The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1871-08-17
STATE ANn NE,eHRoRHoop

Prohibition tickets have been nominat-
ed in Columbiana, Cuyahoga, Franklin
and many other counties of the State.
Hunter, the Richfeld murderer, is sem
fenced to be hung at Akron, on Tuesday,
November Dist.
The County Treasurer's safe at Ottokee,
Fulton county, o., was blown open Friday
morning, August llth. The hinges OF the
burglar proof chest was broken, but the
door was not opened. Thirty thousand
dollars were inclosed, but are supposed to
be safe.
A little child of NJ. James Ross, of Lu-
cas-, aged about six years, was horribly
burned by the explosion of coal oil, which
was being used in kindling afre on Tues
day evening last, so that death ensued al
most instantly. 1t is sad loss to the
parents to be thus so suddenly deprived
Of the Joy of their household,-ShreUe
Mirror.
FATAL AccIDEET.-A young man by
the name of Owens, who was Bridge watch
man on the NJ. & C. R. R. at Gadbury
bridge, between this city and Roxabel,
was struck by the engine of the west
bound mail train about o'clock on We'd
nesday last, and knocked into the water
and killed. The engineer saw him sitting
upon the track with lantern, and sup
posed, of course, that he would get up,
upon hearing the whistle, which was
blown repeatedly, and did not commence
shutting off breaks until too late to save
him.-ChilLicothe AdvertiSer, Aug. 10th.
AcoIDENT-On Tuesday last : little
son of Mr.. John christy, of Wheeling
township, was in the meadow where a
moving machine was at work AS the
machine was being stopped for dinner, the
boy ran in front of the cutter bar to assist
in detaching the horses The knives con-
tinued to play, and the bar moving for
ward, the boys feet were caught IN the
knives. The right foot was half severed,
the bone being cut entirely through, along
with the tendons. The left was consider
ably mangled on the side and slice taken
off the heel DIR. West was called in, and
thinks both feet can be saved, but the boy
will be permanently lame.-& ClairsVilEe
Gazette, Aug, 7,
ExPuosIoN.-A terrible calamity oc-
CURED in the village of Vienna, ten miles
east of this city, on Tuesday evening be-
tween sundown and dark, at the grocery
and dry goods store kept by ]. NJ Ben
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room to draw Rose Oil from large can /;
by some means the fame of the candle
was communicated to the oil, the spigot
in the can being open at the time In an
instant the burning oil spread all over the
floor of the room Mr.. Bennett made his
escape as quickly as possible and suffered
no bodily injury A number of the resi-
dents of the village gathered at once in
front of the building to assist in extinguish-
ing the flames, and while engaged in this
task, two kegs of powder, partially filed,
in the same room with the oil, exploded
with fearful report blowing the entire
building into fragments. Several persons
We're buried under the fallen walls and
quite number very severely injured by
the flying bricks and pieces of timber
hurled with great power by the force oi
the explosion. The most speedy efforts
were at. once made to rescue the unfor-
tunate persons buried under the ruins, and
fortunately all were taken out alive al.
though very seriously burned and bruised
Springfield (O.) Transcript.