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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-02-05
THREE DYING
AS RESULT OF AjTERRIFiC
BATTLE.
men REFUSE TO TALK
And Cause of the Fight
is a Mystery.

Fairmont. W. Va. Feb. flames
Kennedy, aged 3S, shot through the
mouth and hip. James Black. of Balti-
more, aged 2S, shot through left eye
end chest, w. c. Mitchell. of Milwau-
kee, Wis, aged "a. wounded through
both lungs. are all dying at the State
Miners hospital here tonight, as a re-
suit OF what is believed to have been
the most terrific mountain battle this
section has known. The fight took
place at Austin with the men all per-
fectly sober, going out into the open
to end their dispute.
Guns were brought into play and
among themselves the wounds were
inflicted None will live through till
morning, the physicians at the hospi-
tai say. The men refuse to discuss the
quarrel.
Kennedy crawled four miles to Tun-
Melton to inform the authorities of the
fight and to receive medical aid. He
fell unconscious in the office Of DR..
Bone there He was told by hospital
physician that he had to die, but he
made no statement other than that he
could not talk without duplicating the
other wounded men and this he refus-
ed to do. After arriving here the men
were anxious about each other and
asked to be placed in the same ward.
Practically nothing can be learned
of the battle that took place among the
miners but it is believed. judging from
the badly wounded condition. OF the
three men who reached here that 9TH
ers must have been killed in the fight.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-02-05

deceit and fraud of the former one
When he concluded MIR, Fairbanks.
(Rep., Ind, who had expected to ad-
dress the senate today, secured per-
mission to take the floor Immediately
after the conclusion of routine bust!
ness tomorrow. The senate then went
into executive session and shortly al
terwards adjourned
HOUSE.
Washington, Feb. 1.-The house to-
day, passed without opposition the bill
ratifying an agreement with the
Sioux Indians to open up their lands
in the Rosebud reservations.
Today by agreement was given over
to the discussion of bills relating to
the district of Columbia.
Among the bills passed was one
making it unlawful to bring horse
with docked tail into the district.
A resolution was passed directing
the secretary of war to bring Porto
Rican school teachers to this country
on government transports for the pur.
pose of attending summer schools.
On motion of Mr.. Hill (Rep., illD,
chairman of the committee on foreign
affairs at 3:15 o'clock the house in
committee of the whole gave consider
alton to the diplomatic appropriation
bill.
The bill carries $1,99e.G0O an III.
crease of $2S,350 over the appropria-
ton for the present fiscal year. After
Mr. Hill had explained the bill, Mr..
Thayer Dem, Mass), severely attack.
ed the Panama policy.
Gen. Grosvenor (Rep., Ohio, in re-
plying defended the administration.
The committee then arose without
completing consideration of the bill
and at O'Clock the house adjourned.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-02-05
MINORITY REPORT
On Contested Election Case Scores
Republicans for Usinq Partially.

Washington, Feb. 1.-The minority
report of the committee on elections
No filed in the house today by Mr..
McLain, of Mississippi, and dealing
with the contest of Connell versus
Howell, from the tenth district of
Pennsylvania declares that Howell
(Democrat), was elected and that
Connell, the Republican contestant to
whom the Republicans want to give
the seat, is not entitled to it,
The report is voluminous docu.
ment and says with reference to the
majority report of the convention
They have gone just far enough to
find a plurality for the contestant and
ignored all illegal votes. Testimony
was taken for the purpose of substan-
tiating these allegations. BY what
rules of law or justice the commit
tee can consider only a part of the
record and part of the illegal votes,
we are unable to discover"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-02-05
IS VERY ENTHUSIASTIC

Pittsburg, Pa, Feb. 1.-"At the
Democratic national convention the
state OF Missouri will name Senator
Francis M. Cockrell as her choice for
the presidency. If he Is nominated |
feel sure that he will be elected" said
Congressman Clark at the Union sta
tion this morning. / can't speak with
any degree of certainty about the
rest OF the states In the Democratic
column, but know what my own
state, Missouri, will do, and am sure
that her choice would be entirely ac-
ceptable to the party. The Demo
Gratis have a chance. and good
chance, to put a winning candida
the field this year and feel sure that
they mean to take every advantage of
it."
Mr.. Clark was on his way to Sandy
Lake, Pa, to lecture when he passed
through the city this morning. When
it was intimated to him that Senator
Cockrell's name had not appeared
very prominently among the list of
presidential aspirants, the genial
member of the house of representa-.
tives smiled knowingly and remarked: /:
Neither was Abraham Lincoln's
name brought forward by his party to
any extent before the nomination. "
His enthusiastic regard for Mr.. Cock
rell's candidacy led to the question as
to whether. in his opinion, the Mis-
souri, senator would prove to be as
great man as Lincoln. "The ques.
tion is unfair" said Mr.. Clark. with a
broad smile, "Lincoln's dead"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-02-05
IN A PANIC
Fire Caused Great Alarm in a New
York Tenement House.


York Tenement House.
New York, Feb. Tenants of the
six-story tenement at No. 2S King
street were thrown into a panic this
evening by a fire. which almost de-
stroyed the building from the third
floor upward Extra apparatus was
called out by second alarm, the
flames having gained considerable
headway before being discovered.
When the tlremen arrived. the hall
ways were filled with smoke and flames
were leaping from the third story
windows in front. Tenants of the
upper floors believed that their escape
had been cut off, but, led by several
policemen and firemen, they were all
got in safety to the street.
Sixteen families were made homeless
by the flames. The loss. it is es-
timated, is about $4,000
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-02-05
SANDBAGCED.
Brutal Attack Upon an
Aged Woman.
i22.29-f5

Philadelphia, Pa, Feb. -Four un-
known men this afternoon entered the
store of Joseph Hassler. prominent
jeweler at 3416 Market street, while
no one but his aged wife was there and
brutally attacked her with a sandbag.
They afterwards robbed the store and
made their escape leaving Mrs. Hass-
Ter in an unconscious condition on the
floor. 1t is believed that her skull is
fractured and that she will not re-
cover. The police have not yet discov-
cred any clue to the robbers.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-02-05

State of Ohio. In the Court OF Com.
Stark County So. mon Peas.
Jacob Byerley, Plaintiff
Carrie b. Byerley, Defendant.
The above named defendant. whose place
OF residence Ia unknown, viii take notice
that on the 9th day of January 1904, the
paintiff filed his petition In the court OF
common pleas of Stark county, Ohio, for
divorce ana custody of their children, on
the ground of adultery and gross neglect OF
duty, and that said cause win be for trial on
and alter March 18th, 1901.
SHIELDS & POMERENE,
Attys for Plaintiff
Published in the Stark Co. Democrat Jan.
%, Feb. 6, IL, 10, 20, Mar. 4, 1914.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-02-05
ARMY ASSIGNMENTS

Washington, ID. c., Feb. 1.-The war
department today announced the fol.
lowing assignments of general Off
GERS of the army:
Brigadier General G. c. G. Carr,
department of Dakota. headquarters
st. Paul, Brigadier General Francis
Moore, school of application for cav
airy and field artillery, Fort Riley
Kansas, Brigadier General VIM. s. Nc
Caskey, duty in the Philippines.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-02-05
STAR ROUTES ,

Washington, Feb. 1.-The postoffice
department today awarded contracts
for carrying the mails on 3,96S star
and steamboat routes in the states of
North and South Carolina, Georgia,
Florida, Alabama, Mississippi. Tennes-
see, Kentucky and the island of Por-
to Rico, for term Of four years be-
ginning July 1, 1904. The annual
compensation to the contractors for
the service under these contracts will
be $1,216.576.06.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-02-05
HIGH PRICE
Paid for Farm Land in
Perry TWP.

The sale of 46 acres Of land in Per-
ry township Saturday for $3.50, indi-
Gates the value Of farm land in Stark
county. 1t was sold in partition to set
tie up the Jacob Resi- estate and was
bid in by the Kropf heirs as it ad-
joins the Kropf farm. Other bidders
were present and the competition was
brisk. Deputy Sheriff Harvey Zaiser
was the auctioneer. 1t was appraised
at $500.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-02-05
ROOT RETIRES

Washington, d. c., Feb. 1.-Elihu
Root. who formally turned over the
war portfolio to Judge Taft today, lost
no time in getting away from Wash
ington.
He left on the o'clock congression-
al limited this afternoon for New
York, being escorted to the Pennsyl-
vania station by troop of cavalry.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-02-05
APPENDICITIS
Former Secretary Whit
ney Suffering from It.

New York, Feb. lit was announc-
ed at the home of the Hon. William
G. Whitney. former secretary of tho
navy, who Is suffering from the effects
OF an operation for appendicitis, that
at eight o'clock tonight his condition
was unchanged. Mr.. Whitney's attend
ing physicians. while they do not do
clare him out OF danger. feel confident
that unless some unforeseen complica-
tions set In. that he will recover.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-02-05
WAGES REDUCED

Pittsburg. Pa. Feb. 1.-The bar mill
of the Moorehead Brothers mills at
Sharpsburg started up with the for
mer employees this morning. The mill
had. been run by colored workmen
Int all OF them were discharged last
Saturday The men accepted the 20
per cent reductiea made w the 9rm.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-02-05
MINERS co OUT

Monongahela. Pa. Feb. There
was a strike this morning at the mines
of the. Ellsworth Coal company. owing
to reductions In wages. All the work.
men at shafts Nos. I and 8 went out
ard at shafts 3 and 40 all of the fire
bosses sstruok against the cut In their
wages. The strikers say they. will go
TO Chesyick. 49,, s...,s... 4. /. -. q.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-02-05
NOTICE.

Albert NJ. Gusky will take notice that on
the 2Gth day of December, 1903, Emma q.
Common Pleas Of Stark county, OHIO, pray
ing for divorce from Albert NJ. Gusky, GUS
tody OF their minor children and equitable
will be for hearing as soon as the Court can
hear same after February 18th. 1901.
EMMA Q. GUSKY.
l-l.S.l5-22-29-2-5
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-02-05
TO HELP ST. LOUIS

Washington, Feb. 1.-The plan to al
low the st. Louis exposition authori-
ties to borrow $4,500,00O from the
government has been approved by the
subcommittee of the senate appropria-
tions committee, and Senator Hale
has been designated to draft the nee
essary legislation.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-02-05
SHOT HIS WIFE

Shenandoah, Pa, Feb. 1.--George
Glowecy, miner, today shot and
probably fatally wounded his wife and
then turned the weapon on himself
and committed suicide. The man Is
believed 20 have been insane, ,,,,, Z,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-02-05
Notice of Appointment.

Assignment OF Joseph George.
The undersigned has been duly appointed
and qualified as Assignee in trust. for the
benefit OF the creditors OF Joseph George. OF
Indebted to said assignor will make imme-
diate payment. and creditors Will present
their claims. acco fding to law. duly authen-
ticated. to the undersigned. for allowance.
Dated this Goth day OF January. A. ID. 1904
PETER j. COLLINS,
j22-29f5 Assignee.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-02-05

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tary Parkdale Tennis Club, Chi.
cago, from experience advises all
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table Compound.
How many beautiful young girls de-
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women, simply because sufficient atten-
tion has not been paid to their physical
development. No woman Is exempt
from physical weakness and periodic
pain, and young girls just budding into
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physically as well rs morally. Another
woman,
Miss Hannah r. Mershon. Col.
lingswOod, Nd, sayss
81 thought 1 would write and tell
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II tried bottle Of your Vegetable
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am now well and strong, and mem
struate regularly. Icannot say enough
for what your medicine did for me-"
$4,000 forfeit II original Of abops letter prouing
osnuinsnsss cannot DO produced.
Lydia X. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound will cure any woman
In the land who suffers from
womb troubles, Inflammation Of
the ovaries, and kidney trodbles.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-02-05
PERMITS TO WED.

August Demuesy and Laura Kauf-
man.. Massillon.
Arthur 9, Chunk and Edith Mitchell,
Massillon.
Joseph Paternosto and Amelia
Fiehle, Canton.
Arch Bose and Ida d. Meese. Beach
City.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-02-05
HE SURPRISED
THE SENATORS
DIETRICH'S DEMAND FOR
INVESTIGATION
Into the Charges Affect
ing His Integrity.
COMMITTEE APPOINTED
Committee APPOINTED

Nebraska Senator rntimated That His
Character is as Pure as the Snow on
Diana's Temple, and He Wants the
Fact Established at the Expense Of
the People.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-02-05
NOTICE.

In the Court OF Com.
mon Peas.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-03-06

Russia Comprises One-Seventh of the Land
Surface of the Globe.

Few persons realize how vast is the
area of the Russian empire. Into that
enormous country you could put all of
nom Russian Europe and yet only take
up little more than one-eighth of the
Cars domains. Then you could add
the United States. including Alaska,
and still have almost enough terri
tory left to place Canada in. In fact,
the Russian empire comprises one-sev-
enth of the land surface of the globe.
Though not comparable in extent of
territory with the empire of the Car,
the United States seems of enormous
area when compared with the Euro
pean countries other than Russia.
The state of Texas alone would
take in Germany, Greece Holland and
Switzerland and still have room to
spare. Belgium would simply be lost
in the Maine woods. In fact you could
put two Belgiums into the state Of
Maine and have state left nearly as
large as New Jersey.
France could be slowed away up in
Montana and Wyoming with enough
territory left over to take in Portugal
Sweden would fit into California with
lots of room to spare and Spain would
almost, but not quite, fit into Nevada
and Idaho.
To make Spain comfortable we
should have to borrow about 1000
square miles from Arizona, but that
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-03-06
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWs SUNDAY MARCH g. 1904
go and covered his face with both his

go and covered his face with both his
hands"
Jews in the Caucasus.
There are nearly 10000 Jews in the
Caucasus, who form race apart. The
Russians call them Mountain Jews"
They herd together in small communi-
tieS-often in separate villageS-and
have nothing to do with the rest of the
people. They never enter the towns
or cities, but are content to lead the
simple pastoral life of Abraham. They
keep the Mosaic law to the letter, and
all their customs are simple and Bibli-
cal. This is not strange, inasmuch as
they are believed to be a remnant of
the Jews of the Captivity who were
baniShed to these mountain Businesses
by Babylonian monarch 1000 years
ago, precisely as Russian Nonconform-
lists are banished to frontier territories
to-day by tlae Car.
The pride-of the Caucasus is the
beauty of it's women. There are more
beautiful women to be found in these
rugged mountains than anywhere else
in the world. In other countries there
are women as lovely, but nowhere else
is loneliness so common. Among the
Circassians a homely girl is hardly
ever seen, and this is true in a less
degree of the Ossetes, the tribes of
Daghestan, and many of the other
, races inhabiting these highlands.
beauty of Circassian Girls.
The beauty of the Circassian girls
is of course, world famous. They are
in great demand in all the harems of
Turkey, Persia, Egypt, Central Asia,
and other parts of the Mohammedan
world. Many merchants visit the Cir
cassian villages at certain seasons of
IN MI ha ix.1c
and induce them to travel to STEAMBOAT,
Teheran, and other cities where they
can make good marriages, perhaps to
a prince or a paSha. Sometimes the
merchant buys the girl from her pa
rents as a speculation; more frequent
| ly he deductS a commission from the
sum paid him by the bridegroom and
sends them the balance of the pur-
chase money. He keeps faith because
he has to revisit the Caucasus again
in the course of his business. The girl
is usually eager to go with him. She
rejoices at the chance of leaving the
narrow life of the village and going
out into the great world, where she
knows she will be Tapped in luxury
and possibly may become a queen, as
many a Circassian girl has done.
A Land of Ruined Churches.
In no part of the world are there
more ruined churches and monasteries
than in the Caucasus. Many of them
were once magnificent buildings dat
ing back to the most glorious days of
the Byzantine Empire. Some of these
fine old ruins, destroyed almost to
their foundations, now support the
wretched novels of the peasants. The
Christian races in the Caucasus are
fond of building their villages around
such ruins; they believe it brings them
good luck. 1t is hardly possible to
travel ten miles in many parts of the
Caucasus without coming across some
/ famous church of ancient days, now
| fallen into ruins.
But there are plenty of more or less
| modern churches in the Christian dis
, tricts of the Caucasus, and nowhere
| are monasteries more plentiful. You
| see them on every rugged mountain
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-03-06
WHERE CANNIBALS
STILL FLOURISH.
Many Corners of the Earth still Oc-
cupied by Them.

Many Corners of the Earth still Oc-
cupied by Them.
There are many places in the world
to-day, where cannibalism fourishes,
as 1t has from time immemorial. and
where the missionary or explorer. If
he does not look sharp. is liable to
be roasted and eaten. In the funny
papers the modern cannibal figures as
an exceedingly amusing person, but he
is very real and terrible creature in
the places where he appears, and the
practise of eating other human beings
is much more widespread among saw
ages than is generally supposed.
Scattered about the Pacific ocean
are many cannibal islands where the
natives eat human flesh because thew
like it for food, and in others canni-
balism is practised as a sort of relig-
ious rite.
The natives Of New Guinea, are con-
firmed cannibals. and not long ago
they killed and ate the members OF an
exploring party led by the well-knoWn
missionary and explorer, DIR. Chal-
mers. DR.. Chalmers was one of the
founders Of Port Moresby. the princi-
pal town in the British part of the
island and had done more in the way
of exploring New Guinea than any
other man.
On his last expedition up the Fly
river, the largest stream in New
Guinea, the doctor was at first re-
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-03-06

The ritual Of the Ossete religion, if
so it may be called, is full of refer
ences to the sacred duty of looking
after the daily bread of ones ances-
tors. The following New Years
prayer to the departed has been trans
lated by Prof. Kovalevsky, a distin-
guished Russian scholar:
May he be at peace, and may his
grave be undisturbed; may he be IA
nous among the dead, so that none
may have power over his sustenance,
and that it may reach him untouched
and be his forever, that, increasing, it
may multiply as long as the rocks fall
down our mountains and the rivers
roll over the plains, neither growing
lnouldy in summer nor being frozen
in winter; and may he divide it ac-
cording to his good will among such
of the dead as have no food"
A Medley of Races.
The Ossetes are only one out Of
dozens of tribes which inhabit this wild
region, each with it's own language or
dialect, it's own racial characteristics,
and it's own customs. There is a great
er medley of races in the Caucasus than
there is even in the Balkans, and just
as much racial rivalry and hatred.
Mohammedan, Christian and Pagan
live side by sice, and there is keener
antipathy between the various sects of
Mohammedans and Christians than
exists between those religions them
selves. If Russia were not there to
keep the peace, they would fight con-
tinually, until they destroyed one an
other like the famous Kilkenny cats.
AS it is. there is never so much peace
that it grow monotonous. The officer
of Russian post seldom passes a fort
night without having to take the war
path at the head of a detachment of his
men. Sometimes the Ossetes have
raided their neighbors and lifted cattle
after the manner of Rob Roy and his
Highland caterans; sometimes the Ba-
zingis-the "meanest" of the tribes
have murdered a Russian official or
European traveller: sometimes the
Kurds and the Armenians on the from
tier have started massacring one an
other.
Graves Covered With Boots.
Prince Demidoff, a famous slayer
of big game, tells a characteristic story
of the Caucasus. On one of his many
hunting trips in that region he Stun
bled upon a Cossack post on the
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-03-06

Kurdish frontier, and noticed seven
graves just outside the lines. Each
grave was covered by numerous pairs
of Kurdish boots. The Prince asked
the commandant of the post what it
meant.
IT'S just little warning to our
friends, the Kurds," that officer re-
piled. They used to annoy us very
much by 'sniping' at our sentries and
numbering any of our men they hap
pened to find alone on the country
side
ut grew so tiresome that at last we
determined to kill ten Kurds for every
Cossack slain, and put their boots on
the grave of our man pour encour-
ager les autres.' After two months
they gave it up and now they are as
quiet as lambs. In that time they
killed seven Cossacks. Those are
their graves, and if you count the pairs
of shoes you will find seventy"
Brigandage is sometimes winked at
by the Russians when it does not
trouble them or other Europeans, and
it does not seem advisable at the mo-
ment to suppress it at the cost of
campaign with a warlike tribe. But
when they take it into their heads to
hunt gang of brigands down, they
hang remorselessly to the trail until
every one of the bandits is shot or
placed in Jail. The remotest caves in
the mountains are vain refugees.
IT once saw a pathetic sight when
1 was travelling in the Caucasus" said
an Englishman known to the writer.
II was visiting the prison at Vladi-
kaudaz, and saw a woman who had
come with her baby to see her hus-
band, a captive brigand.
when her turn came she set down
the child upon the wooden ledge of the
window and handed her permit to the
turnkey. Soon a shaggy, Withholding
face peered through the wires. The
woman took the baby's hand and ten
derby inserted it between the iron net
ting to greet its rebel sire. The harsh
features softened wonderfully, and
while he seized the tiny fingers some
thing happened, for suddenly he let