The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1869-12-29
state and Neirhborhood.

Two men and boy were arrested at
| Wellsville, on Saturday morning, for "till
tapping" at Cleveland, Ohio. They were
taken back,
The sheriff of Coshoeton county has
been swindled out of $50, by some New
York sharpers, by investing in the "enve-
lope game
George Engle, watchman in the Mia
ma freight house, was murdered in a
saloon on Town street, Dayton, Ohio, at
two o'clock Thursday morning of last
week
The Chief Clerk of Messrs. Strong &
Armstrong, Druggists, at Cleveland, has
been detected in swindling the firm to the
amount of about $1,000 and was led into
the crime by the extravaganza of his wife
it is said
The Court Of Common Pleas commences
in Carroll county on the 10th proximo.
Quite an amount of business is expected
to be transacted, there being one hundred
and nine cases now on the docket, large
proportion of which are being prepared
for trial.-CaTrOH Free Press.
HORRIBLE AccIDENr.-On last Sat
urday evening, as Mr.. Alexander Irwin,
an employee Of the Etna Works, of this
place, was wiping the main line of shaft
ing, by accident, the cloth which he was
using, caught IN the betting and drew his
arm around the pulley, crushing, and en-
tirely tearing the limb from his body.
Drs. Carey and Firestone amputated the
bone about two inches from the shoulder,
before Mr. Irwin was removed from the
shop. 1t was sad calamity, the more so
because the young man was the main sup
port Of a widowed mother-SdLem Jour
nal
Doctors Lewis and Richeson, of Canal,
Dover, had q regular set to in a sick
chamber there, few days ago. The latter
was first ON hand, though the former was
the family physician and was first sent
for but could not be found The patient,
Mr.. Newburg, refused to take Richeson's
medicine, and when Lewis came asked
him for some which when Lewis was
about to administer Richeson knocked
out of his hand. This was done a second
time when Lewis doffed his overcoat and
went in A few buckets of cold water are
applicable in such cases.
A SAD CAsE.-We learn that in one,
and perhaps more of the manufacturing
establishments of Akron, the proprietors
to less than living rates. One case we
have heard of, Is peculiarly distressing; q
blacksmith with sick wife and several
children, finding his wages too low, left
his old employer and found work at re-
munerative wages, in another shop; hear
ing of this, his former employer secured
his discharge, and the poor man was
thrown out of employment in the dead of
winter, without money and with nothing
for himself and family to eat He went
to a neighboring city to obtain work, and
while away, his sick family have lived up
on the charity of almost as poor neighbors,
A collection for their benefit was taken
up In one Of the churches, last sabbath
Perhaps the wealthy employer who dis
charged this poor man feels happy of this
christian deed, and perhaps nOt.-AkrO7l
Times.
A WIEDFALL.-We understand that
Mr.. Michael Essellburn, proprietor of an
Eating House, at Wooster, is heir to about
a million and half of dollars, in France.
His Uncle, General Ullmann, French
officer under the First Napoleon, was
killed in battle in the year 1918, leaving
large estate, which descended to his only
relative and heir, a sister-13 years old
then-and the mother of Mr. Essellburn
All the legal business connected with this
fortune, is now undergoing thorough in
vestigation at Paris. We rejoice IN our
Democratic friends good luck.-Holnaes
Co. Farmer.