The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-07-13
RED-HOT-ITIES.
The Summer Catalogue of Pass
ing Events.
How the Country Amuses Itself in Making
Interesting Facts for the Regular
Newspaper Record.

| ease at MOSCOW laSC week.
One hundred and eighty-twO Irish sus-
poets are now in prison.
A woman and two children starved to
death in Van Buren, county, Ark.
The report has been started that
whisky was at the bottom of the SciOtO
steamboat disaster at MingO.
The death sentence of william Beleh-
am, of Cincinnati, has been cOmmuted
to imprisonment for life by Governor
| Foster.
Chas. n. Stiles, caller on the call
| board in the Chicago Board of Trade, was
shot and killed by prostitute on Mon
day morning last.
Diphtheria has broken out in a malig-
nant form in Alliance. Already two
deaths have resulted, and quite num-
| ber of cases are reported.
| Since Guiteau is dead and Arthur is
| free, word is being passed along the line
that a Garfield Republican will not be
| safe in office over night unless he be-
comes Stalwart.
Hon. R. A. Horr, of Wellington, was
nominated for Congress on the 590th
ballot by the Republicans of the Four
t9enth district, in convention at Ash
land last week.
Emory A. Storrs has gone to Europe,
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| dent Arthur and others, to mitigate the
prejudice of European laws against
American beef.
Rev. ROsewell Foster, Congregation
al minister at Independence, Iowa, was
nominated by the Greenbackers yester-
day as candidate for Congress from the
| Third district.
| A revolutionary proclamation, signed
| by Nicholas COnstanOvich, cousin of the
| Czar, was discovered. The Ministry Of
Marine committed suicide when the
documents were discovered.
A battle between Egyptian troops and
troops under the False Prophet, has oc-
Cured. The Egyptians lost 1900 men
and a number of guns. The army of
the False Prophet is now marching on
to Sinnar.
In a fit of Jealous rage Edward O'HaTe
| shot and fatally wounded John Carroll
and attempted to kill his wife, near AL
ton, Ill. He said he had a few more
men to kill, but was arrested before he
had accomplished this purpose.
No less than ninety-eight guns are
now bearing on the harbOr at AleXan-
dria. General Sir Evelyn Wood will
| Immediately sail for Malta. Several
battaliOns of troops have been ordered
from England to Egypt. Work on the
| az AACAohuAA nus SOAAA
pletely stopped.
Colonel Howell, editor of the Atlanta
| Constitution, with his second, Captain
Harry Jackson, waited twenty four
hours on the dueling ground near West
Point, Ca, but Captain Albert X. Lamar
and his second, Colonel Hanson, of the
Macon Messenger, failed to show up.
Then the Colonel and the Captain OF the
Constitution went home.
How to identify the outgoing China
men who have the right to return under
the new law is puZzling the officials at
| San FraneiscO-all Cinnamon being
As no two human heads are exactly
alike, it is proposed to take the shape of
each Chinaman's head and mark it on
his passport with the machine used by
hatters.
CoRsICANA, TEXAS, July 7.-Sam Nc
Egan, conductor on the Texas 81 st.
| Louis Railroad, was shot through the
heart and instantly killed at Trinity
Bottom. McEgan, seeing stray dog,
caught and tied him. A short time after
tie cutter entered, and cut the dog
loose, and began to abuse McEgan, when
quarrel took place. The tie cutter
told McEgan to throw up his hands,
which he did, and while in that position
shot him. The murderer escaped.
The Convention of Progressive Dunk
ards assembled at Ashland, Ohio, lately,
and after long and stormy session
seeded from the regular organization.
/ This action was taken because of the eX-
pulsiOn of Rev. H. II. HOlsinger from the
church without trial at the late annual
meeting at Milford Junction, Ind, and
the passage of resolutions there de-
claring against colleges and Sunday
/ do iDnnuaffnno Thu
convention was largely attended, and
attracted great interest in the proceed
ings.
IREDELL, TEXAS, July 7:-Yesterday
morning a negro committed an outrage
upon the person of Mrs. W. P. Pugh,
wife of farmer living four miles
northwest of this place. Pugh had gone
hunting, leaving his wife alone with
the negro, Sayles, who, as soon as Pugh
was away, committed the assault, using
knife to intimidate his victim. The
neighbOrs soon got together and caught
Sayles here in Iredell county. The pris-
oner was taken to Pugh's house for
Identification, but the lady was so much
indisposed it was thought best to post
pOne the examination. Sayles was taken
to Meriden Jail. At eleven o'clock last
night the door of the building in which
Sayles was confined was broken in by
| masked m6n, anu dIJ6T SQOTG SCuIu0
with the guards the negro was taken to
pecan tree, three hundred yards from
the depot, and hanged.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 10.-A terrible
hurricane visited the Friendly Islands,
April 25th. At Van Van, the bark Don
GuillemO, Captain Johnston, went down
at her anchor. The captain, officers,
and six seamen were lost with her. Five
boys were saved. The hurricane was
accompanied by tidal wave fifteen feet
high, which swept over the island and
did terrible damage. The storehOuse of
Messrs. Macarthur & Co., Auckland,
which contained over three thousand
tons of cOpra, was destroyed. All the
natives houses and many Europeans
were carried away. COcoanut trees were
snapped off like pipestems and the is
land presentsa scene of widespread desc
latiOn. At TOngatea all the churches
were destroyed. Two thousand houses
were leyeled, and stores and copra
houses with their contents and every