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

UOu mlgnC De increased % q cent II
our merchants would advertise literally.
LONDON, Aug. 2.-Roda won the race
for the Goodwood cup today.
LONDON, Aug. 3.-At the Goodwood
races today, Stowhead won the Good
wood stakes easily in a field of six.
PARIS, Aug. 3-The Empress of Bra
I'll has gone to Londress to offer thanks
for her husbands restoration.
NEW YORK, Aug. 8. -[Special.]-A
mar jumped off the Brooklyn bridge
this morning, but was picked up by an
excursion boat, alive, Name as yet un-
known.
ToNAwANDA, N. Y. Aug. 3.-[Spe-
cial.-Upwards of one thousand Lake
Erie longshoremen have struck. Their
grievance consists Of opposition to
working with scabs.
YOUNGSTOWN, o., Aug. 1.-Alexan-
der McKinnie, a former pioneer of
Youngstown, died last evening at the
hotel Anderson in Pittsburg. Mr. Nc
Kinnie was in his seth year.
BERLIN, Aug. at is current rumor
that the EmperOrs of Germany and
Austria will meet the Gar on the Rus
sian frontier early in Autumn to ar
range for the peace of Europe.
LoCKLAND, O., Aug. 3.-[Special. l.
Friends paper mill at this place was
destroyed by fire this morning. Loss
fo,+x fbo,,.no5 doIIara A Iar0n ~
Der of hands are thrown out of employ
ment.
ST. PAUL, Aug. Especial dis
patches received here declare the pros
poets for obtaining the consent of Il e
Sioux Indians to forfeit the Dakota
reservation are very slight. Sitting
Bull refuses emphatically to sign.
NEW YORK, Aug. 3.ISpecial. IA
large attendance of representatives of
different railroads III the Southwest and
Mexico, is in session here for the pur-
pose of forming an International Rail
road Association.
SHELBY, O, Aug. &c. W. Mann,
the East Side boot aud shoe merchant
and the largest dealer in the city, was
closed by the sheriff last evening. He
assigned to w. II. Hildebrant. Liabil-
tiles $1,000; assets $4,000.
CINCINNATI, Aug, Especial 1.-The
heat here today is intense, perhaps the
hottest day Of the season. A great
many sunstrokes have occurred and the
entire patrol force and wagons are en-
ployed in relieving the distress that
prevails.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 3.--[Special.%-
The charge is made here that custom
officers at Port Townsend, w. T.. are
regularly engaged in the smuggling of
opium and Chinese into this country,
and that they receive weekly salaries
for connivance in the crime.
CAMBRIDGE, o., Aug. ESPECIAL
William Canade, a rich farmer here,
has been arrested for beating his old
mother to death because she was in the
way. Lynching IS probable. There is
intense indignation and loud threats,
to raid the jail and string him up.
MARION, ILL.,, Aug. Especial. IA
large company has purchased 10000
acres of land in this vicinity and will
begin boring for oil and gas. The work
is under the direction of Jonathan
Watson, an experienced oil man of
Pennsylvania, who is confident of sue
cess.
NEW YORK, August Especial. l.
Robert Morris, an Elevated R. r. ticket
agent has been arrested for the theft of
$500 worth of tickets. The arrest is
important, because it is the first under
the auspices of the new company which
insures corporations against the dis
honesty of employees.
CHICAGO, Aug. Especial. THE
police this morning found a powerful
electric battery in the house of Hess
the man who was supposed to have
murdered his wife and then suicided.
The police think that Hess, who had
the rheumatism, accidently killed his
wife, and then suicided in remorse.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. Especial.
w. r. Colby, for whom the police
have been searching for fifteen years,
has been located here. He is acting as
a spiritualist medium, and was once a
Baptist preacher. In 1872 he robbed a
mail car near Austin, Texas, for which
crime he is now wanted.
CHICAGO, Aug. 2.-[Special .]-Hon.
j. 9. Jones, the Union Labor candidate
for governor of this state is here, In
an interview he says: cleveland will
be elected and that the country is fast
crystalizing against the Protection
hobby" His talk has created some
CONSERVATION here among Rnpublican
Politicians.
NEW YORK, Aug. Especial. 1.-The
Mother of Gertie Lord, of Albany, has
given her consent that her
daughter may marry Steve Brodie, the
who swan from Albany to
New York on a wager. The girl fol-
lowed him to this city, where both were
arrested. This marriage will settle the
controversy.
New YORK, Aug. 2. Especial. l.
of life are Icing talk d f today. James
Rue, once worth a hundred thousand
dollars was found drunk and %penniless
the streets and sent to the poor
house. After long search Catharine
Godfrey has been found in the poor
house and put in possession Of a for
tune of fifty thousand dollars.
COLUMBUS, o., Aug. 2.-ISpecial. l.
General Wallcut received a letter this
morning from Welsh, a dentist at Ra-
VIENNA, Ohio, which says the writer cal
prove Blinky Morgan's innocence and
asks to be given a hearing by the Gov
ernor. Welsh says he has a confession
to make. Governor Foraker is at Gin
The letter creates a sensation
here.
AKRON, o., Aug. "A big sensation
was created here last evening by the
arrest of DR.. W. H. Chamberlain Oh a