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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-08-26
A PICNIC
BY PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
AND THE CHILDREN.
WITH POLITICS AFTER
Followed by an Emphat-
ic Denial,

Oyster Bay, Aug % - President
and Mrs. Roosevelt and their chill
dren and their cousins' children all
went IN picnic tctay Jaynes Hill,
a tall promentory commanding a fine
view OF Long Island Sound, was their
objective point and he president and
his vie covered the intervening nine
miles on horseback. The children and
the J. West Roosevelt and w. Emlen
Roosevelt families rroreeted to the
picnic ground in wagons. President
Roosevelt played games with the
children, told them h nting stories,
and 80 .rets of woodcraft that made
them all wild to 60 west Immediately.
While the president and his little
friends were at their games, most
of the grown-ups Of the party read
books aloud to each other.
When the luncheon was spread be-
meath the trees the president acted as
head waiter and superintendent Of
commissary.
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Of Mas
sachusetts came IN on a late train to-
night and was met at the station by a
conveyance from Sycamore Hill. He
will remain as guest of the president
until some time tomorrow.
Secretary Loeb this evening emphat-
ically denied that a conference over
New York state politics is to be held
here on Wednesday. According to
the story as circulated in New York,
Governor Odell, Senator Plat and For
mer Lieutenant Governor Woodruff
were all to meet at Sycamore Hill
on Wednesday and settle the guber-
material problem for the state. The
secretary said this evening that none
of the gentlemen mentioned has an
appointment to meet the president
this week, and none is expected at
his home.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-08-26
RESCUED
FROM WHAT SEEMED GER.
TAIN DEATH.
BOATING PARTY IN PERIL
Girls Used Burning Skirts
as Signals

Cleveland, o., Aug. ga boating
party consisting of several prominent
manufacturers and four young women
was rescued in the nick of time this
afternoon from what seemed to be GER
tain death.
The party consisted of Frederick
Meyer and Thomas McGraw of the
Macbeth Iron company; G. f. Durand
Of the William Edward Co.; F. H.
Collins, Miss Emily Curfer and Miss
Elvira Chase and two more young wo-
men who were guests of Mr.. Collins.
A storm came up suddenly and a
large wave disabled the steering appar-
atus.
Improvised oars were made from
seats torn from their fastenings, but
these were useless in stopping the drift.
tour lake freight steamers passed the
party without observing their distress,
and 1t was not until the women took off
their underskirts, soaked them in oil
and set them on fire that aid was sum-
moned.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-08-26
DAMAGE GROWS
As Reports Come ir
From the Storm.

st. Paul, Minn., Aug. Gas COM
munication is re-established with the
country cut off by the storm of Sat
urday night, the extent of the damage
grows. The total loss of life has
reached eighteen while the injured
numbEr Ids. =d," ....,
The storm was a true cyclone and
effectively deadly from Willow Lake,
South Dakota, which was entirely wip-
ed out, though the loss of life was
small, to Barron, Wis, and the money
loss will reach probably four millions
Of dollars. '.
Eight thousand trees, many of them
valuable, were uprooted in the park.
ways of St. Paul and hundreds of men
have been working all day clearing
away the debris.~1 gTs
A special meeting of the city coun-
Gil has been called to make provision
for reconstructing the destroyed
bridges and public works. The wide
area of the storm makes it compara-
lively easy for the city to take care
of the destitute.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-08-26
SHIP TRUST
Helped by Decision of
Judge Lacombe.

New York, Aug. PA decision rem
dered by Judge Lacombe, sitting in the
United States district court today. will
in all probability put a stop to the
more important litigation begun against
the ship-building trust and Charles M.
Schwab. Whether it will have any
direct effect upon the charges made by
Governor Odell and the parties involv-
ed in that phase Of the case, is not yet
determined.
This termination OF the big financial
scandal was reached by the signing OF
an order dismissing the complaint and
Cross bill filed by the New York Sc
curity and Trust company against the
United States Shipbuilding company
and Charles M. Schwab.
AS the discontinuance was reached
upon the consent of counsel represent
ing the complainant and both defend
ants, it is believed that the minor suits
will be dropped.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-08-26
IN SELF DEFENSE
Young Woman Shot Her
Father

New Bedford, Mass, Aug. 22.-In
self defence Mary Botham, aged IS,
shot her father, Joseph Botham this
afternoon at their home in this city.
He lies at st. Lukes hospital tonight
in a critical condition. The father
was an incorrigible idler and came
home badly intoxicated at noon time.
When he began to wreck the furni-
ture the girl secured 3S-calibre re-
volver given her by her soldier
sweetheart Angus McCloud, stationed
at Fort Rodman and fired, the shot,
penetrating the abdomen of the victim.
The girl was placed under arrest.
The man will pubbably die.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-08-26
MURDERER
BROUGHT BACK TO AN.
SWER FOR CRIME
A RAPID ExTRADITI0N
The Crime Was a Most
Brutal One.

Quarantine, N. Y, Aug. % Among
the passengers on the steamer Oscar
II, which arrived from Copenhagen
and Christiansand was Captain
George T. Vickers, assistant district
attorney of Hudson county. Captain
Vickers, with Detective James Con
nors, have in charge John KleinoJe,
a prisoner extradited from Norway,
charged with the brutal murder Of
Marie Tuckasack in Bayonne, on June
IL, 1904
The victim was supposed to have
carried the sum of $1,000 about her
person. The prisoner, who was en-
ployed in the oil works at Bayonne,
heard Of this and attacking her on
the evening of June II, throttled her
by tying stocking around her throat.
Upon searching the body, however, he
found but $50. The remainder of the
thousand dollars, 1t seems, had been
sent by the dead girl to her relatives
at home the day before.
iuueuidoely dlISl luS CilnS Iue
murderer engaged passage on the
steamer Island to Norway under the
name Of Joseph Stoselawitz but was
discovered and arrested upon stepping
off the steamer at Christiansand. He
was Immediately extradited, the extra.
dition probably being the shortest one
between Norway and this country.
The papers were presented by the
American minister on Friday, August
5, and the order of extradition was
obtained Wednesday August 10, in
time to catch the steamer Oscar II
The whole matter was in charge OF
Captain George T. Vickers, assistant
district attorney of Hudson county
assisted by Detective James Con
nors.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-08-26
RUSSIA HUSTL|NG
To Buy WarshIps Any
Old Place.

London, August 23.-The Paris cor
respondent Of the London Daily
Chronicle states that two Russian of
ficials are in Paris endeavoring to
secure the consent of the French
government for the purchase by the
Mediterranean Steamship Line of the
warships Puey Arredon and General
Belgrano from Argentina and the Es,
meralda and Chaabuco from Chilli,
the purchase to be made nominally
for France but the vessels to be
transferred to Russia at a point to be
decided on later.
The Russian officials declare that
the only result of such action would
be a diplomatic protest by Japan to
Great Britain which would hardly be
of serious character.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-08-26
C[OUDBURST
6OAKS THE PLEASANT
TOWN OF MINERVA
WENT WET FIRST Time
In Fifteen Years-Long
DrOuth Broken

Minerva, Aug. 22.--After the hard.
est fought battle in the history Of 10.
cal politics, the "wets" won the local
option election here today by a vote
of 172 to 16S credited to the drys.
There was total vote Of 341 out Of q
possible 34S, the largest number OF
votes ever cast at an election in the
village Everybody was aroused and
took sides one way or the other.
The campaign closed Sunday even.
ing by a very able address on the
streets by Rev. J. 8. Rutledge, of
Cleveland, who was imported by the
Anti-Saloon forces. The Anti-Saloon
took up the fight and directed 1t, unit.
ing with the local temperance lead
ers.
Minerva has been dry" for fifteen
years and this is the first time that
It has ever gone wet" At the other
elections there was large majority
against the saloons. There are mum
ber of things that led to the result
The well known fact that some Of the
druggists were getting rich out Of the
business had its influence with some
The prosecution of Messrs. Roller,
Pierman and Haines some time since
antagonized others. Each Of those
men had friends and many thought
the punishment was severe.
While the election was close, the
majority being but four, 1t is said
that there will be no contest upon the
part Of the temperance leaders, They
have expressed themselves as willing
to abide by the result. The prob
ability is that within the next few
weeks two or more saloons will be
running full blast in the town.
The temperance people are quite
detected. Encouraged by past sue
cesses they we're quite confident oi
victory and we're hopeful until almost
the last ballot was counted.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-08-26
DANGER
Threatens Historic Old
Block House.

Pittsburg, Pa, Aug pa bill was
filed in the local courts today by the
Daughters of the Americans Revolution
against the Pennsylvania railroad and
the city asking perpetual injunction
in the matter of the occupancy of the
Allegheny river wharf. On this prop
erty the railroad intends building ele-
waited tracks. The plaintiffs claim the
property was sold by the government
but they never relinQuished their
claim as to what should occupy it. 1t
is said that If the elevated is built,
warehouses will be built which will ul-
timately ruin the old historic block
house.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-08-26
REFERRED E]R;|'R|;E
FSh ga U-.' "a,
To Peking For a Settle.
nnent.

Shang Hal, Aug. 22.-At the close OF
the second meeting Of the foreign con-
suls last night it was announced that
the questions regarding the Russian
warships Askold and Grozovoi, now in
this port for repairs, would be referred
to Peking for adjustment. AS the
Russian authorities have shown a de-
cided disinclination to reconsider their
refusal to comply with China's demand
that the two ships leave China or dis
arm, the decisiom of the consuls is
considered point in favor of the Jap
anese.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-08-26
KieI Ship Canal a Success.

Berlin, Aug. 22.-Statistics just pub.
lished show that the Kiel ship canal
has proven brilliant enterprise for
German shipping and commerce. In
the first half of 1896 only some 1000
vessels passed through the canal then
just about started. In the corres-
ponding period of the current year
the number has grown to $4,000. For
the same periods the tonnages4 were
respectively, 100000 and 22, 200, 900.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-08-26
Girl Jumped From Third Story.

Cleveland, Aug. 22.-Panic stricken
by flames, Mildred Woelfiey, IS, jump
ed from the third story window of an
apartment house at Perry street and
Scovill avenue this morning, to the
stone sidewalk, 35 feet below.
Both wrists were broken and the
young woman also received a cut on
the forehead. Her father, rushing
down stairs to the street, expected
to find her dead, He carried her in
his arms to st. Vincent's hospital
Meanwhile the flames which had
frightened the girl were making head
way.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-08-26
RED PEPPER
Failed to Aid Prisoners
Escape.

Watertown, N. Y, Aug. 22.-Private
Thomas Costello of the Ninth In
fantry, u. 8. A.. military prisoner
confined in the guard house at Mad
ison barracks, this afternoon threw a
handful of red pepper into the face
of sentry Ploppert and attempted to
escape. Ploppert ordered Costello to
halt and the latter falling to obey,
the sentry fired. The shot pierced
Costello's bowels and he was taken to
the hospital in a dying condition.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-08-26
Sharon steel Works start.

Sharon, Pa, Aug. 22.-Blast No. !
Of the Carnegie Steel Co., will be
placed in operation at once after q
long shut down for repairs. It will
be making iron by Thursday. The
open hearth furnaces will undergo re-
pairs and the local plant Of the Amer
lean Steel and Wire Co., will be
started In few days. Three thou
sand men will resume work.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-08-26
FAREWELL. FOREVER
And If Forever, Fare Thee
Well.

London, Aug. 22.-The Moscow cor
respondent of the London Morning
Post wires that an intimate friend OF
General Stoessel, commanding the Rus
sian garrison at Port Arthur, has re-
ccived cablegram from him which
was carried to Che Foo by Russian
officer and transmitted from there 1t
concludes as follows: Farewell for
ever. Port Arthur will be my tomb"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-08-26
Postmaster Short.

La Crosse, Wis, Aug. 22.-Postmas.
ter G. f. Guerin of Babcock, Wood
county, has been relieved, the result
of investigation of Inspector e. q.
Fraser of this city. 1t is limited that
there is shortage in his accounts.
George L. Ward is temporary post.
master.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-08-26
ONE GIRL
Cause Of Fatal Quarrel OF
Two Men.

Scranton, Pa, Aug 22.--Joe Pick.
erillo and Phillip Ramicu, the latter
Spanish war veteran, quarrelled
over the girl whom they both loved
on Bunker Hill road. Ramicu drew q
revolver and shot his rival through
the heart. He waited until he saw
that Pickerillo was dead, then cursed
the body and disappeared.
The police have been vainly search.
ing for the murderer. It is learned
that every time the two men met
recently they quarreled about the girl,
the affair finally becoming SO bitter
that today's crime resulted.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-08-26
Wants TO Get EN- Together.

Mobile. Ala, Aug. 22.-F. Fl. Mon
roe, president of the Henry George
Single Tax association of Chicago in
letter to the Fairhope Courier Home
OF this county, the only single tax
colony in the world, suggests nation
al convention OF all single tax or
ganizations in the United States to be
held at Fairhope about March 1, 1905.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-08-26
Illinois Central GETS eusiness, 3,

New Orleans, La, Aug. 22.-The
United Fruit company today stated
that it has decided to give the Him
ois Central Railway company a mon
opoly Of the business Of it's lines.
Heretofore the business has been di-
vided with the Queen & Crescent
company.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-08-26
Picnic Of Eastern Stark Count,

Picnic OF Eastern Stark County.
The eighteenth annual picnic Of
Paris, Washington, Nimishillen and
Osnaburg townships will be held Sat
urday, August t27th, two miles south
east of Louisville. on Georgetown road
In John Zwahlen's grove.
Frank Oesch, a prominent attorney
of Youngstown, Atlee Pomerene and
G. G. Bow of this city, will make
addresses. The Georgetown quartette
one of the best in this section. will
enliven the occasion. The Osnabure
cornet band will be present.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-08-26
Representative kImbaII III.

Madison. Aug. 22.--Representative
Homer Kimball is dangerously Ill at
his home here and the doctors hold
out little hope. He has Inflammation
Of the liver. In the house at the last
session Of the assembly he was the
leader in the fight against the school
trust code.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-08-26
Storm In Wisconsin.

Barron, Wis, Aug ga severe
storm passed over this section Satur-
day night wrecking several buildings
at Dallas, Wis, killing Mrs, Calvin
Thompson of Dallas and severely in
juring other members of the family.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-08-26
LEADING Citizen
Dies at a Ripe Old
"tt "a Age.

Salem, Aug 22!-J. r. Hogan, for
many years a leading citizen Of Salem
died this morning at his home on
South Lundy street.. In the 18th year OF
Ills age. He was a native of Allegheny
county, and while q life long Democrat
even in Civil war times and in Republi-
can Allegheny county. was SO popular
that he held a number of borough Of
fees in Birmingham. He came to Salem
in 1872, and was for nnmber Of years
engaged in the lumber business. He fell
two weeks ago, breaking a leg, and
never recovered from the shock then
sustained. He leaves wife and four
children.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-08-26
The Gar Nearly "on the Hog"

st. Petersburg, Aug. 22-It has been
learned from trustworthy source
that the 200,0O0,00O roubles ($160, ,000,-
OO0) obtained from Paris by the Rus
sian government for war purposes,
have been almost entirely spent. The
question of future ways and means, of
the nature Of the Paris transaction Is
said to be under discussion.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-08-26
F|L|P|NOS
On Their Way Home
From st, Louis

Portland, Ore, Aug. 22.-The Fill
ipinos under the act Of congress as an
honorary commission to visit the
worlds fair at st. Louis arrived in
Portland this afternoon over the
Northern Pacific railway on their way
home. They were entertained during
the day under the joint auspices Of
the Lewis and Clark fair board and
the Commercial club. After visiting
various parts of the city, the commits.
sion left this evening for San Fran.
cisco.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-08-26
Boy Fatally Injured.

Wellington, Aug. 22.-Charles Nc
Gill aged s years. while riding on a
load Of hay today fell under the wagon
and was run over. He cannot live.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-10
Miss Havemeyer,s Wedding.

On April 22 1888, Miss Marie Have meyer, fourth daughter of the late The odore A. Havemeyer, was married to Percy Whitney. and three days later the beautiful Miss Sadie Price wed H. Archie Pell The Tiffany divorce was secured two years ago, and Mrs. Tiffany, her two children and her mother are now resid- ing on the other side. It is said they will make their future home there. The en- gagement of Perry Tiffany and Miss Olive Thompson. daughter of Mrs. J. Hoffman Thompson of Newark, was an- nounced last summer. MT. Tiffany lives with his mother. Mrs. George Tiffany who is daughter of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry. of Lake Erie fame. Are chic Pells present wife was the former Mrs Sara Cromwell Bent. of Bordentown N. J., and Philadelphia. the widow of Ward Bent. Quaker City business and club man. Since his second marriage MT. Pell has been living quietly in town and Is seldom seen at his old haunts, the favorite of which was the billiard room of the Waldorf Astoria. His first wife. Miss Sadie Pell, of Baltimore, married Dr. Percy Turnure and lives in West Forty-ninth street. Her bosom compan- ions were Miss Lulu Morris, now Mrs. Henry Clews, Jr., and Miss Adele Hor- witz. who married Francis B. Stevens, Jr., of Westbury.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-10
THE STORY OF A KISS.
Lincoln Made Strong Bid For It. But
 Did Not Get If.

From the New York Times.
 The heroine of the following anecdote about Lincoln is now an old lady, but she declares that when she recalls the way in which she met the advances of the man who afterward became her hero 1t still brings the blush of shame to he. cheek
 When I was about six years old" she narates, Lincoln for short time served in ths general store of the little western town near which was my fathers farm. In the window of this shop, along with shoes, ealieoes, sun-bonnets. toys, candy all the heterogeneous stock of a coun- try store-was displayed a bead pin cushion which 1t was the ambition of my life to own.
 "Who has not at some time longed for the unattainable-the thing just out of reach-which for that very reason per- haps scenes to him the most desirable object the world holds? That bead pin cushion was to me what Great Britain was to Napoleon; but, to my despair, the little ticket pinned to its center read Twenty cents, just 20 cents in ex- cess of my entire bank account.
 Week after week, when l went with my mother to the store to exchange but ter and eggs for sugar and other com- moditles which the farm did not yield the coveted prize lay tantalzingly before my eyes. As time went on the brilliancy of the red rose which adorned it's center be- gan to fade, fly specks appeared here and there sullying the purity of the lilies, hut never for a moment did my affections waver. Through whatever vicissitudes it might pass, they still chung round the wreck of that cushion.
 'Lincoln's fellow clerk, a fresh com- plexioned young fellow, who, with his red cheeks and oiled locks, seemd to me a perfect Adonis and who, if the truth were known, shared my heart with the bead pincushion, always met me with the stock pleasantly, Got kiss for me to- day, little girl?' whereupon I would be seized with a paroxysm of shyness and take refuge behind my mothers skirts.
 "One evening after the red cheekt I youth had proffered his request in vain for about the hundredth time, tall un- gainly young man came forward and as he handed my mother her mail said:
 Perhaps, little girl, you will kiss me .
 'I shook my head most cmphatically. , |" Come, now, if you'll let me have a kiss I'll give you anything there is in the store. he bribed. and, stopping from his great height, he lifted me to the coup- ter, where my face was on level with his.
 Anything in the store! I glanced at the desire of my heart, and my resolution weakened.
 'Would--would you give me that bead pincushion?' I whispered
 He siled and nodded assent.
 'I looked at my suitor. Oh. but he was ugly-and grand But I didn't know that then. No. I shook my head, the price was too high. Then, as I glanced at my blooming Adonis who stood beside him, it occurred to me that might strike a bargain more to my taste
 "'Well,' drew a long breath and took my courage in both hands. If you'll give that cushion, rll-I'll kiss the pretty one for itp'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-10
RUSSIA, JAPAN, KOREA
Some Facts About Russia.

From the Worlds Work
 Two and one-half times as large as the United States and Alaska.
 Thirty thousand miles of coast line half of 1t ice bound. Thirty-six thousand miles of railroad two-thirds of it owned by the govern ment.
 The United States has fifty-three times as many miles of telegraph and sends fifteen times as much mail
 The United States has twenty-three times as many factories.
 One-twentieth as much coal produced and one-sixth as much iron as in the United States.
 Total exports. $350, 0000OO.
 Next to the United States as a grain producing country.
 Population in 1903, 141OO0OOO.
 Russians. 66 per cent; Poles, per cent; Films, per cent; Turko-Tartars, per cent, and Jews, 3 per cent
 Average laborer gets one-quarter as much wages as in the United States. Only ninety daily papers.
 Facts About Japan.
 The empire includes 5000 islands stretch ing nearly 2900 miles.
 Area, 161.153 square mies-as large as the North Atlantic states.
 Coal the chief wealth-9000,00 tons mined in 1901.
 Textile production increased from $9- 100000 worth in 1886 to $S6,OO000O worth in 1901.
 The population in 1900 A, ,S05, 937. Day laborers receive 20 cents a day; women servants. 84 cents a month: men servants, s1.36 a month women farm la borers, $50; men farm laborers. $15.96 Four hundred and eighty daily papers,
 Facts About Korea. The area is s2.00 square miles. There are nine treaty ports. Gold the great mineral wealth-nearly $3,00O,000 worth exported annually. The population is 100000, including 2500O Japanese, who control the country's activities.
 Education costs s16oOOO and religious sacrifices $1S6,000.
 The navy consists of twenty-five admi- rals and one iron built coal barge.