The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-10-26
BREVITIES.
The Autumn Catalogue of Pass
ing Events.
How the Country Amuses Itself In Making
Interesting Facts for the Regular
Newspaper Record.

the M. K. Church South, is dead.
Diphtheria in its worst form is pre-
vailing in the vicinity Of Caldwell, o.
Washington letter-carriers have sue
cessfully experimental with trtcycles.
The Baptist State Convention of Ohio
was in session four days last week at
Wooster.
Vessels of the Dutch and Danish Arctic
expeditions are in peril from Ice in the
Kara Sea.
A manufacturing firm at Providence,
r. l., has 1857 rifles for the Turkish
Government.
John d. Defrees, of Indianapolis, late
public printer at Washington, died last
week at Berkeley Springs, Va.
Stamped envelopes will be sold to the
public, after January 1, 1883, at reduc-
tiOn Of ten per cent. on the present pri-
ces.
R. D. HOrrs s. Co., manufacturers of
wOolens at Dedham, Mass, failed. LA
bilities, $430,O00; nominal assets, $685.
900.
The British Horse Guards and Life
Guards have returned from Egypt, and
had an enthusiastic reception in Lon
don.
1t is stated that Ellis P. Phipps, ex-Su-
perintendent of the Philadelphia aims
house, stole $650,O00 in period of nine
years.
By collision of freight trains on the
Hudson River Railroad, an engine and
twelve cars were thrown into the river.
Loss, $4,000.
Two hundred students in the Mon
mouth Ull.) College have struck on ac-
count Of the suspension by the faculty
of one Of their number.
In the Universalist convention at Phil
adelphia, resolution was adopted con-
demning the death penalty, and recon-
mending more humane punishment.
The Egyptian ministry have intimated
their intention to permit Bradley, Eyre
and Napier to defend Arab Pasha, on
condition that the witnesses in the case
undergo preliminary examination.
The Ohio river is down to Iow-water
mark, with only fifteen inches water at
Pittsburg, and four and One-half Ieet
from Cincinnati to Evansville, and five
feet of water from the latter point to
Cairo.
Fred. Captain, Jr., has confessed to
having been implicated in the murder
of Arthur Wellington Ross, in Glendale,
two weeks ago. He duplicates the col
Ored man, Harris, his father, and him
self.
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ty-six mile Camp, on the Omaha road,
eight miles from Ashland, Wis, shot and
killed Jim BOnnell, also salOOn-keeper.
The murdered man was well-knOwn
desperate.
Denherder's bank at iceland, Ottawa
county, Mich, was burglariZed Wednes-
day night, last week, and from $1,000 to
$4,000 in currency secured. The safe
was drilled and the lock broken. No clue
to the thieves.
Matthew COnnOr and Patrick O'Con-
nell, hOd-carriers, got into quarrel on
q scaffOld of new building at Auburn,
Maine, and fell distance Of fifty feet,
clasped in each others embrace. Both
were instantly killed.
At Eastman, Georgia. Friday, four
men and one woman, all cOlOred, were
hanged for completely in the riot which
occurred at that place August 9Th, at a
caInp-meeting, in which young white
man named James Harvard was killed.
The result of the German elections is
such that no one party will have a ma
jority in the new Diet. In order to OBJ
tain a majority it will be necessary for
the Government to enter into an alIi-
ance with the Clericals and COnserva-
tiVes.
The jury in the case of Charles II.
HOughtOn, on trial at Trenton, New Jer-
sey, charged by the Government with
making false returns while collector of
the port of Perth AmbOy, returned YER
dict of guilty, with recommendation for
mercy.
De Farava, the Ispravnik of Kalimsk,
has arrived at ITkutsk, en- route for st
Petersburg, October II. He left Yakutsk
in September, when news from the Lena
Delta had arrived saying that the Har-
mn rfr oil
ascertained of the fate of Lieut.. Chipp,
of the Jeanette.
A Chicago special says: There were, on
Wednesday last, just 4, 4,480,0 900 bushels of
corn in sight in the country. This stock
has probably by this time decreased to
100000 bushels. Is it any great won
der, with such insane speculation, that
corn should have advanced two cents in
this market, eight cents in New York and
three in st. LOuisp
A convention of Baptist clergymen
and laymen at Hamilton, Ontario, op-
poses the introduction of the Bible as
text book into the public schools, as
signing as reason that while heartily
approving the proper use of the Bible in
public schools they hesitate to take ac-
tiOn in any way with the religious lib
erty of any citizen.
Five horse thieves, who stole thirty
six horses and mules from eight freight
ers, at Williams, Arizona, three weeks |
ago, were surprised in Tigeras Canyon,
thirty miles east of Albuquerque, N. NJ, |
Thursday, by their puTsuers, and killed |
at The first fire. Two of the freighters |
were wounded. They were travelling |
overland for Texas, and had covered five |
hundred miles.
Near Mineral Springs, How ard county, |
Arkansas, Tuesday, officers from Texas |
attempted to arrest two brothers named |
George. Finding the parties on the |
porch of the house Of their father, they |
ordered them not to move, but they |
started for the house, when they were |
Or d on by the officers. The father and !
enc son were instantly killed, aRd the !