The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-08-09

ST. LOUIS, Aug. Especial. EJoe.
Farney and Harry Nikirk, of Pitts
burg, fought a match this morning
with skin gloves, Farney won.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Aug. 3.@Spe-
cial. -Reports from the yellow fever
districts continue more alarming, fears
are expressed of a general scourge.
P~1TTsBuRe, Aug.'4.-[special.- The
strike is off at the Pittsburg Iron and
Forge Co. The men have taken the
ten per cent reduction.
CINCINNATI, Aug. 4.HTSpocial. 1.-The
awful heat continues. No news, no
signs of rain. The streets are deserted.
The death list among children is fright
full.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4~.-{Special. i
Congressman Outwaite, of Ohio, says
he does not believe his Pacific Railroad
bill will be considered in the House this
session.
WORCESTER, Mass, Aug. 4.ISpe-
cial. Judge O'Din Thayer, Probate
Judge of this county, suicided with a
razor. Temporary insanity the sup
posed cause.
LONDON, Aug. 3.-The American play
"The Still Alarm" made a tremendous
hit here last night, especially the fire
engine house scene, which vas long
and intensely applauded.
CINCINNATI, o., Aug. 4.-[Special.E
John Robinson, the veteran Snowman,
died this morning aged eighty years.
He was a mule driver on the canal in.
his boyhood. He left an estate valued
at 100000.
NEW YORK, Aug. 4.-TSpecial.1-
There is likely to be a strike of the
hearse drivers of this city. The under
takers have just passed a resolution
that drivers appearing at funerals with
out tile hats will be sent away without
their pay.
XENIA, o., Aug. ~4.-lSpecial. Ire
ceiver BOIL, of the Second National
Bank has sued James Carson for a note
of eighty thousand dollars. Carson re-
fuses to pay, and says that the note was
given to cover cashier Ankenny's en-
bezzlements.
WASHINGTON, Aug. Especial. l.
Signor Moreno, for years an earnest OPP
ponent of the Padrone system has
written the King of Italy a letter, offer
ing to prove that the Italian consuls
in this country abet and encourage the
system.
MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 4.-[Special.-
Mr.. Washburn, president of the $500"
road, says Cullom's resolution on Can
adian roads is the result of jealousy at
Chicago and the East. He says the
American roads are largely owned in
Europe.
New YORK, Aug. 4.-[Special. THE
Ford investigation at Castle Garden is
having the effect of driving Italians
back to italy by the hundreds. 1t is
remarked that at least 600 went back
this week. One steamer alone is said to
have carried three hundred.
WILKEsBARRE, Pa, Aug. 3.-[Spe-
cial. THE Knights of Labor will spend
sixteen thousand dollars in advertising
in foreign newspapers showing the
deplorable condition of foreign LABOR in
this country. They consider this the
best protection that a be afforded
American workmen.
PITTsBURe, Aug.2.-Agreat sensation
was created here this morning at the
Metropolitan Hotel. Mary Patton, a
woman of remarkable beauty, but not
of good repute, from Johnstown, Pa,
shot and killed dead the well known
Pennsylvania Rail Road conductor
Charles Lewis. She then shot herself.
Both died at about the same time. The
animus of the affair is not known,
but is is supposed to be a case of love
and desertiOn.
HARTFORD, Conn, Aug. 2.-[Special.l
-While the Republicans are working
the manufacturers of this State hard
for support of the tariff, at the national
election, it is not believed that they
can carry the State. One of the mem
bers of the State Executive Committee
having returned from a recent trip is
not afraid of the manufacturers sup
port. He says the recent labor troubles
has put it out of the hands of a manu-
facturer to bulldoze his employees,
New YORK, Aug, Especial. Jack
Havlin and Frank Murphy fought forty
nine desperate rounds to a draw early
this morning near Peekskill. Both
were frightfully punished. The fight
was for one thousand dollars and the
light weight championship. Murphy
is twenty-five and weighs one hundred
and seventeen. Havlin is t%wenty-nine,
weighs one hundred and eighteen.
Plummer was referee. J.. Collins Sec
onded Havlin, and Ed. Holske second
ed Murphy.
BURLINGTON, Mo-, Aug. 2.--[Special.1
Two years ago Jack Morgan and
Sarah Winters went for a ride. The
next morning the horse was
found near a small railway
station. 1t was supposed they had
eloped, though friends greatly worried
because nothing was ever heard of
them. Yesterday morning a farmer
named Thornton found two skeletons
in a deserted wood patch. Bits of
clothing, rings and other jewelry found
on the spot, identified the skeletons as
those of the missing pair. There is no
clew as to how they came there. The
entire affair is a mystery.
BROOKLYN, N. Y, Aug. ESPECIAL
The Excise board held heated meet
ing here last night, investigating the
death of John Leach who died in front
of the Charities Hospital on Elm street.
The testimony developed the fact that
Leach died of hunger and exposure
He fell on the pavement and was
taken to the Long Island Hospital
where he was refused admission, be-
cause the mar had nothing to identify
him. Others refused him admission
on various preteXts. At last in desti-
tuition they started to take him to the
County Hospital and the man died on
the way. 1t was also learned that sew
eral other cases of the same kind were
reported to the board. 1t was resolved
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