The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-04-14
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Al Lake Clty, COlOraQ0, Alfred FacK6r
accused of numbering five companions
was found guilty. U.
A mob at Wytheville, Va, took VIM.
Crockett from jail and hung him. He
had murdered Joseph Hurt.
At Columbus, Georgia, the steamer
| Wylly struck the bridge at Fort Gaines
and sunk. Ten lives we're lost.
Even Medina county made fine Demo-
cratic gains, WadswOrth and Seville
upsetting ye Republican party.
The majorities in Michigan against
the Republicans range from one to eight
thousand. What does it all meanp {. I
Speaker Hodge says the Poker Legis-
lature sent the Republican party hell
bent to Salt river last Fall. The Speaker
| ought to know.
The star route trial at Washington is
running it's 10Th week, andIMiner, one of
the defendants, has been on the wit
ness stand this week. HE ....
Secretary Chandler ought to feel per-
| fectly at home in Florida, as 1t has been
only few years since he took leading
part in stealing t1at state.
At Paterson, New Jersey, on the 9th,
Barnet, Democrat, was elected Mayor by
four hundred majority. At Trenton too
the Democrats swept the board.
Can the piOus Republican party of
Massachusetts carry such horrors as
those at Tewksbury aims house. Is not
| Governor 1. Butler bringing things to
light? ., s. IaT ..I.a-.a
Jefferson wrote that "great cities are
pestilential to the morals, health, and
liberties of man." and to-day everybody
Is swarming into great cities; not en-
cOuraging for the future. "
At Amada, Michigan, Philip Short was
caught by buzz saw, one arm and leg
sawed off, the other leg sawed length
wise, and he then fell off and cracked
his skull. He lived three hours.
The Newark Advocate will hereafter
be published by stock company, j. A.
Caldwell having disposed of his interest.
j. A. Newton will continue to edit the
paper under the new Management. ..
Governor Foster has done good thing
In appointing Hon. j. Q. Johnson, of Sc
willie, Medina county. Trustee of the
Cleveland Insane Asylum. Mr.. Johnson
is a deserving gentleman and II thorough
Democrat. ...... ....... ....l ... ...
The people of Wayne county, by a vote
of 4840 yeas to 802 noes, voted to en-
power the County Commissioners to
settle with the bOndsmen of Koch and
Helman for not less than % cents on
the dollar. il... ..-..... ....I.u .. ..
Lille G. Darst, editress Of the Circle
willie Herald, and engrOssing clerk of the
Ohio senate, died suddenly Wednesday
evening in Chicago, whittier she had
gone to be treated by a cousin doctor.
Her age was 36.
Ex-senator Thurman's recent serious
accident occurred as he was hurrying
down stairs to get paper from a news
| boy. His foot caught In the carpet, and
he fell forward two steps to the hall
floor. He was carried to his loom, when
it was found that his left arm was
squarely broken just below the elbow.
In 100 days of unremitting labor the
Pennsylvania Legislature has passed
twelve bills, five of which we're vetoed,
and the vetOes sustained. Had Governor
Foster the veto power, and used 1t as
| freely as Governor PattisOn, the record
of the Ohio Legislature for the same
lime would be as good as that OF Penn
BylVaniR. .
In the suit of Lizzie Cannon VS. Fa,
ther Fleming at Boston, which was
brought to recover 5000 damages, be-
cause the latter, q Catholic Priest, had
taken away some paper images to which
the child had become attached, causing
alleged serious injury to her health and
mental condition, the jury brought In
verdict of one cent damages. 49,. '..l
AT YOung gstOwn last Wednesday Mrs.
John Eaton was arrested charged by her
husband with living in adultery with
q man named Kelley, Is now left alone
and penniless. Her husband, after her
arrest, refused to prosecute, and left for
his home inlWellsVille. accompanied by
his little girl, 8 years old. Kelley re-
fused to live with the woman or support
her. .-..r.... .. ... -u, .y.I. .-u..
They accuse Judge Trip of Carrollton.
editor of the Free Press, the Mckinley
organ, of having bOlted and gone back
on a part of the regular Republican
ticket. They are all doing 1t. Even in
Canton, one part Of the late defeated Re-
publican ticket accuses another part not
defeated so badly, of having traded off
and sold out the one part referred to. 1t
Is sad. s.. .............. ...........
Henry Benson, of Philadelphia, who
has much practical knowledge of the
subject, discountenances the idea that
lOng-distance telephoning will ever en-
| ter into commercial use. Men are not
going to do business on the mere
strength of sound. "The telephone" he
says, Represents honor, but that is all; /;
it Is not record fit for trading opera
| tiOns."
In the Tewksbury aims home inVesti-
cation Thursday Frank Barker, formerly
ks
| the beds were in filthy condition In
the male wards. He had charge of the
| bathing of the male patients in a tank
ten by fifteen feet and one foot deep.
As many as eighty-fOur patients bathed
in the same water, which was rarely
changed. The patients would object to
going in and would be put in by force.
The shocking revelations at Tewks-
bury continue. When nurses give NOR
phine to foundlings to keep them quiet,
and insane assistants put pillows over
the faces of worrying children, no won
der the rate of mortality among these
little patients has been terrible. The
evidence of the night nurse as to the
ravages of rats among the dead, and
their fierce attacks on living patients,
is shocking. This nurse said she used
to have seYenty-five women and children
under her charge, with only an insane
girl as an assistant. The revelations
regarding the common bath tub have
Just been added to the rest. As to the
main subject of inquiry, there has now
been abundant testimony to show that
cofins had been robbed OF their contents
after the friends OF the dead had sup
posed them securely buried. All this In
Massachusetts,.