The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-12-05
sEATE IND NEIeRBoRHoop.

5000 are 10 be expended In celebrating Its open.
Ing TO traffic In December.
| Benz e. Smith, treasurer of the esSees of the
public works o. Ohio has been sued by them for
| S32,S22 which they al ege he has collected and
not turned over 10 them.
Bob McKemrey the Black Hills depersdo, who
was arrested at HillsborO, o., some time since and
who broke Jail and has been at large for a month
past, was recaptured on Thursday night in High.
land county. Ohio, He was discovered in a de,
serted cabin and made desperate resistance re.
fusing to surrender until shot through the cheek
| and breast.
sham battle took place Thursday on the fair
grounds at MI, Gilead, in the presence of large
cOncourse Of citizens Of that place and visitors
from the surrounding country. During the war
several serious injuries were inflicted, and much
Ill feeling engendered. Bush Fry of the Lever
ing Guards was shot In the face. The wound Is
considered quite dangerous Benz. MCGOWAN was
struck on the head with bayonet, cutting to the
skull.
The Eastern Ohio Teachers Association met at
Cambridge on Friday, Several leading educators
and many teachers from surrounding counties
we're present.
| o.Z Zsller the absconding national bank cash.
Ter will not return to Tifin as frs reported, as he
fears arrest
Ira Belknap, ESQ., the oldest man in Wayne
county, died on Friday. He has resided at woos-
ter many years.
sperry Richie Co.'S sewer pipe works, one of
the largest In Ohio, burned at Tallmadge, four
miles from Akron, on Friday. The loss Ia un.
known.
Somerset, Nov. ga stOre.room and contents
and wagon-ShOp were destroyed by FIRE last
night at Mt. Perry seven miles northeast Of here,
causing probable loss Of 81 600; insured for $780,
Portland, Me-, Nov ga house on Cougres'
st rect was burned tonight, and John Delney
aged sixty'two years. was mffocated,
Rev. ]. W. Stephenson, of Piqua, arrested at
Dayton on Friday night for drunkenness and dis.
orderly conduct was on Saturday fined $40 and
costs, and permitted to depart for his home
The Cleveland Loan Exhibition, which closed
Saturday, has been the most successful charlta
BILE enterprises given in Cleveland since the great
Sanitary Fair of 1868
Frank MessDer one Of the notorious gang Of
robbers Of Highland county, o., was convicted of
burglary at Waverly on Saturday, and sentenced
to the Penitentiary for ten years.
A boy named Thomas, living near Delaware,
o., blew into the muzSe Of a gun to see II it was
loaded 1t was and Thomas was buried on Sat
urday.
A large straw stack, about 800 tons, belonging
to the Wooster Paper.mills, was destroyed by fire
Saturday. Loss about 81 200.
The number Of emigrants who have arrived
from Europe In New York, from January 1st up to
date is 765l against 60 $50 ifor the corresponding
time last year.
George Smith Of Lancaster, o., took large
dose of morphine In mistake for quinine, and was
found dead Saturday morning.
Black & Vile and A. Strauss Co., wholesale
clothiers of Buffalo, have made assignments, the
former in $4,000, the latter 1900.
The car-record office of the Trans Ohio DivI.
sions of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad was
moved from Newark, o. to Baltimore Saturday.
Sid Wiley, OF Cleveland, sentenced to the Pen
ilentiary for eighteen months, has been pardoned
by the Governor, after serving four months.
Louisville, Nov. Ex-Governor McCreary has
cansed to be delivered to the Breckinrldge Mon
umental Association at Lexington KY, the sums
of SlO,0OO appropriated by the Legislature of
| Kentucky for monument TO the memory Of John
C, Breckinridge.
The Oldest man has been gathered to his fathers.
He was a German, living in Gelnhausen, and was
one hundred and forty eight years old when he
died. His life had been prOtrs cted struggle
with poverty, He left two sons sixteen grand
children and 3l8 great grand children.
Friday night Thomas autsinger fatally stabbed
Thomas Gray near Southport, Marion county, Ind
Both men were intoxicated. Hutsinger was ar
rested and taken to the Indianapolis jail.
No news has yet been received of the missing
steamer Hermann Lud wig, which about six weeks
ago left New York for Antwerp. The general i'm
preston is that she went down. with all on board.
New York, Nov. 2S.-The steamship Zealand
sailed on Tuesday morning for Antwerp returned
yesterday afternoon with her cargo on fire. The
vessel was frelghted with 800 head of sheep As.
900 bushels OF grain, large quantity Of lard, &c.
The FIRE was extinguished at the dock and 10000
bushels of damaged grain landed. The steamer
was not seriously injured.
Pesth, Nov 28-Last night while Tisza, Hunga
rian Prime Minister, was entertaining Count An
drassy and members of the delegation, a bomb
exploded In the alley between the fortress theater
and the Minister'S Palace Examination of the
fragments showed the bomb had been charged
with dynamite. The windows Of the palace we're
shattered, but nobody hurt. There is no clue to
the perpetrators Of the outrage, Great excite
ment prevails,
Leetonis, Nov. 29.-This morning an old woman
named Geer was struck by the Atlantic q Great
Western local freight train opposite the Grafton
furnace, and sustained internal injuries from
which she cannot recover She had but partially
recovered from recent parslytic stroke She
apparently neither saw nor heard the approach
ing train as she was about stopping on the track.
The engineer had no time to sound the alarm be-
fore striking her.
Cuyahoga Falls, Nov. pa sharper, who regis
tered as James H. Ryder, iOf Cincinnati, induce
farmer by false pretenses to give his note for
500 this afternoon, and afterwards snatched a
fiVe-dollar bill from an old man who went to his
room to look at some samples OF cloth. Ryder es-
capped from town and has not been arrested
The horse and delivery wagon of the Pearl
FIGURING Mills were stolen about the same time,
the thief driving of in full day light.
Mt. Vernon, Nov. 29-While Isaac and Tom Nc
Vicar were cutting wood to day, Tom, being un.
steady, fell under: Isaacs ak, which cut off the
most Of Toms ham, or posterior of the body. II
! Is serious wound, and will require some time
for him to acquire comfortable sitting
Yesterday Luther Martin, colOred, obtained q
license to marry his love, and exhibited the same
I to former darling, who afterwards stole the Ii
D cense from him and consigned 1t to the flames
+ When the eVeniful hour arrived the license wa
missed. and the wedding was postponed another
day. and Miss Jenkins was avenged,
Akron, Nov. 29-As Mr.. John Heppert was pass
ing under the East Market railroad bridge las
! night, he found q long iron bar firmly fixed II
. one Of the frogs OF the Cleveland, Mt Vernon q
Columbus and Atlantic & Great Western Rail