The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-12-22
TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS.
All the Important Happenings of
the Day
Gathered and Boiled Down Into Readable
ltems-CTeam of the Current
Events.

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One saloon keeper alone sells 100 glass
es of it daily.
The Western hotel at Wardsville, Ont,
burned this morning; loss, $4,000; sup
posed incendiary.
There are $4,000 children of school
age in New Jersey, and school accOmmO-
datiOns for only $4,000.
The Sherman Club Of Cleveland has
disbanded. Perhaps John wouldn't pay
his dUes.-ChicagO News.
-lAn Ottumwa, Iowa, farmer raised 66S
bushels of carrots to the acre. His only
anxiety is what to DO with them.
Washington Territory has adopted wO.
man suffrage and the petition Presi-
dent Arthur to appoint Mrs. Dunway
Governor.
The PendletOn "pusheTs" will be
pleased to know that it's matter of his
lOry that Ohio has reelected every o. S.
Senator since 1898.
The Bankers and Merchants tele-
graph company has increased its capital
stock from 100000 to $10,OOO,OOO and
will extend its lines.
The comet Of 1912 is coming this way
at the rate of 20 miles a second. As
soon as the moon gets out of the way it
can be seen with the naked eye.
DETBoIT, Dec. 19.-Mrs. Samuel g.
Davis, the young, pretty but neglected
wife of Detroit gambler, suicided with
Rough on rats" last night. Her mai
den name was Eliza Lamb. Her moth
or lives in Cleveland.
The intensity of the anti-Chinese feel
ing in Portland, Oregon, may be infer
red from the refusal of the owners of the
Centennial block in that city to sell to
n
other persons will pay for 1t.
Young SandfOrd Norris, Paris, ILL.,, ar
ranged a neat practical joke on his two
younger brothers and two other boys.
He engaged them to steal apples, de-
signing to fire a gun in the air to scare
them. Only two of the boys were killed
by the shot.
HUNTINGTON, Oregon, Dec. l9.-SeYen
desperadOeS at the point OF a pistol, rob
bed j. LyfeT, merchant, last evening, of
S15, 900 III cash and drafts; also the pay
master of the railroad construction COM
pany of $4,000; and others Of amounts
from $500 TO $500. There are no police
i'll the counts. The highwaymen escap-
ed with the booty.
BALTIMORE. Dec. 2O.-Fire broke out
this morning in the large warehouses
at the Union docks, occupied by the Bal
timOre warehouse company, and Man
ley u Co.'S storage buildings. They con
tanned cOttsn, rice, canned goods, &c;
loss 100000. The building was used
as hospital during the late war. Two
fiTemen were seriously injured,
Connecticut is just now engaged in a
fight against the grade railway cross
ing, which it is declared must go. In
that State there are 1925 grade crossings
Of highways and railways. In this
State there are many times that num-
ber. Each one is place of danger. The
time Will soon come when all crossings
must be made above or below grade.
Public safety demands it.
The latest Chicago trick to get a drink
free is for a man to step to bar with
quart bottle of dark green glass, and
ask for quart of the best" After the
bottle is filled he will find he has no
money. If he cannot get trusted the Ii
quOT will be poured out; but in the bot
tie has been placed dry sponge which
has absorbed enough to make one OF two
good sized drinks.
PARIS, Dec. 2O.--A despatch Just re-
ceived from Hong Kong stated that the
French troops which were landed seven
miles from SOntag on the llth inst.
made an assault on SOntag on the
18th, and after desperate fighting sue
ceeded in capturing the principal out
posts. The French troops had Is officers
and 200 men killed and wounded. The
Chinese loss is 1000 killed aud wound
ed.
A Russian priest, Seraphin by name,
invented a scheme for getting rich wOr
thy of Yankee for acutenesS. He or
ganiZed new religious sect among his
Ignorant paTishiOners, every member of
which on joining, had to cut off his or
her hair and give it to Seraphin. He
sold the cuttings in Paris, realizing
considerable money. Seraphin is now
in Jail, and the SeraphinOyski, as a
sect, are extinct.
WASHINGTON, Dee. 2O.-AmOng the
bills introduced in the Senate today
we're the following: To provide for the
appointment of commission to inyes,
tigate the subject of railroad transpOr-
tatiOn; calling upon the secretary of the
interior for information as to how much
land has been certified and patented for
the benefit of railroads since Dec. 1875,
The report of the committee on revision
of the rules came up in committee OF
the whole after the morning hour. 1t
was agreed to pass any vote on the first
proposition, giving the President pro
tenn power to designate substitute for
three days until the question was for
mally before the Senate.