The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-03-30
STATE AND NEIGHBoRHooD.


Monday. Loss $4,000; partly insured
Cause defective Aue.
Charley Clark, boy sixteen years old
attempted to hang himself with his com.
fortel at the Cleveland Jail Monday, but
was cut down before life was extinct. He
claims that he was led to the commission
Of the desperate act through dislike Of
being returned to the Reform Farm from
which he had recently escaped,
We learn from the Allen county Dem
0cyat that DIR. +. G.. Arter, who was re-
Gently tried at the courts Of that county,
on charge of feticide, was, not only
acquitted, but the investigation resulted
in full and complete vindcation of his
character. AS to the young lady, she
was not only shown to be innocent but
above suspicion
The last rail on the Scioto Valley Rail
road. between Columbus and Circlev.lle,
was laid Thursday, thus completing one
link ofthis important enterprise,
AT Wooster on Thursday, the roof of
the new Presbyterian church was partly
torn Off the tower of Mr. Sandersons
house partly overthrown and the roof
torn from several buildings, The storm
was also disastrously felt at New Phila
depha, Mt. Vernon and Dover. At
Dover the end of the Cleveland and
Pittsburgh Railway depot was blown in,
one end of the friedrich works also and
half the roof off and other destruction.
On Saturday night young man named
Kelly was run over bv freight train on
the Baltimore G. Ohio Road at Frederick
town, Knox county and had his leg cut
off. He was a section man and was as.
sistng in removing a hand-car from the
track when the train struck HIM.
Mrs. Ellsworth, wife of Isaac Ellis
worth, postmaster at Middletown, Guern-
sey county, has been detected, by de
partment detective, in stealing money |
from letters sent through that office. She
has confessed her crime. Mrs. Ellsworth |
is over sixty years old.
A lawsuit between George w. Mana
han, of Norwalk, and Smith and others
of Monroeville, and which had been be-
fore the Huron county courts for twenty
two years. terminated in the district court
at Norwalk last week, a verdict being re
turned in favor of Smith.
We very much doubt if any Common
Pleas court room in the United States
can lay claim to similar distinction to
that now enjoyed by the above court
room in this city. Yesterday afternoon
a divorce was granted in that room to
Nellie Sloan from Richard Sloan, and
last evening Franklin L. Silcox and
Louise Blehl were married in one day
are aft tirs which we venture to say never
occurred before in any court room.
Saa6HSky Register.
AT Port Stanley last week the steamer
CITY of SaA6HSky and the schooner
William Elgan were destroyed by fire
at that place, entailing a loss of $4,000.
Sprague's sash factory at Youngstown
was burned on Monday evening, Loss,
S4 900; no insurance,
Some folks over in Holmes county are
getting tt emselves into trouble by max
ing potato whisky on the sly. This sort
of "crookedness" is the special privilege
of Grants ofice-holders.
A suit for libel has been brought
against Robert Schilling, Esq, one of
the editors and propretors of the Ceve-
land Sunday Times by Mr. Prentiss, a t
prominent attorney of that CITY, a
Bernard Mahon was engaged in put a
ting stock in the cupola of the Cherry c
Valley Iron Company's blast furnace at G
Leetonia, on Sunday morning where he
fell on partially lowered belt, and when h
found was literally roasted. He leaves "
A wife and two children.
While digging a cellar near Salineville n
one day last week, man came upon a Il
miniature ancient cemetery, in which 6
we're several earthen jars containing the ''
ZONES of human beings. The jars upon p
exposure to the air crumbled to dust. 81
Here is chance for the paleontologists a
md arch9ologists, When were the bod S;
es buried !? What was the character of h
he people and ere there more jars in the
anne locality The matter is worth in IA
'estigating g.-Bacheye State. q
Nicholas Winterburger, of Economy 81
ownship, Beaver county has been mis- II
ing since the 9th of February He is lc
bout forty-nine years old, about five I
eet nine inches high, light sandy hair, Ct
ght gray eyes, and heavy sandy eye 10
rows. He is a Frenchman by birth.
my information as to his Whereabouts N
ill be gratefully received by his friends SC
t Economy in Beaver county.
We learn from the Wheeling htM- h,
eAcer, of last Tuesday that man te
amed Pat Quinlan, notorious charac-
er Of that city, was shot and fatally =,
'ounded by woman named Melissa -"
johnson, in house OF prostitution Il III
londay night. Qunlan went to the 10
ouse to try to induce Ida Florence, one ct
the inmates of the house, to run away
18th him. To this the girl objected,
here upon Quinlan caught her by the
lroat and choked her and struck her
vo or three blows, when Mrs. Robson
anne into the room and interposed in tn
ehalf of the girl, when Quinlan threw ir
er down on the floor and threatened her tlc
fe. Mrs Robinson then drew a revolver ll(
nd fired two shots at Quinlan, both of IN
hich took effect, one in the arm and the 1t
.her in the abdomen. OF
Scranton, Pa, March 23.-The Opera Ct
-ouse and Boston Dry Goods Store were F,
urned this morning, inficting loss of Fl
10000, on which there is an insurance G
SIS 900. NJ
Among the mummies to be contribu- "
d by Egypt to our Centennial Exposi-
on will be those of Pharaoh's daughter, u
lie chief baker, who was hanged, and II
lie chief butler, who wasn't. Who in OF
haraoh's time would have dreamed that W
IS daughter would visit an industrial