The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-07-17
STATE AND NEleRBoRHOOD.

| tno o"oyIuS FUum mas been bold ~ bheRlno
sale for 9260l. M
The stack house Of the HIwrod Furnace Com.
pany fell I'D on FtIday. Ioas about $1,000. Five
men were IIipsd none fatally.
GsmbIeF gIls psitai ~ three paperu-gha
Ar0as' ihe k'erda sgt me ftance. ~
They slepns q iAe fourth and Eighth
oBip Ihfanet aTe pl6paIl ior agrand reunion
at atspfipsesIa suat 5.h
PatSickiDohn, tor tlie n8NIipr 81 elisha whiD.
Pile, was senteqegd ihe IAl Ientary for life, at
Akron Monday. t-t
Thenext reunion of Inc Thirteeuth Ohio vii
be held in olfcleYille, oh Thursday, september
4th, 1879 80
The animal reunion OF the Twenty ninth Regl.
ment o. v. v. L, win be held on the 18Th, 18th
and 18th days of August, at Chippewa Lake, No
dina county.
The dead body Of John walcup hung to che
limb Of dogwood tree seven days, near Bedford,
before the terrible stencil directed public atten-
tiOn 10 his suicide.
Me'srs Stanley Bros, OF Uhrlchsvllle, contraO-
tors for building twenty miles OF the Cleveland,
Tuscarawas Valley & Wheeling Railroad, state
that they are very much in want Of aborers.
The Probate Judge Clerk Sheriff aud County
Commissioners, who have been setting as a com.
mission to select plan for the Guernsey new
$50 900 Court House, accepted One presented by
Thomas Boyd, of Pittsburgh.
shOnhed Brothers, wholesale dealers In cloth.
ing. Columbus, suspended on Monday Of last
week. They are also doing business a. zAnesville
ay,AT tnk .ul aaan
assets not yet ascertained.
Two little girls named Edwards, livirg Rt Co
darville while passing through the wood, SRtuT-
day, were attacked by a tramp and one OF them
brutally outraged. The other ran away and
screamed for help, but the beast escaped.
John Hail. Of Licking county, aged 2j years, at.
tempted to commit suicide by jumping from q
wagon into creek, distance sixty feet while
riding with his father, last week. He was rescued
and resuscitated. This is the third attempt he
has made to destroy himself
Six million pounds Of wool are raised within q
radius OF forty miles surrounding steubenville,
which at an average price Of IS cents will realize
50 100 900. This immense sum- In return for 30
little labor and expense as Is required In tho
keeping Of sheep. ought to be suggestive TO our
| farmers.
Mrs. Mary Creoistan, of Bellefontaine gave
birth to a female nonde'cript exactly resembling
frog, last week, and all the town is titteriDg.
The women are holding gOsSlppinR circle and the
doctors are puzzing their brains over the un-
heard Of freak OF nature, They advance the
theory that the germ vas drank with water,
passed down to the entrance OF the womb, was
taken up by one OF the ova and there maiured to
| maturity. Another physician announc 8 1t ashiS
opinion that the germ was introduced by means
Of water injected with a syring. This offspring Ia
lively, and the facetious talk of btartiug q new
frog opera troupe with the new conner as star OF
the first magnitude with unlimited drawing
powers.
Burbank, July 1l.-Durlng heavy storm this
evening Samuel Dull, Jr, living near here, was
killed by a barn door being blown upon him
crushing his skull.
Warren July 10 Burglars engaged In a bold
piece Of work here at noon to-day, when Kirk d
Christy's hard ware store was entered through the
rear window People were passing along tn street
while the thieves got 10 aud worked without de-
teclion. Cutlery and revolvers 10 the amount Of
SIS were taken.
Inc hllPRbU nOEb9 tulel huDb dI AkEOu last WScA
by Marshal Ragg, and in Jail here IN default Of
| s4 go bail, has been identified as John c. Davis,
pardoned out of the Penitentiary by Gov Bishop
about two months ago, II is said that he was sent
for twenty years. from LOrain county, for horse
stealing
| Barnesville, July 13. The residence Of John
Mcllvain, a wealthy farmer living near Burrs
Station, was forced open about one o'clock last
night Mr. MCIvain was overpower' by three
masked men. who robbed him of Sl05 and gold
watch vsl1ed at $685. They then gagged and
bound their victim and went away, There is no
clue to the perpetrators Of the outrage.
Homewood, July 1S.-Johu Daniels, thirteen
years of age was drowned In Beaver River this
afternoon while bathing. Owing to the rough
ness OF the bottom Of the river the body was not
recovered until about two hours alterward.
Pomeroy, July 19.-A man from Cincinnati by
| the name Of Jordan was drowned at Letart, twen-
ty miles above here, while bathing yesterday. He
| belonged TO the boat James Warner. His body
was recovered to-day and Inferred here.
DelphoS, July 18,-At spencerville yesterday
Martin shoemaker was instantly killed by q
building falling on him while he, with others,
|
| two children.
| Ashtabuls, July 11.-Au accident occurred to-
| day at about noon which, on account of the ad-
vanced age of the person II jured, may result Be-
| rOusly. Mr. James Clark, aged seventy FIVE
| years, was in tree picking cherries and by some
misttep lost his hold and fell to the ground dis
locating his hip and otherwise iIjpring himself
COshoctOn, July 14-The miners al Home Mines
have struck because they claim the screens are
TOO long and don't do them justice Every thing
is quiet. These are the largest mines in thla
county.
Wspakoneta, July 14-ou Saturday Amos viii.
liams, an employe, was very seriously injured by
the bursting of an emery wheel in the Wapako.
meta sp Ike and Wheel Factory. His cheek. bone
was broken aud his face badly dikhgured. One
hundred dollars was raised among the employees
for his benefit.
Ravenna July IA Pretty full reports Of dam.
ages from Friday storm are In, and foot up about
$4,000 In this county, single individuals losing as
high as $1,000.
John Nash, OF this place, attempted suicide BY
drowning yesterday at Sandy Lake.
Lancaster, July I-Y Yesterday afternoon .
young man named Friend, living at Dumonts.
vile, was thrown from colt and dragged quar-
ter of mile hts foot having caught in the stir
rup. He was only liberated by the breaking Of
the girth. His injuries are terrible, from which
he is not expected to recover
PEDEsTR1ANIsM Quite an exciting pedestrian
contest came of on the Fair Grounds on Monday
evening Distance, ten miles, goas-you please,
between AL. Monnin aud Monroe Fredericks, both
amateurs in that business, for purse of SIS and
a Dox of cigars. Though the match was made
very quietly, considerable number Of SPECTATOR
were present, and quite an amount of money
changed hands, Monnin took the lead the frst
mile and kept it to the end, occasionally giving q
running spurt to increase the lead. He won the
race by nearly half q mile. making the ten mllel