from the COW that nips the
grass off the graves of them fellows"
But he was mistaken, for he died within
few hours.
The official count at Philadelphia, Pa,
of the city election last week counted
out for magistrate EisenbrOwn, Demo-
crat, and counted in Brown, Republi-
can, by 535 majority. The former was
endorsed by the committee of one hun
dTed.
SPRINGFIELD, MASS February 26.-
Two students of WillistOn Seminary are
held in $1,000 each for kidnapping
young Dueing, and two others are held
in the same amount on another hazing
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and twenty-five are held in 500 each to
appear as witnesses.
| CHICAGO, February 25.--During the
years of 1880 and 1881, over 100000
worth of hogs were stolen from the
stock yards. One man was arrested on
an information yesterday. On the
strength of his confession to-day, a
number of dealers and traders about the
yards were arrested, charged with the
larceny.
At Chicago during the last year were
received one and half millions of cat
tie; six and a half millions of hogs and
One-half million of sheep. This was an
average of over eleven thousand cattle
per day; over $4,000 hogs per day and
over 5000 sheep per day. The bank at
the cattle yards does daily business of
half million to over a million of dol
lars.
ST. LOUIS, February PA man known
| as Wood Hite, who was arrested for COM
plicity in the robbery of the Chicago,
Rock Island 81 Pacific Railroad train, at
Winston, Mo-, on the night of January
18th, last year, was aTraigned in court at
Gallatin, plead guilty, and was sentenced
, to the Penitentiary for term of twenty
: five years. Hite is first cousin of the
notorious bandit Jesse James.
, The next election in Maine is to be one
J of extraordinary Importance. A COVER
nor is to be elected who will have the
appointing of four Justice of the Supreme
Judicial Court. A Legislature is to be
, selected which will serve for two years,
and have a United States Senator for the
long term to elect. Four Congressman
are to be chosen, probably on a general
ticket. Besides this about double the
! usual number of county officers are to
be elected. No such Importance has at
tached to any Maine election that has
been held within the past ten years.
The other day, in the Senate, pending
the consideration of bill restoring to
the army Lieutenant Mark Walker, who
was dismissed for drunkenness, Mr.. In
gals, of Kansas, spoke of the demoraliZ
ing influence upon the army of the prac-
tice of condOning the offence of intOXi-
cation. He said that during the admins
tration of Mr.. Hayes more than seventy
officers dismissed for drunkenness had
been restored to their positions, and yet
that was temperance administration.
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