The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-12-16
STATE AND NEIGHBoRHooD

feler L9umeF ~ years ana nine mOntnB olQi
died at Columbus Sunday
S. Andrews carriage shop burned at Medina
Saturday insurance 81 900.
L. S. Ward lost a team of horses at RaVenna
Saturday by letting them to two unknown men.
Mrs. Hanlon of Missouri, visiting at Marietta,
saw her little boys head severed from his body
by the cars Saturday
The jury in the Peel murder case at Columbus
came in at II As a, m. with verdict OF man
slaughter Should have been womanslaughter.
Lake Shore train SO didn't get out of the way
of train 40 at Yermilion, Saturday and John
Farrar, Toledo brakeman was injured.
A Wellsville belle gave Phil. White the mitten
last Sunday night and allowed Ed. Dickey to see
her home, White, black with rage, felled Dickey
to the ground with club.
Anton Beckart sewing machine agent from
Mt. Eaton, has been arrested on the charge Of for
gerry and embezzIement He was bound over to
court and falling to give bonds was remanded to
jail until his trial can take place.
James Larkins, tax collector of Meadvllle, Pa.
ran behind in his accounts, to the amount Of S85
OOOr it is feared, ard put bullet through his
head, He didn't do good jOb and at first
claimed he had fallen against stump He may
die
Saturday night five flremen were roasted alive
at Cincinnati before the eyes Of their comrades.
Their names were VIM. Kelley David Love, Tom
Cooling, Andrew Parker and Andy Barrett Kel.
ley leaves four children, Barrett a wife and one
child, and Parker wife and one child The FIVE
men, beaded by their chief, attempted to pene.
trate the secold story of the Crown manufactur.
ing building. The chief came out alive, but the
others were suffOcated ard their bodies dropped
down through the burning floor and were slowly
roasted 1t was nearly an hour before the limb.
less trunks were .extrieated and borne home to
their distracted families.
Lancaster December II -sHsplcons that some
thing was wrong were aroused in the mind Of
Bob Dean, express messenger on the Columbus g.
Hooking Valley Railroad this morning, while
the morning passenger train was here, by an
offensive stencil which pervaded the baggage car
Investigation revealed in trunk shipped from
Logan by a couple OF men the dead body OF q
young woman. Dean said he would have the
parties arrested on the trains arrival at Column
bus, and teegraphed the authorities there to be
in readiness
Two young ladies, of Delaware, were in their
buggy, and the buggy was on the railroad track.
A train was also there and the buggy is now
kindling wood, the horse soap grease and fertil.
zer, and one young lady is dead add the other
broken in regard to her bones.
In the neighborhood Of Oberlin, two mission
aries of the church of Brigham Young have set
up the standard and are preaching the gospel ac-
cording to Joseph Smith, with success that is
alarming the godly folks Of 0berlin. Many con-
Verts are reported.
An old gentleman named Peters was knocked
down and robbed on the streets of Columbus.
This sort OF thing seems to be the regular pro-
gramme almost daily in the cities 1t will be
necessary pretty soon for people who go about
the streets to have their heads iron clad.
racket In Columbus Sunday over the arrest
of two medical students who had a cOrpsein a
trunk. Doctors raised row over 1t and proved
that 1t was just and lawful subject for dissection
because the unfortunate personw hose mortal coil
1t was, had died in the Athens county pOorhOuse
The body was fo- the Sterling Medical College
and the doctors will prosecute the police officers
who made the arrest
Georgia Railroad Commission has hxedpassen-
ger rates on roads in that state at three cents per
mile Much squirming by the railroads.
Records Of the Pensacola Custom House were
burned Monday night.
"Thrashing by steam" murmured fond moth.
er as she glanced at an article in an agricultural
paper. what gitups they do have nowadays.
III had one of those steam thrRshers for my four
boys, my arms wouldn't be so rheumatiCky as
hey are to. day." and she dreamily thought Of the
past as 1t might have been.
When a shivering canal driver at Seneca Falls
was asked If he was compelled to drive for a liv.
ing or did he do 1t from choice, he replied II
have no father or mother, and have to do this or
worse and maybe would starve If didn'"
But are you not afraid you will be sick and dlef
When he replied :"Oh, ne am used to 1t, and
then wasn't General Garfield driver once, and
can stand 1t If he could"