The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-05-06
STATE AND NEIeHBoRHooD.

torneys Of Callahan, the condemned murderer at
Wooster, claim that Mr.. Frank McCauley, OF West
Salem, who was one Of the jurymen, expressed an
opinion as to the guilt or innocence OF Callahan
before the trial, and upon this ground they will
attempt to have the sentence commuted to i'm
prisonment for life,
Mrs Faulkner, Of st. Paris Champaign county
aged but 10, was lodged in jail at Urbana Wednes
day night on the charge Of assault with intent 10
Kill, She and her husband after fussng separated
couple OF weeks ago. They met Wednesday to
divide their possessions and while he was passing
through room she flung hand.ax at him. stFik-
ing him on the head and cutting him terribly.
she was arrested and put under bail to await the
action Of the grand jury Reports say he haH
been very abusive to her, which she could stand
no longer
Ashtabula May ga young man named Ar
thur Dongherty, between II and IS years old, a
re sident of KingsVille but in the employ Of ThOs
DOhan, grocer Of this city, was killed while at.
tempting to board freight train at Conneaut sta.
ton at ll20 o'clock last night. It Is supposed the
unfortunate young man attempted to make the
Irail in order to reach Ashtabuls In place OF
waiting for the accommodation in the morning.
He was struck on the side Of the head and arm
and was tnsensible when picked up and died In
half an hour.
In view Of the many charges OF mismanage.
ment, cruelty and scandalOus conduct Of persons
connected with the Central Ohio Lunatic Asylum
Governor Foster has directed INQUIRY into the
truth or falsity Of these charges This nvestiga-
tion has been asked for by Superintendent Fire
stone and will be made by the Board Of State
Charities.
Cleveland, May S.-The Coil House, located
about ten miles from Cleveland and used quite
extensively as a suburban summer resort, took
fire this morning, and was burned to the ground,
with nearly all its contents. Loss, $4,000, with
no insurance on the building, The fre was
caused from a defective hue.
Cincinnati May 2-The Gazette's New AL
bany, Ind, special says Henry Long, who was
fatally shot by mob at Squire BOstons Office;
Blue River township, Harrison county, was buried
this afternoon, He made a dying statement,
naming his murderer and eleven others in the
mob, all of whom will be arrested.
Adam Waggoner, an old man living on farm
in Gallia county, o., was shot and killed by his
nephew, Philip Waggoner, Friday. They had
quarrelled about lands. The murderer escaped.
Tho citizens Of Bucyrus corporation, at special
election on Tuesday last, decided, by a vote Of
722 to H. to levy tax of $4,000 for the purpose Of
building Railroad Machine Shops for the Ohio
Central Railroad.
Work on the Ohio Central Railroad ia being
pushed all along the line. Gangs Of men are al
ready at work in Marion county, and between
Fostoria and Sycamore.
The Western Union Telegraph Company is
putting up an additional wire on the line Of the
P. Ft, W. & C.R.R.
The General Assembly of the United Presbyte-
rian church meets in Xenia, Wednesday, May
Goth.
The wool growers Of Mahoning and Trumbull
counties, will meet at Warren, Saturday, May Sth
We hear Of quite number OF persons who went
West to grow up with the country, returning to
Columbiana county.
The loss occasioned by the burning OF Rea's
warehouse at COumbiana is estimated at $1,000;
fully insured.
The Dspach,saysIthat theepdemic resembling
the epizoOtiC has broken out among the horses at
Ca ufeld.
william Cuppy, Of WellsvlIe, swallowed q
sewing needle about year ago. A few weeks
ago it came out at his side, causing sore similar
to boil,
Clermont, Gen. Grants native county, is the
only one in Ohio that instructed Its delegates in
his favor. They were kind OF lonesome in the
convention.
The two Yarning brothers were blowing in the
country sixteen miles from Portsmouth, last Sat-
urdsy, when lightning killed one, prostrated the
other and killed all four horses.
Prof L. g. Harrison, formerly Of New Lisbon, is
back on a visit to Mt. Union, after spending the
winter at Knoxville, East Tennessee, The ALI
ance Review says the Prof. is charmed with the
South, with the soil and with its people, He de-
scribes business as very thriving politics forgot
ten or cast aside and sectional and color hatred
as creatures only Of the Northern newspapers"
The Montgomery County pioneers will have a
reunion on the Goth.
Henry Clark, shot by George Ramsey at Clyde,
April 18th, died on Sunday. Ramsey is at large
Charles Mutt, of GAINESVILLE, was shot, probably
fatally, on Sunday by a courtesan named Nellie
Robinson.
A hostler connected with John RObinsons
show name and residence unknown, fell into the
Ohio river at Gallipolis on Sunday and was
drowned,
Charles Powell and Mrs. Haistock of Akron,
both colOred, eloped Monday morning. The man
has wife and the woman had been divorced,
Coups show was attached at Toledo Monday
night for debt Of $500 alleged to be due an attOr
ney there for services rendered the lion tanner
about year ago and for which debt one Of the
proprletors of the show the lawyer claims, agreed
to be responsible
The Enterprise and the Sentinel, at Clyde, will
be consolidated next week, and will be known
hereafter as the Enterprise and Sentinel. Messrs.
Kinney and Paden will be the publishers.
G.. Weary an old gentleman from Uniontown,
Stark county, came to this city few days ago to
sell horse, valuing the animal at 5000. After
considerable dickering purchaser was found in
the person Of John Low, who tought the animal
for S175, paying 1926 down, and giving note, pay
abba one day after date, for $3.50, When payment
was demanded, Low was absent, and one Coy,
who had endorsed the note, was applied to. Coy
claimed to be worth nothing and unable to pay
the note Weary replevined the horse from Low
and Kloss, at whose barn on Euclid avenue the
animal was found. The suit was tried Wednes
day before Justice Peck and jury, and verdict
rendered for the plaintiff, Weary. Taylor Altman
who 1t is claimed, advanced the S25 paid down at
the time Of Lows original purchase, has now COM
menCed a replevin suit before Justice Bohm,
which case will be tried on Friday. However
these suits may turn out Wary will return to
stark county wiser and poorer man. The horse
was appraised at $50 and bond Of $50 executed
for Its appearance when the ownership was decid
ed. The snimal is now missing, and Weary can
eventually realize but $3.50 for his $500 horse,