The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-03-28
EVERY DAY TOPICS.
Recent News Items Caught in
Our Literary Net.
A Condensed Record OfAcoldents, Grimes,
Politics and information Of Gen.
eral and Miscellaneous Kind.


Henry Auguste VarrOy. member Of the
French Senate, is dead. -
Youngstown isObhged to release pris-
OneTs without serving out full time to
make room for newer and worse cases.
Eight years ago Mrs. Newland, of
Portsmouth, believes she swallowed a
water lizard, and she has been Ill ever
since.
A second ballot taken in Gambetta's
district, Paris, Sunday, resulted In the
election of NJ. Legismund La CrOix,
Radical.
Telegram from the Director of the Mt.
Etna Observatory states the eruption of
MI. Etna Is unimpOrtant. 1t appears TO
be subsiding.
Frank Hatton, young scientist and
son OF Joseph HattOn, Journalist and
writer, was shot during an elephant
hunt in BOrneo. .3 It.
At Montreal, Williams sewing ma
chine factory burned Saturday night.
The loss Is estimated between two and
three hundred thousand dollars.
Near Anderson. w. Va, an old farmer
named James Graham, shot and in
stantly killed r. T. Graham, school
master, who had been too attentive to
Graham's wife. '.. .a
VIM. DOnahue, while closing his sa-
loon, in Chicago, early Saturday morn
ing, was attacked by two stran gers, who
beat and robbed him, and left him in a
dying condition.
Two thousand infantry have been or
dered to protect the public buildings in
London. COldstream Guards have been
posted in Parliament buildings and
Buckingham Palace.
At MurfreesbOrO, N. G., Isaac Long and
Thomas Dennis, negroes, quaTreled, and
fought with wedding hoes. Longs
skull was fractured, and he died In a
short time. Dennisis is in jail. e
A BatesVille. Ark, special says: Post
master w. j. Pearson has been arrested
and sureties have taken charge Of the
office. He is charged with u1laWfully
OBTAINING registered package. ~
The answer of Prussia to the note of
the Papal Secretary Of State refuses to
concede the demands relative to educa-
tiOn and appointment Of priests. The
negotiations thus far are a failure.
Three soldiers Of the One Hundred and
Eighth French Regiment, who were ar
rested on charge of Socialism, have
been found guilty and sentenced to Join
regiments in distant parts of Algeria.
A New Lexington school teacher, on
being arTaigned for stealing, said he
was predestined to do it, and couldn't
help it, and the Judge concluded he was
predestined to send him to jail, which
he did.
A Medina woman has been coughing
for 10 years.. Recently she fell down
stairs and co1ghed up shirt button.
Relief followed. She expects to be COM
pletely cured as soon as she can raise
the shirt.
A new Catholic Church was burned in
East Hampton, Mass, Saturday; loss
$4,000; f F.J.Kaldenberger meerschaum
store, Fulton street, New York, $4,000;
two barns in Nevada, o., 81 400; thirteen
buildings in Duluth, $47, 600. ..rr
In New York, Judge Donohue has de-
eided that COnkling, who killed HaYeF-
btick, Is entitled to bail in a reasonable
amount, and directed that he be taken
before Police Magistrate for bail, pur-
pose. He was admitted to 5000 bail.
The Boston Commonwealth quotes
Governor Ben Butler as saying In justi-
ficatiOn of his continuing to attend to
his law practice: Governor Talbot
did not stop his wOOllen mills when
Governor; why, then should stop my
law mill when l am GOVernOrb"y
TOLEDO, March 27-There is q big
kick among the Republicans OVer. the
domination of ROmeiS for Mayor. R0-
meis is Greenbacker, and hundreds Of
Republicans say they will not vote for
him. The Democratic chances Of elect
Ing their ticket are very bright. Gen.
Young will probably be the nominee.
At Chicago, Friday night, Franz
MOheny, sixteen years old, an Austrian
recently arrived, shot himself through
the heart, because his employer insisted
upon his being dragged from his bed
and locked up for the theft Of ST. al
though he had previously confessed, re-
turned the. money, and begged pitifuIIy
Tor mercy III % 5'1s- .4
Mentioning the arrival OF Senator Ed
munds at Aiken, Sc, the Recorder Of
that town says: - His family HAYS been
spending the winter here and are COM
fOrtably QuaFtered at one of the hotels.
The Senator keeps a stylish carriage and
pair of his Own,e driven by abswhite
eOachman arrayed In blue coat and
brass buttons, Miss Edmnnds is,,fre-
quently seen out riding on a fine ami
NAL of her own, which Is said TO have
cost $1,000 -. -. - a. -. 99g@
When suitor at Mt. Vernon received
an emphatic no to his proposal, he was
about to give up the suit, and 90 back
to his home at Columbus; but the girls
mother accepted him, appointed a aweds
ding day, 2and assured him that the
daughter would be ready for the cere-
mOny. He was there again at the time
fixed, and so were Numerous guests,
who found the house decorated with
flowers and collation.. But the bride
was missing. She was caught at the
railroad station and taken home, where
she disObeyed her mOther's stern coma
mand to stand up aud be married, and
the company was dismissed, -.a b. 70. 4
In Massachusetts, bodies of panpefs
who,die In public institutions are sold
at medical colleges, the superintendE
ents pOeketfng tire profits. II is now
discovered that 250 infant corpses have
been sold annually for the last ten
years from single Institution, and the
disclosures indicate that the Superin-
tendent found IL more profitable to let
the babies die than to feed them. No
account was taken Of the sale Of the
bodies OF adult paupers, but it is esti-
mated that the number disposed Of has
been from 1000 to 1900 q year. II this
state of things existed In the west, the
Massachusetts, people would be hOrriHed
ct the brutality and barbarism, but the
developments are made at the very seat
and eantAF 0f aiViIiZaffOn and untfI