The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-06-17
The DEMOCRATIC PRESS.
SD. HARRIS & SON PUBLISHERS AND EDITORS
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Advance.
THE year 1886 is nearly half gone,

THE Apaches are terrorizing the
white people of Arizona Territory.
The commencement exercises of the
Rayenna High School will take place
at Reeds Opera House tonight.
The Prohibitionists of the XIXth
District hold their Congressional con-
vention at Warren today.
The salOonists must pay the first
installment this week, or be subject to
the penalty of $500.
ONE HUNDRED natives and ten En-
glish persons lost their lives through
the eruption of the volcano Tarawera,
in New Zealard.
TEN million feet of lumber, a saw
mill, planning mill. two railroad bridges
and several houses were destroyed by
fire at Muscatine, Iowa, on Saturday
last.
THE Secretary of the Treasury has
imposed a fine of $4OO upon the Span
ish schooner Chlottlde for violating
the law, in not properly entering at
Cedar Keys, Fla.
THE Democratic State Central Com
mittee meeting at Columbus Thursday
last was well attended, and much in
terest was manifested in the proceed
ings. It was decided to hold the next
State Convention in Toledo Wednes-
day, August 18th.
THE State election of Oregon took
place on the 9TH inst. and the Repub-
icans didn't sweep everything before
them, which accounts for their not
getting up on their hind legs and
shouting. The State went Democrat
ic for the first time in many years.
ABvICEs from New Zealand bring
the intelligence of q disastrous volcan-
ic eruption, accompanied by earth
quake shocks at Taranera, in the pro-
vince of WairO. The town has been
almost wholly destroyed, and hun
dreds of natives and Europeans have
perished.
THE "rug" swindle is the latest.
This is the modus operandi: A ped
dler will call at house and sell a good
rug at a fair price, and few days later
a confederate calls, says the rug was
stolen, and rather than have any trOu-
BILE, the rug is generally surrendered
and sold again.
PRINCE LEOPOLD has issued proc
lamation declaring the insanity of the
King of Bavaria and that of his son
Otto. and announcing that in view of
these circumstances it became neces
sary for Leopold to assume the regen-
cy. The people take to the change
naturally anu without dissent.
WORD comes from Limestone, Ida
no, that four horse thieves who had
been hanging around for some time
pounced upon by party of vigilants
last Friday week, and strung to d tree
in canyon southeast of town. Some
persons going that way discovered the
ifeless bodies dangling.
On Friday last the engineer of an
l.. B. & w. freight train saw child
on the track three miles south of Tiff
fin. He got out on the cowcatcher,
reached forward and pushed the child
off the track into the ditch before the |
train struck 1t. He stopped the train |
and carried the child to it's home, un.
conscious. Its chin and neck are bad
ly cut, but it will recover. The child |
is aged two. and the son of Joseph |
Lonsway.
THERE are in this country 26O, 600 |
Indians, and counting five to family, |
there are $1,000 heads to families. |
These red people occupy, to the exclu-
sion of So, 600, 600 of white and colored |
people, 134 900, 900 acres of land. There |
is about $500 acres to each family. |
Nor is this all. In addition to more |
landed property than any other people |
on earth, they have in invested and |
uninvested sums about $I7, ,OOO, 600 be- |
sides their horses, cattle and crops. In |
spite of their enormous wealth they |
are paupers, and Congress ann ually |
appropriates from S., ,OOO, 900 to 81 ,OOO,-
900 to feed and clothe them.
Fearful Riots.
A series of bloody riots occurred at |
Belfast, Ireland, ON the night of the |
Sth inst, during the progress of which |
fullV one ,hundrad h0nSes owned hu