The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-05-30
EVERY DAY TOPICS.
Recent News Items Caught in
Our Literary Net.
A Condensed Record of Accidents, Crimes,
Politics and Information Of GEN.
eraI and Miscellaneous Kind.
John Bell, in Newark Jail, placed a

| dummy III his cell and escaped.
Amasa Stones will makes Col John
Hay and Samuel Mather executors.
Attorney MerTick is making the clos
ing argument in the Star Route cases.
He is an able lawyer.
NEW YORK, May 28.-AarOn W. Harris,
clOthier, has made an assignment. Liza
bilities, $4,000; total assets, $4,000.
Reports from the half breed settle.
ment in Dakota show smallpox is on
the increase. Ten persons have died.
DUBLIN, May 28.-Michael Pagan, for
the murder of Secretary Burke, was
hanged at Kilmanhaim Jail this morn
ing.
VIM. Black and John McCiaren, died
at Paterson, N. j., from eating poisoned
meat. Others of the McClaren family
are sick.
w. G. Yates, Cleveland agent OF the U.
3. Express Company, says the money in
the pouches stolen Thursday was not
more than $1,000.
Abraham o. Hickman, postmaster at
Pipersville, Pa, was sentep ced to nine
months imprisonment and 800 fine for
using washed stamps.
Joseph Steinan 81 Co., Wholesale and
retail jewellers, Cincinnati, have assign
ed. The firm il not able to make a state
ment of assets and liabilities.
John HassOn and Joseph '0utlette
were killed, and John 0utlette and
Daniel Lyon fatally scalded, by boiler
expl lsiOn at Bismarck, Dakota.
The boiler of sawmiIl at Waterford,
Spencer county, KY, exploded, fatally
injuring several wOrkmen and instant
ly killing John Purcell, owner of the
mill.
| The captain of the steamer Pilot, that
blew up near Lakeville, CAL, says the
explosion was due to want of sufficient
water in the boilers. No bodies have
been found.
Near Smithheld, N. c., Jesse Jernigan,
/ a prominent farmer, was seizad with a
| severe attack of sickness, and commit
ted suicide by plunging a pair of scis-
| s0Ts into his breast
An explosion at Chandler's lumber
mill, Leon, Ashtabula county, o., wreck
ed the mill completely. Nelson John
son of Tyrrell Hill was killed, and sew
eral others injured.
The boiler at McLaughlin's bone,
| guano and super phosphate works, Op-
posite Steubenville, exploded with ter
rifle force. The building was badly
wrecked but no one was seriously in
| jured.
NEW YORK, May 2S.-An enormous
crowd of people walked over ROebling
bridge yesterday. As not over two out
of three paid fare, only rough estimate
can be made of the crowd. 250,000 per-
sons are said to have crossed.
The trial of Thomas w. Lyons, one of
the men charged with having caused
the death of Chung Wah You, Chinese
| laundryman, in February last In Phila-
delphia, was concluded Saturday, the
| jury rendering verdict Of aeqittal.
One Of the striking effects of the
Brooklyn bridge opening was an enOrm-
| Ous increase in the business Of the eIe-
waited railway. They carried 100000
| passengers on Thursday, and their re-
ceipts were the largest ever known in
| one day. tf
CHICAGO, May 28.-The wholesale jew
elry house of GOldstein Brothers sus-
pended to-day. Liabilities, $50,000; as
sets, $4,000 stock in trade, $25,000 in
Judgements to-day for $4,000 in favor
of relatives.
Atlanta, Ca, was startled by the an
nouncement that the examination of
the accounts of Joseph Nall, assistant
postmaster there, showed him to be $8
000 short. Nall says there must be q
mistake, but will make good the deficit
If there is any.
The competitive drill at Nashville has
ended, with the winning of the first in
fantry prize of $4,000 by the Mobile Ri
hes, while the Crescents of New Or
leans take the second, $1,000, and the
Treadways of st. Louis, the third, $500.
Prizes were also given to batteries.
NEW York, May 28.-A pitched battle
took place yesterday between Italians
q nd Irish m CharrU afraat AlaPu Mora
ma was probably fatally injured; "DOO-
ney" Harris was only slightly hurt.
Many Of the eOmbatants were injured.
| Sticks, stones, stillettOs and revolvers
were freely used.
The steamer Pilot, running on Peta-
luna creek, an arm of San Francisco
bay, blew up Friday, causing wOeful
loss of life. Eighteen persons killed or
drowned and eight badly injured by be
ing hurled bodily to the shore by the
| force of the explosion. Some of the bod
ies were found in the marsh hundreds
of feet away.
A mob headed by A. j.. Ringo, sheriff
of Manifee county, KY, attacked the Jail
at Mt. Sterling, intending to lynch Jno.
Barnett and some of his men, who are
prisoners there. The mob was repulsed
| by the guards, and Ring0 and four 9th
| ers are badly wounded. 1t is the gem
| eTal opinion the fellows In Jail deserve
hanging. They recently murdered
Vaughn Hilton in the presence of his
family.
| The following officers of the Baptist
Missionary Union wereielected: Presi-
dent, Rev. Geo. Dana B0ardman, ID. d.;
| Vice Presidents, Hon. j. Warren Merrill,
of Mass, and Hon. Chafles l.. Colby, of
Wisconsin; Recording Secretary, Rev. H.
s Bdrrage, of Maine. The Secretary's
annual report shows receipts of $3i6, ,806.
Tile onion maintains 100 missionaries,
/, 1864 native preachers and 1,075 churches.
These have 103, 146 members. In 1882
1O,645 were baptized, 1898 more than
the year before.
The answer has BEEN filed in the case
brought in the Supreme Court to test
the cOnstitutiOnality of the Scott law. It
Is set forth that this enactment impairs
contracts, licenses the liquor traffic, does
not operate uniformly. taxes business,
is in the same nature Of poll tax, is a
tax on imports, and is otherwise in
whole or in part contrary to the COnsti-
tutions Of the United States and the