The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-09-21
BREVITIES.
The Summer Catalogue of Pass
ing Events.
How the Country Amuses Itself in Making
Interesting Facts for the Regular
Newspaper Record.
Failures last week aggregate 1O8.
Election is two weeks from next Tues.

compromise at puddlerS' prices.
The damage by recent floods in Italy
and Austria Is 100000 forms.
Will Hartman and Will Sackman, of
Detroit, drowned in the st. Clair river.
Canned provisions for 10000 men for
month were captured at Tel-el-Kebir.
Robson was renOminated by accla-
nation at Camden, n. j., last Friday.
Ben. Butler will accept the Democratic
nomination for Governor of Massachu-
setts.
Nathan Bonnet, colored rapist, was
lynched and riddled with bullets at
Charleston, S. G.
Tracy, murderer of Policeman Hub
ner, was hanged at Chicago Friday, pro-
testing his innocence.
Assistant Cashier Lathrop, of the Jer-
sey Central road, has abscOnded with
$4,000 and a woman.
Four persons were killed by the tor
nadO in Wtnsted, Mass, last Thursday
night.
Mitchell & Rowland's lumber mill at
Toledo was destroyed by fire last Friday.
Loss 1926, 900.
The President on the 18th accepted
225 miles of Northern Pacific Railroad,
reported upon by Scott, SanbOrn 81 John
son.
An unknown man was killed by the
cars at New Philadelphia last week. A
broken whisky bottle was found near the
body.
Della Carey accidentally shot and
mortally wounded her young friend,
Annie Burke, with revolver at Sey-
mour, Ind.
Mrs. Melville, wife of the chief engi-
neer, was yesterday pronounced insane
by Philadelphia physicians, and taken
to the asylum.
The Republicans of South Carolina
have fused with the Greenbackers.
They might profit by studying the result
of such fusion in Maine.
A check for $4,000 has just been for
Warded to Treasurer Walsh, of the Land
League of Paris, as the American con-
tributiUns from May 1st to date.
The lake steamer Asia, with about
one hundred persons aboard, fOundered
in Lake Huron on Thursday last. But
two persons are known to be saved.
Two large oil refineries were struck
by lightning at Newton Creek, Brook
lyn, Friday, and two men were subse-
quently burned to death while fighting
the flames.
Jacob E. Lang and Milton Lykins, to-
Ys, IOuRuL
duel with tobacco sticks. Both were
badly injured, the left arm of each be-
ing broken.
L. S. Wilson, cashier of the Fourth
National Bank at Columbus, took an
overdose of chlOTal for sick headache at
the Bancroft House, East Saginaw, and
died from the effects.
A barn filled with hay, belonging to
Robert A. Pinn, colOred lawyer of
MassillOn, was totally destroyed by fire
Tuesday. Loss about $400; insured in
the Ohio Farmers.
Iowa cOngratulates herself on the
best corn yield ever known in the State.
The hot weather in Kansas and Nebras-
kO has done no harm to corn, and in IL
linOis the yield will be fully three
fOurths.
A young girl eighteen years old, nam
ed Kate Enker, living at 142 LeymOur
avenue, Cleveland, committed suicide
on Tuesday by taking dose of poison.
disappointment in love was said to be
the cause.
A discrepancy of $25,OOO has been
discovered in the accounts of the Insu-
rance Company of North America
charged to the transfer clerk, Alfred
Rogers. of course this occurred in
Philadelphia.
When last seen Samuel Voght, of
Hamilton, Ont, had 81 900 in his pocket
and was about to return to Germany.
Sunday he was found in the river with
| bullet hole in his head, and his money
and watch gone.
James H. Elliott, a lawyer of New
York, has been arrested on the charge of
| having broken into the house of Emme-
line Laurent, who was dying of starva-
md OF in Co.. M
worth of property.
Doctors in the Rush Medical College,
Chicago, applied electricity to the BODY
of Tracy after he was hanged and got
| the heart in operation. If the neck had
not been dislOcated they claim they
| could have restored life.
The terrible sufferings of a family,
who one by one died of smallpox, with
no one to bury them, until none re-
mained but a little child, who was
found surrounded by fostering corpses
was told by the Memphis correspondent
of the Cincinnati Commercial last week
General Wolseley tells the whole
story in his dispatch from Cairo when he
| says: "The war is over. General Lowe
has occupied Cairo. Arab Pasha and
| dltiOnally. Ten thousand troops al
| Cairo have laid down their arms"
Levi B. Taylor, in the eastern part Of
Holmes county, while running clover
| huller, was caught in the betting and
| thrown into the machine. Both arms
were broken and his skull fractured
from the effects of which he died
shortly after.
The Pittsburgh, Youngstown and
| Wheeling districts of the Amalgamated
| Associations at meetings Tuesday, re-
solved to resume work on the scale in
| force up to the first of June last. This
ends the strike, and provides work prob
ably for 10000 persons, most of whom
are in sore need of employment and
| wages.
| President Arthur abandoned the De.
| spatch outside of Newport Harbor, Fri
day, and being safely landed rode into
town on an express wagon. This is as
it should be. Whether the President's