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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-07-21
are supposed to have set the barns on

are supposed to have set the barns on
fire.
Mansfield, July 18.-Five masked
Miller, near this city. The robbers
made haul of $1,000 in cash and
bonds.
Tiffln, July 19.-Bruce ]. Myers and
Miss Iona Houck, popular young peo-
pie, accompanied the Presbyterian ex-
cursiou to Detroit and came home
joined In wedlock.
Toledo, July 1S.-Members of the
Sixth Ohio, who received some OF the
cots furnished by Miss Helen Gould
while In Cuba, have prepared hand
some medal to be presented to her.
Akron, July 1s The muck field sur
rounding Springfield lake, extensively
cultivated by gardeners, is on fire and
every effort has failed to extinguish
the fire, which burns to depth OF ten
| feet.
Canal Dover, July 18.-Little Bertha,
the five-year- old daut hter OF Amos
Leonard, while playing along the state
drowned. Her body was recovered
later.
Napolean, o., July 1S.-John Gettar
was brought here from Deshler and
lodged in the county Jail on the charge
of highway robbery. Gettar held up q
17-year-old boy, knocked him down
and relieved him of s..
Bucyrus, July 1S.-Track-laying or
the Bucyrus & Gallon electric line has
been completed to this city and the
balance OF the work Is nearing com
pletion. 1t Is expected that the road
will be in operation by August J..
Toronto, July 1S.-."The Little Mar
of the Turkey Foot" Jerry Morrow, i:
dead. He was about 40 inches tall anC
weighed only 81 pounds when in health
Besides being skilled musician hi
was an expert telegraph operator.
Warren, July 1S.--Warren boys are
searching for pearls in the Mahonine
found in the river near Alliance ant
expert authority says they may bt
found along the streams in man!
places.
Findlay, July 18.-The kissing buG
has made its advent here, the first vic
tim being Miss Lena Kiefer, hand
some young lady of 16. She was awak
ened by pain in her lip. The swell
ing Is extending over her whole face
and serious results are feared.
Youngstown, July 1S.-Capitalist
here who recently took trip through
the Couer de Alene mining districts, II
Idaho, have purchased the Sixteen tt
One and also the Crystal mine, paying
1878, 900 for the two properties, whicl
are pronounced by experts as the fines
in that section.
Fostoria, July 18-The stone QUAR-.
at Rising Sun, a small town near here
was the scene of another drowning
Harrel, the ten-year-old son OF N
Sheasley, was fishing on the banks o
the quarry and in some manner slippet
and fell into the water, which at tha
point has depth OF twenty feet. Hi
cries were not heard in time for an.
one to give him assistance. The bod.
was recovered.
Columbus, July 1S-At Gillivan,
miles south OF Plain City, in Madison
county, Richard Davenport, farmer
was stabbed to death by James Mills
also farmer. George Woodell wa
beaten over the head with q club by
son of Mills and is in critical condi
tion. Mills and his son escaped. TIL
murder resulted from quarrel whicl
grew out of evidence which Mills ha
given in game law case at London.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-07-21
Popularity of Tur1uoise.

Perhaps the most popular stone just
now is the turquoise, $35 not being con-
slider an out-of-the-way price to pay
for quite a small stone, provided the
color is good. Grease or water spoils
the stones entirely, and this is the rea-
son that people with moist skins can
seldom manage to keep the stone good
color for any length of time.-Chicago
Chronicle.
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PoeticaI EReryexcence.

A Georgia poet announces that there
amt nothin' half so hot as heat" II
he expects to raise an argument over
this proposition, warmly comments the
Chicago Times-Herald, he has chosen a
poor time of the year for it.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-07-21
shanGhaI,s RnpId Crowtb.

Since the war of 1894 the Chinese pop.
ulation of Shanghai has grown from
100000 to 100000. The attraction lies
in the many new industrial establish
ments,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-07-21
A JournaiistIe Peer.

The only newspaper man in England
who is a peer is Lord Glenesk, proprie-
tor of the London Morning Post.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-07-21

New York, July 18.-Bicycle manu-.
facturers from all over the country
held secret meeting in this city.
Charles Il. Flint, president of the rub
ber trust, is believed to hold the key to
the situation. If Flint and the Rubber
company are taken into the bicycle
combination on terms dictated by him
self, funds will be provided for the re-
organization and perfection OF the bike
trust. Otherwise, there will be no COM
bination unless major portion of the
funds required be raised among the
bicycle makers.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-07-21
JUST OFF THE WIRE.

Special to the News-Democrat.
Natick, Mass, July 1S,--Horatio
Alger, the writer of boys stories, died
this morning. He had been sick fol-
about year.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-07-21

Washington, July 1S.-It is pretty
certain that the Manila round robin
viii cause action. The administration
dislikes to remove Gen. Otis bodily, as
it would be reflection on the whole
campaign in the Philippines. He may
be made governor general of the whole
archipelago, General Miles or Merritt
may be sent to take command of the
forces in the field, Consultations have
been held among officials, both last
night and this morning. The situation
was discussed, but no conclusion was
reached.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-07-21

New York, July 1S.-Sec. Gage OF
the treasury, Senators Allison of Iowa,
Burrows OF Michigan and Platt of New
York, are at Manhattan Beach where
the Republican members of the senate
finance committee will discuss several
proposed currency measures this week.
Senator Aldrich of Rhode Island ar
rived in the city last night. He will
join the other senator's today. What
the program Of the conference is, he
would not say.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-07-21

Norfolk, Va, July 18. Carl and Rich
ard Almond, brothers, and David AL
mond, son OF Carl, were toning CLANS in
Elizabeth river this morning, when
their canoe was run down by a sail
boat and all three were thrown into the
river and drowned.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-07-21

Cincinnati, July 1S.-Fire broke out
in one of the big core pits at U. s..
Cast Iron Type foundry, formerly the
Adyston Type & Steel Co., shortly
after IL o'clock last night. All that
remains standing is the stone wall. The
fire was caused by the overfowing Of
metal. Loss estimated at 100000,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-07-21

Baltimore, Md, July 18.-Engineer
Jesse w. Resau was killed and Fire
man J. M. Shade was seriously injured
by the derailing Of a locomotive, draw
ing train on the B. g. o. railway, this
morning
The record-union., 1899-05-13
HOMEOPATHISTS.
Closing Session of Annual Meeting
of the State Society.

LOS ANGELES, May 12.-To-day was
the closing day of the twenty-third an
nual session of the California State
Homeopathic Medical Society at Santa
Monica.
The Bureau of Mental and Nervous
Diseases was taken up and devoted TO
a symposium on epilepsy" the various
phases of the subject being treated by
Drs. Arndt, Campbell, Martin. Rich
ardson and Dolan.
Under the bureau of gnyaeology, pa
pers were read by Drs. Bryant and Flor
ence N. Ward of San Francisco and f.
V. Van Norman of Los Angeles.
The final bureau was devoted to the
discussion of "Diphtheria.
The pathology was discussed by DR..
Pliny Watts, who considered the dis
ease due to a specific bacillus. proba bly,
the Klebs- Loeffier bacillus
DR.. Francis B. Kellogg described the
rarely occurring disease diphtheria of
the eye.
DR.. H. L. Stambach outlined the
proper homeopathic treatment for the
disease.
The anti-toXin treatment was dis
cussed, and the consensus of opinion
was that it is still on trial.
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NEWS FROM ALASKA.
Indians Dying Like Sheep on Kot-
zebue Sound.

SKAGUAY, May 5 (via Seattle May
1O.-Fah Fysh and w. Williams
reached Dawson April 18th on foot from
hotzebue Sound. Fysh and Williams
formed two of party of nineteen who
left Iowa last summer and joined the
big rush which landed 1000 people on
the various rivers of Kotzebue Sound.
The party established winter quarters
800 miles up the Kowak River. After
untold hardships and labor they decided
that there was no gold in the country.
On February 18th Fysh and Williams
struck out over the divide to Koyukuk.
thence to Dawson, a distance of 800
miles.
Mr.. F'ysh reports that Kotzebue Sound
is thickly peopled with an intelligent
race. of Indians closely resembling the
Japanese in habits and physique. The
principal diet heretofore has been dried
salmon, but the abundance of white
mans food last summer was the cause
of laying away less than half crop of
salmon. The result this winter was that
the illy-nourished natives have been
dying off like sheep.
He says the opening of the Behring
Sea will see the exodus of the last
white man, and only a scattering of
cabins will mark the scene of one of
the most disastrous gold-hunting ex-
petitions since Cortes landed on the
coast of Florida.
w l. Siegel. a United States, mail
carrier, arrived from Dawson to-day
with TO pounds of mail matter from
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fourth part of these are in position to
act as collecting and distributing
agents for national Dewey testimon-
ial, and that each one4of these 500 is
willing to pledge itself to the collec-
ton from it's readers and the transmits
sion to the appointed trustees of the
sum of $500 for that fund.
Surely this estimate is moderate
enough, and surely the amount of each
individual subscription, which must be
strictly fixed and limited, is moderate
enough to prevent any newspaper from
exploiting the Admiral for the purpose
of advertising itself. And yet, the
aggregate of the subscriptions would
be S250,00 Half of this should go
to the erection of a residence for the
Admiral in whatever place in the Unit
ed States he might prefer to put it.,
and the other half for his personal use.
1.-THE President of the United States,
the Secretary Of State and the Secre-
tary of the Treasury would be appro-
pirate custodians of the fund and their
willingness to assume it's custody may
be taken for granted
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PRISON DIRECTORS.
No Successor to Hale Chosen at
Yesterdays Meeting.

SAN QUENTIN, May 12.-The Board
of State Prison Directors met to-day,
but contrary to expectation, no sue
cessor to Warden Hale was elected
The Directors talked the matter over
bay with Martin Aguirre of Los Ange-
les, his choice for the position Aguirre's
claims We're presented by the Governor,
but vote was not taken. Ex-Director
Mark Ivory is said to be the only other
candidate.
If a special meeting is not held the
election will go over until the meeting
at Folsom on May Doth
The Governor expressed himself as
opposed to the custom of granting par
dons to prisoners whose first terms are
about to expire.
10y Perez and Walter Furnish, con-
victs who struggled opium into the pris-
on. will be prosecuted under the re-
Gently enacted law, and may have sew
eral years added to their sentences.
Warden Hale read his report on the
recent conspiracy of nine prisoners TO
escape by dragging the guard, and it
was decided that all, including the in
former, Sir" Harry Westwood Cooper
should be severely punished. They will
forfeit their credits and be confined in
the ''incorrigible' cells now being con-
structed, where they will make grain
bags by hand in solitude.
Over six million jute bags have been
sold ard arer awaiting orders for ship
ment and more than five million more
are on hand.
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points on the American side of the
Yukon commencing at st. Michael. He
made the trip in fifteen days. He broke
through the ice several times, having
many narrow escapes. He reports that
five large mails from Dawson are hung
up at Selkirk, Hootalinqua and White
Horse and will have to wait the open
ing of navigation. The Yukon and it's
tributaries are fast breaking up.
Thirty Mile River is free of ice and
Fifty Mile River is open from White
Horse Rapids to Lake Marsh.
John Nelson of Sam Diego, Cal, died
at Dawson from scurvy April 18th
The Skaguay Chamber of Commerce
last night sent official invitations to
President Mckinley, the Secretary of
the Interior and the American members
of the High Joint Commission to visit
Skaguay this summer to study the
boundary question and the need of some
sort of government.
Thomas c. Bennett, purseP of the
steamer Noyo, who killed James Cowie
at White Horse Rapids last August has
been acquitted of the charge of murder
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SUNDAY NEWSPAPERS.
A Protest Against Seven-Day Pub
locations in England.

LONDON, May ia deputation, in
Guiding the Right Rev. Mandell Creigh-
ton, Bishop Of London; John Burns, the
labor leader, and the Rev. Hugh Price
Hughes and others, representing relig-
iOuS bodies waited to-day upon the
Right Hon. Sir Matthew White Ridley,
Secretary of State to the Home Depart
ment, protesting against seven-day
newspapers.
Sir Mark J. Stewart, who acted as
spokesman for the delegation, asked for
a stronger sympathetic expression from
the Government to strengthen the
movement
The Home Secretary replied that he
was entirely in sympathy with the dep
utation. but that he was afraid the
Government could do nothing in the
premises. He, however, would fully
consider the matter.
Sir Matthew Ridley added that he
would be glad to authorize local author
tiles to frame bylaws with the object
of discouraging Sunday editions of
npWSnapprS
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TRAGEDY IN CONTRA COSTA.
A Drunken Row Winds UP With a
Murder

MARTINEZ, May 12.-As the result
of drunken row James Clancy is now
in Jail on charge of murder He shot
Henry Welch four times in the black
smith shop of Joe Boland at Orinda
last night. The Coroner has gone to
the scene of the tragedy, and will sum-
mon jury and hold an inquest later
Clancy gave himself up He claims
that the shooting was done in self-de-
Tense. The stories told by Clancy and
the blacksmith tally.
Boland says that on Thursday
night, after he had gone to bed, he was
awakened by some one knocking on the
building. He called to the. applicant
to push the back door open and come
in. Welch walked in and asked the
blacksmith for some money to pur-
chase some wine The old man in
formed him that he had no money.
Give me an order and l will get
some"
WEIGH went away, and in a short
time returned with the liquor.
In the meantime Clancy had come in
and the three men sat down to the
table and commenced to drink. lust
how the row started is not known. but
the old man says the boys became
angry, and finally Welch said to
Clancy:
Il gave your brother a good licking
short time ago, and 1 can do you up
just as good
With that WEIGH grabbed a butcher
knife that was on the table and made
lunge at Clancy Clancy lodged the
blow, but Welch followed him up. and
just as the former was about to plunge
the knife into him he pulled his revolt
Yer and shot him.
The District Attorney and the Sheriff
left for the scene of the crime this af-
ternoon to gather testimony.
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Declares the Defense Failed TO Live Up to
Their Opening Statement.
Failed to Prove It Physical I'm
possibility for William Muir
dock to Have Signed the Note
on September 5, 1877-F. C..
Lusk to Follow for the Defense
To-Day.

WILLOWS, May 12-Argument in the
Murdoch case commenced this morn
ing, Attorney M w. Cannon making the
opening statement to the jury. Large
crowds are in town for the purpose Of
hearing the arguments. Attorney Can
non recited the facts as alleged by the
plaintiff, and pointed out the alleged
failure of the defense to contravert the
evidence of the plaintiff. He said that
the defense had failed to live up to their
opening statement, and that their prom
Use to show the jury that it was a phys
ical impossibility for William Murdoch
to have signed the note on September
D, Io11, had not been kept.
The attorney said that the main point
of the defense was that the signature
to the note had been traced from Will
lam Murdock's signature to deed Civ
en- to the plaintiff by him in 1890.
Attorney Cannon continued his argu-
ment in the afternoon. He attacked the
testimony of Mr. and Mrs. Henry.
claiming that Mrs. Henry had coached
her husband while he was ON the stand,
and that when recalled the next day
she could remember nothing accurate
ly, although she was positive as to all
matters the day before.
The attorney stated that the plaintiff
had contrayerted all the main points
of the defense, namely, that William
Murdoch and Mrs Murdoch were net
at GAVIN Murdock's place on Septem-
Der >, 1877; that William Murdoch was
not at the State Fair in 1887 and 1890,
that no consideration had been shown,
and that the signature to the note was
traced from the 1890 deed.
The experts came in for some strong
sarcasm. The attorney showed the jury
many checks with admitted signatures
of Murdoch, saying that the signatures
shown completely disproved the certain
testimony Of experts. He closed by
saying that this fortune Iightfully be-
longed to the sons of the plaintiff, whose
grandfather, Samuel Murdoch desired
them to have this money, as his affida-
Wit to 7. j. Kirkpatrick proved.
F. c. Lusk will follow for the defesi5e
fO-mOr-TOw
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Big Flow of Water,

SAN BERNARDINO, May 12.-The
largest stream of water ever obtained
from an arte-ian we'll in this county was
struck this morning on the Waterman
tract about a mile east of the city The
pipe is ten inches in diameter and the
water gushes thirty inches above the
top. The amount Of water flowing
from the we'll is estimated at 500 min
ers' inches. The water spread over for
ty acres of land in a few hours and a
force of men are hard at work turning
the water into Warm Creek. The we'll
is $40 feet in depth
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Last This Last

Dan FRANCISCO DATA. MdAlIlluIl lelil-
perature 60, minimum Al, mean 53.
The area of high pressure central Fri
day morning over the northwest coast
has moved steadily inland. The pres
sure has fallen slowly along the entire
Pacific Slope but no well marked de-
preston is to be noticed.
The temperature has fallen about 5
degrees in the great valleys of Califor-
MIA, but will rise tomorrow. Gener-
ally warmer weather with maximum
temperatures in the interior may be ex-
pected Saturday and Sunday.
The maximur2 temperatures to-day
did not exceed 80 degrees, except at
Yuma, where 102 is reported.
No rain has fallen in California
A maximum wind velocity of twenty
eight miles per hour from the south is
reported at Idaho Falls.
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An Aged Woman Burned to Death.

Los ANGELES, May 1.-THE Coro-
ner here has just received word that
an aged woman has been burned to
death in a fire in Tehuenga Canyon,
about ten miles from this city. The
name OF the woman was not given. nor
any particulars of the affair.
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Congressional Nomination,

LEWISTON (Maine), May 1.-THE
Democrats of the Second Congressional
District nominated by reclamation
John Scott of Bath as candidate for
the vacancy caused by the death of
Nelson Dingley. Mr.. Scott delivered
an address indorsing Bryan and the
Chicago platform
The record-union., 1899-05-13
Jerome Park Strike Ended

NEW YORK, May 1.-THE strike of
LOO Italians at work in the Jerome
Park reservoir ended to-day, all but
about 1G0 of the men going back to
work No concessions were made.
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State University Presidency.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 12.-It was
expected that the Board of University
Regents would this afternoon select a
President for the University of Cali
fornia to succeed Martin Kellogg, but
the matter was postponed until the
meeting of the board next month.
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WEATHER CONDITIONS.
Predicted That Temperature Will
be Warmer in California To-Day.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 12-The fol-
lowing are the seasonal rainfalls to date,
as compared with those of same date
last season, and rainfall in last twenty
four hours:
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NEW YORK, May PA strike is
threatened of the Bricklayers Union of
this city, who demand an increase of
5 cents an hour. The union has 1000
members
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A WRECK AT UTICA.

UTICA IN. ", May 13-At 235 this
morning New York Central train No.
33, the southwestern limited. while in
the yard in this city was run into by
Pan-American express No. 81, result
ing in the destruction of a Wagner
car and express car and the engine of
the latter train. The wreck caught
fire, but was extinguished by the local
department. Harry Neal of Buffalo.
assistant superintendent of the Wagner
Company, was probably fatally injured.
No one else was hurt.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1899-08-19
-FOUR CENT COTTON.

From the Birmingham Age
Herald we clip the following:
If one will take even ordi-
nary dress goods, such as wo-
men are buying every day, and
weigh them, it will be seen that
they are selling at the rate of GA
cents a pound. The farmer got
8 cents of this amount and the
retail dealer got rs much more,
and the balance, "a cents, goes to
the railroads, owned elsewhere,
and the people in the north. The
south gets for its staple in this
case 10 cents pound, and the
north 54 cents.
"There is no nonsense or de-
ception about these figures. They
are cold facts numerically ex-
pressed. The manufacturers in
the north does not pocket "a
cents a pound, but the 81 cents
accurately speaking about 81
cents-does go into the pockets
of northern people, some of them
being operatives, some of them
engaged in transportation and
some in the manufacture and
sale of supplies. Fifty-two out
OF 81 cents expended 1cC ess
goods made from cotton is paid
into northern pockets, only II
cents being retained in the south.
We 10 not care to trace that II
cents, lest we find that it. too, is
landed at last alongside the 81
cents in the course Of the pur-
chase of fertilizers, meats, other
dry goods, machinery and the
like.
1--WE need not grumble over 8
cent cotton when we know that
we can readily make it worth to
the state ten times that price. II
we cannot readily, at tins stage
of manufacturing development in
the south, increase its value to
the community ten-fold, We
know we can increase it three
fold, or our-fold. We can al
least make standard sheetings,
and this would carry 5-cent cot
ton up to 20 cents, which is a fine
raise in itself. =
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and mistreatment where none
were meant.
The fun Of target shooting is
also given as a reason for carry
ing a pistol. 1t is a very dear
ly purchased pleasure. It takes
away the real courage from a
man S soul. In fact, to make a
constant habit of carrying a pis-
tol is a very good indication that
a man is wanting in the very
highest kind of courage. The
truly courageous man is he who
can trust in the justness Of his
cause and the uprightness of his
motives, and who wants no pow
der and lead to secure his rights.
The pistol is responsible for a
great deal Of lawlessness. "The
people are the law and the
practice of carrying pistols will
not be stopped until the best peo-
pie by precept and example teach
its utter uselessness and its hurt
fulness. .-Kentwood Commercial.