The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-08-04
NOTES OF NEWS.
All the Important Happenings of
the Day
Gathered and Boiled Down Into Readable
ltems-Cream of the Current
Events.
Debt reduction for July, $7,8OO,5OO.

Cholera is making sad work with the
British soldiers in Egypt.
Five dead infants found in vault at
Bay City. Investigation in progress.
The New York State Democratic Con-
V5ntiOn meets in Saratoga, August 23d.
No news has been received of the over
due steamship Ludwig, 30 days ont from
Liverpool.
1t is said that $3O,OOO,OOO of British
capital was sent into Wyoming and
Texas last year.
The heavy rains last week so raised
the Allegheny river as to sweep away
about 100000 of lumber near Pitts
burgh.
Mrs. George W. Woodland, pOstmistress
at Oneega Landing, Louisiana, suicided
by shooting herself through the breast
with pistol
Simmons, the aeTOnaut, in company
with Sir Claude Crespigny, crossed the
English Channel in balloon, landing
atFlushing, Holland.
At Lincoln, Neb., a fire destroyed ten
business buildings. The loss is a quarter
of a million. leighton 81 Brown, whole
sale drugs, are the heaviest losers. In
surance about half.
The British bark Newark arrived at
San Francisco, Sn" lay, and rel 0rts
ghtins in lati ude 81 deg 'eCs 10 tn,
lOngit Gde 12l deg IS west, J rge
vessel bottom up; name not ascertaiued.
HALIFAX, Aug. AT Traeadie yester-
day, two farmers, Frank Bowie and Ran
dali Mcdonald, quarreled about a lot of
land. A son of Bowie, aged fifteen, came
on the scene and killed Mcdonald with
shot gun.
Over one thousand acres of growing
tobacco was completely destroyed in the
vicinity of Lancaster, Pa, by the hail
and rain storm of Saturday night. The
streams were greatly swollen and sew
eral bridges carried away.
Lenning, the German American stu
dent arrested in Switzerland for killing
fellow student-in duel near Wurz-
| burg, has been released from custody,
the Swiss authorities holding that his
| Offense is not eXtTaditable.
The steamer Pathan, in which it is
generally stated are Michael KaVanagh,
Joseph HanlOn, Peter Carey, Joseph
Smith and six other men connected with
the Irish murder conspiracy, has ar
rived at Adelaide, South Australia.
It's enough to make a sensible man of
either party go out into vacant lot and
\ let goat butt him to death, to see the
Columbus Dispatch working its hair
through its hat collecting "straws"
on railroad trains favorable to Foraker.
POverty-stricken widow Brewtz, of
Dayton, kissed her three children good
bye, went out to the railroad track and
laid herself on the ties to await the
evening train to thunder along and
grind her unhappy life out. A good
Samaritan found, rescued and relieved
her.
10 antf 20
ward step in Germany, where a careful
inquiry Is to be made into the eyesight
and hearing of sGhOOl-children. One
OcculiSt, who has been making exami-
nations, found over thirteen hundred
cases of ear disease among less than six
thousand children.
At Carlton, an out of the way station
on the Rome, WatertOwn & Ogdensburg
Railroad, Friday, June 20, an excursion
train ran into freight car that the
wind had driven upon the main track
and was fearfully wrecked, killing 10
and injuring 30 or more, several of
whom have died and others will.
LANCASTER, PA. August 1.-The Lam
/ caster Watch Company suspended to-
| day, throwing two hundred ard fifty
hands out of employment. The suspen-
sion is OccasiOned by the failure of A.
Bilner, late manager and principal stock
| holder Of the company. The directors
state that the suspension will only be
| Temporarily.
The Common Council of Chicago, has
| appropriated $4,000 as a two months
/ supply of funds to be used for street
cleansing and the purchase of disinfect-
| ants. The Tribune fears that, without
doing the public much good, the apprO-
priatiOn will be eaten up by a gang use
full only to COuncilmen around the polls
on election day.
CLEVELAND, August 3.-The striking
operators here are very jubilant, and
full of hope. Encouraging news comes
from all strOnghOlds of the brotherhood
The seventeenth day of the strike has
J found the sun still shining, and great
additions to the ranks of the brother
hood. 1t is a remarkable fact that of
about 1000 operators who struck, but "a
have returned to work.
B. =. Senig, assistant surgeon of the
United States Army, was found dead
Wednesday morning in his room in the
Occidental Hotel, San Francisco. The
deceased was lying on bed with bot
tie labeled poison by his side. Army
officers reject the theory of suicide, and
say that death resulted from heart dis
ease. An autopsy will be held. He had
a brilliant record, and lost a leg in the
MOdOc war.