The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-10-13
NOTES OF NEWS.
All the Important Happenings of
the Day
Gathered and Boiled Down Into Readable
ltems-Cream Of the Current
Events.
Three new cases of fever at BrewtOn,

FREMONT, o., Oct. 12.-Wm. RadfOrd
was hanged at 1918.
Counterfeit postal notes are represent
ed to have appeared in Illinois.
Edward Bissell, lumber, of New York,
made an assignment; preferences $39-
600.
,Mrs. Coates of SherbrOke, N. B., has
been acquitted of the charge of poison
ing her husband.
Work begins at once upon the Cape
Cod canal. Five hundred men will
soon be employed.
The Weber Manufacturing Co.'S wagon
shop, at Chicago, was partly burned;
loss $4,000; fully insured.
Sargent 81 Brennan, paint and putty
makers, st. Louis, assigned; assets $17-
600; Liabilities not stated.
The bank and store houses of Santa
Cataling, Havana, suspended. The CASH
ier of the firm has disappeared.
Leading lumbermen of Ontario are
seeking to obtain a bounty on manufac
tured lumber exported to the United
States.
George CromeT, a carpenter at Lancas
ter, Pa, while working, fell between the
rafters, was caught by the neck and
strangled.
Indiana county fairs are said to be
better this year than in previous years.
The farm products are especially good.
The HOOsiers can do 1t.
Wah Lee, the Chinaman who butch
cred All Sam at Sioux City, Ia, a few
weeks ago, died in jail, presumably of
opium poisoning.
The steamer Gazelle, a pleasure boat
plying between Portland, Me-, and the
islands in the haTbOr, burned; loss $l8-
600; insured $500.
Dan Gould, cOlOred, was convicted of
the murder of Vim. Carpenter, white, at
Raleigh, N. c., and sentencted to death
the last Friday in October.
The cotton operatives of Lancashire,
Eng, are voting against the proposed
reduction of wages 10 per cent. and are
also contributing to fund in case of a
strike.
The revised estimates of the French
budget, it is said, show a deficit of E5-
OOO,OO0O00 francs, which the Minister of
Finance proposes to cover by reduc
tiOn of governmental expenses.
A telegram from Tacna says the Boil
Wan Senate opposed by large majority
motion to treat alone with Chilli for
peace. By the condition Bolivia secures
some territory on the Pacific coast.
Rebel bands entered the city of Port
hu EGluOb anu pAAAdRou blO oGOlOoD coO
fire to the houses, and murdered all who
resisted. Among the killed are two gen
erals. The troops finally dispersed the
rebels and restored order.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 12.-The Secretary
of the Interior yesterday accepted the
resignation of Edgar A. Marble, Com
missioner of Patents, to take effect Oct.
Ist. The position has been rendered to
Hon. Benjamin ButterwOrth of Ohio.
Information has been received that c.
N. E. Dewey, the alleged Boston forger,
was arrested in San Antonio, Tex, and
released on $4,000 bail. He had an
abundance of money, Police Inspector
Hanson, Of Boston, has gone to San
Antonio.
John A. Ferguson was tried for the
murder of Policemen Parks, at Danville.
Va, and declared not guilty. The jury
acted under the instructions of the court,
that man has right to defend him
self. even to killing, If the officer en-
deavOred to arrest him without war
rant.
The directors of the Canadian Pacific
Railroad returned to Montreal after in
specting the Portland, Maine s. Ogdens-
burg Railway with view OF purchas-
ing it for winter outlet for their north
west and western traffic. Definite offers
will be made next week on both sides.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 12.-Supervising
Architect Hill continues to perform the
duties of his office, and has received no
intimatiOn as to when his successor Will
be appointed. There are number Of
applicants for the office, and many per-
sons think Architect Walker, the for
mer architect of the Capitol, will be Sc
lected to succeed Mr.. Hill.
NEWBURG, w. Va, Oct. 12.-JOhn New
man, freight brakeman, who lived near
Kuttens, Md, met a horrible death yes
terday morning in KingwOod tunnel.
His foot slipped while drawing brake
and he fell under the wheels, several
cars passing over it, mangling it in a
horrible manner. He was about 20 years
old and unmarried.
WAPAKoNETA, Ohio, October 1O.-The
northern. bound passenger train on the
DAYTON and Michigan Road, due here at
$50, ran into freight train No. 48 this
evening lust south of town. The pass
enper engine was thrown over and COM
pIetely demolished. The fireman, Will
liam Suman. was severely injured, but
Engineer Curtiss escaped unhurt. None
of the passengers were injured.
VICKsBURG, Miss, October 10.-Plant-
ers east of this report alarming distress
from the prOtracted drought. Cattle are
dying by scores, and many families are
severely incOnvenienced to procure
drinking water, to say nothing OF water
for ordinary household purposes. In
Vicksburgh, 1t is said, good drinking
water Is at premium, and IL q fire