The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1889-09-12
NEWs I'M eRlEF.

The sugar trust has declared Ia rogu.
lar quarterly dividend,
Tho directors have decided TO close the
Paris exposition Oct 8l.
The Womon'a Christian temperance
union Of Allegheny county 10 In session
In Pittaburg.
Ex-senator Riddleborgor Of Virginia,
has taken the stump for the entire Dem
ooratio tokot.
The twelfth annual fair Of the Butler
County Agricultural association opened
at Butler Tuesday
The president has appointed II. O.,
Yarmouth, OF New Orleans, collector
for the district Of New Orleans
On account OF the severe storm raging
In the vicinity Of Shoopshead Bay there
will bo no racing until ThuradOy,
Gen. A. j. Warner, u prominent Ohio
Democrat, passed through Pittsburg
Tuesday on his way 10 Gettysburg,
Clara Beckwith, the female swimmer,
Of Boston, has deposited q forfeit TO
swim six days race for 5000 side,
Henry II, Griffith, Wholesale dealer
In tailem' trimmings, Chicago, has
assigned. Liabilities S2s,OOOi ASSETS,
500, 1000
Tho strike Of the grcon bottle mon Ia
comparatively NJ an ond, and many
houses have started up and Others will
soon follow.
The gubcrnatorial committee OF West
Virginia has completed ita labora. A
report Of Ia work will bo issued In about
two weeks.
Judge Ewing has sentenced jacob
Shoaf 10 nine years In the pcnitontiary
for Jail burning, forgery and assault at
Uniontown,
The West Virginia State fair opened
nj Wheeling on Tuesday Tho display
In oil departments exceed those Of all
previous years.
Argument was begun Tuesday In the
United States circuit court at San Fran.
cisco on tho question Of federal jurisdic.
ton In the Magic case,
Willie Davis, Of Braddock, Pa, aged
0, was probably fatally stabbed Tuesday
morning, with n jack.knifo, by his
younger brother while at play,
Tho side.whoel steamboat Theodore
Weems was burned 10 the waters edge
early Tuesday morning NJ her dock In
Baltimore. No lives woro lost.
A few flags were displayed nj Now
port, II, l., and u salute fired NJ noon IN
observance Of the anniversary OF the
victory OF Commodore o, II, Perry on
Lake Erie.
Mr.. +. d. Sullivan, NJ z. for College
Green, Dublin, spcnking nt league
meeting, denounced Balfour's scheme Of
q state endowed Catholic university for
Ireland as n sham.
Jonathan Froyman, deaf and dumb
man, residing near North jackson, o.,
wns struck by passenger train on the
Alliance, Niles and Ashtabula railroad
and was instantly killed.
The bark Wildwood was wrecked by
stranding in Nuskagak river, Alaska,
Aug, 0, and her cargo OF 1906 barrels and
10000 cnses Of salmon may provo u total
loss. Tho crow were saved.
Burns, the leader Of the London
strikers, says ho is ashamed of American
worlmen on account OF their not con-
tributing 10 the strike. The people OF
Melbourne, Australia, have contributed
10000.
Secretary Window has selected what
Is known 0s The Bowling Greon site for
the erection Of custom house and ap.
praiser's store In New York City. Con-
gress appropriated S9,000,000 for the
purchase OF The site
Wholesale hardware dealers from
most OF the prominent cities Of the
country nre meeting az Pittsburg. They
arc very roticlent in regard 10 the object
OF their meeting, but II is believed that
o trust is being formed. Ul
Samuel Wheelwright, OF Tacoma, w,
w, and Thomas O. Griffith, OF Spokane,
w. ~, were yesterday nominated for
congress by the Democratic state con.
ventlon. Ex-Governor Eugene Simple,
of Tacoma, W. r., was nominated Tor
governor by acclamation.
Thomas w. Osborne, tho champion
typewriter, Is visiting in PittsburR.
During private exhibition before some
friends, he accomplished the feat OF
writing 100 words d minutes. He then
covered the keyboard with . handker-
chief and wrote lbi words o minute