The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-08-25
NOTES OF NEWS.
All the Important Happenings of
the Day
Gathered and Boiled Down Into Readable
ltems-Cream Of the Current
Events.


The Warren bank, ditched by Cashier
Fitch's defalcatiOn, will resume at
once.
Cashier Fitch came marching home
from Boston with Sheriffs fingers on
his pulse.
A train broke through the trestle work
near Forest City, Ark, killing three men
and wOunding several.
Wooster: An overloaded steamer on
OdelIs lake sank; all the passengers
were ducked, but none drowned.
Paper mill of j. Howard Lewis burned
at Chester. Pa. Boiler exploded, killing
one man and injuring others. Loss
$4,000.
TOLEDO, August 23-The girl strikers
have returned to work, new scale Of
prices, satisfactory to them, having been
made out.
WARREN, O., August 23.-Allie Abell,
aged l3, fell from wagon to-day: Two
wheels passed over him, injuring him so
badly that he will die.
Akron Gazette credits the Democratic
party with having the four greatest
heads at the Ohio bar-Thurman, Nc
Sweeney, HOadly and Ranney.
Electrical conduit construction CON-
pany incorporated in New York with
capital of 100000 to construct under
ground telegraph and telephone lines.
Fitch, the Warren bank defaulter,
walked into a police office in Boston on
Monday, told who he was, and vOlun-
tarily surrendered. He has been brought
on to Warren.
BellefOntaine: A team of horses
hitched to q thresher ran away with
John Moot. When Moot was extricated
he was 80 badly injured that he died in
little while.
TOLEDO, O., August 22.-Wm. Beatty,
printer, President of the City Council,
was placed on the Democratic ticket
last night for Representative, vice Henry
KahlO, declined.
"Please put Franklin county down in
the Democratic column for 1000 ma
jOrity for George HOadly," pipes "Pick-
away" O'Myers in his Enquirer News,
notes and comments"
Clark, a negro at Galveston, Tex,
| peeked through a window to see how
the wife of DR.. Abrahams made her
toilet. The hole in his thigh was made
by the doctors bullet.
At Savannah, Georgia, S. G. Haynes &
Brother have suspended; liabilities,
100000. 1t is thought the assets will
prove sufficient to pay all liabilities.
The firm has been in business seventeen
years.
WADswoRTH, o., August 23.-GeOrge
Head, a bank boss in Silver Creek shaft
| No. 2, was killed this evening by de-
scending cage. He was badly crushed
and lived but a short time. No one to
blame.
On Monday, Mr.. Silas Merchant, a
well known manufactured of Cleveland,
made an assignment to Moses &. Wat
| tersOn, for the benefit of his creditors.
Liabilities estimated at 100000, assets
| 1925, 600.
| Henderson Harris and Benjamin
Franklin, cOlOred plasterers, of Clncin-
Franklin on the head and shoulders
with hatchet. Harrison was arrested
and Franklin will die.
YOUNGSTOWN. OHIO, Auguet 22.-0ff,
| GERS arrested Giovanni PetuzziO this
afternoon as he was in the act of out
raging a daughter of Geo. McKelyey,
aged nine. Mrs. McKelvey made a des
perate effort to kill the brute.
The federation of organized trades, In
| session in New York, has offered a prize
of $50 for the best essay on trades unions
and strikes, and appointed a committee
to wait upon the national convention OI
1884 and notify them of the demands Of
labor.
An editor who can put daily paper
on paying basis and accept a nOmina
tiOn as the father of blOOmin' pair o.
twins, all i'll one year, Is no drawlinl
drOne in humantty's hive. That's the
kind of morning lark Scott Hammaker
of the Findlay Star, is.
| NEWCOMERsTOwN, August 22.-Thl
large Touring mills at this place, owned
by Mr.. j. A. Want, were sold at as
signee's sale yesterday. They were pur
chased by Mr.. Samuel LyhuTst, of thi
place, who, with his brother, have haC
the mills leased for some time.
Nelson Barrere, once a member o
Congress from the old Sixth Congress
iOnal District, died in HillsbOrO at tn,
age of seventy-6ve on Monday, the 20th
He was the last Whig candidate for Gov
ernOr of Ohio, being defeated in 1855
by about $1,000 majority by Medill.
Fitch, the Warren bank TObber, ha
been caught i'll Boston; and ere lOnl
will be working for the State at COlum
bus. After he was taken into custOd
he went to the Varieties with the officer
and seemed to enjoy the perfOrmanc
greatly" There is moral elevation TO
you!
ERIE, Pa, August 23.-During a sc
we're storm this morning i've valuabl
horses belonging to Mr.. John Mooney
of this city, sought shelter under larg
tree and all five of them were struck b
lightning and instantly killed. bO
standing near received a shock, but wa
not seriously injured.
PORT AU PRINCE, August 9.-A sever
battle was fought before Jaemel, Angus
Sd. Hundreds of men were killed. rh
J insurgents claim great victory. Gov
ernment officials state that NfOurtee
prisoners of war were shot by the in
surgents. MiragOane, Jeremie and JaC
mel are closed to foreign commerce.
TOLEDO, August 22.-AbOut $50 sew
ing girls employed in Black s. HUFF
mans cloak mandatory have struc
! for an advance in wages, and the fa(
! tory in consequence has shut dowI
The girls have formed protective asst
, citation, and say they will hold out unit
an advance is made.
PITTsBURG, August PA Punx'
! tawney, jefferson county, Pa, specif
says: During the payment Of the raj
( road hands yesterday a dispute arOs
} about wages, eliminating in riot,
/ which Hungarian named Peter Reidt