The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-06-06
STATE AND NEIGHBORHOoD.

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A nro In Akron on Friday morning destroyed
Dora MS grocery and. saloon. The loss Ia $1,000
insurance, $1,000.
Joseph Bishop, farmer, aged 70, living at Bat
Summit county, committed suicide on Wednesday
night by blowing out his brains with a shotgun.
He was a Wldower without children.
The preliminary trial OF Mrs. Mary Howe for
shooting Benton Barkhawer took place at Doyles.
town on Thursday. A verdict Of not guilty was
given, to the general satisfaction Of the citizens
Crestllne, May 3O.-This evening about half past
nine o'clock as passenger train No 81 was setting
of car AT Toledo Junction, six miles east Of
here, some little boys playing along the side OF
the track attempted to run across ahead Of the
engine when the pilot struck one OF them named
"Fell = about seven years old breaking his skull
The brain coming out, he cannot live, He was
taken to his home, farm house near by
Kenton, May 3O,-The people Of our town are
greatly excited this afternoon by the news that
Cyrus Dow, prominent business man Of this
place had drowned himself In the SCioto River
about three o'clock, Boys who were fishing dis.
covered the body In the middle Of the stream, just
back Of packing house about half a mile from
town. He was laying In water knee-deep and on
the bank was found his hat, containing his watch
and ahalf.ounce phal marked "Laudanum-Poi.
SOU" about twothirdS empty. The COroner's
verdict was death by drowning himself while
under the influence OF a temporary it Of insanity
caused by great nervous prostration and business
embarraSsma Mr.. Dow was man about so
years old, long a resident Of Kenton He was
universally respected for his shonesty and upright
ness. His death creates great gloom over the
| city.
Cincinnati, May 81-on the farm Of Robert
Lynn, four miles from HillsborO, this morning a
portable saw mill engine exploded, killing three
men and severely Bcalding several others, One
man was thrown completely over a tall tree, The
boiler was found three hundred yards distant,
The bank of Fremont, at Fremont, owned by
f. S. White and William L. Haynes, closed the
banking department of It's business on Friday. 1t
pays all liabilities on demand. 1t has done a
successful business for twenty five years.
At Wooster on Friday, Jimmy McCanns, aged
about 10 years. was run over by freight train be.
tween Beaver and Henry streets, and instantly
killed His body was cut entirely in two. He
attempted to get on the train while 1t was in mo.
tion and fell across the rail- one half of his body
being left on the inside and one half on the out,
side of the track,
Marshall, the janitor of the Ohio Medical Col,
lege at Cincinnati, where the body OF j. Scott
Harrison was found on Thursday, was released
on 81, 90 bail Dr. Whitaker, of the Faculty, act
ing as surety. Mr.. Harrison's body was taken to
Spring Grove Cemetery, where it will remain un.
Ill autumn, when it will be reinterred at North
Bend. No further arrests have been made, but
the excitement is still intense.
Peter Kiser well.to. do farmer of Hancock
county. was arrested to-day for an attempted rape
upon the person of girl fourteen years of age,
named Vail, who lives in Hamilton. The girl
states that she was on her way to the city, when
Kiser overlook her and invited her to ride She
accepted, and before they had gone far Kiser took
improper liberties with her person. She resisted
his advances, and finally jumped out of the buggy,
came to this city and informed relative Of the
facts Kiser is about sixty years old, deacon in
the church, and, on account of his high standing
in the community, the affair has created de.
Cided sensation
Cleveland, May 31.-Paul, a son ofE. Hammond,
six years of age fell into cislern In Bedford, o.
this afternoon, and was drowned. The cistern
had been left uncovered by wOrkmen the day
previous. 1t was without curb or pump. Two
other boys of about the same age were with him
but 1t is said were so frightened to fail to alarm
the nelghboys. He was in the clstern about five
hours before found
On comp laint of Elizabeth steinbrenner aged
II years Fred Utrecht 43 years old, German la
borer was arrested for rape. The girl alleges the
man enticed her away from witnessing the deco.
ration day ceremonies in the Park and accom-
plished his purpose
The Warren rolling mill was destroyed by fire
on sunday.
George Mealy, a young man aged about 10 years
living at Doylestown, committed suicide by shoot
ing himself in the breast on Sunday.
Three houses, situated in the southern end of
Bucyrus, were destroyed by fire on Sunday, Loss
about IS 900; insurance, 81 ,6OO 1t was the work
| of an inCendiary.
Frank Goodrich, aged IA, only child of widow
ut Akron, was killed on Saturday while riding a
horse. He was thrown from the saddle, his foot
hanging TO the stirrup until he had been dragged
some distance and his skull broken.
While the draw bridge over the Maumee at East
Toledo was open on Sunday for a passing vessel, a
freight train of fOrty.six cars on the Lake Shore
railroad approached the bridge on down grade,
and before it could be stopped the engine and
three cars were precipitNted into the draw and
were wrecked. Loss $4,000 to SS,OOO Nobody
was hurt and trains are passing the. bridge with
out delay.