The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-02-12
STATE AND NEleHBORHoOD.

WAile the children of Jacob Wallenschneidsr
were playing OF Tifan on Thursday they tied q
string to tin box; and one child was whirling II
over bis head when the string slipped the box
striking little Aveyear Oldchild In the eye, cut
ting the ball and binding him.
The vacancy In the Board Of County CommLS
Sioners Of Wayne county caused by the death Of
Ephraim Quinby, has been filled by the appoint
ment OF Henry GOudy Esq. Mr.. Quinby was tha
only Republican on the county ticket who was
elected In the election Of 1878, and he received
the once by good majority over Mr.. Goudy,
who was the Democratic candidate for the same
office.
very general canvass Of the political prefer
ences Of the people Of Meigs county for President
was taken last week with the following result
Thurman, IA Tilden 259 Bayard 20; Seymour;
10 Hancock, TO- Hendricks, 48; Jewett, So; no,
choice, 80; nominee, SO total, 7S2 Sherman, 1876
Grant, "a; Blaine, 1870; Hayes, a; Washburne, f.
Garfield 72 no choice, co. nominee, 40; total, $50.
Miss Dolly Hartman, of Plttsburg, died Of con;
sumption at steubenville In the eighteenth year
of her age, and her remains were taken to Wash.
ington, Pa, on Saturday, where they were Cre-
mated in the crematory of Dr. LIE Moyne at that
place. This is the hfth cremation n the United
States, two Of the previous ones being Baron De
Palm and DR.. LIE MOyne, who erected the Gre
matory
Julius Radke was arrested at Dayton, o. charg-
ed with the death Of his child, an infant OF four
months. He came home under the influence Of
liquor, and eeizlng the child, dashed 1t to the
floor and kicked 1t across the room, crushing ita
skull.
At New Philadelphia, Friday night while O
young school girl was on her way home from AL
lentown, where she had been visiting and while
passing an untrequented street, SIZE was suddenly
seized by three Villains, none OF whom she knew.
She screamed at the top Of her voice. and, after q
desperate struggle, broke away from them. When
she arrived home It was found that she was des.
titute Of nearly every stitch Of her clothing the
Villains having torn 1t off In their efforts to &C.
cOmpllsh their purpose Of outraging her. There
is no clue yet to the perpetrators of the crime.
At Toledo Michael Sullivan, Assistant Yard.
Master at the Canada Southern Junction, was run
over and killed byG freight train. He leaves
wife and three children
At Columbus 10000 libel suit, by W, J. Elliot,
State Supervisor Of Public Printing, against tho
Evening Courier Of that city, Is on the tapls
law firms In the city.
At Urbana, the investigation Of the city inan-
ces has reached point at which the city is justi-
fed In attaching the property of the late City
| Clerk, L. @, HoVey, and such action was taken,
including his elegant residence, in which his
wife and family are now domiciled, and the
household furniture, 1t ia also rumored that the
investigation Of the affairs Of the city, being con-
Quoted by two expert book-keepers will reveal
double or even thrice, the amount OF forged
bonds that has yet been estimated.
Ezekiel Woods, father Of General Charles Woods
and Judge William B. Woods, Of Alabama, died
suddenly at Newark, at the advanced age Of 20
years
| s.Marshsll cashier otthe Middletown, o, ,Nstlons
Bank, who left mysteriously few days ago, has
been traced to Milwaukee, It now appears that
Miss Langdon, with whom the man has been
coupled In the scandal, went with him to Chicago.
She has returned and says she did 80 on his Rd.
vice, and that nothing criminal passed between
them.
John oConnor, rolling-mill hand, died at Co.
lumbus on Sunday from the effects Of arsenic ad-
mlnIstered! by his own hand. The cause, s
assigned by him, was that he was tired of life.
This is the second suicide among the hands ct
this mill within the past two weeks.
DR., L. A. Schneider, Of Winchester o., died Fri.
day evening from injuries received few days
ago by being thrown from his buggy while re-
turning home from visiting patient,
About 10 O'Clock Saturday morning John John.
ston, a young man of East Liverpool, while work
ing In an oil well:nesr Smiths Ferry, fell from
the top Of the derrick distance Of 70 feet, kill
ing him instantly.
On saturday ]. T. Lenox a well known stock
dealer and highly respected citizen, living two
and one half miles north Of Redwood, commit
ted suicide by taking strychnine, from the effects
Of which he soon after expired,