The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-12-01
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All the Important Happenings OF
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decree canceling the embargo on the
importation of American pork.
Warren f. Galway won the champion
ship medal of Ohio in the five-mile hi
cycle race in Power Hall; time 17:4S19
The Windsor Theatre, the largest in
New York, burned Thanksgiving night,
together with other buildings. Loss
100000.
According to a decision of the Indiana
Supreme Court, appropriations of money
by the Legislature by joint resolution
are illegal.
PendletOn, Ward and Payne have Sc
cured headquarters at the Neil House,
Columbus, for occupancy during the
Senatorial contest.
Four hundred miners employed in the
Third Pittsburg Pool have struck
against the proposed reduction in their
pay of l cent bushel.
Lucy Galbreath, whose husband was
killed by train on the SciOtO Valley
railroad, has obtained judgment against
the company for $1,000.
The divorce case of W. A. Neil vs. Mary
Neil of Columbus, which has been in
the courts for ten years, was decided in
the Supreme Court in favor of the hus-
band.
Leedom was nominated over John G.
Thompson by the caucus of Ohio Demo-
cratic members of Congress, as their
choice for Sergeant-at-Arms of the
House.
Fritz Romley, of Chicago, asked Emma
Lefevre to marry him, and when she
wouldn't, he shot and killed her. After
gazing at the corpse moment he blew
out his own brains.
j. H. COvington, of Columbus, Ga,
caught the smallpox in Louisville, dur
ing his wedding tour, and died yester-
day. His wife Is at the point of death
with the same disease.
WAPAKoNETA, Nov. ga lad named
Willie Giddings fell into the canal near
st. MaTy's, this county, yesterday, and
was drowned. His body was fished out
about an hour afterward.
The Supreme Court of Ohio has ruled
that an insurance company, organized
III another state, can not claim the right
to do business in Ohio upon a plan that
home companies are not permitted to
adopt.
Naval officers assigned to duty on the
Shenandoah are asking, upon all man
ner of pretexts, to be relieved, and the
sailors share their desire to get Off so
unseaWOrthy craft. The fear is that
the boat is top heavy.
There is an increase in the tax valua-
ton of property in Ohio, of $3S, ,68l, ,14S
over that of last year. The poorest cOun-
ty in the state is Paulding. That cOun-
ty makes a return of property valued at
less than half a million dollars.
MT. VERNON, Nov. 29.-Daniel Austin,
cOlOTed, aged 80 years, residing alone in
a little shanty near the fair ground ad-
dition, was found dead this morning on
the floor beside the bed, where he had
probably fallen in a fit of some kind.
Some capitalists of Cleveland, Ohio,
propose building a seven story hotel.
They think their present hotel accom-
mOdatiOns are not sufficient for the
increasing business of the city, and
that there ought TO be better hotel ar
rangements for the travelling public in
Cleveland.
AKRON, Nov. 29.-Fire in G. Guth's
grocery this forenoon destroyed goods
valued at $1,000. The loss to the build
ing $1,000. The fire was caused by
clerk stepping on match in front Of
gasoline barrel in the basement of the
building. Insured.
The 10 year old daughter of 7. Gordon
of Mineral Point, o., was kidnapped by
Rob. Kinder. The father recovered pos
session of the child by suing out writ
of replevin, setting valuation upon
her of $50. Afterward Kinder claimed
to be the father of GOrdOn's little boy.
Gordon shot at him, and jury at New
Philadelphia has found that the shoot
ing was justifiable.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29-The Demo-
cratic caucus for the nomination of Of
fcers of the House will meet at 7:30 p.
Qafn 2nnn oftar Tho Mia.
tiOn of the House Gen. ROsecrans will
introduce joint resolution, proposing
an amendment to the Constitution for
ever prohibiting pOlygamy IN the Unit
ed States and all places under its Jurls-
dictiOn.
The Republican Congressional caucus
will meet Saturday afternoon, and the
Democratic caucus in the evening. Kei-
fer refuses to withdraw from the field.
He hopes to get the nomination by
to nominate all the old Off
GERS of the House by acclamatiOn. Car
li5e and Randall are both still confident.
The former expects to get the nomina-
tiOn on the first ballot. Randall Is said
to have captured twenty of Carlisle's
men by promising them places on i'm
pOrtant committees.
MAssILLON, Nov. 27.-Mrs. Anna
Steese, widow of the late DR.. Isaac
Steese, President of the First National
Bank of this city, and mother of Charles
Steese, cashier of the same bank and DR..
Steese, a prominent merchant
of Boston, died at her residence here at
about O'clock this evening, after an
illness of three months, aged 20 years.
The deceased hal been resident Of
Massillon thirty-hVe years, had long
been member of the Methodist church
and was IA noble woman, and a liberal
but unostentatiOus friend of the poor.
The State Board of Agriculture, NOV
ed by criticism, have made an extended
of their proposed purchase
of 80 acres on the northern outskirts OF
Columbus for fair ground. They say
the terms of the lease of the Franklin
county fair grounds have not been lived
up to-; that the state board has been
obliged to expend $4,000 yearly for re-
pairs, though they acquire by them no
additional hold upon the grounds, and
that the accommodations for transport
ing the people to and from the city to
the county grounds are inadequate. The
board claims they have the authority,