The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-07-08
THE President has signed the Fitz
John Porter bill.

The PRESIDENT mas signed the EltZ
John Porter bill.
THE public debt was decreased $9,-
O6l O6l during the month of June.
THE usual number of accidents from
the discharge of firearms and fireworks
are reported.
EX SENATOR MCDONALD, of Indi-
ana, is mentioned as the successor of
Secretary Manning.
PORTAGE COUNTY will be entitled
to six delegates in the next Democrat
ic State Convention, to be held in
Toledo August 18th and 18th.
Two boys, from to 10 years of age,
sons of Hon. George Fl. Foster, were
drowned while bathing in Tinker's
Creek, near Bedford, on Monday.
THE credit of the United States now
stands at the head of civilised nations
of the earth, having lately passed that
of England. And Cleveland, not
Blaine, is President of the u. S.
The Ohio Supreme Court has ad-
jeurned till September Goth, without
having decided upon the validity of
the Dow law. Their course is gener-
ally condemned.
THE meeting of Ohio Republican
editors projected to have been held in
Columb bus today. to get up hullabalo
over the Payne investigation matter,
has been abandoned.
PROHIBITION went into effect in
Georgia at midnight last week We'd
nesday night, and everybody got jolly
be no more drunkenness in that State
now, of course!
THE Republican organs in Ohio are
pitching into Senators Teller, Evarts
and Logan in a very savage manner.
for their position in regard to the
Payne investigation.
DURING the celebration at Warren,
On Saturday, while firing cannon near
the park Charles Egbert and Winfield
Ward were severely and perhaps ia,
tally burned. The cannon hung fire
and they attempted to ram it again
when it went off, burning Ward SC
badly that both hands will have to be
amputated. Egbert's injuries are about
the left shoulder and arm, and are &C
bad that he may lose an arm. There
was a tremendous crowd in the city
On Wednesday evening last Irwin
Miles, while engaged in sinking 8
well on a farm five miles north OF
Jackson, Mich, was buried alive by
its caving in. Bystanders, by means
of long gas pipe which they forced
through the loose earth, succeeded in
reaching him, enabling him to breathe
and talk to them through the pipe fol
over an hour and half. The unfor
tunate man implored them to rescue
him, but it required three hours O
life was extinct.
A DESTRUCTIVE conflagration oc
CURED at Cuyahoga Falls last Thurs
day evening. 1t was discovered abeu
half past seven, starting in big two
story frame building, which was soor
destroyed, together with much valua
BILE stock, all belonging to the Pheni1
lumber works. From here it spread
to a frame building on the Harrison
estate, then to the Sterling chair
works, and from there to the Empir'
paper mills. Both of the latter build
ings were saved after receiving sligh
scorching. Aid was telegraphed TO
from Akron. Losses are about $35, 900
with 5000 insurance.
STARK Co. DEMOCRAT: The man
ufacturing interest in England sWep
aside her protective policy, and after
ward built that country up to be th'
foremost among commercial nations
The same thing will come about il
this country. Industrial development
has reached that point when our home
markets are too narrow to consume
our home production. Many New
ENGLAND manufacturers nave come u
the conclusion that a protective policy
no longer protects.
On the oath of June last year whea
was S1.OO a bushel in the Wooster
market. Then Ohio had Democrat
ic icGovernor.a Democratic Legislature
a Democratic Supreme Court, and ne
Dow LIQUOR tax law. On the 23d o
June this year - last week whea
brought only rs cents per bushel in the
Wooster market. Ohio has now {
Republican Governor, a Republican
Legislature, a Republican Supreme
Court, and Dow liquor tax law. The
Republican politicians last fall told us
we must have change. The people
listened to them and voted for {
change, and they got it, but farmer:
get 25 cents less per bushel for theil
wheat II Wayne Co. Dem.
THE commerce of the world is in
creasing every year-dOubling in less
than a generation; the supply of gold
which is the only measure of thai
commerce, is less than it was twenty