The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-08-11
NOTES OF NEWS.
All the Important Happenings Of
the Day
Gathered and Boiled Down Into Readable
Items-Cream Of the Current
Events.

Mrs. Jones, of Maryland, took laud-
anum because she could not take money
from her husbands cash drawer.
Jennie Roberts, of Pennsylvania, flung
herself into a stream after being re-
fused parental permission to go to ball.
| Magruder killed himself in Maryland
because of grief for his first wife, though
he had taken a second and entirely
worthy one.
Marks drowned himself in a Kansas
| mill pond, the dam for which he had
| Just built, as the water proved insufi-
cient to turn the wheel.
AKRON, Aug. IO.-A miner named Sci
fas was run over by c. A. " Q. train
| near Clinton, Summit county, this NOR
ming, and fatally injured.
| A little child in Montreal atea bios
/ som of the WOlfSbane, OF mOnkShOOd,
which she found in her fathers garden,
/ Thursday, and died in half an hour.
Two hundred square inches of new
skin will be engrafted on the body OF
| Charles Foster, of Pembroke, n. Y, who
was terribly burned on the Fourth OF
July.
A Saratoga girl was very much sur
Drised the other night when she went to
| her closet for some article of apparel to
/ discover burglar who had fallen asleep
| in snug corner.
Rock ISLAND, Aug. 10.-Ex Superin-
tendent Cramer OF the city water works,
| was committed to prison in default OF
$1,000 bail, for the embezzlement of $40
600 public money.
OF the persons pulled in" by the
Boston police last year about one in five
/ were women. As Boston contains twenty
odd thousand more women than men
the fact speaks very we'll for the "gentl-
er SEX"
F.T.&J.D. Phinney, of Boston, boot
i and shoe counter manufacturers, have
suspended payment. Their liabilities
/ are something over 100000. They are
on Shaw g. Brothers paper to the amount
of 100000.
This from the New Lisbon Journal
beats the record: "a Urichsville girl
surprised her parents Thursday evening
by making them grand parents, and they
found husband for her at O'Clock the
next morning"
Henry Cables wife was catching on"
| to the boys at Springfield picnic, but
the "Old man" broke up the Irritation by
fatally shooting her. There must have
been no other mems wives there for Mr..
Cable to mash, or he surely would never
have got so excited about such tribe.
NEW YORK, Aug. 10--4A strike of the
telegTaphers on the Baltimore u Ohio,
Gould and other lines is expected within
48 hours, unless the demands OF the
Brotherhood are complied with. 1t Is
said some of the railroad operators go
out today unless their terms are granted.
| AKRON, o., Aug. 9.--The Major Beebe
who committed suicide at Washington,
was brother to exrStAte Senator D. ID.
Beebe, of Hudson, this county. Major
Beebe was the son Of the late w. M.
Beebe, Of Hudson, for many years tr1s-
tee of the Northern Ohio Asylum for the
Insane. ..
WHEELING, W. Va, Aug. 10.-This af-
ternOon four boys, named Englehart,
Steen, Hume and Halfpenny, went out
on the river in a boat. and rowing TO
the waves of passing steamer, the boat
was upset and all the boys but Engle
hart drowned. Englehart aged 10, the
others all under II.
Fred Mussey Charlie Fosters dudeish
sOn-in-laW, is running about the east
getting himself interviewed to the effect
that his father-in-law has an ambition
to be u. 8. Senator from Ohio moves the
Sandusky Register to advise the Cover
nor to bottle up his sOn-in law and put
stout seal on the cork.
| LONDON, Aug. 10.-Twenty thousand
persons were at the Bradlaugh demon
stratiOn in Trafalgar square this after
noon. The meeting was orderly. Brad
laugh fOreshadOwed physical contest
unless he was allowed to take his parlia-
mentary seat. He blamed the House of
Commons for the trouble.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Aug. 10.-A saloon
keeper named Leopold Hart was fatally
shot last evening 6y his bar keeper,
Mike Mccullough. Hart, who is q des-
perate character, having already killed
men, had gone to bed Intoxicated, when
Mccullough went to his room and shot
him. The cause of the shooting i5 un-
known. Mccullough iis still at liberty.
Six months ago James Squires, a veal
thy farmer of Newton, Pa, was swindl-
ed out Of $500 by a New York b1nko
, steerer. Two weeks ago he was called
to Atlantic City, N. Jsby a report that
his daughter was there conducting a
rapid iTtation with a lively young man,
He hastened to the scene and captured
his daughter and her gallant under an
. umbrella on the beach. The gallant was
the bunkO steereF.
Moses Warren, wealthy citizen OF
Troy, N. Y, has o beautiful daughter,
: Mary. He had handsome cOachman, a
, very decent fellow In many RESPECTS
years and made love to Mary the last
, two. A week ago they were secretly
married. The old man found 1t out, and
!. | like sensible party concluded at once
. to make the best Of 1t, and telegrapheC
them to come home and be happy. 1ao
BALTIMoRE, Aug, 1O.-Mrs. L. L. Con
rad, wife of a prominent lawyer of this
city, shot and Killed her husband Tues
day night while suffering from insanity
caused by neuralgia of the stomach
8 She had been an invalid for longtime
I Conrad was quietly sleeping in his beC
Q 4 at the time, and there were no witnesse
= ftO the murder. The relations between
It them had always been of the most ten
Q der character. They had been Marie,
Q fourteen yeaFe.lllJga sltll
$ The Virginia City, New, water suppl
< is received from Marlette lake, on th
!; side of a mountain. II is con Veyed In
q wrought iron pipe down the hill, a fal
y of 1720 feet. The pressure of the pipe q
7 the bottom is 800 pounds to the squar
( inch. The least crack or hole in th
pipe is enlarged. with great rapidity
+, and the water rushing through eve
a though no larger than a pencil has fore
lenoughtO shake the ground and tear th
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