The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-08-02
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Topics of the Times Given in a Terse and
Spicy Manner.

roplcs OF the Times GlVen In TerSo and
Spicy Manner.
The Clermont county teachers institute is
in session at Felicity, o.
President Cleveland returned to Washing
ton Tuesday morning from his fishing trip.
Harry Cooke, Of Louisville, took chloral
to quiet his nerves, and quieted them for
ever.
The Aurora Iron company, of Aurora,
Ind, made an assignment yesterday. Liza
bilities $4,000.
A. H. Shipman, inventor Of the Shipman
oil engine, died Monday of consumption at
Geneva, N. Y.
John Yarbrough, colored, shot Alexander
Blackwell, prominent citizen of Hopkins
vile, KY, killing him instantly.
Huntington, Ind, voted ia favor of aiding
the proposed Chicago, Dayton & Cincinnati
railroad to the amount Of $495OO,
Urbana, O., and Muncie and Columbus,
Ind. postmasters, have applied for the es-
tablishment of free delivery system.
Dr. William Steele, of Waveland, Ind,
has verified his name by his deeds, and is in
jail for failing to return borrowed horse.
George W. Fieldes and Hester Tyre
West Virginia to Pomeroy, O., to get mar
ried.
Elmer Dills, Tiffin, O., professor of music,
is arrested for swindling his confding
mother-in-law, by playing off false note
on her.
Arthur Meers aged nine years, fell from
window at Shelbyville, Ind, to the ground
below, a distance of forty feet, sustaining
fatal injuries.
The Daily Republican, six-column quarto,
will speak Of the glories of the g. o. p. to the
honton, O., voters until the frosts of No
vember come round.
At Madison, Ind, John Moore cut his
throat and took arsenic. He is pumped out
and sewed up to finish his allotted sojourn
in this vale Of sorrow.
Michael Weiss, forty, of Red Jacket depot,
Mich, put stick of hercules powder in his
mouth and touched it off with a match.
Mr.. Weiss is dead, and headless.
The $1,000 damage suit brought by Charles
Drum, of Springfield, o., doesn't worry
Jesse Brenner in the least, as he says he is
poor stick if he isn't big enough to beat
Drum.
Mrs. Minnie Bronger, of Louisville, KY,
pretty society girl, lost her lover, then
her reason and now she has lost her.
self 1t is feared that she has committed
suicide
An International mineral and metallic ex-
position for the display of minerals in all
all forms, and the machinery employed in
their production, will be held at Nashville,
Tenn, in $780,
Terre Haute, Ind, folks don't like the
poly gamous technics of Professor E. S.
Cobb, superintendent of the Rose Polytech.
mic institute in loving too well the cousin of
his wife. He has fled.
Wabash, Ind, passengers on the new
Evansville, Fort Wayne & Chicago railroad
will be provided with clothes pins to clasp
on their noses as they glide down the tow
path of the old ordoriferous Wabash 81 Erie
canal
Benjamin Johnson, of Providence, r l.,
attempted suicide by swallowing ten grains
of strychnine, but quickly regretted the acI
and informed his wife. She poured quart
of kerosene down his throat and he was
saved.
Mrs Mary G. Wakeman, of Connecticut,
has sued Henry Crawford, the well known
attorney in the great Wabash case, for $780,
900 in the Federal court at Chicago S2OO, 200
of it being in promissory notes and SlOO,OOO
for damages.
William Thorn and Fred Mcintosh while
cutting hay harvested a wild cat on the
farm Of ], A. Mcintosh, in Jackson county,
West Virginia. The moving machine ran
on to the animal while it lay concealed in
the meadow.
Superintendent Bennett, of the Pan Handle,
offers $3.50 to any one finding and returning
to him the persons who attempted to wreck
a train by putting hand car on the tracks.
They are of no value in themselves, but he
yearns to preserve them in cold iron as keep
sakes