The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-04-19
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Topics of the Times Given in Terse and
Spicy Manner.


at Sunbright, Tenn.
Sale of tickets for the Sim Coy benefit ball
at Indianapolis reaches 2,3iO
Grand Army department of Kentucky
meets ut Maysville next Tuesday.
New York assembly has voted to submit
| prohibition amendment to the people Of the
state.
| At Brookville, Ind, Joseph Lpchte drew
revolver on j. B. Hotel aud shot his own
fifteen -year-old son.
The flood at Grand Rapids, Mich, is be-
coming serious Merchants on the water
front are moving out
AT Chillicothe, O., Rudolph Stephen got
out of domestic difficulties by firing a shot.
gun through his stomach.
Suspicious are aroused at West Lafayette,
O., that Samuel Wiggins, reported to have
suicded last Monday, was murdered.
The one -year-old child of Robert Pen at
Paducah, KY, was burned to DEATH Its
clothing caught from fire in the yard.
Jerry Smith, coored, was lynched at Tip
| tonville, KY, early Wednesday morning for
raping white girl twelve years of age
Amos Hackett aged fifty-eight, ex-treas.
urer and ex-auditor Of Clinton county, Ohio,
died at Wilmington of nervous prostration
It is rumored in Toledo that Hon. Judge
M. Turnkey, supreme judge of Pennsylvania,
will be the successor OF the late Chief Justice
Waite.
James Chapman is willing to risk his life
for $50 by jumping from the highest span
Of the Evansville, Ind, river bridge next
Sunday.
Mrs. Adam Bussard dropped dead while
attending public sale at the residence of
Martin Heckathorn, near North Manchester
Indiana.
The aged mother of Gen. Sheridan is in
feeble health at her home in Somerset O.,
and is losing the faculty of memory to
large extent.
Instructive lectures by Dr. J. H. Clemmer
to the prisoners under twenty-one years of
age, is one Of the new features of the Colum-
bus penitertiary.
Geore Schleisher, a saloonkeeper at Okla
Iona, O., committed suicide by hanging him
self in his ice house. He leaves a wife and
several children.
Eugene Cassidy, city brewery collector of
Youngstown, O., who left there under
81 900 embezzlement cloud, has been arrested
at JaneSville, Wis
William Endcott, a fourteen-year-o
hopeful of Connersvile, Ind is sent up as
incorrigihe for trying to discipline his parent
with butcher knife.
The Hamka Iron Fence company, of
Springfield, o., has made on assignment. The
estimated liabilities are $4,000, with assets
not over half as much.
AT New Straitsville, O., James Nixon. a
pioneer, dropped dead Of heart disease. He
was one of the first settlers at that place, and
helped to lay out the town.
Mrs. John Guess Of Muhlenberg county.
Kentucky, attempted to take her own life
while under the influence of morphine by
cutting her throat with razor.
Julius Strelitz, who was appointed treas
urer by the commissioners last week, has
taken charge of the Marion county. OHIO.
treasury, with George B. Scofeld as deputy.
Blanche Everett shot herself through the
heart in the house of ill-repute in Atlanta.
A letter from her parents in Detroit proved
on her spirits, causing her to commit the
deed.
Clarence Geiger and Edward Gibson, of
Smithvitle, o., were found guilty of defac-
ing school building, and were assessed 500
dne and committed to the work house until
paid.
The Presbytery of Indianapolis has elected
Gen. Benjamin Harrison commissioner to
the general assembly of the Presbyterian
church, which is to meet in Philadelphia on
May II.
At Union City, Ind, Simon Branham, an
aged and highly respected citizen, was found
dead in his bed He was eighty three years
Of age Paralysis of the heart was the sup
posed cause.
Mrs. R. D. Reeves, of Bellevue, O., asked
her husband to move the stove so she could
clean house He did so and returned at
night to find her fled with the furniture and
a handsome man.
James Jackson, of Toledo O., was shot
twice by a burglar who had entered Mr..
Jackson's house to rob it. jackson scuffled
with him with the above result Wounds
not dangerous. Burglar escaped.
At Stamford, Conn, a number Of oyster.
men visited the house of Jasper Mills, col
ored, at Riverside, and in a fight That occur
red later Mrs Mills was shot and killed and
Mills was stabbed twenty-five times.
Kentucky legislature receded from its
original intention Of turning the cold water
Of its August censure upon Judge Cole, of
Rowan county, and referred the scheme for
dissecting Rowan county to the Judiciary
committee.
Signal Service Officer John H. Sherman,
Of New Haven, Conn, is accused of photo
graphing young girls in attire suitable for
cigarette advertisements. He had married
lady as confederate. Mr.. Sherman is now
out of town, being afraid of tornado.
Circleville, o., police divested Charles
Crouch of revolver, razor, slung-shot and
various other implements of warfare, and
shut him up ION suspicion" that he medi-
tated fracturing the concealed weapon ordi-
| nance
Miss Minnie Parsons, the Pittsburg belle Of
sudden fame, rushes to the rescue of Ensign
Ryan, of the United States navy, accused Of
abducting her, and declares that the young
man never had improper relations with her
and that he merely assisted her in securing
theatrical job.
This is the Versailles, Ind. method: Miss
Mary Toniges, of Cincinnati, brought Miss
| Rose Byers to be the welded wife of Ernest
Draymen, subject to approval. Not being
Ernest's ideal, Rose decided that by any
other name she would be fully as sweet and
accepted John Bloom.
Silas Banks, highly respected desperate, Of
Writ county, w. Va, carrying Winchester
rife and an ebony heart, met Eben, George
and Lemuel Monroe, neighbors, with re-
volvers, ON the road near Laurel The Mon
roes died. Banks got four holes through his
worthless hide, but, unleE he has met other
people since, is still alive.
Ben. Davis, colored citizen of Georgetown
county, South Carolina was mistaken for a
wild turkey Wednesday and lost his life.
He was hunting with two brothers named
Perry, and they were all navigating on
| hands and knees saving .,pohhle gohhle y TO