The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1873-06-19
sTATE AND NEIGHRoRHoOD.

Elan Bentley, Of Brookfeld township,
Trumbuu county, aged about go years
was struck by lightning, while at work
IN a field, wednesday of last week, and
instantly killed
"A Young man named Daniels shot
and killed butcher in Cincinnati on the
18th named McDermott 1t was all
about oss-eyed prostitute.
Near Shelby, John Lowrie, aged four
teen, and David lowrie, aged seventeen,
brothers, were out hunting Friday,
when, by the accidental discharge OF a
shot gun in the hands of David, John was
shot in the night knee. The leg was am
putated above the knee joint.
Mansfield is to have a fremsnss tour
nament on the 4th of uly. The prizes
are as fellows:= Hose -eompaHies-First
prize, SIPS; Second prize $75.r Hook and
Ladder Companies-First prize, $l2o;
Second Prize, SIS; Junior Companies,
$4,000. -
in 1871 Seneca county raised 1885,
$40 bushels of wheat from AZ, ,4O9 acres,
which was the largest crop of any county
in the State. In 1872 from 42,069 acres
she produced 62e, ,971 bushels per acre. In
1871 the average was 1742 bushels peI
acre.
| Columbus Grove has a sensation
| An old man, named Bronson, a newcomer
/ to the place courted and married Wild
| oW of mature years, and Just as the cere'
mony was completed daughter OF the
aged sinner stepped in and informed the
| people that her illustrious sire already
had one wife living, and that her newly
made step-mother was no step-mother te
her at all. Then there was time, anc
| the old heather who had so basely be-
traysd the confidence of the Columbu;
Grove widow left town, under cloud.
"A laborer, named Michael Rawley
was run over and killed by a train neal
| Akron, on Wednesday. He leaves wife
and six children. His brother was killed
three months ago on the Pittsburgh, For
Wayne & Chicago road.
| Mr.. Reuben Avery died in Aurora
Portage County, on the Esd ulG., at th'
advanced age of 1OI years He was borr
in Horseneck, Ct, in 1772, and removed
to Aurora in 1916, where he has since re
sided He was the father of fourteen
children, twelve of whom are now living
the oldest being in her seventieth year
His wife still survives, hale and hearty
in the 84th year of her age.
| On Sunday morning last, abou
half past FIVE o'clock the family of Nh
Andrew Wassemberg of Canal Dover dis
covered him lifeless in his bed. 1t wa
supposed that he had taken poison tn
night before, and laid down to sleep tn
sleep of death. Mr.. W. was about s.
years old, and pecuniary troubles 1t
supposed had unsettled his mind
| The saloon keepers of Columbus hav
organized for resi- stance to the law re
quiring them to close their places of bu
siness on Sunday. Last Sunday severa
of them kept open doors. rs.-s---.--
| Last Friday, the youngest daughte
of Matthias Trace, who lives one and
half miles South of Newark, accidental,
fell into a well on the place and wa
drowned.
Mr.. Charles R. Hunt, a=member c
the banking firm of Freeman & Hunt, {
| Warren, died, on Tuesday afternoon, las
week, after a long illness. The decease
was one of the most active and influentIa
citizens of the place.
| James Bowens is held at Clevelan
for the murder of Susan Greiner on Eu
cid Avenue, on the evening of May 28tE
The evidence is not very strong, but sui
fieient to hand the accused over to tn
| Grand Jury. 1t was a most atrocIou
murder perpetrated about O'CLOCK IN tn
evening. A bow worn by deceased o
her head was found in possession of Bow
ems and there were marks oD her clothin
that would come, so the doctors saIt
from person diseased as defendant is.
"A fire occurred in Cincinnati on tn
the 8th, doing $4,000 damage, burnin
fourteen hundred barrels of coal OF
twenty-five freight cars, mostly loade
with lumber, yard with three millio
feet of chiefly hard lumber, and seventee
dwellings, most of them small frame col
tages. -
"A reunion of the 18th regiment Obi
Volunteer Infantry will be held at th
@Old Fort" Newark, o., on the 4th {
July. l aan- E.7L a5s 80 ~.