The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1871-11-16
srATE AND NEIaHRorHooD.

Inc generous. .uDeIlN s-cCOIueO L06 DOV- |
Inc race in this country oCcasloned a SER
ious accident on the @. and 1 Junction
| Railway Friday night near Cincinnati A
passenger train collided with a couple of
cows, took a jump down an embankment
and injured some fifteen persons.
At Mansfield, Friday, Frank Siefert
was run over by freight train and hor-
ribly mangled. He was instantly killed.
Two of the leaders of the gang of burg
lars in jail at Springfield, made their es-
cape on Monday, one of them throwing, a
handful of pepper into the face OF the
| guard. One of them was recaptured i'm
mediately, and the other has been since
ASAp Acc1DENT.- Friday week, Mr..
| VIM. Barth, of Bucyrus, went out gun
| ming, in company with two others, all three
| being in a buggy. He was thrown outby
a sudden lurch of the carriage, and dou-
ble-barreIed gun in his hands was dis
charged, the contents going through his
heart. He was an amiable, and IN all |
senses, exemplary man. His young wife, |
and his aged parents, of whom he was the |
last surviving child, have our heartfelt |
sympathies.
Nov 8th, in Cincinnati, VIM. Mills, the |
noted counterfeiter. was convicted of sell |
ing counterfeit money and sentenced to |
four years imprisonment in the peniten- |
tiary.
| VIM. Gibbons, VINO. escaped from the |
County Jail last Moaday week at Spring !
field, and who is chief of the Springfield |
burglars gang, was arrested Friday mcrn-
ing at Washington, o., and brought back.
The Warren Chronicle Gays that Ger
tain parties have secured the old canal
bed and towpath from Newton Falls to
Ravenna, which is intended to be the bed
for new railroad from Niles to Ravenna
via Newton Falls.
J. Harvey Phillips, of Holmes county,
was found IN the road near Holmesville,
on Saturday, in an apoplectic fit, and his
horse standing near him. He was not re-
: stored and died on Monday.
HIGHWAY RoBBERY-Samrel Willard,
of Chagrin Falls, was robbed of 1920, on
E Sunday night. He was returning from
Hiram Falls, and at about O'Clock
f reached the culvert of the new rail road, a
quarter of mile from ChagrIn Falls As
J he was driving through it, two men sprang
). out from place of concealment-one Of
: them seizing him by the coat and jerked
. him out of his buggy to the ground As
;. he fell, his revolver slipped out of his
1 pocket and hot struggle ensued for the
possession of the weapon, so valuable an
auxiliary in such an emergency.
:, One of the rufians succeeded in getting
d itand a hot fight ensued Mr. Willard
l knocked down the larger of the robbers,
Il but the other shot him, the ball passing
|; through the arm. They then felled him
to the earth, cut him with a knife in the
J, back, and beat him till he was nearly help
. less. They then robbed HIM of all the
= money in his possession, the amount stated
- above. One of them took Mr. Willard's
y watch, but the other told him they had
- better not take that as it might lead to
their detection, and he threw it upon the
ground The robbers made good their es-
er cape. Mr.. Willard managed to reach the
'r house ofMr. Mcfarland, where he received
lie every attention. Persons going to the
c, scene of the robbery, found the watch and
1t revolver upon the ground. = Czsreland
IS Herald.
Last Friday evening Charles Sivers was
killed at Elmore. He was under the in
n fuence of liquor, jumped upon passenger
g, train going east, intending to get off at the
OF crossing east of town and ride back on a
c. train waiting there to go west, but as ht
lg Jumped off, his leg was caught under the
It, wheels of the cars and badly crushed be
~ low the knee. Before he was discovered
the loss Of blood and the nervous shocA
w had so affected him that he died IN about
n four hours after the accident. He was q
years old, and leaves a wife and two small
children in rather straItened circum-
stances.-Oak Harbor Exponent
NoosrER-RoBBERY.- brutal assault
and robbery was committed in this city
Saturday night, shortly after nine o'clock
on the person of William Buchanan HI
a. had Just returned from Pittsburg with th'
= proceeds of two car loads of sheep; and II
gong to his residence, short distanc,
- north of the depot-Was- attacked n 81
alley, near his stable, by two men, WHIT
a seized, choked, pounded and kicked hin
V. till he was insensibl He lay thus for hal
ne an hour, when he recovered sufficiently tC
i'd stagger home in a bruised and bleeding
TX condition. There were four bad wounds
ne | on his head and face, and many bruises OF
ly his body. 1t was found he had been rob
Il bed Fifteen hundred dollars in cash, New
lg York drafts for over a Thousand dollars
IS and valuable papers 1t is supposed thai
n Mr.. B. was followed from Pittsburg BY
n the scoundrels. No arrests Wayne 20
Democrat.
en- YOUNGSTOWN = ACCIDENT. = A Goa
s. train on the Church Hill Coal Railroad
,f- Was thrown in the ditch Saturday even
nd ing by distractions being placed on tn,
al track near the Hood Mines, about five
of miles from here a miner named Owen
ed who was stealing ride, was run over anC
lie killed, and FIVE others thrown and almos
buried in the mud, but not seriously in
Mt jured.
be An unknown man laid down on tn,
y, track of the Atlantic and Great Western
be Railroad, near Richmond, Ohio, YESTERDAY
in morning A train ran over him, severini
oy both legs and otherwise mangling tn
r. body. He was about IS years of age, anC
had on soldiers overcoat
st. On Friday night the dry goods stor
lis owned and occupied by VIM. Leavitt 1
IL Co., at Mineral Ridge, Ohio, was destroy
ID, ed by fire. Estimated loss $4,000; in
on surance on The same $4,000.
WAIVE CoUNTY-The barn of Adam
al Fike, six miles north of Wooster, wa
on burned down Thursday night last weel
ce with contents wheat, hay, &c. loss sever
ne al thousand dellars-the work of an incen
he diary.
bs In the Probate Court, Hon. J X. Nc
Bride, the case of ZIegler VS.. Lake Shor
& Tuscarawas Valley R. R.. the jury awar
!. ded 81 800 damages. The railroad divlde
lis plaintiffs farm very disadvantageously.
l. Inc residence OF hOu. w H. ElelQlLS u
eft Sidney, O.was burned on the 6th-loss $3,
of 0O0 Mr. F. was i'll and narrowly escaped
H0 SENT Up FOB 20 DAYs.-The two mel
from Niles, Edward Carr and George Par
is ker, charged with robbing a man in a sa
y loon at Leetonia, some weeks since, ha
at their trial at New Lisbon on Tuesday,
The evidence failing TO sustain the charg
f. of robbery, the boys escaped with a sen
&c tenos for assault and battery-twent
he days in Jail, the first ten on bread an
water. As soon as they have served ou
their time in Columbiana county they vii
on be taken back to Trumbull county 70
a. trial upon a charge of horse stealing, 70
IN which they stood committed when the,
" made their escape from the Ravenna jail
d. MIAMI COUNTY.
wv A cruel murder was perpetrated a
Its Pleasant Hill Miami county, on Satur
ut dow syaDino For some time an lll-EaaI