The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-12-29
TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS.
All the Important Happenings OF
the Day
Gathered and Boiled Down Into Readable
Items-Cream of the Current
Events.

WARREN, O., Dec. 26.-The dry goods
| and notion store of l.. Green was to-day
closed by Sheriff HOyt.
Abbot, Page 81 Co., London stock brOk-
ers, have failed. Liabilities, el75,OOO
Did this result because Carlisle was elec-
| ted Speakerp
EAST WEYMOUTH, Mass, Dec. 27.-Di-
zer u Co., boot and shoe manufacturers,
decided to stop business rather than ac-
cede to the demands OF the striking las
teTs. Nearly 400 are disemplOyed.
The total number of distilleries in the
country on December lst was 065,
against 1856 at the same time last year,
with a total daily producing capacity OF
28900O gallons, against 263,OOO the year
| before.
There were $50 interpretations issued
by Secretary of State Newman last year,
| and of these 253 were manufacturing
companies. There are 9,367 incorporated
companies in Ohio, with capital stock
of S2,20l, ,239,065.
The meaner Republican papers persist
in calling Speaker Carlisle a"free trader"
and Rebel" 1t is just as easy for
| these papers to tell the truth as to lie,
but from force of habit they prefer the
latter style of journalism.
The California State Council of the
Legion, at a meeting held in San Fran
cisco, recently, adopted resolutions ad-
YOcating the nomination OF Allen u.
| Thurman, of Ohio, for the next Presl-
| dent.
The Secretary of the Pennsylvania
| Board of Agriculture reports that the
value of dairy products for the past year
| in that State is $40,64S, 1O6; grass crop,
$84, ,349 ,62O; cereals. $72, ,4O1, 1856; number
| Of horned cattle in the State, l,74O,227,
value S5l, ,989,1OO.
MANSFIELD, Dec. 27.-James Eschen-
| bach, the man arrested at Defiance some
weeks ago, upon suspicion that he Is the
| fourth Shelby burglar, was arraigned in
| Justice PattersOn's court at O'Clock
| this afternoon for trial. but at his own
request a continuance was granted un-
| til Jan. 9th. Developments are daily
occurring which are most damaging to
| his case, and it is now believed he Is the
man wanted, notwithstanding he has
claimed from the first that he can
| prove an ali0i.
| SHERMAN, Tex, Dec. ga band Of
| desperadOes are teTTOrizlng the north
west portion of this county. When raj
| ded they seek the Businesses of the Red
river bottom. They killed an unOffend-
ing negro at POttsyille Saturday, and
| have since killed white man at Des-
| ter, in Cook county, where they also
| burned a church and school house. Dep
uty Sheriffs May and Kelly with posse
of citizens left tonight to scOur the
brush for the outlaws.
BLADENsBURG, o., Dec. 26.-Mrs. Sarah
| Howe, the aged wife of Rev. Hiram
Howe, prominent Presbyterian minis
ter of this county, residing few miles
| from here, met with shocking accl-
dent while alone in the house. She was
near the fire, and her clothes took fire
and she was soon envelOped in flames.
| Her screams brought assistance, but be-
| fore she could be rescued her body was
| charred to a crisp. She lived only a lit
tie while after the accident.
CLEVELAND, O., Dec. 27.-At l o'clock
this morning Henry Schroeder and half
| dozen friends went to Geo. OsaTe's sa-
loon on the south side and demanded
drinks. Mrs. Osare, tending bar, refus-
| I'D because they were drunk. OSare and
| his brOther-in-law, Ed. Eyering, put
| them out, whereupOn the party bOmbar-
ded the saloon with empty beer kegs on
the sidewalk. EyeTing took shotgun
and fired through a window, fatally
wOunding Schroeder. Eyering gave
himself up.
BELLAIRE, o., Dec. 26.-Two rOughs,
named Scott and Bub BOrham, assailed
Shannon Archer last night and cut him
badly about the face and body. Archer
is an eX-pOliceman, and this assault was
made because of the arrest of the assatl-
ants during his term of office. Bub BOr-
ham engaged Archer in conversation on
| the street, when his brother rushed up
and struck him in the face with knife,
| Two or three more cuts were made, and
the assailants fled. He is i'll a critical
condition, having deep cut in the left
breast.
| Boston, Dec. 26.-The announcement
of the failure of the cotton manufactur-
ing firm of A. ID. Smith & Co., of PrOvi-
dence. r. l., today, was not wholly un'
expected. The liabilities are between
81, 100000 and 81, 100000, and nothing
can be learned tonight of the assets
which are believed to be small. The
firm has five cotton mills, two in PTOv1-
dence, two in Johnston and one IL
WOOnsOcket, running $1,000 splndles in
all. The failure involves the suspension
of the Providence Steam Mill Co., the
GrOtOn Manufacturing Co., and the
Franklin Manufacturing Co.
| WARREN, Dec. 26.-F. j. CTeque, an
Akron broker. sent to the First National
Bank of this city, for collection, notes
on the following named persons, who
pronounce them fOrgeFies: A. ID. Bailey
LordstOwn, $3.50; W. Weir, LOrdstOwn
S75; Eli Yoxtheimer, Southington, 800
AlOuzo Kulp, SOuthingtOn, SlO5; j. n
Hatch, Southington, $50; Ed. Thvrp
Sou6hington, $50; John Mckee, War
rem, $3.50. The notes were indorsed by
II. La Bacon, of Bohemian oats nOtOriety
The notes are all payable to bearer. Ba
con came near being arrested for for
gerry while here last summer. He set
tied the matter by taking up the notes
he negotiated.
LIMA, o., Dec. 26.-AbOut noon yester
day, while driving home from church
and in crossing the Lake Erie 81 West
ern railroad mile and half south O
BlufTton, a sleigh containing John 8
Amstutz, wife, daughter and son, wal
struck by the west-bOund mail train
The daughter. aged Is, had her heaC
crushed, and died from her injurie
this morning. The boy, aged 8 years
was also hurt about the head, and hi
injuries may prove fatal. Mrs. Amstut
was struck in the breast, and may prob
ably die. The side of the road from
which they approached the track is 8
winding that an approaching train can
mt no aQan OnIv f0r "A abort diatanaf