The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-04-18
EVERY DAY TOPICS.
Recent News Items Caught in
Our Literary Net.
A Condensed Record OfAcOldents, Crimes,
POlltlCsIand Information of Gen.
eraI and Miscellaneous Kind,


Thomas Clarke, Of Erie, Pa, hung
himself Saturday evening.
All prisoners in jail at Smithfeld, N.
G., escaped by cutting through the floor.
Sixty-nine eVicted farmers from Mayo
and Galway arrived in Philadelphia
Sunday.
The electric light was turned on for
the first time at GAINESVILLE, on Saturday
evening.
d. Herman, Evansville, Ind, wholesale
liquor merchant, has failed to the
amount Of $25, 600.
The finishing shops and foundry Of P.
A. Shantz at Chester, Ont, burned Satur-
day. Loss $4,000.
Judge ThOman, of the Civil Service
Commission, was serenaded at Youngs-
town, o., on Saturday night.
Francis 8. Street, one Of the proprie-
tors of the New York Weekly, Is dead.
He leaves an estate valued at 81, 100000.
Dewar's tannery and several adjOin-
ing buildings at Pembroke, Ont, burned
Saturday. Loss, SO, Oainsurance, $780,
900.
The building occupied by G. A. Bless
ing, manufacturer of plumbers supplies,
hAA0NOARhAAp AOOo1
$25, goo.
Capt. Hall, female and two male re-
cruits of the Salvation Army were ar
rested at Syracuse, N.Y., for breach of
the peace and Obstrueting the sidewalks.
George and Edmund Gravely are twin
brothers, 95 years old, residing in Henry
county, Va, and some Of their friends
claim they are the Oldest twins living.
The Key West sponge fleet, number
ing 10 vessels and 800 men, is out on a
cruise. A successful catch of sponge for
the feet brings about 100000 into that
city.
At Plymouth, Ind, fire Sunday morn
ing destroyed one Of the best business
blocks in the city. The tenants lose
everything. Total loss, $4,000; insur-
ance, $4,000.
The Jury In the United States Court at
Atlanta, Ca, has found j. M. Robinson
guilty on 10 indictments charging him
with the presentation of false accounts
as Deputy Marshal.
The Lumberman's Journal Of Chica-
20, says the lumber trade opens remaF-
Kably active this season, with large sales
in upper grades. 1t lintimates future
scarcity Of pine lumber.
At picnic in the woods near Dermot,
Ark, six colored children ate cooked
weeds in which stryehnine had been
placed, instead Of salt, as seasoning.
Three are dead; Others dying.
The Boston Commercial, grave jour
nal, entirely devoted to the business
interests Of the country, says 1t seems
perfectly proper that money should be
"locked up" when 1t is tight"
At Mt. Vernon, O., on Sunday morning
Clarence B. Harper, son Of Hon. Leckey
Harper. Of the Mt. Vernon Banner, died
Of pleuro-pneumOnia. Mr.. Harper was
born at Pittsburg, July IL, 1858.
A fire at NarbOna Station, on the Wa
bash road few miles east of Lexington,
NO., destroyed seven stores and shops
and the elevator belonging to White
Bros, early Saturday morning. Loss not
known.
James Frazier, poor patient at the
Mullanphy Hospital, st. Louis, Mo-,
either jumped or fell OF secOnd-story
porch at that institution, and was found
dead on the pavement. The fall was not
witnessed by any one.
Taylor, one of the notorious Taylor
brothers who captured train on the
East Tennessee, Virginia 81 Georgia r.
R., and murdered the sheriff and deputy
and liberated their brother, has been
captured near EmpOria, Kan.
The cyclone reported from Arkansas
Saturday was evidently quite equal to
the average of previous seasons. 1t had
hail stones as big as hens egg, and IL
cut the usual swath through trees, and
buildings and other obstacles.
The Princess Louise and party arrived
at Boston on Saturday evening from
Newport. She was met at the depot by
the MARQUIS of LOrne and party, and
driven at once to Hotel Brunswick,
where she rested over Sunday.
There are nearly one hundred persons
in Gloucester, King, and Queen, and
King Henry counties, in Virginia, be-
red years, who are In good health and Of
sound mind. These persons are all ma
tives.
Michael McAndreWs. shot Friday
night in his own saloon at Philadelphia,
by Policeman Bottom, died yesterday.
John Scott, last night, assaulted Police
man Barger. who had arrested him for
fighting, and was probably fatally shot
by Barger.
John Green shot and killed his uncle,
John Winchester, at JacksbOro, Texas,
Saturday; the result Of an old feud, and
Jos. Wyrick and Joseph Blackerby, of
the same place, had q difficulty about
sheep, during which the former killed
the latter.
The body of Thomas WaldrOn, nom
unionist, who was shot dead by the stri-
king iron workers at Springfield, ILL.,,
left Monday in charge Of friends for
Pittsburgh. The authorities have clues
to the murderers and several arrests are
anticipated soon.
George Simpson (white) was shot and
killed by Reuben Kizer (colOred) at Nash
VILE, Tenn, Saturday night. Simpson
and woman were talking, when Kizer
came up and quarrel eDsued, which
resulted as stated. Kizer gave himself
up, claiming justification.
BY the explosion Of boiler on Satur-
day the large mills Of Marks q Condor,
at HarbOr Creek, Erie, Pa, were COM
pletely wrecked, and w. w. Marks, one
of the proprtetors, and the engineer,
James Price, were fatally injured, both
being hurled a distance Of sixty feet.
Damage to property $4,000.
At Kirkland. o., the business Of the
Mormon Conference. being finished Sat
urday, Sunday was devoted to the clos
| ing exercises. The prayer meeting and
| sacrament early in the morning was
followed by forenoon, afternoon and
] evening services, at which sermons were