The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1873-07-24
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The Lima Gazette says: They had 6
wedding near West Newton the other day
the bride being not yet thirteen years o.
age. And we publish the announcement
this week ofanother, the bride being moi
yet fourteen. years old. There seems to be
great demand for girls this year.
Mrs. Geo. s Hessler, living in Woos-
! ter, was struck by lightning last Thursday
evening while out upon the porch putting
up a lightning conductor. She fell insen-
sible to the floor. but soon rallied, and
shortly afterward WAS attending to hel
domestic duties.
james Taylor Esq, an old and hon.
ored resident of Wayne county, died al
fredericksburg last Tuesday morning
aged seventy-one years. a u
"A son of Henry Herring Of Little
Sandusky was killed by revolving horse
rake on Friday. ut.lLrt
Jas A Anderson, of Delphos, tried
the experiment of running lightning down
his stove pipe to build fire, but it failed
The inmates of the household are still
alive and well.
During the year ending July 1st the
private properly of Franklin county was
mortgaged to the extent of 1878, ,7S0.
Geo. Flambaugh, q boy aged about
Is years, while engaged in binding wheat
for Geo. Hoffman, was bitten on the fore
finger of the left hand by massasaugeI
or prairie rattlesnake. The hand swelleG
and the arm was exceedingly painful
DR. J G Thompson, of Rollersville, was
called, and administered proper remedies.
On Tuesday his case was considered
doubtful. but on Wednesday he was con-
siderably better, and will recover
Fremont Journal
CRAWFORD Coon Friday, July 4, '7S
party of some five or six gentlemen from
Leesville, came to Auburn township, on
hunt, among whom We're the Messrs.
Heckerts, merchants at Leesville Y
Roads. It appears that Benjamin, the
oldest, q married man called for his broth
er to come, where he was so that he might
shoot q squirrel. As he the younger
neared him, he stumbled and fell ,discharg-
ing his shot gun, The contents entered
the side of his brother. The rest of the
company took him home, but alas, he liv-
ed but about ten minutes after reaching
there. We are informed that the brother
threw his gun SIS far as he could, making
a solemn voW that he would never again
touch firearms.
The storm on the 4th played havoc
in and around Bucyrus in scattering fen
ces, tearing up orchards and forest trees
barns uRroofsd &c, &C. The FoRUM says
"the new dwelling house of Mrs Van Tine
on the Gallon road was moved off its
foundation several feet" The woolen
mill gables were blown in, rafters wrench
ed from the tlmbers and much wool scat
tered, smoke stacks at Bucyrus were gen.
orally blown down and other buildings
more or less injured. The farmers there
abouts suffer loss from 500 to $500
james Robinson, a sailor Is under
arrest at Cleveland, charged with attempt
ing to throw off train on the Q. and Z.
Railroad, for the purpose of robbery.
AT Cambridge, Ohio, Monday, y nine
year-old son of VIM. Dade, colored, acci-
IDENTIFY shot and killed his two-year-old
brother.
About two hundred farmers of Ross
County. Ohio, met at Chillicothe, Satur-
day, to form grange, and after deibera-
tion adjourned to the 26th, when Far
mers' Club will lie organized.
Three men working on scaffold at
the west pier of the st. Louis bridge, fell
into the rlver, and one of them John Platt
of Ohio,) was drowned. lt-
"A farmer named Jackson fell under a
reaper and had his arm cut off close to
the shoulder, near Silley, Madison County
Ohio.
Hon. Samuel B Caldwell, for forty
three years resident Of Sandusky, Ohio,
died Friday, aged eighty-one.
John E Plringer, of Stow township,
Summit county, on Sunday the 9th, was
married at the German lutheran Church
Akron, to a widow lady from Sufield
Portage County. In the afternoon he re-
turned with his bride to Suffield. He re-
tired at nine o'clock and at ten he was a
corpse.
AT Orrville on the evening of the l4th
a thunderbolt demolished the Spire of the
German Reform Church.
Homer Lee shot himself at Carrots
vile, Wednesday morning last week, dy-
ing about one o'clock The supposed
cause was on account of the brick he fur
nished for the building of church. being
condemned.
On last Tuesday two boys named
Louis Betscher and Sherman Hard, aged
ten and eight years respectively, were
drowned at Canal Dover. They had gone
into the canal near the brewery to bathe.
Louis could SWIM but Sherman could not
and the latter getting beyond his depth,
began to sink, when Louis went to rescue
him, and they both went down together.