The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-03-07
THE NEWS
From Near and Far-Giving the
Pith and Points
OF Interesting Incidents, Events and Hap
penlngs Gathered 10 Many
Fields.

Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling r. R.,
incorporated with 100000 capital.
Akron water works have put In a wa
erphone to catch patrons who let water
run all night.
Charles Krichbaum, of the university
Of Wooster, carried en first honor at the
state oratOrical contest.
Henry B. Curtis has endowed Kenyon
college with sum of money to be loan
an to INDECENT students.
The veto Of the Ave cent fare bill by
Governor Cleveland, caused considerable
excitement in New York city.
Charles Arnold, employe In Plain City
saw mill, fell against buzz saw and
was nearly bisected from head to heel.
Jaseph PAUL., on trial at ParkersbuTR,
W. Va, for killing Lewis Marquis, WAS
found guilty Of murder In the first de-
gree.
Urbana's crooked clerk, HOvey, issued
1000 bonds. The city claims $4,000
were forged and $4,000 irTeRularly is
sued.
James Elliott, the pugilist. was shot
and killed in a saloon In Chicago on the
evening Of the 1st inst, by Jere Dunn,
sporting man.
Nine Of the mutinous Arkansas con-
victs are still at large, and they have sue
ceeded in killing "the best bloodhound
employed in their pursuit"
There is a strike in progress at the
Youngstown Coke Works, and about 25O
men are out Of employment. There ia
but little probability Of the strike ex.
tending.
Kaufman OF North Amherst, o.. went
to the woods yesterday to chop down a
tree. It fell on him crushing a leg be.
low the knee so. badly that 1t had to be
amputated.
Abe Good, of BellaiTe, was bad enough
to stone passenger train, and got three
years in the o. p. He was brought back
and tried for perjury, and now goes back
with a heightened term.
In the Atlanta market new lettuce Is
8 cents head. Florida peas can be had
for 1917 cents a quart. New eabbaRes,
turnip greens, and other cheering arti-
cles OF diet are plenty and cheap.
An enthusiastic temperance man in
the Kansas Senate has introduced bill,
providing that public schools shall use
textbooks which describe the effect Of
alcohol upon the human system.
The miners at Brazil, Ind, are out on
strike, but 1t is thought An adjustment
will be made soon. It is believed the
miners will accept ten cent reduction,
but will stand out against fifteen cents.
''BOody" COnnell, a Delaware rough,
enticed ". ". Wills to take walk with
him. When they reached a secluded
place "BOody" made him hand over $50
in Valuables on pain Of going up the
flume.
O'ConnOr and Gray, Youngstown
roughs, with a beVy of kindred spirits,
retired to a room and fought out an old
grudge according to the rules Of the P.
K. oConnor being knocked out Of time
the eighth round.
Duke and Dandy the Mammoth twin
sisters raf1ed OF at Youngstown for the
Benefit of the city hospital, and now be-
ing exhibited over the country, are to go
to London to compete in the great Eng
lish cattle show,
We have arrived at the season Of the
year when the medical colleges of the
land send forth a number of young ply
sicans to practice upon the inhrmities
Of their fellow men. Cincinnati Com
mercial-Gazette.
INDIANAPOLIS, March 5.-GOVernor
Porter sent In his veto Of the metrOpoli-
tan police bill this morning to the Leg
islature, and 1t WAS passed over the
veto. There Is no probability Of an ex
ira session being called.
Additional agrarian Outrages have oc-
cured In Andalusia, Spain. Eleven
anarchists In Jail declared they and 223
| others were pledged to murder landlords
and commit robbery and arson at the
bidding of their leaders.
Brown, a billiardist Of Medina, had a
wife and also hired man. He wanted
to move to another town. Mrs. Brown
said she'd stay with the hired man, and
Brown told the hired man to take her
aud "cut sticks. They cut.
Regular army recruiting officers say
| the poorest class of men Offering to en-
| list are mill operatives, who are of poor
physique, lack muscular DEVELOPMENT, t,
and have their entire systems weakened
by the character Of their work.
Three men holding revival meetings
| at New Richland have converted 20 per-
sons. The converts claim to be free
from sin, have "holy ghost. spells," in
| which they lie as dead, and profess to
talk to Jesus and deceased friends.
DR.. Shaffer, OF Wooster, met Theodore
Kent Friday night and accused him Of
doing the late shooting at him. He then
hit Kent over the head with a revolver,
which was discharged, lodging bullet
In the lattsr's arm. The end is not yet
The two greatest dlscOverers of whom
we have any nOwledge are Christopher
Columbus and Henry Carey Baird. Co.
lumbus discovered America and Baird
discovered that the civil war was due to
the free foreign trade pOlicy."-BroOk-
lyn Eagle.
George Stephen. Of the Canada Pacific
syndicate, has made q suggestion in the
London press for relieving distress in
Ireland by assisted emigration to the
Canadian northwest territory, and offers
to provide capital for starting by way
Of loans.
"The most unhappy people In New
York." said a clever lawyer the other
day, "are the men who have about mil.
lion dollars. They are expected to en-
tertain handsomely, and $1,000 for q
party is more than they can spare from
their income"
In lecture recently delivered before
the Edinburgh Health Society, DR.. Tukt
stated that one of the great causes OF
oVerstrain In youth was the. vicious sys.
tenn Of com mpetitive examination. It de
!. flected the mind Of the child from the
proper object Of education, and too Of