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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-05-26

The News-Democrat has just received
q lot OF books containing 1.-THE Official
photographs of the United States
Navy" comprising over 200 pictures OF
the navy, Its officers aud eq quipment, and
also 80 views, before and after the
explosion Of the ill-fsted Maine, also,
maps Of the East and West Indies.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-05-26
Essig Reunion.

The descendants Of the Simon Essie
family, together with their families and
friends win hold their sixteenth annual
reunion at the home Of Mr.. and Mrs.
jackson w. Pontius, No. 1926 ST. Elmo
st., (north side ofyold fair ground) Can
ton, June 0, 1898. Mr.. Pontius desires
all the Essigs to come and have O royal
time. John A. Essig, Pres; Levi A.
etoner, Sec.
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gagged in the herring catching business,
how it came that they we're so fat when
the shoals came. 1t is now claimed they
live on insects that propagate and float
on the surface of the sea in Iuyriads.
This corroborates the poet who says.
"All forms that perish others forms
supply"
A. McGREcoR.
VOLUNTARY PERFORMANCES:
Miss Alice Vignos rendered sweet
music on the Piano. Mrs. Laura Burk-
holder presided at the piano while Sc
lect choir and the audience sang "Ameri-
ca" and "In the Cross"
Miss Mary Donot showed that she is
an artist by her skilful manipulations of
the keys of the piano.
A hearty vote of thanks was rendered
our hostess snd the volt nteers who made
our entertainment such success.
NEW MEMBERS:
Mrs. Lucinda Hurts, Massillon.
Essayist for next meeting, Mr., f. d.
Streb.
Alternate, B. +. Stump.
The next meeting will be held at the
Stark County Fair Grounds on the third
Wednesday in June,
Meeting places for August and October
next year were arranged for, and Society
adjourned.
Jos. HAYHURST. Pres.
MARGARET RocKBIIL., Secy.
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Bllls passed In one House.

WASHINGTON, May 25.-Seyeral bills
were passed in the house, notably those
for the organization Of the naval hospi-
tai corps; to facilitate military trials for
small offenses, and to authorize the APP
pointment Of commission to allot GER
tain lands to and secure the cession of
Others from the Uintah Indians. in their
reservation in Utah.
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PERMITS TO MARRY.

Christ Strain and Mary Erbland, Can
ton.
Joseph p Kopp and Mary Rowan
North Lawrence.
M. NJ. Catlin and Flora B. Miller
Canton.
John G. Myers and Elnora Marker
Waco.
Thomas Kicker aud Axline Crofut
Massillon.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-05-26

CINCINNATI, May 25.-The Amalga-
mated Iron and Steel Workers conven.
ton presented Mahlon M. Garland, ex-
president of the association, silver
service of six pieces. Mr.. Garland is
now surveyor of customs at Pittsburg
The convention has about finished its
wage scale; only minor changes.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-05-26
MISSIONARIES RESCUED.

Troops Went to the Relief of Those I'm.
periled by African Natives.
SIERRA LEONE, West Coast of Africa,
May 25.-A force of troops has relieved
the missionaries and others at Kwellu
whose lives were imperilled by the up.
rising of the natives who rebelled
against the imposition of the hut tax,
The bodies Of the American mission
aries who were murdered when the in
surgents attacked and destroyed the
town OF Rotifu in the early part of the
present month have been recovered and
buried.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS

Subject to the decision of the Demo.
cratic Primary elections:
COUNTY COMMISSIONER.
DAVID 7. MACHAMER,
Lake Township.
COUNTY AUDITOR.
RHODES I. GREGORY,
Canton.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-05-26
MAY HAVE SUIClDED.
An Ex-Convlct, Trying to Live Down the
Past, Struck by u Train.

AKRON, May 24.-Charles Keener.
aged "a, was killed by freight train
on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad,
near Barberton, Yesterday afternoon.
Keener shot and killed John HUT, a
local saloonkeeper, five years ago, and
was sentenced to ten years'in the peni-
tentiary. He was pardoned at the end
of the fourth year. For a year he has
industriously sought work, but was
unable to obtain it ON account of his
past history. He may have stepped de.
liberately in front Of the train to end
his life.
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Now Cabinet Minister.

MADRID, May 25.--Duke Almedovar
de Rio has accepted the portfolio of
minister for foreign affairs, offered to
but declined by Senior Leon y Castillo,
the Spanish ambassador at Paris.
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The Weather.
Fair; light northerly winds,

Decoration exercises are to be held in
Osnaburg Sunday next. 1t will be con-
Quoted by American mechanics and
knights of Pythias, assisted by COM
mittee of the g. A. r posts of Canton.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-05-26

That Spanish torpedo boat Terror is
not much OF terror being cooped up In
neutral port without coal or money
with which 10 buy II.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-05-26
THE MARKETS.

PITTsBURG, May "a.
wHEAT-No. red, $l27(9l.2s; No. 2 red,
x.2O(Gl.25.
CoRN-No. 2 yellow ear, 4794sc; No. vel.
low shelled, 42G421ac; high mixed shelled, al19
042c.
oATs-No. white oats, s61I93e94c; No. g
white, clipped, 86l9C936s4c; extra No. white,
871zc; extra No. white, 3616C937c; light mixed,
8o(g38lSc
HAY-No. timothy, sllOo0ll.25; No. 2,
S850g950; No l clover mixed, s8.0O98.5O;
packing, so.OOGe50: No. feeding prairie,
se.75(S7.OO; wagon hay, slO.5oGil.Oo for tim.
othy.
PoULTRY-Live--Large chickens, 7o975o
per pair; small, 60G65c; spring chickens. $500
(G400 per dozen; ducks 100000 per pair; tur.
keys, l0gllc per pound; geese. 60C970c per
pair. Dressed-Fancy chickens, ll(9l2c per
pound; old chickens l0gllc; ducks. ll9l2c;
turkeys, l5Dl6c; geese, 7GSc.
BUTTER-Elgin prints, l9i9l915c; extra
creamery, E1SCglSc; Ohio fancy creamery, Is
9l515c; country roll, l2(Gl3c; low grade and
cooking, 8Gl2c.
CHEESE-New York, full cream, new make
819G9c; new Ohios full cream, Sc; Wisconsin
SWISS in tubs, l4lz@l5c' limburger, new, l2g
l212c; Ohio Swiss in tubs l212Bl3c; block l.
@l3I9c.
EGGS-Strictly fresh Pennsylvania and Ohio
in cases, l0(gllc; candled, lO15@llkc duck
eggs l2GlSc' goose eggs 2Og25c.
PITTsBURG, May "a
CATTLE-supply on Monday SO cars; mar
ket steady; receipts today light; unchanged
We quote: Extra, $1,000 Is prime, S5.0ltg5 10;
good, $40OlG5.O0; tidy, Si,7Jg4.90; fair, $4.5O11
470; common, A.OOGi3O; common to good fat
oxen, $2,5094.25; common to good fat bulls
and cows $2OVg4.30; heifers, S3009405; fresh
cows and suringers, $20.0Og50,00.
HOGS-R0cepts ON Monday were liberal;
market ruled slow, especially on lightweights;
today run light market steady. We quote
Prime heavy, S440g4,4 40; best mediums, $42Sa
49O heavy Workers, S4.15l9420 light, $L0VG
4l0i pigs, as TO quality, $3.0Ng3.S5; roughs,
S25Og3.50.
SHEEP AND LAMBS-Supply on Monday 20
double decks; market slow and l0c lower; re.
ceipts today light; market steady We quotei
Choice clipped, saO5gLl0; good, s40094.l0;
fair, S3eOG4.O0; common, s8.OOg3.60; choice
clipped lambs, S4.75CD4.8bj common to good,
s42OGA70; spring lambs, s5.0OCg6.5O; veal
calyea, sbbOg0OO; heavy and thin calves, $500
(g4.00.
CIEoINEATI, May "a.
HoGs-Market duh at s3.5OC0440.
CATTLE-Marxet steady at $2.75(J4.65.
SHEEP AND LAMBS = Market for sheep
steady at s2.7SG40O Lambs-Market steady y
atsS7oeA7b,
NEW YoRK, May "a
WHEAT : Spot market easy No. 2 red,
slbsIf Z. 0. b. ahoat; export grade, $3.50 ahoat
Sept. tob.
ooRN-spot marketIweaki No. 2, 4o9tc.
oATS-spot market weak; No. 2. 49, s1k93I9zo;
No. white, 3cc.
cATTLE-No trading; feeling weak. Gables
unchanged.
SHEEP AND LAMBs-Market for sheep
active and Arm yearlings weak and lambs Csc
lower. Sheep, stloe4o21f; yearliass aomi-
nal, lambs, s6.l5(88.76
Ho0s-- Markst his Cher W sl.looAS
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PITrsBURo, May "a.
CIEoINEATI, MAY "a.

HoGs-Market dull at s35OC0440
CATTLE-M Market steady at $2.75lD4.85.
SHEEP AND LAMBS = Market for sheep
steady at S2.7SG4.0O. Lambs-Market steady
at s8.76(0475.
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the supernumerary employees were all paid
from an appropriation to which both
houses assented, and which made them
parties to plumber of the public treasury.
Allowing Duckworth to load down his
roll as has been stated is an acknowledge
ment that the members felt obliged in
some way to reward him for political
work done for them. If compensation
was deserved it should have been
awarded from the private funds of the
members, and not from those of the pub
lie. Compensation in such cases as the
one under consideration is most likely to
be not for legitimate and proper, but for
dirty work.
1t has for years been common saying
in this state that the last legislature
is the worst one ever had. When will
the time come that the saying will be that
the last was the best? Not until the peo-
pie take better care in the selection of
men, and retire to political Oblivion those
who have shown themselves to be dis
honest, incompetent or neglectful.
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GOALS TO NEWCASTLE

American rails are being used In the
new subways of London, and American
locomotives will be utilized in hauling
the trains over them. Textile fabrics
made in the looms of New England are,
to some extent at least, being shipped
to British consumers in India, in British
bottoms and through British ports. Our
dispatches this morning note shortage
in the supply of Welsh coal, due to the
long strike of the miners, and of the ne
cessity for turning to the United States
for fuel to meet the demands of British
consumers on land and on sea. The ex-
portation of coal was forbidden by our
government upon the breaking out Of the
war-to the end that the enemy's war YES
sells might not fill their bunkers with
American fuel-and were disposition
manifested to rigidly adhere to the order.
English shipping interests would be
greatly inconvenienced at this time by the
inability to secure adequate supplies, while
American mines would be deprived Of
the advantage of good market for the
surplus, temporary though it be. The
war department has, therefore, wisely de-
cided to suspend the order, so far as to
enable vessels plying between English
and African ports to draw fuel supplies
from the United States. We are thus
almost literally sending Goals to New
CASTLE
The incident, coupled with the recent
enforced purchases of vessels and NUM-
tions of war in English markets, strik-
ingly illustrates the interdependence,
the earth, and emphasizes the advantage
accruing to both England and the United
States of mutual friendly understand
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sMoKELEss POWDER

The Scientific American mentions the
cruiser New Orleans) in Cuban waters is
supplied with smokeless powder, whereas
this type of explosive has been in use
in other navies for five or six years. In
Bile, of the smokeless over the old kind,
it is zone of the things that no fellow
can find out" why our navy department
has neglected to furnish it to every bat
tleship and cruiser in the service. The
paper quoted from says:
In every engagement which has taken
place, not even excluding the Manila
fight, the fact has been noted that our
ships were speedily enveloped in dense
clouds Of smoke, produced by the fire Of
their own guns. The smoke in some
cases hung like pail about the ships,
completely shutting out the object of
attack and of course seriously interfer-
ing with the aim of our gunners.
At the bombardment of San Juan the
New Orleans used the smokeless powder
and it was noticed, at the time, that the
fire of her guns was much more rapid and
accurate than from those of the ships
using the ld-fashioned smoke producing
brown powder.
Is it not little remarkable that, while
all the navies of the f1rst-class powers
indeed we might add, all foreign navies
have adopted the modern smokeless pow
der. the American navy should be forced
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to use the obsolete explosive, and thus
be placed, during an engagement, under a
serious disadvantage?
Experts have determined the smokeless
powder to be the best in many respects.
1t is said that by it's introduction the We
locity of our guns would be raised from
400 to 500 feet Fer second, without ex-
ceeding the safe maximum pressure for
which they are designed, and that such
increased velocity means more effective
aim and greater penetration.
1t is somewhat amusing to be re-
minded that there has been hitherto a
reluctance on the part of our authorities
to supply the ships with high explosive
powder because of its dangerous charac-
ter! This is somewhat on par with the
presidents now happily abandoned idea
of carrying on a peaceful war. 1t is
high time to let the logic of facts take
the place of sentiment, and to secure for
our sailors and soldiers every advantage
which modern projectiles and high ex
plosives afford.
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NO CAUSE FOR ALARM

The bureau of engraving and printing
finds it impossible to produce and dis
tribute throughout the country, in time
for use on the first Of July. the various
forms of internal revenue stamps re-
quired by the new law taking effect on
rotary of the treasury endeavored to have
a supplementary act passed by congress
extending the time to July 18th. Lest the
government might lose considerable sums
of money by such extension. the secre-
tary's request was turned down, and an
anomalous situation as a consequence
promises to obtain. Under the law the
stamps must be affixed to the articles
designated, and heavy penalties are pro-
vided for violations of the provisions.
A glance at the schedules Of war taxes,
set out in detail in the last issue of The
Herald, will abundantly show that a
specified, in the absence of the prescribed
machinery, would result D complete
suspension of business throughout the
United States. But it is not conceivable
that any such thing will happen. The
government volunteers no information as
to what action will be taken, but it stands
to reason that no attempt will be made to
enforce the law in the face of impossible
conditions. The stamps will be produced
and distributed as speedily as possible, but
in localities where they are not obtainable
on the LIST proximo business will be al
lowed to proceed without them. No law
officer Of the government will be so foolish
as to proceed against citizens for violat-
ing law which it is impossible for them
to obey, nor could judge or jury be found
to convict and sentence under the circum-
stances. Even as perfect order and dec
orous government come from the chaos
produced by the Chicago fire Of 1871,
which destroyed all historical data relat
ing to titles, so will way be found to
transfer needed funds from the pockets of
the people to the treasury till without the
addition of extraneous hardships.
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DIED ON THE STREET
A, Man Dropped Dead on First Street
Late Last Night

Shortly after y o'clock last night c. H.
Wescott of 1926 Bartlett street and some
companions at the corner of First and Main
streets saw an old man standing on an
opposite corner, leaning on a cane, with
his hand to his side, as if in pain. That was
the last they saw of him until somebody
came up and reported that man was lying
dead drunk across the sidewalk in front of
No. 1O7 West First street. The party went
over and discovered that the person was
the old fellow they had seen standing on the
corner some time before. The man died in
a short time.
The remains were removed to the under
taking rooms of Dexter Samson, where the
clothes were searched to try to discover his
Identity From cards and circulars found,
it is thought that he was William E. Clegg,
formerly a bookbinder at SO South Main
street, Asheville. NC. Judging from other
papers taken from his pockets, the de-
ceased was Theosophist. He wore full
beard and was about 60 years of age.
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colonies ARE not feeders. but

England's colonies ARE not feeders, but
suckers"
John Bright held to the same opinions.
But few years ago Mr.. Gladstone
said 1.-THE idea that the colonies add to
the strength of the mother country APP
pears to me to be as dark a superstition
as any that existed in the middle ages"
But If British colonization be con-
ceded a failure, If her colonies be recog-
nized as weakness instead of strength,
a liability rather than an asset. what may
we hope to accomplish in that direction?
How strikingly more disastrous the colo
NAL policy of Spain! How suggestive the
great and continuing struggle of Emperor
William to secure from the imperial par
lament, from time to time, vote of
credit sufficient to keep his navy equal to
the exigences of protecting insular
possessions, and of maintaining an
equality in the markets for the surplus
products of his people,
The Herald hopes to avoid even the
faint of bigotry in the discussion of this
broadening theme. 1t will endeavor not
to be led away from the fundamental
truths upon which the question rests, or
blinded to the perils which environ it.
The fact that it is temporarily popular,
and that the artificial glamor with which
it is being surrounded is likely to sway
the unthinking masses in its favor, shall
at least have little influence in our pa
tient consideration of the problem, as it
presses for solution. The Herald in adj
vance comedies the potency of many of
the arguments advanced on the other
side. But it will continue to seek the best
lights .obtainable, and to faithfully re-
fleet them, in the earnest hope that it's
readers will in turn approach the con-
sideration of it in the same unbiased de-
termination to reach lofty and patriotic
conclusions.
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Send for Copyrighted
"Treatise on COnsum pti0n'

Mile and 10 yards-Deer Foot won, Naoma
second, Demothenes third. Time, 1:47A.
Six furlongs, Laurel stakes, value $500
Ed Farrell won Gibraltar second Whater-
lou third. Time, 1:13A.
Six and half furlongs-Loving Cup won,
Fireside second, Laurette third. Time,
1:21A
Five and a half furlongs-Flying Bird
won, Lurdan second. Four-Leaf c. third.
Time, 1O9A,
CHICAGO. June 2s.-Track fine; re-
suits:
Five furlongs: Facade won, Princess MUIR
ply second, Guaoco third. Time, 1:03A
Six furlongs: Eugenia Wickes won, Te-
mole second, The Tory third. Time, TIA o..
One mile: Locust Blossom won, Borden
second, Whirmantline third. Time, 1:4S%.
Four and half furlongs Toluca won,
Ointhus second, The Kentuckian third.
Time, 0:541a.
Mile and an eighth: Ramiro II won, Al
Fresno second, Eva Rice third. Time,
1889.
Henry second. White Pine third Time.
1903.
Six furlongs: St. Calatine won, Tarta-
iran SeCOuus E}nCudHltT THRU. l4Ine, Liz.
NEW YORK, June 2S.-Results at Sleeps
head:
Futurity course-Alpen won, Rusher Sec
ond, Mr.. Clay third; time, Iii is.
Mile and three sixteenths-Ben Holiday
won, Damien second, Previous third; time,
2:O1 As.
Rosebud stakes, for 2-year-old fillies, four
and a half Observation-Disclosures Pridel
won, Prestidigitatrice second. Whiplash
third time, :56 3d.
Swift stakes, seven MISUNDERSTANDING
won, Loiterer second, Murillo third; time,
1877 Is. +s@sa
Six furlongs-Kenmore Queen won, Mo-
mentum second, Peat third; time, Ills 20.
One mile, seling-Ben Ronald won, Stump
second, Burlesque third; time 1:41.
CINCINNATI, June 23.-Weather fair;
track fast. Results:
Six furlongs-Armorel won, Arcturus Sec
ond, Opponent third; time, ! 5l5aSAa ,u
Six furlongs-Frank WAGNER won, Ray
B. Second, Ma Angelina third time, Ills.
One mile-Eddie Burke won, Great Bend
second, Prosecutor third; time, 1:41A.
Handicap, mile and acknowledgements
won, Imp. Skate second, Orimar third;
time, 1:47A.
Five furlongs-Sisvic won, Piccola Sec
ond, Salvarse third time, 1:02.
Six furlongs-Panchita II. won, Sister
Jane second. Cyclone third; time. 1:14N.
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SHE USED THE WHIP
BUT JACK AUSTIN SAYS NOT ON
HIM
MISS BOWMAN TO THE FRONT
She and Her Male Companicp Cause
Excitement at No. 8 Engine
House on Wednesday

There was more excitement Wednesday
afternoon at No. s engine house on Hill
street, near Fourth, than a general alarm
of fire would have caused. A handsome
young woman, armed with a big driving
Whip is given the credit for having treated
her escort to whipping, which was cut
short, greatly to his relief, by the appear
ance of one of the firemen. Miss Dorothy
Mynnie Bowman, a daughter of Rev. w. G.
Bowman, the preacher and politician, is al
legged to have been the whipper, while Jack
M. Austin, the real estate dealer and more
or less well-known clubman, was the
whipped
1t was about 4 o'clock when Austin, ac-
companied by Miss Bowman, who carried
& whip of a long stock with a leather lash,
walked up to the engine house and asked
to use the telephone. He was told to go up
stairs, as the private phone downstairs
could not be used for business not relating
TO the department. Austin climbed the
little circular stairs, but had not gone far
before Miss Bowman went after him. He
stopped and spoke to her, and she did not
continue after him, but waited few mo-
ments.' Then, apparently reconsdering her
decision, she went up the stairs 10 the floor
above, where the dormitory of the firemen
is situated.
Soon the firemen heard rafting as If
somebody was running about the floor in a
scuffle and then one of the men, not caring
to be party, even indirectly. to scandal,
rushed up the stairs to separate the sup
posed combatants. The fireman did not
know the exact nature of the trouble, but
he felt confident that something exciting
was in progress and proposed to stop the
row.
A callman goes up the stairs with con-
siderably less speed and vastly more noise
than wherS he is descending the iron pole
in answer to an alarm of fire, so it is very
likely that the alleged whipper and the all
legged whippee heard his footsteps approach
ing and had ample time in which to cease
hostilities. In any event, when the callman
got up he saw the pair together apparently
on good terms, but both evidently laboring
under intense excitement. The whip had
been broken and several red stripes across
Austins face were corroborative of the ap-
plication of the lash upon that worthy's
physiognomy.
Here, you two will have to get out of
here to settle your trouble" commanded
the fireman, to which Austin replied that
there had been no trouble. Both went down
stairs together and walked over to DR.. Cut
lers drug store, on the. corner of Fourth
street. Mr. Austin took stimulant and
tried to use the telephone. The girl was
quite nervous, but they seemed to be
friendly enough. Mr.. Austin was now in
possession of the whip, and in short time
they went away.
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The Breach widened

CHICAGO, June 2s.-The branch Of the
Peoples Party in this State headed by DR..
H. 8. Taylor has issued call for State
convention to meet in Springfield July 12.
That is also the date of the Democratic
State convention and a fusion is expected.
The Populist State convention held at
Springfield on May II agreed to disagree.
The Taylor faction tried to prevent the nom-
nation of State ticket until the Demo-
cratic State convention. They were OPP
posed by the rockrooted Populists in the
convention. The Taylorites being refused
representation they withdrew and SUISSE
ouently effected an organization of its own.