The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1874-07-09
State and -Neirhkorhood.


State and Ne1GhborhOOd.
Two cars loaded with threshing ma
chimes and cider mills burned at Dayton
Saturday.
Eight buildings were destroyed by fire
in Greleville, o., on last Sunday. Cause;
fire crackers. Loss, $4,000.
Holmes and Henry county treasures
have been investigated and ~defalcations
found 10 exist. The latter county il is
said loses $1,000 0 and Holmes it is
thought will not lose anything.
Wheat fields east and west of Chilli
cothe were on fire last Saturday, ignited
by sparks from locomotives. An extern
sive tract Of wood land was also burned.
The damage is considerable.
A fire at Salem, Ohio, Friday night, de-
stroyed the barn Of the ToIlerton House,
the. dwellings Of George Weilly and VIM.
Mentzer. the barns Of Osborn & Merriek,
and John CLARK, and 8 blacksmith shop,
Loss, $4,000; partly insured.
NEW ST~RAITsv1LLE, o., July THE
Union miners of this place held a meeting
last night and unanimously resolved to
abandon the Union and go to work at the
operators terms. About three hundred
went into the mines this morning. The
Memphis darkies are expected on Tues
day. -
CLEVELAND, July2-Yesterday, Chris
tsna Ross, a servant girl, while endeav-
orlng to replenish q vapor stove with some
combustlble fluid, supposed to be gasoline,
missed her footing and accidentally spilled.
some OF the liquid on the stove. The
flames communicated to the measure con-
tanning the fluid and enveloped her per-
son. Minnie Brammer. another domestic.
IN en~deaVoring to extinguish the flames,
set fire to her W clothing, and both girls
were burned so severely that they diedin
q few hours after. They were both about
sixteen years of age.
WAPAKoNETA, o., July 5.-Chas. Cor
ris, a gambler, was found dead in the
woods, within q short distance of town.
this afternoon. The verdict of the iury
was, death from fall IT appears that
a warrant had been issued for, his arrest
for gambling, yesterday afternoon, when
he left town suddenly. The theory is
that IN his flight he sought the woods for
protection. Night coming on he climbed
into a tree for sleep and fell.
General Goldman, late Auditor of State,
has been investigating the books and ac-
counts of many county officers in several
of the Southern Ohio counties. He has
found that many illegal fees have been ia
ken, and many perquisites gobbled. 1t
would be a touching proof of the fidelity
and innocence Of our Cuyahoga county
officials if they would prevail upon the
scrutinizing General to come to this CITY
and give county matters an elaborate and
thorough investigation. Almost every
committee that has looked into city mat
tiers has been able to discern some irreEu-
l%aritles, and, peradVenture, there might
be found some things In our county mat
ters that would not bear the light of day.
Will the Commissioners of Cuyaho0a
county invite General Goldman to come
and take a peep through the books of the
last ten years2ECLeusland PLaindealcr.
RIPLEY, July 5.-About IL O'Clock last
night the community were horFifiedby the
shooting of Mrs John Ooslett and his son
Taylor by Charley SWisher, of this place.
Swisher had been keeping company with
Coslett's daughter against the wishes of
her father. Between 10 and IL O'Clock
last night, Mr.. Coslett found them sitting
IN his parlor and ordered them away. A
difficulty ensued, in which SWisher shot
Coslett and then fed, the girl accompany
ing him, being afraid to remain at home.
While on the road, two brothers of the
girl, John and Taylor, who knew nothing
of the previous shooting, discovered the
flying couple, and pursued them with the
intention of bringing back the girl. Swish
or supposed it was the elder Coslett in pur.
suit, and after ordering him to return,
fred. The ball took efecti in the abdomen
Of Taylor, and produced q hemorrhage
from which death resulted within an hour.
The elder Coslett was wounded in the
thigh, and Is not considered In danger.
Swisher is still at large, although the on
GERS have made an active and extended
search. 1sr
WArAKoNEEAy o., July This morn
ing, near st. Mary's, Miss Stone, q young
girl sixteen years old, Was going from
town to teach school for the day in place
of her elder sister, who is sick. While
going through a piece of woods, Daniel
Ambush, who vas driving = team ,par.sd
her on Tire road s0m1 distance, when he
got down from the wagon, hitchsd his
horses and went back to meet Miss Stone,
while she Was walking along in all her
youthful purity, not thinking Of the ter
rible fate IN waiting for her. The villain
seized hold of her, threw her down IN the
road, and with brutal force perpetrated the
awful deed. She IA poWerless in his
hands, and after satisfying his beastly
lusts, all bleeding and injured, she re-
traced her, steps homo to break the fear
full news to her parents. Constable King
Immediately arrested the villain and took
him before Esquire Gross, when an exam
nation was had. The poor girl confronted
him and pointed him out as the perpetra-
tor Of, the deed. He had nothing to say,
and the justice held him in bonds Of S 5000,
in default Of which he was sent to Jail,
i'm, ut,,t-as @ afsf.. t.f'1U sdI l1l |
following sketch Of howit is done in that
city -J-,a frsT +, - 81
"since man to man Is so unjust rr--
No man can tell what man to trust" Z
Perhaps never in the history of our
city has the above thought been more
| fully set forth than 1t Was manifest in the
case of the saloonists of our city last week.
Our readers will remember that we have
a city ordinance prohibiting the sale of
liquor and beer, and that We have hersto-
fore, in all kindness, intimated to our ga
loon men that public, opinion was so
strongly formed against their business,
that they had better diseontinue thetEaf-
fe in Intoxicating drinks; that it would
| save costs and dishonor, which was sure
to visit violations of the ordinance, If they
still, continued in the business Yet not.
withstanding III advice thus kindly Of
fered, it Waa set ct naught, and last week
SORROW again visited their places of sbusi-
ness. We had noticed q stranger amongst
our saloon men for same time post, board
ing with n of the leading EaloOnists.
This stranger was welcomed into the COM
fdenee of the s~aloonists and their casto-
mers. He was treated to drinks and
treated in return, and was "chuekled up"
as one OF the best fellows. There was no
game or evasion of the ordinance that he
was not putt possession OF, and all the
intrigues of the vsaloonists were made
known to him. On last Wednesday this
stranger appeared in different society in a
detectives garb. Af6daYlts were sworn
out against ~saloonists, witnesses names
given and subppned, and the fGWar setu-
ally begun Jacob Wurtzeg and Charles
Kaizer were convicted, and are now IN
jail for twenty days. with ten dollars fine
and eight dollars costs. Other saloonists
await trial, and still others are inclined to
leave home, business and friends to evade
Justice. The detective makes the witness
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