The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-12-19
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.
All the Important Happenings OF
the Day
Gathered and Boiled Down Into Readable
ltems-Cream Of the Current
Events.

Twenty thousand Arabs besiege Sua-
kim.
The whisky lobby is on hand in great
force.
British Parliament pFOrOgued till
Feb. ..
Secretary FOlger's indispOsition con-
| tinues.
RumOred that the khediye is about to
| abdicate.
Standard theater, New York, burned
last week; loss $75, 900, insured.
Steamer AUX, Liverpool to Rotterdam,
wrecked in Tuesdays gale and 20 lives
lost.
Benton Harbor Chilled Plow Com
| pany Works, at Detroit, burned, Loss,
| $4,000.
Reports of the massacre of Hicks Pa
sha's army fully confirmed by govern
ment cOUTiers.
Cohen & Koenigheim, gents furnish
ing goods, San AntOnia, Texas, have
failed for $4,000.
In the House Cox introduced bill re-
| pealing the irOnclad oath. HOrr object
ed, emphatically,
| George ATgO is answering to the
charge of killing his sister-in-law, Louisa
Rowe, at MaTysVille.
In the northwest 1919 miles of rail
i way were constructed the past year, a
a cost Of $25, 7S1 600
| ROwland's extensive shovel works,
near HOlmesbuTg, Pa, were destroyed
| by fire last week. Loss, $4,000.
There Is one thing to be said in favor
of the Irish that not even tory English.
man can deny-they die like men.
Harris harness factory at Lowell,
Mass, burned; loss $4,000; nine men
seriously injured by falling wall.
Chamber of Commerce at Bremen pc
titiOns the German government to re-
move restrictions on American pork.
BALTIMORE, Dec. 16.-GeOrge Morris, a
| Presbyterian minister, aged seventy five
years, was suffOcated by blowing out the
gas.
| Frank James was taken to Gallatin,
Mo-, to answer the charge of numbering
Cashier Sheets in the Gallatin Bank rob-
berry in 1869.
HALIFAX. Dec. 14.-TwO sons of Israel
| Weagle and two sons of sidney Weagle,
| of Denmark, Queen county, were drown
ed while skating.
Frank Sheppard, who has been DOWN
in-the-mOuth of late, was found on a
farm near GAINESVILLE, with his head
nearly sawed off his body. Did it him
self with big knife.
At meeting of the representatives of
all the railroads centering at Cincinnati
| a resolution was passed TO charge COM
mutation rates to employees of railroads
riding on roads other than their own,
commencing January 1st.
The report of the Investigating Com
mittee of the Board of Managers of the
| Western House of Refuge for juvenile
| HaI 70 at PnahaotnP N V ghOKUq
the most inhuman treatment of boys by
officers and subOrdinateS.
Failures: B. G. Wickham q Co., Ell
mira, n. Y, bankers, $4,000; Chas. A.
Davis, wall papers, Cincinnati, 1000;
| James Sutherland, Owen Sound, Ont,
| $13O,0O0; Slack 81 Gavill, blanket ma
keTs, RushVille, Ill, $4,000.
Jim Turner, the prOdigal son of aris-
tOcratic Shelby parents, arrested at
| Crestline, charged with being member
of the gang of knucks who cracked the
safe at New Washington, and murdered
| LOngacTe and shot Sutter at Shelby.
YOUNGSTOWN, O., Dec. 17.-George
| Fleming, aged sixty, jumped from
passenger train on the New York, Pen
sylvauia and Ohio, sustaining fatal in
| juTies. He had got on the train to
speak to relative, and after it started
| jumped off.
| A drunken man by the name of John
Bonner, living near Rockville, Ind,
locked his wife out of doors because she
refused him money. She went co the
woods with her children, and while
building fire her clothing took fire
and she was burned to death.
BINGHAMPToN, N. Y, Dec. 18.-D. NJ.
& +. G. Halbert, dry goods. have assign
ed. Liabilities nearly 100000; assets
probably 100000. The fai ure was
wholly due to stock speculation. Their
efforts to recover their losses in the
"blind poOp ruined the firm.
During a riot at the Democratic pri-
mary elections Monday at New Orleans,
three policemen were killed and 10 or
IL wounded. 1t was all caused by one
man who was knocked down firing re-
vOlver, when every man who was "heel-
ed" drew iron and blaZed away.
| MANSFIELD, December l5.--The grand
jury to-day returned verdict of muir
der in the second degree against Robert
johnson, one of the New Washington
burglars captured near Shelby. His
trial is set for January I. He is sup
posed to be the man who shot LOngaere.
PITTSBURGH, Dec. 1.-THE Pittsburgh
employees of Carnegie Bros. u Co., have
been in session concerning the prOpO-
sitlOn to reduce wages of skilled work.
men 13 per cent. At midnight they
were still undecided, but the prObabiIi-
ties are that the reduction will he ac-
cepted and work continued. Three
thousand men are interested.
Speaker Carlisle, though not COM
pletely recovered, occupies the chair OF
the House. A resolution requesting
the President to issue a proclamation
inviting the observance of Dec. Gath as
public holiday, in commemorative of
the centennial anniversary of the sur
render of his commission by Washing
ton was offered and referred to a Sc
lect committee.
Youngstown was enliyened Tuesday
by a miniture battle between employees
of the p, C. 81 T. Railroad, and those of
the firms occupying abutting proper.
ty. An attempt to lay track over the
J land in dispute brought on the fight.
CTOwbars, clubs, and streams of hot and
cold water were the weapons used, the
requisite noise to make the truly sensa-
tiOnal being supplied by screaming
whistles and the unstinted profanity
of the mnh. Onita q nnmhar Wara in