The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-06-17
STATE AND NEIeHBoRHooD.

James Rankin, Of Washington Court House.
hung himself Saturday, in the woods. Body not
discovered for several hours.
While David Williams was sparkling Katie
Turner ms grove at Georgeville Sunday, some
one shot him dead. Supposed to be either a jeaI
GUS rival or the girls pa.
Rosa Bell, OF Cincinnati, claims that Will Jones,
her beau, took her up the Licking river Saturday
and outraged her, throwing her into the water
and nearly drowning her.
Drowned while bathing: Henry Curry, aged IT.
OF ol Clty, PA Q. Ausbach, Of MIlersburg; Ed.
Koch, son Of the proprietor Of the Koch house,
ZanesVille; Samuel Bilingsley, of franklin, Pa.
AT Piattsville, near Sydney, Saturday, C. +. Dor.
sey, who was lying low for muskrats, saw what
he took to be a "whopper" and fred, when. with
a yell Of pain, William CHM, a young neighbor.
jumped out Of the water where he had been bath.
ing, and fell bleeding on the bank with au ugly
wound in the head. CHM will die.
B, Ransom, a retired Mount Vernon preacher,
got up In church Sunday and confessed that he
had gOuged out the eye Of wicked SOW with A
p~enknife, because she had eaten a neighbor's
chickens. The minister prayed the Lord to for.
give him, but the prosecuting attorneys threaten
to put the law to him. The old farmers In the
audience who had reared ugly sows said: Served
her right"
Large planning mill and lumber yard at wayneg-
burg burned Sunday. Loss, 100000,
James Kelley was terribly mutllated by a saw
at Smiths mill, near Mlllersburg, Monday.
New rolling mill to be built six miles below
steubenville, while a rolling mill and a glass fac.
tory are to be built above Lagrange.
Charles Valley, employed in Smiths stave fac.
tory at Bradner, near FOstOria, was wound around
a shaft one day last week and killed. One leg
was torn from his body.
J. Magill, an Urbana blacksmith, has been ar.
rested for placing a Ted.ho bar Of iron in the
hand Of a three'years.old child who strayed into
his smithy.
The Cleveland Baptist Association, at its 4oth
annual session held in Akron last week, resolved
that as the year to come included a Presidential
campaign, christian watcafulness and PRAYER
were especially needed, Next annual meeting in
Cleveland.
The dead body Of Thomas Welsh, formerly of
Hancock county, Ohio, was discovered near Wei.
lington, Ks, Saturday. He left for the West re-
Gently to purchase land, Foul play is suspected.
An old lady named Dolan, living near Pluua,
was fatally beaten with a club by another woman
named Riley. Mrs. Dolan was out picking cur.
rants when the melee ensued, She lived about
FIVE hours.
Akron, June 16,-Fifteen negro miners from
| Silver GFnpk nagCnd tbrOpuh hora 1apt ,trbN -,
their way home to Virginia. On Monday ten
Others left and a large delegation is preparing to
return to "Ole Virginy" on Saturday next. They
say they can make no money at the Silver Creek
mines and their places are being filed up by old
miners. The latter are ~jlbilant oI er the new state
OF affairs and gay that within two weeks the
"nigs' will all leave.
Edward ], Mayles, a brakeman on the Pan
Handle road, aged 20, was found dead in the de.
pot yard at Columbus Wednesday morning, a
train having run over his neck. The manner Of
his death is a mystery.
Nearly all the census enumerators in franklin
county have quit work because Supervisor Leeds
has decided that they will have fifteen days less
work than they expected.
The father OF Peter Van Voorhees, was once
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sheriff of Kings county, N, Y, and OF course rich.
Pete has Of late been driving a street car in Lima
Monday he shot himself, probably fatally, with
a new revolver he had just secured to scare of
burglars.
The father in'law who, unlike the mother.in
law, is seldom heard Of, came to the front at Mt,
Gilead Tuesday. Thomas Addelsperger was ar.
rested charged with assaHlting his wite's father.
because his spouse fed to the parental domicile
for shelter from a domestic storm.
A son Of Kennedy, OF Galena, was kick.
ed to death by a colt Tuesday.
o.. Stark, of Marietta, hewed the calf Of his leg
off with a broad ak Tuesday, The calf was terri.
bly, mangled, but Stark was not arrested for cruel
ty to animals.
They either reform a boy at the Columbus re
form farm or kill him. Sometimes they do both.
They have w%hippers, who have stolen the sacred
title borne by Jesus Christ, viz: "elder brothers,
A day or two ago ole of these elder brothers
whipped a boy of John Caleb, a colOred laborer,
until 1t is feared he will die.
F. W. Mollier, of sandusky, had just settled in
Shakespeare, New Mexico, and was chatting with
some friends in front Of his restaurant, when
Clark Williams, a local bully, remarked that
every one in those parts ought to go well heel.
ed" Are you well heeled p" ask Moliter. vii.
llams replied by shooting Moliter dead.