The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-12-15
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.
All the Important Happenings of
the Day
Gathered and Boiled Down Into Readable
ltems-Cream of the Current
Events.

loss $7o,OOO.
Pennsylvania Legislature has adiOur-
| ned sine die.
State grange, 800 strong, in session in
| Springfield.
Kalamazoo Presbyterian church burn
ed; loss $4,000.
One million persons crossed the Brook
lyn bridge in November.
Reaves block, st. Paul, destroyed by
fire; loss $1I5,000, insured.
Toledo mOulders striking against a
cut down from $2.75 to $3.50 q day.
Georgia is buying artificial limbs for
her soldiers crippled during the war.
Morrison of Indiana, looms up as a
good Democratic candidate for President.
For her population Montgomery cOun-
ty, sends the most prisoners to the
''pen."
Lorenzo Martin knocked VIM. Hart
out in two rounds in mill" near Mt.
Vernon.
John Ecker, Pittsburgh, stands acquit-
ted of burning up his wife in their
dwelling.
California banks have got down to
per cent. interest, the lowest on record
in that State.
DIR. Welti has been elected President
of the Swiss republic, and DR.. Schenck
Vice-president.
H. B. Brown q Co.'S machine shop at
Ea Hartford, Conn.,, burned Wednesday
morning. Loss $4,000.
RumOTed that the Pittsburg glass
trouble has been compromised, and that
work will be- resumed Jan. 1.
Bruce, the Cleveland burglar, convict
| ed at ElyTia of numbering Ryan in the
| second degree. He smiled at the verdict.
Martin Cavanaugh has just obtained
verdict against the city of BellaiTe
! for $1,000 for the loss of one of his big
| toes.
Several workmen injured by an ex-
plOsiOn of barrow of molten eiDdeT in
Brown, BOnnell & Co.'s Youngstown
mill.
f. c. Palmer, tax collector, Albion, Pa,
is missing. Likewise 800 in town
cash. His friends think he has gone
hunting.
Who says it is unhealthy to sleep in
feathers? Look at the spring chicken
and see how tough Ii Is.-Scientihc
American.
Alfred De ROthschiId, now residing in
HaltOn, Eng, has his carriage lighted
by electricity, so he can read during his
evening drives.
Louis Anderson, of Lacrosse, Wis, was
taken from under straw stack on Mon
day, where he had been buried alive
for three weeks.
The Virginia straightout Republicans
resolve that MahOnism is a failure and
notify the president that the offices here
after belong to them.
All pOstmasters have been instructed
to exchange the new stamps for threes,
skies and stamped envelopes, printed or
otherwise, on demand.
James Lake betrayed the wife of David
KrOber, Rockford, ILL.,, and getting care
less in his attentions il nursing four
bullet holes in his body.
At Madison, Ind, Charlie Marshall, a
boy did not know that his pistol was
loaded and pulled il on Willie GraysOn,
who was fatally wounded.
The chamber of deputies and other
public buildings of the government of
Belgium, at Brussels, were destroyed by
fire, involving heavy loss.
Four hundred men are thrown out of
work for month by the destruction of
the hoisting engine at the Locust Gap
Spring cOlliery, at Mt. Carmel, Pa.
The Bee line locomotive that leaped
through the open draw bridge last week
has been raised. 1t was in 20 feet of
water.
The National Reform Association at
Cleveland adopted resolutions that God
alone is sovereign; that He Is the source
of all authority and the only fountain
of law.
]. IL. Billups & Co., cotton merchants,
of New York, are reported suspended.
Liabilities, 100000; One-half secured.
Their liabilities on Cotton Exchange
are small.
Ex- Alderman Barrett, a prominent
politician, and James Kirby have been
arrested at Fall River, Mass, in cOnnec-
tiOn with the graveyard insurance"
conspiracy.
Amos First was killed by the caving
in of an excavation on North Market
street, Loudenville, on last Wednesday.
He leaves wife and six children III des-
titute circumstances.
The trial of young Mutt for the kill
ing of Dukes, at UnlOntOwn, Pa, has
been removed to Pittsburgh. Couldn't
get a jury at UniOntOwn, everybody be-
ing OutspOken for acquittal.
You will follow me very sOOn," said
Mary Lemm, of Winesburg, TO her
affianced husband, John Arnold, as she
lay lying Of paralysis. Within week
Arm ii died vi the same disease.
Ju !ge NOisywater was shot and killed
from an ambush while going home from
SilOam Springs, Indian Territory. The
act is charged to Deputy Marshal An
dTeWs and posse, who mistoOk the Judge
for noted outlaw they were looking
for.
Young White who found Teets, his So
year old mothers parAmOur under the
giddy old girls bed and shot him so fu'i
of holes that the coroner hardly knew
which was the porous plaster and which
was he corpse, has been held at Merys-
Vile for first degree murder.
HONG KONG, Dec. 14.-Every prepira-
tiCn il being made at Canton 70 pmce
the city in defensiOle position. The
Chinese forts look well nut are we X.
The approach of Canton Will be bayr i
by sinking junk5 filed with stone.
Northern troops continue to arrive.
| The mandarins express d determination
to protect foreigners at all hazards.
Last week the French consul asked for
"a narannaI Onard The viaarnv rpnlIad