The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-05-05
EVERY DAY TOPICS.
Recent News Items Caught in
Our Literary Net.
A Condensed Record Of Accidents, Grimes,
Politics and information of Gen.
eral and Miscellaneous Kind.

Iue ClLy uoOI OF cleveland Is ABOUT
nine million dollars.
John Marsh, of BellefOntaine, was
ounkOed out Of 1925 by Cincinnati
sharpers.
Blazes: Waxehatchee, Tex, five build
ings, loss $4,000; Fry & Mstchen's dis
tillery, Manor, Pa, loss $25, 600.
j. d. Latham, clerk, who stole $4,000
from the Jersey Central road, sentenced
to four years in prison; $4,000 per year.
The residence of VIM. jackson, Bailey's
HarbOr, Wis, was burned, and his
daughters, Olive and Bertha, perishedln In
the fire.
Charles Mcmahon, farmer In Carroll
county, ILL.,, and his two hired men were
murdered and horribly mutilated. The
affair Is involved in mystery.
Bert Norton of Tifiin, son of DR.. Nor
ton, ex representative from Seneca, car
ried off the naval cadetship prize at
recent examination at FOstOTia.
Sullivan, the prize fighter, has been
violently and suddenly attacked with
hemOrrhage of the lungs, so that his
friends fear he may not recover.
BOSTON, May 3.-The House TO-DAY
voted $4,000 to the TeWksbury aims
house, which is the same appropriation
that was vetoed in the charities bill.
The st. Louis stOne-cutters and plast
erers, five hundred in number, have
struck for an increase of so cents day
The bricklayers will stop work to-day.
Letters patent have been granted t.
Lewis Miller and A. E. EllinwOOd, fOl
wheel for harvester; Sanford p. Porter,
West Richfeld, broom and dustpan hOl.
der.
Tuscarawas county has four children
n ha 10 Do ~ nd GofI
Home at Xenia. Stark has nine, Wayne
twelve, Holmes four, Guernsey seven,
and Harrison five.
During the past six months 1872 new
National banks have been Organizeu
with capital of $14, 600. increase
III capital of banks during the pasl
six months $677,5O0.
S. G. Drake, of Osborn s. Drake, OF
Lebanon, o., committed suicide by shoot
ing himself, while suffering from men
tai depression. He was nephew of Ton.
COrwIn by marriage.
At RaVenna Wednesday evening 1
four year old daughter of Mr. Fitzgerald.
while playing near a bonfire got heI
clothing on fire and was so severely
burned that she died.
Mrs. Seth Larkins, aged ffty-hVe,
living two miles south Of Alliance,
while in fit OftempOrary insanity tOOb
a large dose of creOsOte from the effects
of which she died last Wednesday. Sh,
leaves family.
Two years ago a man by the name OF
Crane was killed by railroad train
near Mt. Gilead. His widow sued the
company for damages, and jury in tht
Common Pleas Court of Morrow county
awarded her $1,000.
DUBLIN, May 3.-1h he grand jury have
returned true bills against lyman.
Walsh and Sheridan for murder, ant
against Fitzharris as accessory after
the fact. The Government will demand
their extraditiOn from America.
The Supreme Court refused to grant
the motion for petition in error in tht
case of j. ID. Watson, convicted Of brib-
ing members of the Legislature. Tht
sentence of the court to imprisonment
for one year will now be carried out.
John o. Callahan, of New Orleans,
challenged his brOther-in law, Michael
Nealen, to pistol duel. They met OH
Decatur street, and fired at fifteen PAGES.
Nealen was wounded and sent to the
hospital. Both men are under arrest.
Melvin Carey, aged 13, employed in
Gilbert's mills, OswegO, does not like
talking, and has only spoken to his Ow u
family and his schOOl-master in his life.
In fact it was only by severe wallOpping
he was induced to open his mouth t.
the latter.
Peabodys bequest to London was
about $2,O00,00O. The property of the
trust Is now valued at over $4,0O0,0OO.
1t has been honestly administered. The
tenants number 1900 in $500 separate
buildings of 5000 rooms, exclusive OF
laundries, etc.
ID
Indiana, on Wednesday morning com
mitted suicide by shooting. The day be-
fore he had been badly beaten for
Mayor for fourth term by James II.
ShOuse, the Democratic candidate. De
cessed was 66 years old.
Louisiana is cursed by a land ring, of
which John McEnery is the boss, which
threatens to change the politics of the
State. A contract was made to reclaim
marsh lands, but the company took
scrip and gobbled up some of the best
land in the State. Bob IngersOll was in
the scheme.
TaylOr's mill at LOudOnville has stop.
ped operations on account of the scare
ity Of wheat and with but little prospects
of resuming business for some time.
Farmers are holding their grain for an
advances In prices, hence the scarcity of
that article to millers. The mill hands
and cOOpers are idle in consequence of
the shut down.
Delaney and Caffrey, arraigned for the
Phoenix Park murders plead guilty and
were sentenced to hang June End. This
makes five under sentence of death for
the murder of Cavendish and Burke
Caffrey said he did not know what was
going to happen till twenty minutes
before the murders were committed.
CANIsTO, N. Y. May 2-William Dud-
ley's jewelry store was burglarized by
professionals last night and the safe
robbed of gold, silver, and jewels worth
$4,000. Entrance was forced through
the double doors in the rear. The safe
was drilled 50 as to break the cOmbina-
tion lock without explosives. No clue
has been obtained.
Strikes: Six thousand miners laid
down their picks in Pittsburgh, pros
pect Of long strike; few cigar makers
and the plasterers are out. Chattanooga
printers on strike against rats"
Cigar makers in Wilkesbarre, Pa, want
| 81 advance. Trenton, N. j., Reading,
Pa, Boston, Milwaukee and Louisville
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