The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-03-07
STATE AND NE1sHBoRHooD.

/ by the cars last week on lne Ih'lIOhu hoai NiV'
while on his way to the Poor.house at Garfield.
! Mahonlng county is asking the Legislature for
| the privilege Of electing her own common pleas
Judge, instead Of assisting Portage ard Trumoull
TO elect two judges as is now the case. ~ is
claimed that Mahoniug has as much legal busl'
ness TO attend to as the other two counties com
bined.
The Harrison County Wool Growers Associa
ton decided last week to send wool from there
to the Paris Exposition. There is 10 be an indi'
Vidual, as well as a county display. The wool Is
to be placed In bottles and sealed, and the only
expense which is anticipated is for the bottles
and transportation to the U, s. Commissioner In
New York City.
Gen. Garfield having given to Hiram College
the opportunity To name a cadet for admission to
West Point Military Academy, Of the 10Th District
President Hinsdale has selected Chas Taylor, a
student eighteen years of age. son of Lucus Tay'
lor of Portage county. Hiram College has one
hundred students.
John Kelly section hand on the A & G. W. r.
R. at Polk Station, met with very painful acci-
dent while working on the read Saturday In
attempting to cut rail a large sized chip oftron
few out, striking him in the eye, entering 1t OBJ
liquely and causing total destruction Of sight in
that eye.-Beac0n.
Miss Mary Day, a respectable young lady OF
Bellefontaine, o., was found dead in her room ON
Saturday evening, the 2Sd. Death was caused by
an overdose of morphine, taken to relieve neu-
ralga.
Bill Harbaugh notorious gambler Of Cleve'
| land for years. has just fallen heir to one hun
dred thousand dollars in United States ten forty
bonds by the death of relative in New York.
Some months ago Joseph Brown, of Carmel,
ILL.,, committed suicide and twenty days after his
father, Elijah Brown, followed suit with shot
gun, after having dug his own grave. Last Sat
urday night Mrs. Brown took laudanum, and fin.
| ished up the Brown family.
The residence of Wm, Winyard, in Niles, was
totally destroyed by fire, Monday morning, with
most of the household furniture. Loss $1,000 In
sured for Sl,4OO of which s4OO was on furniture,
The proprietor of the Portage House. at Ra.
VIENNA, was sent to jail twenty days for selling
whisky
Considerable excitement is prevailing in the
eastern part of Perry county, near Somerset, from
the discovery of large deposits Of iron ore and
coal Already capitalists and railroad men are
on the ground
Some three or four ladies of this place, of about
twelve years of age started from their homes on
last Thursday for the purpose Of taking tramp.
Their parents, however, started in pursuit and
captured them between East Liverpool and
Smiths Ferry. They were hungry and glad
enough to return with them. The fatted calf
should have been killed. and some good raw
hides made from the skin for their reception
WellSuhe Union.
Lewis Halderman, a large stock dealer in Cir
Cleville, made an assignment last week. Liabill'
ties supposed to exceed $4,000 CirCleville folks
say his partner Jack Needy of Pittsburgh, laid
him out.
John McGarry, who was arrested on a charge of
murder last November, at Salineville, but subse'
quenNy released, the grand jury finding no bill,
was resrrested last Thursday by officer Kerns, on
the same charge preferred by John Cayanaugh,
brother of the murdered man. He was held in
the sum of 81 900 to await the action of the Grand
Jury COlumbiand Register.
The trial of Ralph Wintergill, the brutal wife
murderer of East Liverpool has been postponed
until the third Monday in May on account of his
health being very poor.
Cincinnati March 2.-In the breach of promise |
case OF Dickey VS.. Tytus at Hamilton o., the jury
tonight returned verdict awarding the plain.
tiff $4,000.
March 10 W. Gilman and VIM, sprague, car
penters, while at work upon scaffold at Nc |
Arthur O., yesterday fell fifteen feet, seriously
injuring the former internally, and fracturing
the skull of the latter.
March 4.-The boiler Of the Miami distillery, |
near Hamilton, O., exploded this morning, fatally
scalding David Morton and John Miltz, EN-.
ployees.
Columbus.-Mrs. John G. DeshleT, of Columbus, |
o., widow of the late wealthy banker, died on |
Feb 70, and has left several very liberal public
behests in her will. She gives S25O 900 to the Co. |
lumbus Female Benevolent Society," to be known |
as the John G. Deshler Fund. Next she gives |
S5 900 to the Orphans Home at Hamilton, She |
gives her elegant residence on Broad street, oppo-
site the Capitol and $4,000 to be known as the
Louise Deshler Fund, to go towards establishing |
an Art Gallery at Columbus, She gives 100000 |
for the building and support of law library, and |
10 provide law lectures for those who may wish
to attend this institution, TO be known as the
John G, Deshler Law Institute, In honor OF her
husband.
Youngstown, March 4-Last night Mahon's
residence in this city was totally destroyed by
FIRE. The family barely escaped. No insurance.
Kenton, o., March 4-The saw mill Of Beach & |
Wilke, of North Washington, in the northwestern |
part of this county, was destroyed by fire satur.
day night Loss, $1,000; no insurance, The work
Of an incendiary,
March 3-W. Kenz and ]. D. Hauck arrested at
Forest last night two parties who it is thought
had hand In the robbery Of ]. D. Filbrick Of
this place, Thursday, and then brought here,
They were tried before Mayor Brickley thisa after.
noon, and in default Of $500 bail each were jailed
West Salem, March 4-Yesterday Mr.. L. j.
sharick, the leading jeweler of this place, acci.
dentally shot himself in the right thigh the ball
passing between the femoral and transverse ar
teries inhcung serious wound. He was pae-
ing the revolver in fob.pocket when it was dis.
charged.
On Saturday, one mile south Of Lodi, young |
man named Rogers descended we'll to clean it,
when he was asphyxiated by the damp, and died
before assistance could reach him,
MI. Gilead, March 3.-Bushrod Carter, wealthy
farmer living five miles north Of Mt, Gilesd, and
about fifty years of age dropped dead last eve
ming while splitting rails in the woods near his
home He was found soon afterward by his only
son, boy Of about IA years
State Mine Inspector Roy has secured an in.
junction in Trumbull County Courts, compelling
compliance with that part of the mining law
which provides for a heck.weighman in the In.
terest Of miners or the closing of the mines,