The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-01-16
STATE AND NEIoHBoRHooD,

Inc report OF the Imbeolle Asylum at CoIumbuH
mas been submitted TO the Governor. The aggra-
gaze attendance during the year was 5l2 Re-
ceipb for the year, S7S0OO Expenditures, S6l 500.
Estimates for the coming year are over $4,000,
part being to finish two wings already under con.
struction. But nine deaths have occurred during
the year, and the number admitted during the
| same time was seventy eight
Mr. William Taft, of this place, put in bid 10,
furnish timber for the Cleveland breakwateT, and
received The contract He ia to furnish 100000
feet Of hemlook timber l2xl2 Inches, varying from
p to SO feet in length, delivered at Cleveland be-
tween the lst Of January and the 1st Of July 1879
The government reserves the right to add 100000
feet more to the contract TO be delivered within
twelve months from Est OF July, 1879. It will
require 400 cars to remove this lumber to .CleVe.
land.- GreenUik Argus.
Cincinnati, Jan. 9.-James Atkins the Kentuc-
ky outlaw, who recently escaped from the Elliott
county jail, attended turkey shooting match at
Blairs Mills, Morgan county, yesterday, and be-
coming engaged In an alteration with Ben Per-
ry, a farmer, was shot and killed. Perry was bad
ly wounded in the head.
The State Agricultural Convention at Columbus
on Wednesday elected L B. Wing, Peter Murphy,
Charles Smith, Arvlne Wales and Richard Baker,
members Of the State Board OF Agriculture.
Wales and Baker succeed StlCkney and Stone.
The others were reelected. Those holding over
are Carlisle, Pope, Pugh, Weltz and COWden.
Cincinnati, Jan. 0,-Lizzle ohlrogge, a little girl
while returning from school at Dayton, yesterday,
was attacked by an angry COW and tossed ten feet
In the air, alighting in a snow bank, where she
was found insensible though her injuries were
not fatal
A statement OF the assets and liabilities Of the
suspended banking house Of Adae 4 Co., Of Gin
clnnatl, shows the former to be S39i ,si4 and tho
latter s799S3
The erection Of a free bridge over the Ohio rtY-
er at COvington was voted down last Saturday by
a large majority.
Cincinnati jan l0-The coroner's jury In the
inquest over the body Of James H. Rogers. Of
Bloomington, Ind, who died from wounds re-
ceiVed New Years evening, returned verdict OF
murdered by Henry Felters, proprietor of the
Bloomington Courier and JulianRWentworh, an
employe The parties were all drunk at the time
the deed was committed.
sandusky Jan. 1O.-Captaln John NJ First Of
Lucas, RlChland county, Postal Clerk on the Bal
timore d Ohio Railroad, was arrested by Detec-
tive Cox and brought here To night, on the charge
of opening letters and stealing the contents.
steubenvllle, Jan. 1O.-To.day Thomas Mean
instituted suit against the Humboldt Fire Insur.
ance Company, Of Allegheny, Pa, for $780, 900 for
malicious prosecution in December 1873, charg-
ing Mears with hiring Lafayette Stone 10 set FIRE 10
the plaintiffs distillery for the PURPOSE of seCuT-
ing the insurance thereonI
Mlllersburg, jan S.-The coal mine reported on
fire near this place, and which has been closed up
since Christmas last was opened last night for in
spection, and found still booming hot. TWAS i'm
mediately closed again, and will probably remain
so for month, or until the FIRE is smothered All
the miners who have not secured work at other
mines are now idle,
Mansfield Jan, 1O-The editors Of the Sunday
Morning Call were arrested to-day on warrant
from BelleVille sworn out by one Jerry Cation.
Last Sundays Call contained an article called the
"BelleVille Boar" In which 1t showed up Cation
In ways that are dark and tricks that are vain"
n reference to his martial vow. The warrant
charges the parties with selling and distributing
an obscene paper, and they were taken to Belle.
vile this afternoon in charge Of the marshal.
Millersburg Jan, 1O.-The through freight train
from the north due here at 23O yesterday after
noon, was thrown from the track by defective
rail about two miles north of here. The engine
and four cars rolled over the embankment into q
| field, Amos Douglass, a brakeman, was severely
injured about the face, Frank 0Sgood, the engi-
neer, narrowly escaped.