The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1874-04-23
STATE AND N-EIGHBoRHoOD.

a boy named Marion Barnhart, near
Winchester, stumbled and fell into a pan
OF boiling sap, and was so scalded that he
lived only a few hours.
LIMA, o., April l5-last Monday night
the barn Of Evan Williams, a mile west of
Goshen, this county, and the barn and sta
BILE Of John G. Roberts, on an adjoining
farm, were entirely consumed by fire.
Loss between $1,000 and $4,000 partially
covered by insurance. Last night a dwell
house ofJohn Lyons, in the same neigh
borhood was burned. Loss $1,000; no IN
urance. These fires are evidently the
work of an incendiary.
Salem. Columbiana county, Ohio, has
for the first time, elected a Democrat, NJ,
". Dunlap, Mayor, by a majority of sixty
two votes, and the democrats are quite
Jubllant over the result, as they have q
good reason TO be, when 1t is remembered
that he usual Republican majority range;
from six to seven hundred.
The new Warden of the Penitentiary
Colonel Innis, took charge of the institu-
ton on Monday. A general removal o.
s~ubordlnates will take place as fast as prac,
ticable.
Judge Wright of. Lancaster, Ohio, has
sentenced Hugh Dougherty, convicted o.
he murder of Schleich, to be hung July
/.
The wife Of Col. Patten, proprietor o.
the Wolf Greek House, near Dayton com.
mitted suicide, to-day, by shooting herself
on the 18th. She was twenty-five years
OLD, and had two children. Jealousy Of
her husband is the supposed cause.
There are no Democrats at Xenia, and
yet the whisky ticket made a clean sweep.
It is said the reason hat the Hayesville
ladies have not inaugurated a crusade a.
galnst the saloons is, that they cannot on
sisJently do 80, because they nearly all
bring their babies up on the bottle. We
don't believe it.
A Mlllersburgh man enjoyed himself
drinking beer inside a saloon while his
wife was praying outside.
The Belmont Chronicle, of last week
reports that five saloonists of that county
are in jail at st. Clairsville.
The Akron Times says that the pen that
J. Park Alexander signed the Prohibition
ordinance with sold at auction for $685.
An Elyria man sued another man for
knocklnga bottle of whisky out of his
hands and was beaten, having the costs,
$50, to pay, besides his attorneys fee.
Steubenville will have a reading room
to be opened by the crusaders.
The Democrats of Wyandot and Aug
lalze counties nominated county tickets
last week.
MANSFIELD, O., April 16.-The crusa-
ders gave the s~aloonists a day of rest to-
day. They occupied their time in PRAYER
at the Methodist Episcopal Church. To-
morrow they will again, If the weather is
favorable, make another grand charge a.
long the lines.
Cleveland has now a Democratic Mayor
Democratic President of the City Council
fifteen Democratic Councilmen, a Demo.
cratic Police Commissioner, Trustee o.
Water-works, an Infirmary Director and
Trustee of Cemeteries. That is a pretty
satisfactory showing for a Reserve city.
BE%LLsvILLE, O., April 15.-Felix Beck
aged twenty-four, was drowned in Sand.
usky River, four miles east of this place
to-day. He was fishing. was seized with
a spasm, fell into the river, and was drown.
ed before help could be obtained.
A GAINESVILLE. o dispatch, of 18th inst.
says: "Miss Martha Sagle, residing il
Newton township, this county, committed
suicide by taking poison last night. 1t il
supposed that she was moved to commit
the act by slanderous reports In circulation
against her"