The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-12-02
GAZE ON THIS.
The Regular Catalogue of Pass
ing Events.
How the Country Amuses Itself in Making
Interesting Facts for the Every
Day Newspaper Record.

Rear Admiral Strong, of the retired
list, died at Columbia, S. c., Tuesday.
The Abel Kline & Co. glass factory at
Pittsburgh was destroyed by fire Tues
day. Loss, $4,000.
Charles Logan, editor of the Logan,
D., Valley Tribune, has disappeared, and
it is thought, for good.
The official count of Michigan gives
Begol, Democrat, for Governor, ma
jOTity over Jerome Of 1854 votes.
General Andrew s. Heron, Congress-
man-elect from the sixth Louisiana Dis
trict, died Monday night of heart dis
ease.
Miss Ada SWOrtz, a Brooklyn school
girl, left her home on Wednesday last
for school and has not been heard from
since.
81, OlOnel' ThOmas Murphy, who was
Grants Collector OF New York City, is
spoken of as successor of Marshal
Henry.
The Touring mill of Upham, Son &
Co, at Blue Rapids, Kan, was totally
destroyed by fire Sunday. The loss is
upwards of $4,000.
1t is remarkable frct that Lewis
Cass, John C. Calhoun, Martin Van
Barren and Daniel Webster were all born
in 1782-10O years ago.
E. P. ROwell, formerly ticket agent of
the Wabash road at Adrian, Mich, has
been arrested for stealing tickets. The
railroad estimates its loss at $4,000.
%iWhile General Longstreet, Marshal of
Georgia, has been exOnerated personally
from all charges of wrong doing, some
of his deputies are yet under cloud.
They are accused of having taken bribes.
Fifteen members of the Brooklyn
Board of Aldermen have been declared
in contempt, and spent Thanksgiving
Day in Jail for violating an order of The
Supreme Court in relation to an eleva ted
railroad suit.
Graham 81 Hitker, wholesale dealers
in dry goods, 1902 Broadway, and Dodge
& Sinclair, wholesale dealers in rubber
goods, 81 Park Place, New York, have
failed, the former for $46,30l, and the
latter for $4,000.
DR.. Hamilton, one Of Garfield's physi.
clans, says that Bliss dosed the patient
heavily with morphine, contrary to the
order of the council, for the purpose of
making favorable reports in the morn
ing bulletins. aHe says that Bliss ad-
mitted that such was the case.
John R. Sheets, of Morgan county,
was pardOned out of the penitentiary by
the Governor, under promise that he
would refrain from drinking intOXicat-
ing liquors. Week before last he was
returned to the penitentiaTy for ViOlat-
ing his promise, to serve an additional
period of five months.
The largest windmill in Illinois is
said to be situated in GeneseO. Its
wheel is 30 feet in diameter, with a tail
20 feet long. 1t is or 10 horse power.
The mill Is geared for grinding feed,
oh nj
churning. Its force is to be applied to
still other uses.
The funeral of the Dublin detective,
Cox. murdered Saturday night, was
held in that city Tuesday, and excited
great interest. Traffic In the streets was
suspended during the passage of the
eOrtege, which included several hundred
cOnstables and twenty carriages con-
tanning citizens.
A. NJ. Gibson, who was connected with
ex-AttOrney General MacVeagh in the
Star route prosecution, makes state
ment denying that President Garfield
exhibited to ex-senator Dorsey all the
evidence against him in the Star-rOute
cases, in order that Mr.. Dorsey might be
prepared to defeat the Government.
Attorney General Brewster has direct
ed the attention of George Bliss to the
case of the Salisburys, the Parkers, the
Kerns party and other members of the
Star route gang, warning him against
the risk of losing the cases by reason of
the statute of limitations, and declaring
that these persons must be indicted if
grand juries win indict them.
1t seems trouble at the Treasury De-
partment with the accounts of the Tariff
Commission arose from the fact that
Secretary FOlger was not disposed to
approve any single. requisitiOn for an
amount greater than the bond of the
President of the Commission, $4,000. A
warrant of 5000 was issued Tuesday
on account of the Commission.
At Ashland, o., Tuesday evening,
buggy, containing Edward Miller. his
sister, Jennie. and Miss Callie Mason,
while crossing the New York, Pennsyl-
vania & Ohio Railway track was struck
by express train No. 2, killing Miss
Miller instantly, and injuring Miss Ma
son and Mr.. Miller so severely that but
little hope is entertained for their re-