The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-08-24
RED-HOT-ITIES.
The Summer Catalogue of Pass,
ing Events.
How the Country Amuses Itself in Making
Interesting Facts for the Regular
Newspaper Record.

San Francisco invites the Tariff Com
mission to California.
The Missouri wheat crop pans out bet
| ter than previous reports indicated.
The Agricultural Forestry and Science
Congress began its sittings in Montreal
Tuesday.
The closing exercises of the Chatau-
| qua Assembly were witnessed by 5000
persons, Tuesday.
B. P. Calhoun, grandson of John c..
| Calhoun, is President of the Democratic
| Club at Palatka, Fla.
The Mayor end Councilmen of Read
| ing, Pa, have been arrested for not keep
ing the streets clean.
The Supreme Lodge of Knights of
Pythias went to Detroit this week to
hold their twelfth conclaVe.
VennOr predicts a severe storm period
on the Lower Lakes toward the end of
the present month and early in Septem-
ber.
Archbishop Gould, of the Roman Catho-
lie diocese of Melbourne, has been at
tackled by an assassin and slightly
wounded.
Major Joseph H. Taylor, A. A. g., of
Newport Barracks, is on trial by court
martial for attempting to use political
influence.
Thirty-five new cases and two deaths
from yellow fever are reported from
Brownsville, Texas. Seven deaths oc-
Cured at MatamOras.
TRALEE, August 31.-A farmer named
Leahy was shot dead near Killarney last
evening by a party of mOonlighters.
Leahy was dragged from his bed by an
armed party.
InlI xrofn Of Wofa
| and one of the soldiers who fired over
the grave of Sir John Moore, died in a
London WOTkhOuse few weeks ago,
aged ninety-seven.
Mr.. George Dexter, of Albany, eighty
| four years old, is the sole survivor of
| fifty passengers on the first trip of Full
| toms steamboat, the ClermOnt, from
Albany to New York.
A switch engine at Wheeling, last
week, ran over two year-Old child that
was asleep upon the track, cutting of
it's arms and head; the latter rolling
down the bank to the river side.
The strike at Cohoes is practically end
ed, Brown, BOnnell & Co., of YOungs-
town, will no longer negotiate with the
Amalgamated Association. They adVer-
tise for puddlers and will start the mills
next Monday.
The stealer of a horse in Minnesota
could not find saddle and took a sack
of feathers to ride on. The sack had a
hole, the feathers were slowly strewn
along the road for twenty miles, and by
means of them the rascal was hunted
down.
Deacon Smith of the Mount Calvary
Baptist Church was fined 50 and costs
at Hartford for whipping brother Bap-
tist, who had charged him with fond
ness for policy shops. "Pse a bang-uI
Christian and Brudder's liar" was the
deacOn's defence.
ST LOUIS, August 21.-A Post Dispatch
from San Antonio, Texas, says: Charles
W. Ward, cOlored, and discharged United
States soldier, was hanged in Jail there
about noon to-day for raping white
girl named Dora Ellerman, August 21st
1881. He met death without fear.
Mark Alexander, of Virginia, who
served in Congress from 1919 to 1927, and
is, therefore, the Oldest living ex Con-
gressman, is now, with his aged wife, in
destitute circumstances. Mrs, Alexander
was the daughter of Governor and United
States Senator James Turner, of North
Carolina.
A status of Friar Arnold (Arnold OF
BrescIa,) the early Italian refOrmer, was
unveiled at Brescia, Italy. There was
| great popular interest. The Italian Min
istry was represented by SignOrs Zan
ardelIi, Baccarini, Baccelli and Magli
ami. DeputatiOns were present from
the Italian Senate and many other pub
lie bodies.
CLEVELAND, August 20.-A Mt. Vernon
special to the Leader chronicles singu
lar accident to fOur-year-Old daughter
of Alexander McGurgin. The child was
playing with piece of twine tied to the
front dOor-latch, and in some unknown
way the door was shut. The cord caught
around the girls neck, and she was
strangled before discovered.
MADISON, O., August 21.-HoratiC
WhippIe was arrested to-day on a charge
of rape, and bound over to appear before
Justice Brand on Wednesday. Whippl(
is a member of the Congregations
Church of Unionville, and has, to out
, ward appearance, always borne gOOt
character. Whipple is about sixty-fiv
years old. Hislvictim is twelve years o
age.
NEW YORK, August 2O.-A list of tn
! amounts paid in salaries at the Custom
House for the past year was prepare,
Yesterday, the total sum being 81, ,421,
, 676. Two per cent. of this for Hubbel
{ would be S48,553.52 So far no payment
at all to Hubbell have been reported
: except that an opener and packer In tn
Appraisers office acknowledges that b
] paid up out Of the proceeds OF the sal
t of opium stolen by him.