The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-05-02
EVERY DAY TOPICS.
Recent News Items Caught in
Our Literary Net.
A Condensed Record of Accidents, Crimes
Politics and Information Of GEN.
eral and Miscellaneous Kind,

DusIHess IhlluTes laSI week aggrega-
ted 1872.
BY the cyclone at Beauregard and
Wesson 40 persons were killed.
Police officer Kelly fatally shot VIM.
Pttwell, well known rough, In Chicago
Three-6fths of the 1900 conyicts in
the Texas penitentiary are negroes and
Mexicans.
Robert KOehler killed John Bauer
Sunday morning in saloon quarrel in
Milwaukee.
A man In Pittsburg has invented a
PotatO-digger which, 1t is claimed, will
do the work of twenty men.
Nathan Shook and Abe Woods engaged
In ashOOting affray at Tracey, Tennessee
Shook was killed. Woods escaped.
The Great Works Milling and Manu-
featuring COmpany's saw mills, Bangor,
Maine. were burned Saturday. Loss
$4,000.
The Brooks Hotel, Exchange Hotel.
two churches and fourteen other build
ings were burned in Newaygo. Michigan,
Saturday.
There are altogether 872 barOnets in
Great Britain and Ireland, some of
whom are very poor. The Bank of Eng
land and the Oriental Bank both have
barunet clerks. Another Is in the Irish
police.
Within three hours after the resigna-
tiOn Of General Raum. as Commissioner
OF Internal Revenue, was accepted, six
applications were received by the Presi-
dent from ex-members Of Congress for
the position.
Professor Blatt, known as the man
fish remained under water four minutes,
eleven and one half seconds on Friday
In St. Louis, beating the best record of
j. b. Johnson in London. He was in
sensible when removed from the water
At ShebOygan, Wisconsin, William
GOdeka has been sentenced to seven
years in the penitentlary for the muir
der of his brother Herman. William
shot his brother with a rifle after a
quarrel over the use of lamp at a study
table.
John s. COwles, General Agent of the
Lowell Manufacturing Company, of
Erie, Pennsylvania, has skipped with
several thousand dollars of the com
pany'5 money and disreputable woman.
His wife Is almost crazy and utterly
destitute.
Two AraZO Rio (Texas) convict guards,
John LeOnas and s. BOudreauK, attended
cOlOred peoples festival. A row Oc-
CURED, both firing on Jim Wright,
cOlOred, nine shots without effect.
Wright turned and fred two shots,
killing both.
The collector of customs at Browns
Vile, Texas, has been given authority
to arrest smugglers as well as to seize
cOntraband goods. 1t Is estimated that
the government loses annually about
$5OO,OOO by smuggling carried on along
the Rio Grande.
A farmer living near Delaware, o.,
fred at a constable land his posse, who
had q mandate from the Supreme Court
to eject him from the premises he is Oc-
cupying. He will be tried for shooting
with intent to kill, and an attempt will
be made to disbar the lawyer by whom,
he says, he was advised to shoot.
A statement prepared in the Office of
the Commissioner of Internal Revenue
shows that the aggregate receipts for
March, 1888, were $1,415,121 greater
than for March, 1881. The increase was
distributed as follows: On spirits, 81 =
1886, ,975, on beer $42, 125. There was a
decrease as follows: On tobacco $217,-
751, on banks and bankers 959,137, and
miscellaneous $76, ,090.
WINNIPEG, April 30.-The local Legis-
lature meets here on the 18th of May. A..
B. Stickney, Vice President of the Min
neapOlis 8 st. Louis railway, is here,
with the object, 1t is said, of obtaining
a contract for the construction of the
Portage, WestbOurne s. Northwest rail-
way from Gladstone to Prince Albert, on
the Big Saskatchewan, q distance of FIVE
hundred miles.
YOUNGSTOWN, o., April 3O.-AbOut l.
900 coal miners in the vicinity of Church
hill, who have been idle for several
months. were made an offer by the
operators the other day to start up at 10
cents reduction. This offer they refused.
To-day notice was posted for them to re-
sumo work next Tuesday at the old
price, 65 cents per ton. This offer they
will accept.
PITTSBURGH, April 30.-Nearly 5000
miners laid down their picks this morn
ing and entered upon period of sus-
pension of work, which is to last until a
settlement of the wages question can be
made with the operators. Fifty-four
mines are interested In the suspension,
and the men in 40 of them will probably
make determined resistance. A num-
Der of mass meetings will be held to-
night. at which speeches will be made,
and the recent action of the convention
ratified.
BOSTON, April 30.-The TeWksbury in
VestigatiOn was resumed this morning.
Timothy Kelleher had charge of the
burials at Tewksbury most of the time
since 1879. The cases, which had con-
tanned bodies from the State prison, were
sold and the money given to Thomas
Marsh, jr. He had sold about fifteen in
all. The bodies were buried. The wit
ness testified that the Marshes had had
their kitchen supplied with chickens
from the almshOuse, and their washing
done by inmates.
BOSTON, April 3O.-The Governor ac-
knOwledging the consent of the State
Board of Health tel AXE charge of Tew ks
bury, says he proposes to furnish money
to carry on the AlmshOuse until the
Legislature can make appropriations,
but he will neither furnish or permit it
to be furnished If it be expended by the
present superintendent. He calls the at
tention Of the Board to the fact that they
can appoint officers only with his con-
sent; and as he has not considered the
appointment of the present officials. he
does not propose to allow any bills con-
tracted by them. Referring to the Gus
tom of the Assistant Attorney General
to sign opinions, he suggests that a
number OF customs may have been dis
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