The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-12-18
STATE AND HEIeHBoRHoOD.


E. A. Thompson, proprietor OF large wholesale
and retail establishment OF Mansfield, failed on
Friday. His liabilities are supposed to be large
while the assets are small,
There are two Japanese students at the Western
Reserve College. One Of them came to this country
on the same steamer with General Grant.
The construction OF the pipe lines from the
Pennsylvania oil wells to Cleveland is proceeding
westward at the rate Of half mile per day
Pipe is now being laid through Vienna township
Trumbull county,
They must have heavy church music at steu,
benville, as they are putting up an organ the
weight Of which is IA 7SO pounds, more than seven
tons.
We are informed that the Clerk OF the U. B.
Courts at Washington has notified the parties IN
erested In the county seat removal case that II Is
set for trial about the 1st Of January next Hon
Luther Day, ]. A. Garfield, and other attorneys
for Hon. E. Newton; ct al, on the Garfield side,
ore fully prepared to try the case at any time,and
we presume the Youngstown attorneys are also
ready to put 1t through CdnJIe'd DtSpdIch'
The most extensive suit ever brought before
any Justice Of the Peace in Mansfield has been
commenced by Samuel lie Baron OF Cleveland,
against the Baltimore and Ohio and PenntylVa'
mia Railroad Companies for non compliance with
the law relative TO the hestiHg Of railroad coaches,
as prescribed by an act passed May 4th, 1869
Seventy actions have been brought against the
Baltimore and Ohio Company and ahtty lone
against the Pennsylvania Company. The amount
claimed in each 1.-THE 12l actions is $500.
Near Cedarville, o., Saturday night Harrison
Filly, in the employ Of James Pollock, while
drunk fell back on reaching the top Of the stairs
and broke his neck
AT Ada thieves on satur lay robbed the Post
office, getting sl5
Two miles north OF DoylestOwn on Saturday
while william stoffer was being let down the air
shaft he was precpltated distance of 80 feet
fractuTing the skull,
Jasper Pepper at Belmont, in jumping from
moving train, Saturday, was killed by freight
train on the side track. ..
At Cincinnati last week while the Grant pro-
Cesslon was passing the Custom House, and while
the clerks were temporarily absent thieves broke
open one of the inner doors OF one OF the safes
and secured from $500 to $1,000 belonging to one
OF the employees, The Government loses nothing
but 1t was narrow escape.
Near Zlnesville, the other day, Il, P. Agnew,
travelling salesman for ] s. Winget & Co., of Co.
lumbus, was robbed by two footpads in broad day
light OF SS5. They stopped his horse clapped
revolver to his face and he disgorged. Numerous
bo utnnnnd that road huL thil
Is the first case reported,
Atsteubenville Sunday morning about o'clock
Patrick Murphy was found lying dead on the u
&P. R. R., opposite the WaterwOrks, His head
was split open and his brains oozlng out. He 10
supposed to have been intoxicated and laid down
on the track, and was struck by passing train
The Coroners verdict was, Nobody to blame"
At Lima, Sunday morning about 10 o'clock, q
young man by the name Of William Summers,
brakeman on the Dayton & Michigan Railroad
while attempting to make coupling; accident
ally caught his foot between the guard rail and
the main track, and before he could extricate
himself from the perilous position, the train
backing up, passed completely over him He died
from his injuries In half an hour. He leaves a
father ald several brothers and sisters to mourn
his loss.
At Astabula on Monday afternoon, William Ar
thur and Frank Whelpy, fishermen, started In q
row boat to pull some nets set near the end OF the
east pier. Upon their not returning q search re
suited in finding their boat and several articles
washed upon the beach about mile below. II is
supposed the boat was In some manner capsiEed,
and before they could regain hold Of 1t 1t washed
beyond their reach, leaving them to perish.
Arthur leaves a wife and several small children.
Among the awards of The International Dairy
Fair at New York the name OF Francis Il. Shaw,
OF Garrettsville, appears as the winner Of the
prize for the best cheese made in Ohio,
At Cincinnati, Saturday evening Charlie
Brockman, son Of prominent grocer, shot and
fatally wounded William Burke, after an encoun
ter In which Burke and his friends had fallen
upon Brockman and beaten him severely.
Brockman gave himself up to the authorities.