The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1874-02-12
STATE AND N-EIGHBoRHOOD.

Governor Allen has accepted an invi-
tation to be present at the st. Patrick's
Day celebration in Toledo.
Hon. Ed. Ferrall has been elected
Treasurer Of the Carroll County AgricuI
tural Society, and D. F. Fryer Secretary
of the same.
Chief Justice Waite's grandfather
reached 90. His father was over 80 at
his death. Both were judges. 1t runs in
the family OE HD
by the death of his uncle, Sardis
Orchard, of Fremont, Elk Governor Hayes
has inherited the principal portion OF a
SAt Washington and HillsborO the
women nave been enjoined through the
courts from interfering with the liquor
sellers.
On the 10th inst. the Daily argus is to
have its bornin' at Akron. Garfield,
knight & Co., proprietoIs, J.. F. Rowe.
editor. To be issued from the Times Of
fce.E
in Toledo John Henry, cashier of the
collapsed bank of Kraus & Smith, has
been arrested on a charge of fraud. He
has changed figures on the books and it is
said has taken some $4,000
Cambridge, o., February 9.-Jaeob
Smith a stock dealer. was robbed of four
thousand dollars on Friday night, while
on his way home from Washington, this
county, to his home. Three men attack
ed him, one holding his horse while
the other two dragged him off and robbed
him.
Here is a nice little story of tragical
precocity. Last week at Thompson,
Geauge County. Ohio, two, lads, Jerome
Phiney and Peter Snyder, each aged
about 10 years having fallen out, Jerome
stabbed Peter, iDfieting a mortal wound
and then going to his fathers barn shot
himself with his fathers revolver.
"A sermon preached by a deaf mute
minister of the Gospel to deaf mute con
| gregation at the funeral of a def mute
dead man, is reported in a Cincinnati
newspaper. What we observe about 1t
particularly is, that the report Is very
short. showing, if it is really complete, how
clumsy, after all, the sign language still
does its circamlocutory work.
The negro murderer, Hood, who SO
cruelty killed his step-son last fall, near
| Cleveland, has been sentenced by Judge
| Pane to be hanged in the Jail of the Guy
ahoga county, on the 29th of April next,
Hood declared his innocence before the
court, but the evidence fastened the crime
so securely upon him that there is nc
doubt of bis having committed one of the
most brutal murders on record.
"A Puzzled Workmsn.-A workman
in one ofthe Akron shops fell asleep, Sat.
urday noon, and was somewhat surprised
when he awoke, to find himself surround
ed by a row of candles lighted, and a con.
gregation composed of his comrads, sing
ing "San Simons" in the most solemn
manner. He had TO rub his eyes to rea'
lize that he wasn't dead and really the
central figure of a wake, though he con
fesses that he had never heard that tune
sung before on such occasions.
AT COnneautville, N the I'd, a mos
daring and extensive robbery took plac'
in the evening. While the cashier Of thu
FIRST National Bank, D. D. Williams. wa
writing at his desk, he heard a rap at &
side door. Upon opening the side door
two masked men sprung upon him, bound
and gagged him and succeeded in making
their escape with fourteen thousand dol
lars currency and thirty Thousand dollar
in United States Bonds. Mir. Williaml
was found this morning in an unconscious
state, but recovered MS consciousness
in a couple of hours after being releas'
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