The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-04-12

ing matter in her hosiery.
MCKINLEY and the Republicans
want to make whisky cheap and cloth
ing dearer.
MAJOR GEN. ALFRED h. TERRY
has been placed on the retired army
list. Gen. Crook has been appointed
to the vacancy.
A DESTRUCTIVE wind storm swept
over portions of Minnesota, last week.
prostrating and unroofing buildings,
leyeling telegraph poles, and doing |
other damage.
J,R. ROGERS, of Lorain, o.. had on
exhibition in Cleveland, last week,
type setting machine, which he is san
Suine will prove success In speed
and faultless composition.
THE American Medical Association
will convene in Cincinnati May llth.
About two Thousand delegates are ex-
pected to be ia attendance. The ses'
sion is to be three days.
THE potato harvest is now in pro-
press in Southern California, and the
cron sells for about 81 bushel. Two
crops may be taken from the same
piece of ground inside of year.
ARRANGEMENTS are being made to
celebrate General U. s. Grants birth
day in New York by dinner at Del
monico's. Gen. Sherman heads the
committee of arrangements.
ARE the people to be compelled
by Congress to wear cotton goods IN
the winter or go without, to give boun-
ties to wool growers and wool manu-
facturers ?-[ Majority Beport on the
Mills Bill.
THE marble statue of President Gar
field, is nearly finished, and will be
nlaced in position in May. 1t is OF
heroic size and in Carrara marble. 1t
is for the crypt of the tomb in Lake
View Cemetery.
JACOB SHARP, of Doodle notoriety,
died at 9:2O O'Clock Thursday evening.
He had been unconscious for some
time before his death, His final illness
was capillary bronchitis, complicated
with heart and kidney disease and dl-
abetes.
IT is estimated that fifty persons
have committed suicide at Monte Car
10 during the past three months. while
the receipts of the establishes games
mt that place were during the same
time largely increased.
OHIO PATRIOT: Republicans in the
Legislature are against the two cent
oer mile railroad fare bill, and want it
postponed for year. There is an af-
finity between Republicans and any
thing that is tainted with monopoly,
which cannot be severed.
CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE was not a
rich man. His estate, including the
Washington home, will not exceed
$s3, zoe, with an additional $5. 200 in
surance on his life. A movement Is
being made in his native city to raise
a fund in addition to what Congress
may see fit to appropriate.
THE government of Morocco has
replied to United States Consul Lewis,
refusing to sccede to the demands OF
the American Government with ref
erence to the imprisonment OF Rabal'
Tt is expected that American war SHIPS
will take vigorous measures to enforce
the demands.
Now THERE is trouble in the Ger
man camp. The iron prince threatens
to resign because of the proposed mar
risge of Prince Alexander and Prln-
cess Victoria Queen Victoria favors
the match, and Bismarck will doubt
less find it easier to curb restless ma
tien than the will of woman in affairs
of matrimony.
EX-SENATOR CoNKLING has been
seriously and critically ill, caused by
an abscess in his head, threatening his
brain. He is now convalescent, and
his physicians pronounce him out of
danger.
Later advices show Senator Conk
ling's condition to be much more serl-
ous than at first announced. de has
had to submit to a delicate surgical
operation, and at last advices the issue
seemed evenly balanced between life
and death.
ON the morning of the 5th inst. a
west bound train on the Milwaukee q
ST. Paul road plunged through bro
ken bridge into the Wapita River,
and several coaches were submerged
in the waters, which were at flood tide.
Thirteen dead and nearly thirty in
iured were taken from the wreck.
B, H. BREWSTER, U. 8 Attorney
General during President Arthur's ad-
ninistration, and during whose term
of Office the famous star route cases
were pushed to conclusion, died ear
ly the morning of the 4th, at his home
in Philadelphia, aged II years. He
was one of the oldest and most proml
nsnt members of the Philadelphia bar.
THE Alabama State Monument AS
sociation have a nearly completed me-
mortal, to be placed in Montgomery,
in honor of the Confederate dead. The
monument will be sixty feet in height,
thirty.six feet square at the base, and
will have heroic figures in bronze, rep
xesenting patriotism, the army, the
navy, history and valor.
Listen to the Cincinnati Post, an
sndependent paper: "If Grover Cleve-
land shall live, it now seems certain
that he will be nominated, and that
he will poll more votes than in the
election four years ago. The great
bugbear that Democratic admins
aration would ruin the country has