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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-02-14

Last Saturday night binding snow
storm set in, and added still more to the
discomfort of pedestrians who had to
traverse the ice sidewalks. This ice
business Is getting extremely monoton-
GUS, and we would like to have a few
weather prophets for breakfast in these
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-02-14
AGRICULTURAL socIErY,
Meeting of the Board of Other
Business of Importance. H

business OF importance
The Board of Directors of the Stark
County Agricultural Society held a ses-
sion In their rooms on Saturday. The
committee on sale of land lying outside
of the present inclOsure, reported that
the Commissioners were advertising it
for sale, and asked that a committee be
appointed to aid In such sale.
! The committee appointed to hold the
annual election, reported the election of
John +. Roth, Valentine MOng, A. V.
PontiUs, r. E. Wilson, L. HRZen, T. G..
Putnam, A. r. Hanna and j. P. Law
renee as Directors Of the society.
The following bills were allowed:
Louis SchBfer, use Of Opera House. $50 90
7. W. SaxtOn 81 Co., printing. IS %
H. r. Packer, postage, express,&c 10 90
J. N. Shaub, Agric1 Convention. =. 16 90
st. Cloud Hotel, board of lecturers 8 80
Sherrick & Miller, hardware. ..... 48
City Band. .................... lO w
Hiram Smith, labor Or....... 30
w. A. Policy, police service. ... 45O
After dinner the new members elect
were sworn in; the retiring President
and Vice President made some pertinent
remarks before the old board disbanded.
The new Board organized and elected
the following officers: j. II. Dagger, Pres
ident; A. r. Hanna, Vice Prest.; Geo. ID,
Harter, Treas; H. r. Packer, Sec'y; C. +.
Laiblin, Superintendent Of Grounds and
Geo. Albright, Marshal. The time for
holding the next Fair has been placed
on Sept. 25th, 26th, 9th and 18th. 1888.
On Monday, Feb. 10th, the Board will
meet at a. m, for the purpose of reyis-
ing the premium list. A hearty invita-
tion Is given to all persons who may
have any suggestions to make upon this
revision, to be present at this meeting
If anv ahOnld And a. fna0nvanfant 70 he
mail them to the Secretary, and he will
present them to the Board for theiI
a0naidarafion
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-02-14

Mr.. Geo. w. Fisher, Secretary and
Treasurer Of the Ohio Custom Cutters
Association, is again filling the position
of cutter with BOstick & Keefer.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-02-14

DR.. W. A. France will be at the Ogden
House, Canton, Saturday and Sunday,
February 18th and 18th. Remember, two
days only,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-02-14

The free concert of the Canton City
Band, in their hall last Saturday even
ing was success, musically speaking,
and large number attended.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-02-14
GOV. BUTLER AND THE CON
+ VICTS.

BOSTON, MASS, Feb. 9.-It has Just
come to light that Governor Butler re-
Gently instructed Warden Earle, of the
State Prison, TO gather the prisoners in
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-02-14
ADDITIONAL LOCAL.

Mr., Fred. Lied has returned from
Cleveland, where he did not go last
Sunday, having lost his sche-dOol
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-02-14

house, so cents. Doors open at 7:3O; con-
cert commences at 8 p. m.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-02-14

On Monday, in Common Pleas Court,
Clara +. Hill was granted a divorce from
Hezekiah Hill.
The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-16

personal dishonor. Judge Foraker was then
nominated by acclsmation unanimously.
Foraker appeared later and made speech
of thanks, pedging his best efforts to the
cause and outlining the importance of the
campaign.
The ticket was completed as follows:
Lieutenant governO', William Grove of
Cleveland; supremejr 1ge dong term), w. II.
Upson of Akron incumbent; supreme Judge
Vacancy and long term). John N. Doyle of
Toledo, incumbent-both by acclamation;
clerk supreme court, Dwight Crowell OF
Ashtabula county, incumbent, by acclama-
ton; attorney general, N. B. Earnhardt
OF Miami county; auditor, Gen. Ogilvie OF
Clark county; treasurer, John G. Brown of
Jefferson commissioner of schools; ID. f..
Dewolfe of Toledo member board of works,
Leo Weltz Of Wilmington.
The platform, after the usual encomiums
on the republican party, favored the main
teHance OF a protective tariff; said that the
wood tariff should be revised; favored a
national bureau of laoor statistics; approx
ed the liquor amendments and the taxation
of the liquor traffic; endorsed President
Arthur; favored the repeal of the law limit
ing the time IN which applications for pen.
sions under the arrears of pension act shall
be made, etc, etc.
The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-16

Iowa has recently been the scene OF
several lynchings of murderers and o ut.
avs, and the general verdict is that
hey richly deserved their fate, but that
death should have followed such crime S
as were committed by them in "due
course Of law" rather than at the hands
of the outraged people. But the law
having lied there was no other meth
cd of administering justice. The Des
Moines Register has some remarks on
this business which are of general appli-
cation. "Human life has been cheap
ened in Iowa, and nearly as much by
lenient courts rs by murderous men,
until the people feel that by Judge
Lynch alone may its value and security
be enhanced and murder discouraged.
For twenty years not murderer has
been hanged in Iowa! A reliable and
intelligent gentleman who has paid spe-
cisl attention to this subject, says that
two hundred or more persons have been
murdered in Iowa in these twenty years
in which not single murderer has been
hanged, and n very few sent to the pen
itentiary for life. The number Of muir
derers he gives is high-we think too
high-hut We may readily believe i
when this one county contributes four
teen Of the number, and we do not
know but five or six more. What Il
comment on the efficiency and the
faithfulness of the Iowa courts III this
With courts so faithful, with able law
yers ready to lend their ability to mur
derers, not only to gain for them light
punishment, but to turn them loose to
go on killing, and with murder trials hav-
ing no result but to impose enormous
costs and acquit the murderers, what
wonder is there that Judge Lynch is APP
pealed to?"
The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-16
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS,

William +. Chandler is in Concord, ow-
ing to the serious illness of his mother. He
thus answered an in,erogatory: II refer
to a statement / have heretofore made,
which is that / am not, and under no cir
cdmstances shall be, a candidate as sena.
tor at that session. Regarding the question
Of two elections | am positive in the belief
that it will be illegal to choose more than
one senator at this time"
Gen. Grant could not be induced the
other day, to buy the famously good fried
chicken sold by the negro women at Chan
cellOrsville, Va. He gave one of them a
dime, bnt refused the chicken. When told
after the train pulled out that she had been
talking TO Gen. Grant, she said: 81 thunk
ne was n great somebody, case &c 5 tho
fust man who evah paid 70 a chicken leg
an didn's eat it,"
The wife of |. II. De Wolfe, principal of
Minnesota academy, of Owatonna, died at
Yarmouth, n. s., Saturday, June 2. Mrs
DE Wolfe had been removed to Boston for
treatment. but the skilled physicians de-
cided that her case was hopeless. and she
was removed back to Yarmouth, the home
of her childhood.
Albert c. Ives, late of the New York
Times, sailed on the City Of Rome recently
to take part in the conduct Of new Amer
lean daily paper, the Dispatch, to he estab-
lished in Paris Jaly 81, by l.. s. Chamber
lain, until recently private secretary to
James Gordon Bennett.
The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-16
THE CASUALTY RECORD.

"A storm at Albany, Wednesday, caused
damage estimated at $4,000. Houses were
undermined, cellars flooded streets torn up
etc. Lightning struck several places. A
large derrick on the new capital, and the
nag staff on the Deavan house were shiv-
cred. No person was injured. Weed, Par
son Il Co., printers, suffer damages to the
extent of $4,000 by the flooding of their
cellar. The presses were damaged and q
large amount of paper ruined.
At Milwaukee the addition to the North
western Marine elevator, owned by Mari
gold Bros. & Kershaw, burst under the
pressure of 80, 900 bushels Of No.2 wheat.
The walls fell owing to the settling of the
foundations. and about 1000 bushels slid
into the river. Seven tramps were seen doz-
ing in its shadow few minutes before the
crash and it is believed they were buried
under the ruin.
A brakeman named De Willard, in jump-
ing on moving train at Redwood siding,
broke an arm ana both knee caps. Ine
conductor Of the passing train thought him
"A tramp and refused to stop and pick him
up, aud he lay five hours on the ground
Both legs may have to be amputated.
by the explosion of twenty-five tons oi
vulcanizer in the Ansonia rubber works,
College Point Long Island, Engineer Jack.
son, Andrew Hoppe and William Kelley
were killed and two other workmen were
fatally burt
The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-16
Dakota Railroad Talk.

A Chicago dispatch says there is
considerable turmoil at the headquar-
ters of the Chicago & Northwestern COM
pany and the Chicago, Milwaukee Il st.
Paul company in regard to the matter OF
extending their lines to Bismarck, the
new capital of Dakota. Both of these
companies at present enjoy amicable re-
lations with the Northern Pacific, and
naturally desire to retain them. Build
ing their lines to Bismarck would result
i'm tapping the Northern Pacific at q
point 45O miles west of its eastern ter
minus at Minneapolis and st. Paul.
Naturally, the Northern Pacific desires,
and will desire, to have the longest pos.
sible haul ofits traffic, both eastbound
and westbound, and the Northern Pacific
company would be very likely to re.
gard the Bismarck extension
of the Northwestern and the
Milwaukee roads as trespass
upon its particular ield, and q threat
at its business. The board of directors
of the Milwaukee company are now IN
Dakota considering this question, and
the executive committee Of the North
western company are also wrestling with
the problem. Both companies believe
they will be compelled by legitimate
business considerations to extend their
southern Dakota line through to Bis
marck, il for no other reason than 70
give southern Dakota access to their
new capital, without the necessity oi
travelling 1000 miles round by way o.
The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-16
THE CRIMINAL RECORD.

John Bittner, Jr., fifteen years old, is on
trial at Riverside, Ohio, for arson being
charged with burning the Debus Cooperage
works in April, 1882, entailing loss of
100000. Two witnesses testified that the
boy told them he set the place on fire; that
he made three attempts before and two
since, that his object was to get rest. lie
was employed in the factory.
DR.. Vawter of Cambridge, H., the lead
ing dentist of the place, was tied up to a
lamp post and whipped with black snake
in Holmes Tilson's hands, on suspicion of
having attempted an outrage on Mrs. Til
son. Vawter has witnesses to prove that
be was innocent. Tilson says there are six
other married men in the town that deserve
the same thing.
Frank Taylor, who was arrested few
weeks ago for selling blankets from gov
eminent steamer at Wabasha, pleaded gull
ty when arragned in the United States dis
trict court at Winona lhs week and was
fined 800. In default of payment he was
committed to jail for thirty days.
Adelaide Smith brought suit under the
the civil damages act in Brooklyn against
Patrick Demysy and Cornelius Clark, liquor
dealers, for selling LIQUOR to her husband
and causing him to be a drunkard. The
jury gave her a verdict for s. 500.
Charles Hickling, charged with burning
the house of George Ogsbury of Underwood,
a station on the Black Hills road has been
held under 81, 600 bail TO answer before the
grand jury.
Clarence Boyd, the young artist shot by
his brother-in- law, DR.. Barnes, in Louis
vi lIa WaInnslav IiaI Eriluu Dar
$1,000,
II. Mathesen, bookkeeper for A. Nelson
of Rochester, Mimi, WAS found to be short
in his accounts 5000. He has fed to Chica-
go. Collaterals made good the default.
w. C. Moore of Victor, N. Y, who EN-
be.zled $3.50, 900 from bank there has been
found near Atlanta, Iowa.
The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-16
RAILROAD RUlIBLINGS.

The annual meeting of the Chicago, st.
Paul. Minneapolis e. Omaha stockholders
was held Saturday at Hudson, Wis. The
meeting was purely business one, and
nothing outside of regular routine work was
done. At the meeting 2l4, 9S6 shares--l33,
l09 common, and SLIT preferred-were
represented, and participated in the vote of
directors which resulted in the selection of
the following gentlemen: Marvin Hughitt,
Albert keip, Augustus Schell, J. &. Spooner,
II. Mex. Twombley, w. X. Vanderbilt, Cor
nelius Vanderbilt, w. ID. Washburn, M. l..
Sykes, Philetus Sawyer, X. p. Flower, David
bows and A. II. Wilder. Ofthese Mr.. keip
and the Messrs. Vanderbilt were elected for
three yeas, Messrs. Schell and
Sykes for two years, and
Messrs. Hughitt and Spooner for one year.
The others held over from the previous
election. In addition to the election of di-
rectOrs the regular quarterly division of IL
per cent on preferred stock was declared
payable July 20. The books will be closed
June 80 and opened again July "a Subse-
quently meeting of the directors was held
and the following gentlemen were chosen as
officers: President Marvin HuShtt; vice
president and treasurer, Nj. l.. Sykes; secre-
tary, &. w. Porter. S. o. Howe was also
elected assistant trasurer, with headquarters
at New York. Executive committee: Mes
srs. Hughitt, Keip Schell, Spooner aud w.
X. and Cornelius Vanderbilt.
Northern Pacific earnings the fourth week
of May increased $4,000, Omaha, $1,000
aud Manitoba decreased $4,000 The re-
port of the Milwaukee Il St. Paul railway
for May shows an increase in earnings over
the corresponding month of last year Of
$iO6 O68. The increase from Jan. to June
|, 1888, is 81, Ia, 2O3. The increase in earn
ings is Is per cent. while the increase of
mileage is only per cent.
The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-16
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

The Lake Minnetonka Navigation cnm
pany, become the possessor and owner o
the fine fleet Of steamboats, that navigate
the waters of the Lake Beautiful. The
MinnetOnka steamboat company sold to tn e
new corporation the Belle of Minnetonka
and Charles A. Zimmerman sold to the
same concern the steamers Lotus, Hattie
May, Minneapolis and Saucy Kate The
officers of the Lake Minnetonka Navigation
company are as follows: President, =. S.
Davidson of La Crosse; general manager,
Charles A. Zimmerman; secretary and treas.
urer. William Secombe. The Belle of Min
netonka has been completely overhauted
and rettted. Her texas has been con yerted
into an open pavilion and her cabin has
been extended forty feet, so as TO form a
magnificent ladies' parIor. The splendid
boat can now safely carry and accommodate
:, 500 passengers. Capt. Charley Senccrbox
is to command the floating palace this sum.
mer. The present company. claim tina. the
Belle Of Minnetonka is now the finest speci-
men of naval architecture to be found any
where on western waters.
The Freeman's Journal, the leading Cath
olic newspaper OF America, declares the
recent encyclical to Irish bishops was not
issued by the pope, as many have thought,
but by the propaganda. 1t also gives diI-
ferent translation from that given by the
London Times, which changes materially
the phraseology and purport Of the lette'.
The difference is caused. it is claimed, by
traDslating ii according TO scholastic Latin,
which Was used .;i TIC Times version, aas!
by translating il according to ecclesiastical
Latin, which is followed by Mr.. McMasters.
The main point of difference is that where
the London Times makes il appear an anti
Irish-decument, that of Mr.. McMasters, the
editor of the Freeman's Journal, shows how
Cardinal SimeOni, prefect of the prop.
aganda, holds that the right of the Irish
people to struggle for liberty is an impre-
scriptible ono.
One of those unfortunate communications,
SO apt to follow a marriage in haste, is to
be recorded in st. Paul. In 1879 Miss
Catherine 7. Marin, daughter of Walter
Marin, one Of st. Paul's most respected citi.
zens, met, while visiting White Bear lake,
one James J. Burns, alias Bursin. Burns
was fascinating sort of fellow, and the
acquaintance soon resulted in an attach
ment between the parties, who were welded.
The young husband seems to be destitute of
the qualities his wife attributed to him, and
after nearly four y, ars OF welded life, dur
ing which the relations of the pair have
been anything but pleasant. Mrs. Burns has
been impelled to sue for divorce on the
ground of cruel and inhuman treatment.
The American medical association in ses.
sion at Cleveland adopted resolution pe.
titioning State legislatures to enact more
stringent laws regarding the sale of deadly
pOisons. A resolutions was adopted advo
eating the establishment of schools TO train
nurses for the sick. A resolution offered
by DR.. Hollock Of st. Louis, to revise the
code of ethics, created sensation. and wa,
hurriedly tailed for the year.
The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-16

The Congregational Ame ricnn Home Mis-.
sionary union met at Syracuse, n. Y, this
year. The cash receipts for the year were
$37, 100: missionaries employed, l, so; Sun
day school and Bible class scholars, 1O6,
63S; churches and stations stat edly supplied
1859; the years resources were $39S, sic; to.
tai expenditures and liabilities 1858, 9l2
Rev DR.. Woolsey of New Haven was
chosen president.
In the u. S. court at Winona a verdict Of
$500 ives rendered against James Flynn for
cutting timber on government land, Joseph
Walsh, indicted for perjury in pre- emption
in the Duluth land district pleaded not
guilty, and was held in $500 TO the next
remain and dance in the evening. which is
C .ntrary to the rules OF the church.
Bishop Elder of Cincinnati has directed
that no Catholic entertainment shall be
given in any hal. or garden whose proprie-
tor is unwilling 10 close the place up be-
fore dark. The regulation is intended 10
remove the temptation to the young to
term. Charles Pelleter and Stephen Pen
nington have been indicted for the same Of
Tense rs above.
Capt. Olson Of the Norwegian bank, Inga,
has arrived in New York and says that on
the 14th of February, when eighty miles
northwest Of Eugano, violent earthquake
was encountered, during which the water
fOamed and rose to considerable height
going up in nearly straight columns, and
broke with great force over the vessels
decks.
A suit will be brought at Nashville
Tenn, in a day or two against the estate of
Thomas O'Connor, Involving $l04, ,OOO the
alleged profit of Joint specula ion between
O'ConnOr and Ex-Treasurer Polk in Tenn
esSee bonds. The state sues to cover the
defsulting treasurer's share of the profits.
Thedirectors of the Baptist Theological
seminary of Chicago have just received $40
600 from John ID. Rockefeller of Cleveland,
Ohio, toward their desired endowment fund
of a quarter of million.
More than 900 members of the Dickin.
son family from all parts of the Union are
expected to be present at the Dickinson
family reunion at Amherst, Mass, on Aug
8 and 0.
James Baker wants 800, 900 of the gold
dust of the Methodist Book concern, and
he is going to the bedrock of the law after
it.
The Spanish law prohibiting the landing
of free negroes except on the payment of
$1,000 has been repealed
Competition with convict labor has COM
PEELED several New York foundries to re
duce wages 10 per cent
The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-16
Ohio Republican Ticket.

The state republican convention of Ohio
was largely attended at Columbus on the
9th. The committee on credentials report.
ed all delegations full and no contest.
When the name of Senator Sherman was
announced as permanent chairman tie con-
vention burst into wild enthusiasm and
long continued applause. He returned
thanks for the renewed honor from the re-
publicans of Ohio.
The convention proceeded to the nomina-
ton of a state ticket, Hon. Ben Butter
worth presenting the name off. B. Foraker,
Cincinnati, for governor. J. NJ. Dalzell Of.
fered the name of Sherman, and the con-
ventiOn again became wild and could only
he q ieted by Sherman rapping for order
vigorously. Then he stated that he had not
been insensible to the preference of large
number of delegates, but he would say
frankly and firmly that he could not be q
candidate. He could not surrender his du-
ties in the senate in justice to the people of
Ohio and country. Aside from this he could
not accept nomination without feelings OF
The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-16
y;uco,u,s Little Coon Story.

president Lincoln was very much
puzzled" said one of his personal friends
the other day, "when President Jefier.
son Davis was captured. He said to me
that his situation reminded him Of . story
he'd heard on Q circuit inIllinois. It was
about small boy and his coon. His
mother did not like the coon, but it was
the pride of his heart.
"You must kill it, said his mother,
with some warmth one morning.
"Oh, mother!" he said, bursting into
tears.
"Well, then, she said, touched by his
tears, "you must take it out and lose IL.
I can't have 1t under my feet oil the
time"
$50, sad at heart. the boy led the poor
coon out on the road by q long, string.
He walked half q mile, and then sat
down on q roadside log and began to
'what's the matter, sonnyf" said .
stranger riding by.
"I don't know what to do," blubbered
the small boy, "with my coon."
whats the troublef" asked the
why" sobbed the boy, Idon't want
,o ts',l. kill him, and ma won't lot ne 'rins
"Now.' said Lincoln "rm Just like
that small boy. don't want to kill him;
and ma won't let me bring him home"
-tPhiladelphia Record.
The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-16
Horrible Method OfMurdcr.

In the Leith Tredgar Iron Works at Chat
anoga, Tenn, on Friday last n difficulty
ccurred between two employees, Lafayette
Browder and William Thomas in which
Browder tried to murder his antagonist by
burning him to death on red hot iron slab
that was being prepared for converting into
nails. When taken from the slab Thomas
presented sickening sight. From his
head to his heels he was q mass of blister
his back and legs being almost roasted to
crisp. The witnesses on the trial testified that
the appearance of the unfortunate man was
most horrible and that number of persons
were compelled to leave the presence OF the
body to escape fainting. 1t was with diff
ficulty that Browder could be dragged of
the poor fellow, and he seemed dete mined
20 roast him alive. The muscles of the
shoulders and the tendons of the legs are
frightiully burned, and should the wretched
man recover, which is doubtful, he will
hardly be able TO work at strade. Thomas
cries were heartrending, and his efforts
to escape the clutches of his tormentor we'll
told the agony he was suffering.