The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-07-20


grin Falls while filling a gasoline stove
when it was in operation.
The Inflated SciOtO was "raised" last
week and tOwed to Wheeling. The
number of bodies recovered is fifty-seven.
The Alabama Republicans have adopt
ed the Greenback State ticket. 'Rah.
Anything to win. Principles are moth
ing. Offices everything.
The purchase of 5000 mules in Spain
for Egypt by the British government
looks like a gigantic scheme to kick
Arab Bey and his followers out of the
country.
The mill and lumber yards of B. NJ
Holmes at Ogema, Wisconsin, burned
Monday. Loss $160,OO0; insurance $780,
600. Sparks from passing train caus-
ed the IRE.
At st. Louis the body of man sup
posed to be John c. DOehn, who dropped
dead of heart disease, was recognized as
Alfred H. Pease, the pianist, missing
since May 31st.
The electric fluid played havoc at Tex
arcana, Ark, Wednesday night, killing
thirty persons at one fell sWOOp. Fire
afterwards broke out, adding to the hOr-
rOr of the calamity.
An explosion of gas in the Rue Louis
Philippe, and a subsequent fire caused a
cOnflagratiOn in Paris, that resulted in
the death of twenty persons and the
wOunding of forty others. Twelve houses
were destroyed.
DR.. NJ. d. Rock has been arrested at Co
lumbus on a charge of manslaughter, in
performing an illegal operation upon a
girl, from which she died. George W.
Shaffer, the man in the case, was arrested
at Fredericksburg.
The physicians at the army Medical
Museum at Washington found enough
arsenic in the bouquet which Mrs. ScO-
vile sent to her brother, the assassin,
the night before he was hung, to kill a
man.
Base ball, Wednesday, at Pittsburgh:
Allegheny 6, st. Louis Z. At Chicago:
Chicagos 1, DetrOits 2. At Boston: WOr-
cesteT 4, Boston 1. At Troy: Troy 3,
Providence 3. At Philadelphia: Athle-
tics 3, Louisville 2.
Admiral Nichols, commanding the
American vessels at Alexandria, tele-
graphs to Secretary Frelinghuysen that
there has been considerable destruction
of American property in Alexandria, but
no lives of American citizens have been
lost.
Charles j. Lancaster, of ParlOr Grove,
Kentucky, farmer and horse dealer,
while driving across the track of the
Ohio 81 Mississippi Railway at Fifth
street, Cincinnati, with a buggy, was
caught by a switch engine and instantly
killed.
In the Secretary of States office, We'd
nesday, the TOrsiOn Balance & Scale
Company, of Cincinnati, capital $4,000,
filed articles of Incorporation, the sign
ers being Frederick A. ROeder, Gustave
r. Fries, Alfred Springer. James GOetz
and Albert Levy.
The State School Commissioner has re-
ceived the official text of the opinion of
Judge COwan, ClermOnt. county, holding
that examinations of teachers conducted
by division of the work so that each
examiner only passes upon one branch
Of study, are invalid.
The Philadelphia and Pittsburgh
whisky distillers have left Washington,
after an informal talk with members of
the Senate Finance Committee, satisfied
that whatever chances there may be for
whisky legislation next session there is
certain none at this one.
Russia has just had railway accident
which in fatality seems to be far ahead
of any similar accident in America. A
train bearing 217 persons ran off the
track, and of this number 178 were
jured more or less severely.
The General Freight Agents of trunk
lines to the eastern sea-bOards met at
Chicago yesterday and agreed upon the
following terminal charges for eleva-
tiOn and storage at the sea-board, to be
added to the regular through freight
rate: Corn, 24 cents per hundred
pounds; wheat, 2 1-10; oats, 3 9-1O; barley
Clio.
As the details of the story of DeLong
come out it grows clear that he had yery
hard luck. If he had proceeded thirty
miles further along the coast he would
have reached settlement and assured
the safety of all. If there had been a
shot gun in the party for bird shooting,
life could have been sustained, and one
was left on the ice. The starving party
passed near hut with tw enty carcasses
of reindeer. The tracks of the poor fell
lows were seen by some of the natives,
who were frightened and fled. DeLong
stuck desperately to his records, and so
oVerburdened his men They made but
mile day after Ninderman left them.
PETERSBURG, VA, July ia duel be-
tween Joseph Addison, of Baltimore, and
Richard Garland, or Lune0urg county
was fought at a distance of six yard,
AddisOn's pistol hanging fire four times
only firing once, the bullet striking Gar.
land in the wrist. Garland's pistol was
fred five times, one shot taking effect
the last fire, and the bullet entered Ad.
disOn's body near the navel, lodging un-
der the skin of the back. Addison died
at six o'clock this morning. The duel
resulted from Garland telling a young
lady who resides in Luneburg county
to whom Addison was engaged to be
married, that Addison was flirting with
her.
The 1st Of August is now the earliest
Gay mentioned for the adjournment OF
Congress. The tariff tinkering PROPOSE.
tiOns in the Senate have been received
with mixed feelings by the interests
affected. The proposition to raise the
duty on iron used ties is resented by the
cotton State men, as a needless attack
on the interests of their people, as cot
ton bales are now altogether bound with
iron ties. The proposal to lower the
duty on sugar alarms and irritates the
sugar States, Louisiana and Texas, who
ask why these interests should be singled
out for attack when a Tariff Commits
sion is sitting by order of Congress to
report on the whole tariff. The Besse-
mer steel people do not say much. The
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