The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-04-22
STATE AND NEIGHBoRH00D,

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United Iron factory, Cincinnati made an assign
ment last week to Thomas G. Smith. Bond s9o.
OOO Liabilities estimated at $40 O0O asses nearly
the same.
hre In PerrySVille, o., did damage TO the
t amount Of S25,OOO Among the losers are: j. Coul-
Ier' hardware store; Humphrey and son. dry goods:
D. Olough, drug store Fulmer Bakery and the
poS'omce' Total insurance, $4,000,
Ihe Kenton Republican has been sold 10 Geo.
W. kutledge of Ada, Ohio, for So 900.
~, Az S1euoenVille on Friday, the residence Of
lnomas Muller was destroyed by FIRE. Loss, about
$1,000; insurance, llOO, cause of fire unknown.
The citizens of New Philadelphia are iubllau
over the passage Of the bill authorizing the lew
OF tax to secure tha Cleveland, Tuscarawas
valley and Wheeling railroad shops.
woman named Mundell, Of Washington Co..
re-, was poisoned by tasting spoiled canned
fruits
The Youngstown Opera House Company has
been incorporated. Capital stock, SIS OOO shares,
$40 each
Joseph lddings, OF Belmont county, who was
followed to Indiana and arrested on a charge Of
forgery, had a hearing before Justice Pratt, Of
81, Clairsvlle, and was held in the sum of S1,OOs
LOT MS appearance a. court As fully S3O 900 Is In
VolVed in the alleged forgerles the bail required
oy the Justice Is altogether disproportinate to the
supposed Otiense
Ice is six cents hundred in Toledo.
Scarlet fever prevails to an alarming extent In
Holmes county.
The Trumbull Era is the name Of new paper
at Cortland, Trumbull county.
Kicking the Warren murderer darns stockinps
in the Penitentiary.
1t is said that the mines at Coalbury are very
nearly exhausted.
Mrs Frank Metcalf OF Warren, took Strychnine
III mistake for quinine and will probably die.
William Maloy was arrested at the Union depot
Lancaster Saturday, for trying to shoot police.
man,
son OF Andrew Reed, OF Wooster, has run
away and is thought to have gone west.
The mother Of the boy who was roasted to
death at Fremont by falling into a limekiln Is
not expected to live.
The strike Of the switchmen at the Wabash and
st. Louis yards at Toledo is ended the men going
to work at the old rates.
Mrs. Thomas Leasure, OF Harrison township
Ross county is in her one hundred and first year
Jacob Zeigler, of Sidney, committed suicide by
hanging himself to bed post on the 10th inst.
The Toledo Times says fourteen rats were
burned to death at a recent FIRE in that city, and
1888 getaway,
P. Creamer, of Fostoria, died on the 11th inst Of
injuries sustained by the explosion of the powder
works in that city the day previous.
John M. Smith is the name of the new post.
master at Lattimer's Station. Smith-smith, it
seems to us we've heard that name before Var
rem Record,
A little girl named RIgby started the fire with
kerosene at Steubenville and was burned to
death.
John Cleveland, colored, once President Lin.
coins servant, was badly burned at Urbana, o.
Friday.
Circleville, o.. April 17.-Mrs. Isaac Mantel, Of
Darby township, gave birth to triplets two sons
and one daughter, Allllving and doing we'll.
AT Carey Sunday, while Mrs. Belle UpdegrafE
and her mother, MIS- Patt were returning from
the funeral of George Bacher. they were thrown
from spring wagon by the tlppag of a seat, on
injuries which may prove fatal. Mrs Plat was
seriously injured.
Z4nesville o., April 1S.-Iieutenant Linton
and Marshal Fell returned this morning with
their prisoner AdOlphus Clark. alleged accom-.
plice of Godfrey Smalley in the murder Of Jacob
Baughman. Clark, when arrested appeared very
nervous and stoutly denied his guilt He was
very retiRent on the way here, but told the Off.
GERS that he had no doubt that Smalley did the
murder Clark has a family and is potter by
trade. He is AZ years old, is six feet in height
and weighs $50 pounds.
Sidney, o., April 1S-Great excitement existed
in the western part of this county to- day over
chase for and attempt to capture man, supposed
to be the murderer Of Joseph NJ, Lehman on the
Bee Line train, near Hardin Station, Tuesday,
two weeks ago, This morning man called at q
farm house while none of the family were at
home, except the farmers wife, and asked for
something to eat. He answered the description
Of the murderer so fully that after he left she
aroused the neghbors and soon forty or fifty men
oined in the search all around They were af.
terwards joined by officers from Sidney. He was
chased from woods to woods for a distance Of ten
miles, but at dark tO.rght he ran into woods
and the chase was given up. Francis Dldier,R
witness to the shooting on the train, saw the man
today and says he is undoubtedly the man who
did the shooting.
BuCyrus April lS-John SaufFar an old resi-
dent of this county, was buried this afternoon.
He was soldier in the Mexican war, and with
two others composed the force furnished by
Crawford county to assist in tharashing Mexico.
HIS funeral was largely attended
Cincinnati, April lS-Bishop Elder, Of Natchez
arrived early this morning and Immediately en-
tered upon the duties of his Office as CoadjutOr of
Archbishop Purcell by attending mass at the
cathedral, where he preached upon the life of st.
Joseph. AheTward he confirmed class of chill
dren at the cathedral, In a day or two he will
visit the Archbishop at his retreat in Brown
county, atst Urselne aonvent.
At Columbus on SUNDAY, Eddie Lang seven
years Old leaning out of a third story window Of
the American Hotel, lost his balance and fell so,
feet. He struck on his back, His injuries are
fatal.
Dresden, o, April 10 Richard Lacy, a farmer
residing on Dr. Edward Cass's farm, two miles
east of here, had his barn, containing two horses
and six mules, and his courthouse, containing
1900 bushels of corn, destroyed by fire this morn.
ing, Loss, about S2O9O No insurance. Cause
unknown.
Frank Finn deck hand on tow boat at Gin
cinnau, killed Richard O'Flaherty on Saturday,
but said 1t was in selfdefense.
The Cincinnati Board of Education, like the
Cleveland Board, is presided over by doctor,
John Trmble, of Dayton, went fishing on Sum
day, and of course was drowned
The Hooking Valley coal operators express
their determination to insist on a reduction from
eighty to seventy cents for mining, and say thata
corresponding reduction in the price of coal will
be made. The sminers hold out for eighty cents,
The rate last summer was only sixty cents.
Dayton has two Boards OF Education; 1t is