The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-01-26

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THERE are said to be 1,00U armed
A anarchists in Cincinnati.
Miss ROSE ELlZABsTH CLEVELAND
Ia going to write life of st. Augustine
A PErRIFIED buffalo of mammoth
size has been found in Republic ceun
ty, Kansas.
THE regular rate of increase of the
Astor estate is said to be from $40. .o0o,- |
600 to Sl3, ,OOo. 900 year.
Gov. SEMP, has signed the bill
piving the ballot to the women OF
Washington Territory.
THE dove of peace and harmony
does not seem to be broodiRg over the
RepubIican Solons at Columbus.
On the 18th resolution condemn
ing the presence of lone Democfatic
Clerk. at a salary of $500. failed to car
ry in the Ohio Senate.
EIGHT men control the entire hard
coal production of the United States.
They are said to make 100 per cent.
profit ON the cost of production.
HALF-B BRED Normandy horse late
ly drew a wagon with two men seven
ty-five miles in eight hours, fifty. seven
minutes, including an hours rest.
PH1LA. INQUIRER: If 1t should cost
men as much to break engagements
with men as with women, what uni
versal bankruptcy would prevail
A DISPATCH has reached the Amer
ican Board of Foreign Missions in
Mardin, in East Turkey. stating that
ten Thousand people are starving tnere'
JAKE SHARP expects to die soon,
apd wants to settle up bis earthly af-
fairs preparatory to balancing accounts
in the court of higher tribunal.
A BILL making an appropriation for
the establishment of an Agricultural
Experiment Station, has been passed
by the House of Representatives.
THE National Dem. Com. will meet
In Washington, d a., February Bed
to determine the time and place FOL
holding the National Democratic con-
vention.
A LARGE bed of iron ore has been
discovered q mile aud quarter south
of Carrollton. l3S feet in thickness. IL
has been tested and pronounced to be
of excellent quality.
GIN. TIMEs-STAR: The general rails
ing of salaries now being attempted
by the Legislature is dangerous. 1t ii
putting q club in the hands of the en-
emy.
ADAM FoREPAUGH wears diamond
for which Chicago broker recently
offered him $4,000. 1t weighs forty
carats. He has also Is carat diainone
collar button for which he paid So. 900
IT ia alleged that Mrs. Alma F. Har
of Urbana, o., had her daughter Mag
gle, aged fifteen, confined in the Girls
Industrial Home, because she became
rival of her mother for the hand o
q wealthy young man.
EARLY on the morning of the l9tl
the house of Frank Smith, in the cas-
tern part of Allen county o., took fire
and the whole family, consisting o
Mr.. Smith and his wife and four chill
dren, were burned to death.
Mr.. MILLS, chairman of the Wayi
and Means Committee, is suffering
from the effects of overwork, entailinG
loss of sleep apd rest. Quiet and tenn
porary cessation from labor will it II
thought restore him to usual health
Rev. AUGUSTUS LIITLEJoHN, o CO
laborer with John B. Cough, and sue
cessful evangelist twety five years ago
died in the county aims house at Paw
Paw, Mich, recently. His career wa
shadowed by cloud of scandal resting
upon his otherwise fair fame.
THE young folks of West Deer Isle
Me-, have organised the Tongue
Guard Society,"" whose object is t.
guard against saying anything improp
or to or about any one. Each offenss
is punished by fine of one cent, t.
be placed in box in the church, tht
fund to 60 toward buying circulating
library.
CANADA has lost So, ,00a, 900 within
the past two years through embezzlers
who have escaped to the United states
with the money. AS American en-
bezzlers have taken more than $2c,'
coo, 900 into the Dominion in the same
period, Canada may still claim thai
the balance of trade Is in her favor.
BILLS have been introduced into thu
Ohio House, extending the term o
clerks of court requiring automatic
couplers to be used on freight ears
preventing the offering Of gifts o.
prizes in any business; making ths
election in November a legal holiday
preventing the consolidation Of cor
porations associations or partnerships
MRS. HENDRICKS, the widow of th'
late Vice President, is in California
looking after extensive mining inter
ests of her late husband. She Ia ssie
to have admirable business judgmeb
aud good executive ability. The minei
which she owns have yielded, sine
1s49, between 81. .OOe, 900 and Sc, 900, 900
ANOTHER appalling disaster, occa
stoned by the treacherous stream tina
recently converted the garden of Chi
ma into barren waste of waters, j
reported from the same locality. While
4,00O workmen, under the commant