The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-04-14
EVERY DAY TOPICS.
Recent News Items Caught in
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A Condensed Record Of OfAColdents, Crimes,
Politics and Information of Gen.
eraI and Miscellaneous Kind. .r

burned. Loss $75, 900.
LOckpOrt, New York, went Democratic
at the city election on the 10th. a..
By the fall of a building in Rochester
MY. Mathew Peard was killed and
others injured.
The Greenwood Rolling Mill Co., has
suspended, and the works at Tamaqua
are shut down.
A FIRE in Westminster, Md, burned a
livery stable with thirty horses and six
teen dwellings.
At Ashtabula, o., Judge Lee suicided
by taking laudanum. Mind unsettled
by financial losses.
The coal miners at StreatOr, ILL.,, after
week of tdl0ness, resumed work at a
reduction of &c ton.
Employees of the Mellert foundry and
machine shop, Reading, Pa, struck for
equalization of wages.
The cyclone near Hot Springs Sunday,
destroyed 90 houses, killed ten people
and injured 20 or more. ...., .-..
The Atlantic Constitution learns that
the 1000 visitors at Hot Springs are
chiefly repentant Republicans. I-
A paper-pulp chimney, 80 feet high,
has been erected in BTestau, Germany.
1t is chemically prepared to resist com
bustion.
Geo. w. Mackey, of Erie county, o.,
died in sleeping car as it was entering
Cincinnati over the Southern road We'd
nesday.
W. j.. Murphy, proprietor of the larg-
est Touring mill in Louisville, made an
assignment OF all his property. Liabil-
tiles unknown. ..
Great prairie fire in Nebraska, near
Lincoln, burning crops, barns. hay
stacks, granaries; several people missing
and many homeless. ''
A faro bank-in Arizona has trap door
in. the floor through which the players
can let their watches down into pawn
shop underneath without leaving their
seats. ..1aes 10 .-r |u"u.
Striking bricklayers at Chicago are
sending out committees to meet and ex-
plain the situation to all labOrers COM
ing In. In this way many have been
turned back. .l 81. .......
Minnesota has had q good lumber
winter, Wisconsin has not, and Maine
has cut more timber than 1t can saw.
Minnesota has cut 35,00O,000 feet, and
Wisconsin 159.50O,OOO. .ts 1.f.a =. -
A New York clergyman who receives
salary of $4,000 ssyeaS, and q pew in
whose church costs as much as the mod
est support of a family, warns young
men against entering the race for
wealth.
The Connecticut House of Representa-
tives has passed q bill forbidding rail-
roads in that State from discriminating
In freight rates by charging proportion
ately more for short distance than a
long one. tll i.ts.
Rev. j. Hyatt Smith, Of Brooklyn, hav-
Ing Just settled at 80 cents on the dollar,
a debt of 81, 100, incurred durinRlhis last
race for Congress, considers himself per-
manently retired from public life and is
thankful.
At Greenville, ILL.,, Charles Fondree, a
labOrer, was struck by anwrench falling
from above, which knocked him through
an elevator of the sugar works. He fell
seven stories, go feet, and was picked up
q shapeless mass. . a-.
Bankers Of Cincinnati say that the
proposed Whisky ExpOIt Association, If
1t carries out it's plans, will render safe
the loans upon bonded spirits ware
house receipts, which have heretofore
been accepted at risk.
The highest sum reaized by George
Eliot for any one Of her later works was
S75, 600, while the lowest she received
was $4,000. Scott obtained only $500
for Wayerly, while Mics Burney was
paid only 800 for Evelina. J.eLI
The Wool Growers Exchange at Steu-
benville appointed John, W. TTemier re-
ceiysr. The liabilities are $4,000, and
the assets sufficient to pay 8 per cent.
The creditors are farmers living in Ohio,
Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
The Atlanta Constitution says: 1.-THE
weather will soon be so warm that color
ed peOplein the country can't burn their
children by locking them in the house
and going off to church. Some other
simple plan will have to be invented"
Twenty prisoners in the Tarrant cOun-
ty, Texas, iail Oyerpowered the guards
on Monday evening, tore down the tele-
phone, took all the arms and ammuni-
tiOn they could find and fled. They were
pursued by mounted men with blood
hounds, and seventeen of them recap
tured.
The last spike was driven Wednesday
at the Tennessee and Kentucky state
line, connecting the Knoxville branch
of the Louisville and Nashville railroad
with the East Tennessee road. This
makes a direct line from Knoxville to
Louisville, 260 miles.
The ffteen-year-Old son of Spotted
Tail, who has been attending school in
Carlisle, Pa died of consumption, on
board of passenger train on the Pitts
burgh, Fit. Wayne g Chicago Railroad.
He was in charge of a Government ply
sician, en- route to his western home.
Judge Nathan Price was found dead
in his Office at Troy, Kansas, Thursday
afternoon, apparently as If he had died
while asleep; but there are circumstan;
ces which lead to the suspicion he COM
mitted suicide. He was one of the old
est residents Of DOniphan county, and a
lawyer of high standing.
Observers have noted tendency of
late among portion of the colOred vot-
ers to drift toward the Democratic party.
This has been especially marked i'm Kan
sas, where the large eOlOred emigration
Of few years ago has been scattered
over the State and given fair oppOrtu-
nifty to show its worth and leanings.
In reply to an inquiry from Bucyrus
last Friday, Attorney General Nash gave
an opinion that at the coming election
one could vote for both of the propOsed