The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-09-12

Henry Nj. Mather's jewelry store at
Meriden, Conn, robbed of $1,000 worth
of watches.
Whole negro picnic poisoned by
shrlmps in Beaufort county, s. G.. Three
dead and seven dying.
j. Hanson Good, Democratic candidate
for Congress for the Wheeling, W. Va,
district, died yesterday.
Craft, the Ashland murderer, will be
hanged Oct. IL, a new trial being Tefus-
ed. Neal has not yet been tried.
Kings's river is being turned into
Fresno county, Cal, through 100 feet
wide canal, to irrigate 100000 acres of
desert.
Malone, Virginia; Can you not be
/ spoken of as "a man with a future"
Certainly, great, long, red-hOt future,
| tOO.-Life.
The Union ferry company, New York,
crippled bOOtblack and has just paid
him S5,363. Naming wealthy people
is expensive.
The sister of Webb, drowned in the
Niagara whirlpool committed suicide
| by drowning in South Africa when she
heard of his death.
| The new church erected by polyga-
nous sect called Pilgrims" at Erwin,
H., was blown to splinters with dyna-
/ lAloB OdIuIudy ulBuI.
Herman j. Redfeld, of Monroe, Mich,
prominent in state affairs, shot himself
| dead while temporarily insane, in the
cemetery there, Monday night.
The Edmund act has succeeded in dis
| franchising $1,000 mOrmOns and pre-
venting any of them from being elected
to office, but has not appeeciably affect
ed pOlygamy.
Horace Greeley's farm was sold at auc-
tiOn Saturday. 1t was knocked down to
Gabrielle Greeley for $4,000. 1t was
worth $4,000 at least, but nobody would
bid against her.
Fires: ElkhOrn tannery, StrOuds-
burg, Pa, loss $150,O0O, insured. Half
the business portion of Auburn,Ky. All
that portion of Deer Creek, Va, on the
west side of the canal.
John Hammer, a scraWny, hump back
ed rag.picker of Bradford, Pa, was the
father of AZ children by three wives.
He might have had more if a loco
motive hadn't knocked him out.
A WilliamsYille, Mich, white girl
married negro and went to Chatham,
| Ont, but became so disgusted with her
associations that in two weeks she sWal-
lowed fatal dose of strychnine.
John Kerchner, German, was carved
to death in Pittsburgh, Pa, yesterday
morning with corn cutter, by his son
in elf-defence. They had been having
an all night drunken picnic in the
i house.
DETROIT, Sept. IO.-A great gale is
blowing on Lake Huron. The tug Tor
rent has lost her raft off FOrestVille.
The barge Colorado is ashore near Sand
| Beach and the schooner WinslOw Is bea-
ched above Point Edward.
At the earnest solicitation of Queen
| Victoria and other royal persons of in-
huence, the duke of SAKE CabuTg COttha
has agreed not to publish his memoirs,
which promised to scandalize half the
crowned heads of Europe and their fam
lilies.
Tseng, the Chinese ambassador, made
| Challamel-LacOur, the French foreign
minister, eat leek before he would re-
open the negotiation sbrOken off by Les
| insOlence. 1t required British diploma
cy to bridge the chasm, and get them on
speaking terms again.
At 0rrVille, Adam Shearer, a we'll
known character in these parts, was
killed Saturday on the W. IL l.. K. road
while walking along the track about a
mile east Of here. His body was taken
to Burton City, "a small village miles
east, where he resided.
| Abner EastOn, a lunatic, marched into
the school at Williamson, n. c., and an
nOunced that he was directed by the
Lord to kill rs girls, commenced strik-
| ing right and left with club. The boys
and teachers OverpOwered him, but not
until number of girls were painfully
hurt.
| CLEVELAND, Sept. 10.-Rey ThOs. II.
Oakley, general delivery clerk in the
| pOstOtfice, was arrested today, charged
with stealing from prepaid parcels the
stamps, selling them and pOcketing the
| proceeds. He waived examination be.
| fore the U. S. Commissioner, and was
bound over for trial in $500.
Mack, of the Sandusky Register, is the
artist who paints this chirOgraphic
chrome of Charlie Foster: "a shrewd
haTdheaded, cool and cunning business
man, intent always and all his life on
i the accumulation of money and the ad-
| vancement of himself. Uneducated and
| without taste for anything beyond
/ money and political power, he has won
large measure of success by dOgged
perseverance and skill in the manage
ment of the machine"
NEW YORK, Sept. 10.--A TumOr prevails
in sporting circles that the Slade and
| Mitchell fight will take place on Long
Island. 1t is said that the talk of the
tight coming Off near New Orleans was
blind. Long Island city sports have it
straight that it will take place on Long
Island. The Fight will certainly come
off. Harry Montague says, 81 have nOti-
fed Harry Hill that the men must fight,
and they will. The place will be near
the ground where Ryan and Sullivan
fought"
DUBLIN, Sept. 1O.-The coming revis-
ion of the registration of electors will
| show that for the first time in the his
tory of Dublin elections, under the reg
istratiOn laws, the NatiOnalists party
has succeeded in securing fair repre-.
| sentatiOn by the registration of 1000
votes under the LOdgers' franchise
clause. The Liberals do not claim any
accession to their ranks, for the reason
that they will probably vote with the
conservatives to defeat the home rule
candidates. The tories on the other hand
| express themselves confident of recover
ing 1900 of the 1900 votes registered.
CHICAGO, Sept. 10.-Reports from hun
| dreds of points up to 2 o'clock this morn
| ing, say the frOsts of the last two nights
| have done immense damage in the corn