The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-06-30
NOTES OF NEWS.
All the Important Happenings of
the Day
Boiled Down Into Readable Items
Cream of the Current
Events.

Col: Parker, Chief Postmaster Inspec-
tor, declines to be postmaster at Wash
ingtOn.
John G. Thompson tells the New York
reporters that the Scott law decision
will help HOadly.
Twenty persons have been arrested
at Berlin and Dresden for revealing Sc
ccrets OF the German military Organiza-
tiOn.
The sentence of Paymaster Wasson
Is dismissal from the army and impris-
0nment for eighteen months at hard
labor.
Governor PattisOn promulgated fonr
more yetOes Thursday, two of which re-
late TO local matters not of general con
Germ.
The Grand Army authorities are in
yestigating charges of gross cruelty
perpetrated at the Soldiers Home at
Bath, N. Y.
There Is divinity that shapes our
ends pertinently remarked a tramp
who was knocked down the back steps
by an l.. L.. ID.
single Holmes county township
manufactured 100000 pounds of cheese
last season, and will try hard to beat
that this year.
Testimony in the Hill inquiry Thurs
day showed pretty cOnclusiVely that
Bartlett, Robbins " Co, received pay for
work not performed.
Ives, Blakey Il Co., Cincinnati manu-
| tactureTs of the terrible toy pistol, have
dumped 200 gross of them into the melt
ing pot and quit the business.
There is panic at Mediterranean
ports in regard to the rapid spread of
cholera in Egypt, and European cOun-
JTles are getting anxious about it.
Ex-Governor Bishop thinks the Demo
cratlc ticket Will be elected in Ohio.
| lie says there Is no dissatisfaction over
the work of the State Convention.
The Chief Secretary for Ireland, in
the Commons, denied that paUpers had
been sent to America with the knOWl-
edge and consent of the Government.
Ex-POstmaster Kiebs, of Fremont,
recently bounced for having a $1,000
WashOut in his accounts, has jumped
tor the West with a pretty TOntagany
widow.
Immigrants landing at New York,
unable TO take care of themselves, are to
De returned to the countries whence
they came. This settles the "pauper'
question.
Charlie LOwrie, nine year old bow
near Clay Court House, N c., fell from
the top of poplar tree, a distance of
forty feet, and was literally torn to
pieces on picket fence.
In the Architect Hill Investigation
| Wednesday, j. M. Wilbur testified that
| Hill demanded 10 per cent. for aDpTOy-
ing claim he presented, and refusing,
the claim was disallOwed.
DIR. Hathaway, the Philadelphia abor-
| zionist, whose cellar was found full of
infants bones, was fined $500 and sent
| TO jail for seven years, on one specific
charge, the extent of the law.
PHILADELPHIA, June ga dispatch
from Bethlehem says one thousand en-
ployees of the Bethlehem Iron COmpa-
hys steel mill quit work to-day,
demanding an increase of wages, which
| was refused.
In the College boat race Harvard de-
feated Yale with ease, coming in fifteen
OF twenty lengths ahead. The result is
attributed to the "jerky' stroke of the
Yale crew-HarvaTd's, on the contrary.
being long and regular.
A desperate attempt was made to muir
der an English clergyman on railway
train between Calais and Paris. The
weapon was chisel. The clergyman
Will prODaDly die. His asSailant was
arrested after terrible struggle.
CONCORD, NH, June 26.-The ballot for
ChAIOh DIatoS DtudIOE JD-udy was as 10
lows: Whole number, 32l; necessary to
choice, 16l, Scattering, Z; Aaron +.
Stevens, II; Gilman MarstOn, 13; James
+. Briggs, 30; James w. Patterson. 30:
Edward H. Rollins, 10i; Harry Bing-
ham, 2l7. Rollins losses nine from
Fridays ballot.
| WILKEsBARRE, Pa, June 26.-Dennis
MallOy, Michael O'Malla, Henry Conrad.
John Boyle, William Phillips, Martin
Helm, William Leslie and Hugh Train
or were arraigned this afternoon,
the murder of William Briggs mer-
chant, February 10th. The prisoners
granted separate trials.
Hon. Abram s. Hewitt suggests
through the New York Tribune that a
home should be established in that city
tOr poor people over 60 years of age who
have led virtuOus lives, but who
lind themselves without friends when
they are old. One or two such institu-
lions OF this kind already exist in New
York, but they are full.
CHICAGO, June 27.-William Ray, pro
prietOr of boarding house at Pullman,
suburb of this city, shot and instantly
killed Thomas DOwdie and George Fox,
two young men, this morning. De-
ceased had lived with Ray and made
threats against his life. The tragedy
occurred in the home of Ray, and he as
serts the act was in self-defense. He
surrendered himself to the authori-
ties.
NEW YORK, June 26.-Robert n.
Parks, Cumberland; G. White and HOr-
ance c. Dillingham;, of the firm of r. N.
Parks " Co, bankers and brokers, 10 New
street and " Broadway, filed an assign
ment to-day in court to James A. Pat
tersOn, with preferences of $4,000.
One preference is $4,000 to the Bank of
the State of New York, on condition it
drops all suits against the firm else the
preference Is void.
Chicago pork and grain gamblers ex-
perienced another small earthduake
Thursday. There was tumble in prices
aud two firms went to the wall Had
they been engaged in honorable busi-
ness they would be entitled to sympathy,
but as they belonged to a continuation
of capitalists whose object is to rob The
poor, their downfall excites pleasure
rather than sorrow.