The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1873-08-28
SsrArE AND INSTRUMENTATION;

MARY Hershey an orphan girl n
poor, recently obtained q verdict in the
Mansfield Common Pleas against John
Morgan, q wealthy farmer Of that county,
amounting to 5000. The charge was
assault and was committed when taken
the girl home from q circus.
The Soldiers Home has LAOS in
mates.
Daring the wool season just closed,
Akron purchased 207, 300 pounds of the
staple.
"A woman by the name of Mrs Herr,
committed suicide Saturday morning, at
South Scion, by hanging herself. Cause
mental depression.
The Lake Shore & TuscaraWas Valley
Railway Is open as far as WicksVille, and
three daily passenger trains are now run-
ming through from Cleveland.
George Barney, q penitentiary con-
Wet of Lorain County, has been psrdened
by the Governor.
Lew Wilson, who has been City Clerk
of Columbus for q number of years, died
of consumption last week.
"A young fellow down in Springfield
drank thirty glasses of beer in 3 short
space of time. he doesen't drink beer
any more.
The Ohio State Wool Growers Associ-
alton will hold a meeting at the court house
in Mansfield, on the evening of the third
of September.
From the tabular statement issued
by the Auditor of State, We learn that
Stark county has 14,lQ6 horses, 32,476
cattle, 14s mules, 75,705 sheep, 27,l81
hoga.
gAultman, Miller & Co. of Akron have
been awarded q Medal, on their Moving
Machine, at the Vienna Exposition.
R. G. Woods of the Ohio Patriot fell
down STAIRS last Friday evening andbroke
"A large stable and carnage house, &C.
eupisd by = Mr.. Wilson, In Springfield,
Ohio, was burned Saturday night. This
is the third ineendiary FIRE there within q
week.
-Grasshoppers are doing much damage
tothe eEOPSp IN many portions of Lorain,
Huron and adjoining counties. CEoYer &
oatsare specially subject to their raVages,
and many farmers have ent them in or
der to save them,
-Qn Thursday afternoon an accident
occurred near Sandusky, by which ayouAg
lady, aged fourteen years, was killed. 1t
seems that q small boy, while fooling with
q shot gun, pulled the trigger. the eon-
tents lodging IN the young lady's head,
from the effects of which she died soon
after.
The Cincinnati En0uireTs special
from Lancaster, states that the committee
appointed TO Investigate the affaIrs of the
Auditor and Treasurer of Fairfield county,
reported to the Commissioners of that
county that they had found a deficit Of
$4,000 public money. The preseRs in
cHmbents are e1~cplpated, The blame is
attached TO their predecessors in Office.
john Lower and his wife attended
the Disciple yearly meeting at Canton
last week. During Their absence a couple
of trsmps presented themselves at the
house and demanded something to eat
While the housekeeper was preparing them
aiunch, their keen eyes discovered, and
dsxtrous hands appropriated two gol6
rings and made off with thsir booty
Alliance Local sL
-Qn Thursday afternoon policeman
Condor, with the Intention Of cleaning hi
revolver discharged the contents against
q post. The ball glanced and struck 1
llittls daughter Of d ID Evans ESQ, on he
WAY to school. The ball entered the cheel
of the child, lodging IN her mouth, Whencl
she spit it out-AHInnee1 Local
H-Adam Rnttman. formerly Of AtWate
was killed lately near Lsyenworth, Kan.
BY knowing machine. He was engages
in cutting oabe, had stopped tofx some
thing about his machine, when the mule
attached thereto started. He succeeds
in getting bold of the Eeins, when he wa
!, lerked upon the platform and then wa
knocked byaone of the arms OF the maehin
/ In front Of the Gutter bar, and before th
, team was stoPped4he had received fats
Injuries. A coiored man at work in tn
field hurriedto the relief Of the unfOrtnn
ate man, bat life was extinct when h
REACHED him, His right hand was en-
, conpletay Of and was found twenty fes
from his body, his shoulder ut thfoug
and . long cash cut from the face to ID
lower part Of the breast, exposing th
lungs and other vital parts of the chest.