The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1901-10-08

or only joking when he announces that
be is soon to be married. .
sss
The cabinet makers are taking a
rest.
That old gerrymander scare is doing
duty now for the Republicans.
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The plow trust was incorporated
under the laws of New Jersey. How
long is Jersey going to keep this thing
up?
Lord Kitchener has forbidden his
officers in South Africa to carry pianos
with them on their campaigns. This
is an unwarranted interference, with
the comfort of the officers.
| The Akron Democrat is guilty of the
objectionable sin of printing in its
wise and Otherwise" story about
the definition of the word cofferdam
which was just bit aged some thirty
years ago.
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Carter Harrison, Of Chicago, is said
to be writing an autobiography which
is not to be published until he has
been dead twenty years. Carter is con-
siderate of his immediate friends.
Mr.. Ber e. Williamson, long identi-
fed with the Canton News-Democrat,
will represent that paper as staff cor
respondent at Columbus. He is one of
the brightest of Ohio's journalists
Alliance Review.
The bank clearings of Canton for
last week show an increase of over Al
per cent. over those for the cores
ponding week of last year. Canton is
evidently doing more business than
ever in it's history.
Missouri has appropriated a million
dollars for the worlds fair to be held
in st. Louis in 1903. and several other
states have already made appropria
TONS Ohio will be called upon at the
coming session of the legislature to
make an appropriation. If the worlds
fair gets Ohio to do as much ais Toledo
got for the centennial it will not fare
very well in the way of contribution
A Columbus paper prints lengthy
editorial on Lynch Law Abating," and
in the news columns of the same
issue can be found accounts of four
lynchings, one in Montana, one in Tex
as and two in Kentucky.
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While the sheriff was busy working
out plans on paper to make the county
Jail secure against prisoners who
might desire to escape, one prisoner
was getting in his work to let himself
out. The sheriffs plans and the ac-
count Of the attempt of the prisoner
to escape looked well in print the same
day.
On Wednesday the East Liverpool
Daily Crisis completed the eighteenth
year of its publication, stronger, bet
ter and more vigorous than ever. The
Crisis enjoys a place in the affections
of the people of its city that few papers
can boast OF. 1t is regarded as the
newspaper of East Liverpool and the
eastern part of the state. The secret
of its success is told in the one word
newspaper. 1t prints the news. and
that is what the people want.
The Thirtieth Ward Republican
club, said to be one of the strongest
and most influential Republican organ
izations in Cleveland, has changed it's
name to the Thirtieth Ward Roosevelt
club, and it has made the announcement
that its entire membership, 400 strong
is out for Roosevelt for nomination in
1904. 1t looks a little as If a gentle
man by the name of Mark Hanna does
not have the entire Republican
strength of the Forest City at his COM
mand. The Hanna boom was set off
prematurely.
Wonder has been expressed frequent
ly at the desperate and determined ef-
forts that the prisoners in the county
jail make to secure their liberty since
Sheriff Zaiser has had charge of the
bastile. Men against whom no indict-
ments had been found, others who had
nothing to fear at the trials that were
pending, and even those who had but
a few days to serve of a sentence, seem
to have become frenzied with a desire
to escape the horrors of the place. An