The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-09-01
NOTES OF NEWS.
All the Important Happenings of
the Day
Gathered and Boiled Down Into Readable
Items-Cream of the Current
Events.

POLAND, Aug. 29.-The village of Po-
land, by their Council, has passed a pro-
hibitOry ordinance under the Scott law.
The ordinance is substantially the Nc
COnnellsville ordinance.
ALBION, N. Y, Aug. 29.-Wm. Rain, q
German, aged about %, attempted to
commit rape upon a three-year-Old
daughter of william Neal, living near
Shelby Center. The child is in precari
GUS condition. The brute was caught
and jailed.
COsHOCToN, Aug. 3O.-While Hanger
Groves was running traction engine
over a canal bridge, near Warsaw, this
morning, the bridge gave way, pTecipi-
Groves sustained injuries which it is
feared will prove fatal.
ROCHESTER,, N. Y, Aug. 30.-ThOmas
Brown, Jr., a member of the Democratic
State Committee. has directed his at
tOTneys to bring suit against the New
York Times for libel in the publication
of false statements in reference to his
attendance at the meeting of the COM
mittee. Damages laid at $4,000.
DAYTON, Aug. 29.-The Democrats of
the Third Senatorial District, composed
of the counties of Montgomery and Pre-
BILE, met in convention to-day, and after
s. Brenner, of Montgomery, for State
Senator, on the seventh ballot. Mr..
BTenner has served two terms in the
Legislature.
KANSAS CITY, Aug. 3O.-At the county
Jail of WyandOtte, Kansas, last night,
five prisoners OVeTpOWeTed the guard
and broke Jail. The Sheriff appearing,
he endeavOred to halt them, and failing,
fred two shots, fatally wOunding a con
fdence man named Dunbar. A second
man was recaptured. The other three
are still at large.
LIMA, Aug. 3O.-An old gentleman ma
med Courts, of KOSsuth, went to Spen-
cerville today and got intoxicated. In
the afternoon he started for home in
company with neighbOr. When near
ing home the horse became frightened,
throwing both out of the sulky, break
ing Courts neck and causing instant
death.
ELGIN, ILL, Aug, 3O-At the Noting
hotel at o'clock this morning, Edward
F. Joslyn, wealthy young widOweT,
| son of Col. JOslyn, prominent Illinois
ian, shot and killed Eta Buckingham,
handsome woman whom he had been
| cOurting. He took off his boots, burst
open her door, shot her twice through
the heart and then blew out his own
brains. The cause was jealousy.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, Aug. 29.-Earth-
/ quake waves have commenced at San
| celtic tide guage. At l o'clock a. m,
Aug. 9th, they had increased in hight,
and were still exhibited yesterday. The
| hight of the waves was one foot. and the
time about forty minutes. The remark
| able disturbances noted above were
probably caused by the same earthquake
and tidal wave that destroyed Anjier
and other towns in Java on the 9th of
August.
AKRON, Aug. 29.-Harry Layton, aged
| four years, son of VIM. Layton, of the
Sixth Ward, this city, received injuries
from fall this forenoon from which he
will probably not recover. The little
fellow was playing about the Akron
Sewer Pipe COmpany's .'black mills"
when he fell from a bridge upon the
stony bottom of the CuyahOga river,
distance of fifteen feet. His body was
fearfully bruised and on his face the
flesh was laid open from the right eye
brow to the chin.