The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-01-05
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
TOF lcs of the Times Given in Terse and
Spicy Manner.
The European situation appears brighter

200 population
Reports favorable TO Prince Frederick Will
ianl's recovery continue.
The Irish privy council has decided to sup
press the league in Dublin.
The Columbus tally sheet forgery cases
have been set for January %
Bostons net debt is S27, ,697 ,5ss Al, an in
crease of 81, Pa, 1876 during 1881.
Il Is said Gladstone will seek to influence
the pope to favor Irish home rule
The Peters Pence collected at the Pope,
jubilee mass in Rome amounted to RSO,OOO
Oscar Coger, colored, was hanged by
mob at Cherokee, Ala, for alleged incen-
diarism.
Ella Overshiner is on trial at Anderson,
Ind, for the murder Of Dayton Warfield, in
July last.
Calvin Peass San Antonio, Texas, blew OFF
the whole top Of his head with dynamite
cartridge.
Oscar Cogsr cOlored, was hanged by a
mob at Cherokee, Ala, charged with in
cendiarism
Fifty Pittsburg boys had a fight, and
Joseph johnson, aged ten, was fatally shot
in the abdomen.
George Couts, aged thirteen, was run over
and killed by cars in the yard of the Toledo
& Ohio, at Bucyrus
The great thirty-six inch objective of the
Lick telescope at San Jose, Cal, has been
successfully mounted
Mrs, Cute, the oldest woman in Pennsyl-
vania, died at Johnstown, on Sunday, aged
one hundred and eight years.
John Mack, a colored gambler from Rich
mond, Ind, shot and killed Frank Ball,
colored, in Chicago saloon.
Syl Bassett has been sentenced at Shelby
ville KY, to the penitentiary for fift cen
| years for the killing of his brother
Judge Irwin has charged the grand jury at
indianapolis to make thorough investiga-
tion Of the tally sheet forgery cases.
James Robinson has been sent to the peni-
tenriary, to assist "Blinky" Morgan in pre-
pairing for trip to the other country.
Dan Duncan, South Chicago contractor,
has been indicted for dafrauding the Cum
mings school district out of a large sum of
money.
Greed Cardwell slayer of James A. Hun
ter, at Nichoasyille KY, has been refused
bail. He will be defended by Phil Thomp-
son. ST..
near Somerset, eleven persons are known to
have been killed and several others fatally
injured.
The Reading railroad has passed out of
the hands Of the receivers and the officers
have assumed full control upon the order Of
the court.
In a juvenile fight in Pittsburg in which
about fifty boys participated, Joseph john
7on, aged ten years, was shot in the abdomen
md fatally wounded.
Senator Sawyer, of Wisconsin, says: LA
mar is plagued sight better man for Sill
preme justice than any one else that could be
got from ,hat district
Ties ondtrails were placed across the NASH
vile, Chattanooga q st. Louis railroad near
South Pitt'purg. A passenger train. stFscli
them, but no one was hurt.
Eight lsSne county, Missouri, regulators
have been indicted by the grand jury for at
tempting to tar and feather settler named
Hoover. Three are in jail
One hundred and fifty worlmen at the
Charlotte furnace, in the Pittsburg coke
regions have gone on a strike, refusing to
accept the twelve and half per cent. re-
duction.
Justice George +. Haynesworth of Sump-
ter, S, c., who was shot and killed in the
tragedy growing ont of the Bowman Keels
fued, fired the first shot in the civil war from
Morris island
Five Indian scouts who mutined at San
Carlos, Cal, last June, have been sentenced
respectively to two, ten, fifteen and twenty
years confinement at hard labor, at Fort
Leavenworth.
Beginning this week fast vestible train is
TO be run from Boston through to Jackson
vile, Fla, without change, on schedule
that is quite as fast as that between New
York and Chicago,
The Kingston tenants have decided that
the reduction of rents of the land commits
sion are insufficient. A German police plot
to produce outrages in Switzerland to reflect
on Socialists has been discovered
Roumania is preparing for war She has
fixed the number of recruits for 1888 at A.
5O0-a large increase. The arsenal and state
railway factories are working day and
night Roumania can put 800 900 men in the
field
Mrs. Sarah B. McConkey, aged eighty
three, widow of Westchester, Pa, worth
$40, 900, died suddenly while alone with her
Ctt in her elegant mansion. She had lived a
kimit life, and has no children to inherit her
vaIt property
"Old man Kelly" of No Mans land, whose
wicked family was recently hung and shot by
vigilantes was also captured by the avengers
and hanged, after confesing that he and his
family had murdered and robbed nine men
and two women.
December gross receipts of the government
were s20, ,325, ,!S5; expenditures, $40, 4OO,BS9;
net gain, SlS,924,603. Out of this will lie
paid $3,5O000O public deoJ interest, leaving
an actual surplus Of $l5, ,424, ,jU3 The public
debt was reduced lj,25O,OOO during the
month. During the calendar year of lSS; it
was reduced Sll1,0lG,000.
Respite Committed.