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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-11-05
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KANSAS CITY, Nov. al. A. Lock.
hart, now q hardware merchant OF
Wellington, Mo-, for four years one of
the county judges of Lafayette county.
a man of undoubted integrity, vouched
for by local business firms, was in the
city yesterday. He tells most remark
able story: George Hanmore, of indie
pendence, Mo-, his wife and children
have been guests Of Judge Lockhart for
the past week. Last Monday Mr.. Han
more walked down into Judge Lock
hart's garden, and when near the center
of the truck patch he felt drops of rain
upon his hands and face. There was
pot cloud in the sky, and the sun was
shining brightly. Mr.. Hanmore was
astounded. He looked up. There was
no doubt of it, rain was falling lightly,
but rapidly He moved on and fifteen
feet farther no rain was falling.
He walked back where he first noticed
the rain drops rain was still falling
there. He called to Judge Lockhart 3
colored servant. The man came out
and stood within the little spot where
the rain was falling. Frightened, he
started to the house on dead run. Mrs.
Hanmore, Mrs. Lockhart and the chill
dren went out to the garden. They,
too, saw and felt the rain. Yesterday
Judge Lockart was at his store shortly
after o'clock, and Mr.. Hanmore came
running down and told him it was
again raining on the same spot. Judge
Lockhart had been loath to believe the
story told him when he returned home
TO supper the night before, but he hur-
ried home and was convinced. Again
the rain was falling in little spot prob
ably fifteen feet square, while all about
the sky was cloudless and the sun shin
ing. Judge Lockhart, being in the city,
does not know whether it is raining on
his garden today or not. Both Monday
and Tuesday the rain began falling
about 1 o'clock and ceased about {
O'clock. No rain-makers have been ex,
perimenting in that vicinity.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-11-05
Bard.l.y Business In Minnesota

BRANERD, MINI, Nov. quite a
sensation has been developed in city af.
fairs here in the past forty-eight hours.
Recently the finance committee of the
city councils while investigating the
books of ex-City Clerk Murphy, discov-
cred deficit which has since been in
creased to $1,419. On the heels of this
comes sensational disclosures in regard
to the city treasurer, A. J. Demuels.
The latter, it is given out, is short at
least 5000 and probably moro. He,
himself, places the amount at over
a 600
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-11-05
Teachers May Use tho Rod.

WNoNA, Mimi, Nov. 2.-Judge Allen
rendered his decision in the case of th.
state VS.. Susie B. Jones, the schoo'
teacher charged with assault on one OF
her pupils, Willie Fort, in the form OF
corporal punishment inflicted with Q
ruler. Judge Allen found Miss Jones
not guilty. The corporal punishment
was inflicted for disobedience of rea
sonable orders, and no undue force Or
violence being used in its inhiction the
punishment was declared lawful. The
case is interesting on account of it.
being the first of the kind ever tried il
the state,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-11-05
Tho old. Old Story.

CHICAGO, Nov. 2.--"This is the way
I'll kill myself some day, said 16-year-
old Vincent Staftney as he pressed re-
trigger iris s ana feii fI to % the floor dead % Young s
Staftney lived with his parents on
Latin street, and in company with his
friend, Joseph Lick, was preparing to
go to matinee. Staftney pulled a
bureau drawer open in search of some
money, when an old revolver caught his
eye and he playfully pushed the muzzle
against his right temple. Lick warned
him not TO fool with the weapon, as it
might be loaded The next moment the
lad was Tying dead on xlsAoQE.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-11-05
The Pardon Not Too Late.

WARSAW, KY. Nov. 2.-Joseph Baker,
who was convicted at the September
term of the Gallatin circuit court of
the killing of Austin Sole at Sparta in
August, 1890, and was sentenced to the
penitentiary for nine years has been
granted a pardon by Governor Brown.
The killing was said to be in sef-de-
fense. The jury that convicted him
signed a petition for his pardon, and a
popular petition with about 1000 sigma
lures was presented to the governor.
Baker is young man, and the main
support of his mother and sister.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-11-05
rev, DR., ChapolIe Consecratsd.

rsIs HaLTlHoNT ~ WssbiOgton MOg was @ Iester5oy a
consecrated coadjutor archbishop Of
Santa Fe. Cardinal Gibbons was the
consecrator. with Archbishop Salpointe,
of Santa Fe, and Bishop Kain, Of
Wheeling, as assistants. There was a
great crowd at and around the cathe-
dral. The sermon was delivered by
Rev. John Keane, president Of the
Catholic university, Washington. A
large choir rendered an elaborate musi.
cal programme. After the celebration
of the mass the prelates who participa,
ted returned to the cardinals residence
and shortly afterward went to st. Mary
seminary for dinner.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-11-05
A Trains lightning speed.

DETROIT, Nov. 2.-The fastest run on
record from Chicago to Detroit was
made yesterday on the Michigan Cen
trail road. The train, consisting of four
Wagner vestibule cars, bearing the Bos-
ton Commercial club, left Chicago at
p. M, covering the distance, 246 miles,
in less than six hours, including 81
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-11-05
he Walked the Tracls.

MANSFIELD, o.. Nov. Michael Har-
rigan, tramp hailing from Troy, N. Y,
while walking along the Pennsylvania
tracks, in this city, in an intoxicated
condition, was struck by freight train.
His right leg was cut off below the
pee and left SCOT mashed. His chances
for recovery are gIpaB.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-11-05
Fell Into a Barrel.

MARION, o., Nov. "A horrible ac-
cident occurred at the home of Green
Louder, living six miles southeast of
here. Mr.. Louder was butchering, and
had a barrel partially buried in the
ground to sclld hogs in. The barrel
contained lot of boiling water, and his
little 3-year-old girl had climbed on the
top of the barrel, and its father told it
to get down, and in doing SO it slipped
and fell head irst. The poor child lived
nine hours when death ended its suffer
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-11-05

PHILADELPHIA. Nov. 2.-The formal
opening of the Williamson free schoo.
of mechanical trade took place in the
presence of large crowd Of people.
The programme of exercises was briei
and consisted of the assembling of the
pupils, 216 in number, the members Of
the board of trustees, and invited guests
in the reading room of the main build
ing, where prayer was offered by b. p
Comegis. 1t was followed by addresses
by Henry r, Townsend, on behalf Of
the trustees, and Professor Baker, oi
the University of Pennsylvania.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-11-05
SsDiphtheria Epidemic Suppressed

YOUNGSTOWN, o., Nov. 2.-The epi-
dernic of diphtheria in the western part
of the city has been suppressed by the
rigid measures adopted by the board OF
health in isolating the patients, under
charge of competent nurses. During
the past twenty-four hours no cases have
been reported and the city is free from the
disease. Liverymen are wrothy at the
enforcement of order allowing but one
carriage to funeral in case of death
from contagious diseases, but the rule
will be rigidly enforced.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-11-05
ohnmpIon nIerellsts elye ap Erhlbltlor

SING SING, N. Y, Nov. civilian
Martin, champion long distance bicyclis
of the world, Michael O'Flannigan
champion Of Ireland, and Donald Stage
champion of Scotland, gave an exhiDi
ton with the wheel at Robbins operi
house Saturday. They attracted only
a fair attendance. They will make +;
tour Of the eastern states.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-11-05
HOME MADE ARMOR PLATES.
Successful Tests Made at the Indian Head
Naval Ordnance Proving Grounds.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2. = Successful
tests were made Saturday at the Indian
Head naval ordnance proving grounds
Of home made armor plates. The
plates tried were the first lot of eight
that has been ordered for the pres
ent series Of tests. They included
high carbon, nickel steel plate from
the Bethlehem Iron works, containing
about per cent. nickel and SO per cent.
carbon; low carbon nickel steel plate
from Carnegie, Phipps g. Co., contain
ing the same percentage of nickel and
but 25 per cent. carbon, and low carbon
all-steel plate treated by the Harvey
proc ess OF superficial carbonization from
the Bethlehem Iron works.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-11-05
Rich Gold Find in Missouri.

KANSAS CITY, Nov. 2. Gold was
found on the banks of the Missouri here
at a depth of III feet. The discovery
was made by borings that are being put
down to find the location of rock under
which to tunnel the Missouri river. The
gold is rich and is found in great quanti-
ties on both sides Of the river. Several
tons of the sand will be taken out al
once,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-11-05
ronr HoYs Drowned.

MIDLAND, Ont, Nov. 2.-John Clark,
son, Peter Lewis, Leo Johnston and
William Allison, four boys between the
ages of 12 and 10, left here yesterday il
a sailboat from Present islands. Then
boat was caught in a squall, capsized
and all were drowned. None of the
bodies have been recovered.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-11-05
The First Sugar Bounty Paid.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.-The first pay
ment of sugar bounty under the tariff
treasury draft for 81 ,siS26, drawn in n
favor Of J. w. Dougherty & Co., of
New Orleans, and representing bounty
on 65, ,9G3 pounds of cane sugar.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-11-05
CONTRACT for the Caution postofice

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.-The contract
for the construction of the public build
ing. at Canton, o., has been awarded to
j. j, Brumaugh, of Canton, at his bid
of $4,000.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-11-05
sIurder in the Penitentiary.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.--Samuel Moore,
the negro who killed Henry Jansdorf in
the district prison on Sept. 2S, was to-
day sentenced to be hanged on Jan. IS,
1899. Jansdorf. was white prisoner
under five year sentence in the peni-
tentiary.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-11-05
Pat EIlIott,a Trial.

COLUMBUS. o., Nov. 2.--The case of
Patrick j. Elliott, indicted jointly with
w. j, Elliott Tor the murder OF w. l.,
Hughes and A. @. Osborn, has been SO;
for hearing Nav o5.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-11-05
STOW IA DaR0ta.

HnLsBoRo, N. D., Nov. "A fine
snow is falling, accompanied by high
winds. 1t is drifting through the wheat
.h,Nolr. oa1 .< .nI-o
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-11-05
W,lyea In Canadn.

OTTAWA, NV. 9.-Packs of wolves at
Highland lakp. in the Madawaska river
district, are certifying the settlers and
devouring the sheep
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-11-05
WIN Play Again.

NEW YORK, Nov. 2.-Another match
has been arranged between SchaeiieI
and Slosson for $500 "a side, the cham.
pionship Of 14-inch balk line billiard.
and the emblem representing the Same
which is now held by Shaelfer, Slossol
to allow Schaeffer $3.50 for his expuua.,
in consideration Of Schaeffer playing
the match in this city instead of Chi
cagp The game will consist of SOC
points and will be played on the even
ing Of Dec. %, provided a suitable hal
cannot be secured the match will Dt
played as near that date as possible.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-11-05
No Votes for the Women.

OTTAWA, nls., Nov. 2.-The women
in Cook county will not cast ballot at
the approaching November election for
county superintendent of schools. The
supreme court Of this state upholds At
torney Boyle and the board of election
commissioners in their attitude toward
the women, and declares that the clause
in the election law which has special
reference to the school superintendent
unconstitutional.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-11-05

ST. PAUL, Nov. 2.--The preliminary
papers in two more suits aggregating
$lj0,000 were served by Ignatius Don
nelly on The Pioneer Press. The first
is on an editorial reaffirming the libel
on which 81 verdict was given, and the
second an editorial last winter calling
Donnelly an anarchist. The suits will.
ha hrou oht in 81 paul
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-11-05
Blair County AImshouse Burned.

HoLLrDAYsBURG Pa, Nov. 2.-The
Blair county almshouse, situated within
two miles Of this city, was destroyed by
fire Saturday. The fire originated in a
fue and the whole structure was in
flames before the fire department ar
rived on the spot. The inmates of the
house have found temporary refuge at
the opera house and st. Mary's parochial
schools, of this place. The loss is SiS,-
900; insurance, $4,000. The county poor
records form portion of the loss.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-11-05
1OO LAIE.
A Woman OF New Hope, o., Struck and
Killed bv an Engine.

EATON, Nov. 2.--Mrs. Emma Daley,
wife Of John p. Daley, a resident Of
New Hope, this county, was caught on
the Pittsburg, Cincinnati and st. Louis
railroad track, east of New Hope sta
ton, and was instantly killed by an
eastbound freight train. She had been
to one of her neighbors to get some
apples and was returning home. She
was noticed on the track, and as the train
was approaching her she made move
as If to leave the track, when the han
die of the basket she was carrying broke
and the apples rolled on the track. She
stopped to pick up the fruit, when the
engine struck her in the head. The re-
mains were picked up by the trainmen
and brought here and turned over to
Undertakers Guild and Churchill. Her
husband was Immediately notified, and
when he arrived the scene was very af-
fecting as he viewed the mangled re.
mains of his wife. No blame is attached
TO the engineer, as he had no other idea
than that the woman would leave the
track in time to avoid any accident.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-11-05
:MRS. GRAHAM'S
FACE BLEACH

Cures the worst cases Of Suuburn, Salow-
ness, MrtB-patChes Pimplps auu alt skin blemishes.
Price : so Harmless and effective, NO SAM
pie can Ue sent. Lady Agents wanted.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-11-05
The Druggist

bill OF my preparations will have his name added to
tnis adyg lUscueut
NV preparations are for sale by Wholesale drug
gists IN CuicsgO aud every city west Of IL.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-14

found very pretty Aztec maiden sitting on
a stool and rolling black tobacco into cigar
cites. The paper she used was thicker than
the newspaper in which this letter will be
printed, and she doubled the paper over the
cigarette at both ends to make it stay to-
gether. Before she did so, however, she
moistened the paper with her cherry lips,
and when 1 smoked package of her wares,
at the cost of 10 cents, it seemed to me that
scent of the cherries fingered there still.
Mexican Ladies Do Not Markell
1t was about 10 o'clock at the time
visited the market, and I found but few
buying. Two well-to-do Mexican ladies
dressed in black, passed through giving
directions to their servants as to what to
buy, but am told this was contrary to
etiquette, and that the ladies of Mexico
seldom do their own marketing but leave it
entirely to the servants. Near the market
found few very fair stores, but they
would be small affairs in town Of 40, 900 in
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-14

poor thing, however, about this part of
Mexico is the people. The land here is as
black as your hat, and in coming to Aguas
Calientes, on the Mexican Central Railroad,
you ride for miles through fields which will
vie in their crops with the valleys of the
Nile or the Ganges, and am told this is
called
The Garden of Mexico.
1t certainly is wonderfully rich garden,
and crops of all kinds grow here with ali
the luxuriance of the guano beds along the
coast. 1t is more than mile above the sea,
and the air seems to revivify the land so
that it produces two crops a year without
manure. From here almost to the city of
Mexico, full days ride on the cars, you
go through farmers paradise, and plains
of rich crops stretch away from each side of
the road until their green fades out into the
hazy blue of the mountains in the distance.
This region of Mexico has good rainfall
during the wet season, but this is also aided
by irrigation, and | see the method Of rails
ing the water from one level to another is
the same as that used about Osaka, in West
ern Japan. 1t is by long pole with a
weight on one end and with a bucket at
tached to rope on the other which works
on second pole fastened upright into the
ground. You see poems working this crude
well everywhere, and the sparkling
water flows like bands of silver through the
green. This is a great wheat region, and
see cornstalks in many of the fields Maize
is one of the great crops of Mexico. 1t
can be raised in every part of the country,
and 1t constitutes 80 per cent of the entire
agricultural product of the land. More
than S100, 000, 900 worth of it is raised every
year, and it forms the food of the common
people, who pound or grind it up and make
1t into the thin, fiat, griddle-like cakes
known as tortillas. The corn is always sold
in shelled state and such as 1 have Seen
has been white in color and large in grain.
The Men Who Sell Water.
Up to the present time every Mexican
city have visited has been suffering for
lack of water. The greater part of the coun-
try north of here on the line of the Mexican
Central road isdesert, and the big mining
towns Of Zacatecas and Guanahuato have
hundreds of men who make water peddIing
their profession. In Zacatecas the water.
with the exception of little stream that
flows into a big fountain in the plaza. comes
from spring away up on the side of the
mountain, and it is brought down on the
backs of little donkeys in red clay lars.
These jars are tied on by ropes, and the
waterman peddles them from house to house
as our dairymen do their milk.
In Guanahuato the people are more en-
terprising, and they have system of water
works which, however, by no means sup
plies the demands e the city. The water
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-14
A NEEDLE THAT CAUSED TROUBLE.

1t Was Left in Patrick Barkers Trousers
and Afterward Got Into Him.
New York SUM-
Patrick Barker's daughter was mending
her fathers trousers the other day. Mr.
Barker was in hurry to get away from his
home, 355 West Twenty-second street, and
didn't wait for his daughter to cut the thread
or remove the needle. As he hurried down
to the foot of Thirteenth street, North river,
where he is pilot on the fireboat Zophar
Mills, the needle was caught in the cloth
with the thread dangling, but it didn't
trouble Mr. Barker because he didn't know
it was there. He found it out though when
he sat down in the boat. Friends, attracted
by the language he used, gathered around
him and found that the needle had pene-
trated so far into the left leg that it was
almost out of sight The. thread was still
attached to the needle, which seemed to be
working its way deeper into the leg.
An ambulance was summoned and Mr.
Barker was taken to st. Vincent's Hospital,
where it took DR.. Campbell 10 minutes to
get the needle out. 1t had worked its way
further in, and its path was only followed
by the attached thread.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-14

owners are splashing and playing and scrub
ing themselves in the little trench below.
Here is man bathing, while his wife sits
on the bank and watches him, and the sun
creeps through the trees and paints his
dark skin rich mahogany. Here there
is a Venus washing some clothes by
rubbing them on rough stone,
and there under tree lies an Indian half
dressed but sound asleep. 1 point my
camera at him and his wife springs up from
the stone where she is washing and stands
over him as though she feared the camera
was some new-fangled gun. press the
button, however, and the lens and the shut
ter do the rest.
Tho Effects Of Custom.
1 walk along the stream and amuse myself
by taking notes of the bathers. They see
nothing wrong in their actions, and 1 note
that there is nothing really immodest, bold
or indecent about them. They think moth
ing wrong in families and friends bathing
together, and after all I have again forced
upon me the feeling that medesty and i'm
modesty are matters of custom and fashion,
and am reminded of little maiden in Egypt
who, upon seeing me approach. covered her
face with her skirt that she might modestly
hide it from the eyes of man.
The Japanese are In many ways more
modest than we are. They are In most
things more polite and refined. Still until
lately all the people bathed there together
in the very capital itself, and prudery did
not raise her voice until the Western World
taught her to do so. 1t is simply a matter
of opinion, and the old French saw fits the
case we'll, "Honi soft qui maly pense."
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-14
A TALE OF BURIED MILLIONS,
Which Were Accumulated Overthrow Spans Hid
den the Reyilaggedo Islands.
D1spAT
HE DISPATCH BY CHARLES HOWARD sHNr.

Mexico, as many writers have said,
abounds in tales of buried treasure. Whole
libraries could be filled with legends of the
treasure Of Montezuma, which lies in some
cave of the Cordilleras, ready to upset the
gold standard of the civilized world, as soon
as some lucky explorer discovers the
guarded secrets of its resting place Other
Libraries, too, might be crowded with the
equally fascinating stories Of the Gaute-
mozin treasure, hidden by the last Prince of
the Aztec line, under the waters of the
Mexican lagunas.
In truth, Mexico is a land where un-
counted millions lie hidden. It is the India
of the Western Hemisphere.
Though many stories Of buried gold are
but airy nothings, yet others have real
historical foundation. One of these strange
yet wholly reasonable and coherent stories
of lost treasure has come down from the
days of the greatest of the Spanish Viceroys
of Mexico; the proud and masterful Revil-
lagigedo. Unlike most of the Mexi can
treasure tales, it deals with Baja California
and the coasts Of the Sea of Cortez, now the