The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1869-02-10
STATE NEWS.

lAkron In company with the wife OF
Jacob Eye, who had been seduced
into the folly Of abandoning her hus-
band and children to share the for
tunes of her paramour. They were
pursued to Cleveland, arrested and
brought back 70 this city, where they
have since remained. Sunday after
noon during the temporary absence
of the husband, Fisher entered the
house of Eye, and was soon found
| locked in a room with the offending
wife, The husband demanded adj
m~ittance, and,on being refused, broke
the door, and pistol in hand immedi-
ately shot the seducer, inficting a
severe wound in the hip. As the af.l
fair will undoubtedly undergo q legal
investigation, we withhold further
particulars for the present.-AkTOn
Times.
POCKET PICKED AT THE DEPOT
Yesterday, as Mrs. Jewett wife Of
Hon. H. j. Jewett, was stepping
from the cars Of the two O'Clock train,
she was crowded back from the plat.
form by two young men, who seemed
very anxious to crowd on as the pass
engers were getting of. She resisted
them as well as she could, but they
crowded past her. When she went to
pay for her refreshments at the dining
/ hall, she discovered that her pocket
had been picked Of her pocket-book,
containing $28, and q diamond ring
worth, perhaps, $500. The thieves
escaped undetected.-Ohi0 Salesman
Jan. 80.
ONE Of those cold blooded murders
which occur in quiet, rural nelghbOr-
hoods at long intervals, and leave an
i fntanaa ahn0k haaonaa IF fhafr Fnfra-
quency, was committed in the town
ship of Austinburgh, Ashtabula
county, on the evening Of the 22nd Of
January. Robert Pray,a man upward
OF 20 years OF age, q shoemaker by
trade, and living alone, was assaulted
In his shop by some person or persons
not known at this writing, his brains
beaten out with a hand ak, his throat
cut, and his body secreted under his
bunk In another room.
ANOTHER HIGHWAY ROBBERY. =.
On Tuesday evening Of last week,
while Nj. Sylvanus Farmer was re-
turning from Leetonia, where he had
gone with load Of grain, was drag
ged nom his wagon q short distance
this side of the village, and robbed of
eleven dollars in money, ths proceeds
of his load. He was accosted in a
familiar manner by some ~graeeless
scoundrels, who addressed him by
name and demanded his money. This
he promptly refused to surrender,
when he was set upon by the rufians,
nearly, if not altogether, stripped of
his clothing, and his money taken.
After this he drove his team to the
nearest house, got assistance, and
went back to the place of attack where
he fnnnh haO nnnlrnf hnnK Torn into
fragments, the money gone, but could
gel no clue to the robbers.-Net0 Lis
Don Journal
SUICIDE IN CoVENTRY.=A farmer
by the name of John Wolf, residing
in the southern portion of the town,
ship of Coventry, near the reservoir,
committed suicide by drowning, on
Thursday evening last Mr.. Wolf
was a man in the neighborhood Of so
years of age, and the owner of agood
farm, with everything about him TO
render him and his family comforta-
BILE. We only learn definitely, that
about dark on the evening in question,
he placed his pocket book, containing
q considerable ann of money, upon
the seat of the porch in trent of his.
house, together With1e note saying,
"John Wolf lies indthe reserVoir."-
Ills absences from the premises being
noticed, a search was Immediately
instituted, which resulted in the ind-
ing Of his body in the feeder OF the
reservoir, about q mile Distant iftom
his house. When discovered HIS body
was found In nearly an upright posi-
ton, with Che upper portion OF the.
head still above the surface, though,
life was totally extinct. He leaves q
wife and several children to mourn
his untimely and trsgical DEATH
Akron Beacon,
CONFLAGRATIoN. = On r. Sunday
morning between one and two o'clock
the Saw Mill at Cuyahoea Falls, own
ed by Israel James Esq. was discoY-
cred to be on fire. The entire build
ing was destroyed. The loss Is esti-
mated at between three and four
thousand dollars. No insurance. The
cause Of the IRE is unknown, and 1t
Is supposed to be the work of an in
/ cendiary as no fire had been used
about the mill after FIVE O'Clock on
Saturday evening. 1t Is the intention
Of Nh. James. to at onc rebuild the
mill on an enlarged scale.-Akron
1'"s' sz9ssi
ANOTHER OLD AND RESPECTED
CITIZEN GoNE.GWe regret to learn
that DR.. Abraham Jenner, for many
years q citizen of this county. died at
Crestline on Sabbath afternoon, 3Ist.
ult., at half-past three O'Clock, from
q stroke Of palsy. He was sitting
with his family afeWmoments before
apparently In his usual health. He
was noticed to rise and walk into an
adjoining room His daughter soon
heard a heaVylalEan FASTENED e
the room her father had entered, and
found him p~rostrate,on the floor. She
STOPPED to raise him when he opened
his eyes and almost Immediately ex-
pired in her arms rsf 81. q
DR.. Jenner was sixty-hve years o
age, had resided in Crestline over ter
years, had practiced medicine in TIT
counties Of Richland and Crawford
for upward of thirty years, and abb,
represented Richland county in The
! Legislature some twelve or ffteel
{ years ago. He was q highly respeeteI
: and useful citizen, and the father o
j. w. & s. E Jenner, Esqrs.-MdnS
field ShteId and BGnEer.
RAILROAD FROM AKRON TO Toll
, Do.-The Erie railway having faile
! to obtain g lease Of the Columbu:
Chicago and Indiana Central railroad
4 the New York Times remarks: HUL
. less, therefore, the Erie can get tn
: control Of the Pittsburgh, Ft. Wayn
Q and Chicago railroad, as lt is mo-
striving to do, II will be unable t
secure q through connection to ChicS
go, except by building the line froI
Akron to Toledo, projected last wiz
ter, about the time the Vanderbi
war began" The people of Akro
and vicinity viii from this see Il
importance and necessity Of PROM
; and active endeavOrs to avail then
|" selves OF the advantages thrown
their way. Nothing short of Grimm.
indifference on the part Of our citizel
/. can prevent Akron from becomiI
one Of the most important railrOs
- centers in Ohio.-AkTon Times.
GIVE Us Manufactures.
The town Of Canton, Ohio, is Il
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