The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-04-06
FLOTSAM AND JETSAM.
A Weeks Record of the Worlds
Happenings.
Interesting Items of Importance Inter-
spersed With Itinerant Invoices
of Intelligence.
Jimmy Elliott, the pugiIist, was ar


robbers.
Three persons killed and one fatally
hurt by cyclone in Reading, Pa, Sat
uTday.
Insane asylum at YanktOn, Dak., burn
ed Sunday and four out of 81 patients
burned to death.
o. F. Mix Of Bellaire, is under arrest
for furnishing saws to the Licking
cOInty prisoners.
Health officer reports 159 new cases
of smallpox in Cincinnati, since the
report of March %.
KOkOmO, Ind, is indignant, and unless
troops arrive Charles GilesOn, who raped
a three-year-Old girl, will hang.
Senator LOgan's trOuble-belieyed to
be Bright's disease-has returned in an
acute form, and he has been ordered to
Hot Springs, Arkansas.
Prisoners at the Licking county Jail
laid plans last Friday to knock down the
turnkey and fly. Presence of a big dog
with the latter changed their minds.
Thursday night the Andre monument
at TarrytOn, n. Y, was partly destroyed
by dynamite. The monument itself is
not much damaged, but the base is Tu-
ined.
Robert McManesy, of LeetOnia, EN-
plOyed on the track near Wooster, was
cut to pieces by a freight train while re-
turning from a big drunk Saturday
night.
New Jersey legislators made such a
Tacked that the clerk could not read the
report of the committee on bribery
charges and finally adjourned amid
great disorder.
One hundred and sixty eight names
of Congressman appear on the memo
randum lying on the Speakers table of
"thOse who desire to speak on the Tariff
Commission Bill"
A Detroit switchman has received in
ihe U. S. Court a verdict for $4,000
against the Grand Trunk Railway, for
injuries sustained by him while in the
discharge of his duties.
Robert Bluem of Cleveland, fired
against his wife's head two pistol balls,
which glanced off, then fired into his
own head and killed himself. 1t is
thought the woman will recover.
The Czar has ordered the cOmmuta-
tiOn of all death sentences passed at the
recent trial of Nihilists, to indefinite
hard l0bOr in the mines, except in the
case of Marine Lieutenant GGchan off.
At Memphis a diver went down in
twenty-five feet of water to the wreck
of the ill-fated steamer Golden City, but
the current was so swift that all efforts
to go through the cabin were fruitless.
AKRON, March 31.-GeO. Surnam, water
boy on the n. Y, p. q o. gravel train,
was run over at Burbank, yesterday.
Both legs were crushed and amputated,
and he died from the shock this morn
ing.
The Chinese merchants of San Fran
cisco have finally opened a Merchants
Exchange, which they have been secretly
organizing for some time, and elected
officers. The object is mutual benefit and
protection,
A negro giving his name as Frank
Summers got away with gold watch
and chain valued at 5000 from the resi-
dence of Mat Early, at Alliance. The
Early bird caught the thief after a hot
pursuit and landed him in thelOckup.
COLUMBUS, March bow. j. Elliott,
proprietor of the Sunday Capital, was
to-day arrested for alleged criminal libel
in publishing an article rejecting on
the legitimacy of the unborn child of
Mrs. o. S. COckey, daughter of r. T. Nit
hoff, wealthy citizen.
PITTSBURGH, April 1.-The summer
resort, knows as the Haysville hotel, To-
Gated ten miles from the city on the Ft.
Wayne road, was entirely destroyed by
fire at an early hour this morning.
Loss $4,000; insurance $4,000. Fire
was the work of an incendiary.
General Streelnekoff, Public PrOsecu-
tor of the Nieff Military Tribunal, was
shot through the head and instantly
killed while sitting on the boulevard at
odessa, Russia. General StreelnekOff
went to Odessa to conduct preliminary
examinations in important political
trials.
Mrs. L. E. KOuns and three children
and Mamie Campbell, lost on the
burnedisteamer Golden City, left Shreve-
port, Ala, to spend the summer in Law
renee county, Ohio. Captain Kouns,
her husband, only learned the news
last evening on the arrival of his boat
at Shreveport.
At Selma, Ala, AL. Weisinger and
Bill Ludlow were hanged Friday for the
murder of Jessie B. Weisinger in De-
cembeT last. Doc Wright was hanged
at Chatham, Va, for the murder of Cole
Arthur in February, 1881. At Pueblo,
Colorado, men, supposed to be members
of the Cattle Growers Protective AssO-
citation took two cattle thieves out of
jail, and hanged them to tree.
WASHINGTON, April 1.-The debt |
statement shows decrease in the pub
lie debt during March of Sic, 1916;
cash in Treasury, 1888, ,291, ,761; gold GER
tificates, $5,166,920 silver certificates,
SOS, 1855, $40; certificates deposits, $14,-
100000; Tefunding certificates, $542,-
359; legal tenders, 1916, 1881, ,OI6; frae-
tiOnal currency, $7,064,898; cash bal
ance available, $154,038,381
WAyERLY, OHIO, March 3O.-John and
George Rider, who. were murdered at
Jasper, Tuesday night, were buried this
afternoon. Nearly 1000 people were at
the funeral, and great excitement pre-
vailed. At midnight last night the |
murderer, Shropshire, returned home, |
sent for a Justice and made affidavit |
that his brother, who had been arrested |
was innocent. The brother was released |
this morning. Sheriff Anderson has |
been on watch for him all day. He is in |
an inaccessible Tavine near his home, |
and it will take hundred men to get |
him by force. He sent word to the |
Sheriff that he would never be taken |
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