The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-09-12
NOTES OF NEWS.
All the Important Happenings OF
the Day
Gathered and Boiled Down Into Readable
Items-Cream of the Current
Events.

Famine follows the earthquake in
Java.
Failures last week 157, falling off
of 20.
The Haytien insurgents have won
some important victories.
Julia Smith the novelist, killed at
Hart ford, Conn.,, by her horse running
away.
st. Louis harnessmakers have won
their demand for 10 per cent increase
in wages.
Supervising Architect Hill is making
| preparations to resign and go into pri-
yate business. That investigation did
| it.
Malone is paying his campaign work
ers in Florida ship canal stock at 81, a
share, par value $1OO-if it ever gets to
par.
Commodore Perry's victory over the
British fleet on Lake Erie was gained
September 10th, 1913, seventy years ago
on Monday.
An excited organ of the crematiOnists
| declares that the Undertakers' union has
been running the thing into the ground
long enOugh.-Life.
A. NJ. Gibson, Washington correspond
ant of the New York Sun, is mlsteriOusly
| missing. Perhaps the republican ring
| sters have kidnapped him.
Bishop Ryan, of st. Louis, who goes as
| a delegate to Rome, has been presented
with purse of 5000 and round trip
ticket by his paTishiOneTs.
The act retiring Gen. Sherman on full
pay will be continued to include two of
his staff officers, Coils. TOuttelOtte and
Bacon. on full pay likewise.
The trial of James Mutt, at UniOntown,
Pa, for killing N. l.. Dukes, was eOntinu-
ed to the December term, owing to the
absence by sickness of an important
witness.
During Jail escape at Mcdowell, n.
u, a negro prisoner rudely pushed the
| sherltfS wife aside. He was captured
chained in cage and shot four times by
the sheriff before the indignant citizens
could interfere. He will recover.
The q. s. steamship TallapOOsa became
so dlsgusted with the airs of Secretary
Chandlers wife that she ran herself
| aground and knocked q hole in her head
breaking up the excursion. SO the Off
GERS insinuate, with knowing looks.
Senator Hudson, of San Antonio, Texas,
stepped in between two fighters to stop
a row, just as they let fly at one another.
| The senator was just in time to catch
both thumpS, one on the neck the other
on the eye, and fell senseless to the
/ ground.
In Pierce county, Ga, two rival bellies,
ROXie Wilson and Miss Smith, quarrel
ed at ball. ROxie flew at her foe with
a sharp knife, carved her breast into sill
ces and gave her fatal stab in the side.
Miss ROxie was then concealed by her
friends.
While eating dinner in the grounds of
the Union school building, Wooster, a
daughter Of Louis Wenger was struck
in the head by bullet. 1t went through
the hat and cut deep cash in her head.
The wound is not serious. Where it
came from is a mystery.
G. M. Seider's wife ran away from
Springfield Mass, with +. j. Lyon three
years ago, taking with her a daughter
aged five then. Seider had them arrest
ed at Reading Pa, last week. All he
wants is his daughter, who the woman
says, is at North Adams Mass.
Acting Mayor Porter, of Pittsburgh, is
charged by the Times with barratry,
| misdemeanOr in office, assault, vulgar
| profanity, collecting illegal fees, at
tempt to commit rape, false pretenses,
cOnspiracies, liable, threats and uuwar-
ranted severity in the exercise of his
majesterial duties.
The Paris Intransigeant having eharg-
/ ed that King Humbert, of Italy, had
| pOcketed money subscribed for the
lschia sufferers, the latter refused to re-
| ceiVe any money sent from France, and
| the editor, Henri ROchefOrt, has all the
/ challenges from Italian officers that he
can attend to. He refused to fight, how
/ ever.
A Maryland farmer and wife several
Il
nights lodging and continued their hos
| pitality for several months. He sud
| denly received a cable message and left
them. Now they have received a check
for $4,000. The tramps of Pennsyl-
vania are recommended to start for
| Maryland.
A Topeka, Kas., young woman received
note from stranger asking an inter
view near the pOstOffice corner. Her
mother kept the appointment and
| thTashed the good looking male person
found waiting, within an inch of his
| life. He was the wrong man, however,
and the mother is in half bushel of le-
| gal trouble.
Kennedy, the $4,000 bank defauIter,
has returned to Youngstown, pale, care
worn and tottering from worry over his
crime, and his young wife is so prostra-
ted over her husbands fall that she is
confined to bed. He will do all in his
power to make reparatiOn by transferring
his property to the bank and his friends
will fill in the balance of the defalca-
| tiOn.
Only few months ago Judge Black
said to one of his friends: When l am
gone want you to be able to say of me
as was said of Samuel when he left the
| judgeship, the record of which ran thus:
'WhOse'oX have l taken? or whose asa
| have l takenP whom have | oppr essed
or of whose hand have l received any
bribe to blind my eyes Herewith? and
wi restore it you. And they said,
thou hast not defrauded US, nor Oppress-
ed us, neither hast thou taken aught of
| any mans hand"
PARIS, Sept. Torrance and China
have come to an understanding. France
will protect the delta of the Songkel
river. China will open the SOngkel
river as far as Lascoi. A neutral zone
will be established between certain
points. China guarantees protection to
French subjects and property against
the aggressions of the Black flags. The
suzerainty of China over AMMAN is re.