The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-09-08
STATE AND NE1GHBoRHooD.

The hog cholera is laying out hundrees Of pork
ers around Findlay.
Millelshurg Is out OF debt Holmes county is
out of debt and paying man So 50 per hight for
watching cash on hand.
Samuel Freeman, Of Cincinnati, was marrled
last week at the Columbus cesf mute asylum to
Miss Lizzie Herrick. Both are deaf mutes.
The crowd in attendance at the State Fair was
so great and hotels 80 few in Columbus, that mul
tltudes slept on the State Capitol grounds. Sneak
thieves robbed scores Of them.
Cincinnati, Sept Rev. Kannsmucker, pastor
Of q German Lutheran church In this city, was
horseWhipped last night by woman named Mrs
Goldemeir Kannsmucker had seeded from the
original church 40 the result Of disagreement
and started q new church Of his own. Mrs. Col
demier was one OF the members Of the flock re.
naming In the old fold. She heard that Kunna.
mucker had made fun Of the old church. and
hence horsewhipped him. At least that was the
reason given.
New Philadelphia Sept 1.-The notorious John 8
Burchheld, charged with stealing about 5000
pounds OF wool from different merchants In this
section, was arrested at Port Washington an
brought here this morning. In default Of bail he
was remanded to jail to await trial. liberal re-
ward had been offered for his arrest
Preacher Mackey, Of Youngs own, is in trouble.
MeOls, the man with whom the minister boarded,
was jealous Of his handsome wife and the minis.
ter. He blacked both Of the latters eyes, and the
minister, instead Of turning to him the other
cheek also, shot at him. Meals had the man Of
God arrested, but Mrs. NJ took hispart,
John Lowry, HyattsVIlle saloon keeper, killed
himself Friday by taking strychnine.
Hon, Henry Curtis, Of Mt Vernon, has pre-.
sented SIS, 900 to Kenyon College for the endoW.
ment Of scholarships.
THIN, Sept ga little child Of JobRnnas Kertz
was seriously, II not fatally, shot this afternoon
while playing with loaded revolver The ball
paRsed under the tongue and lodged in the right
Jaw bone under the ear
Akron, Sept Friday night Marshal Ragg and
OSRCer Bum attempted to arrest one Pat May and
were attacked by May with large knife. He
succeeded In cutting Bum, and escaping up the
street, was knocked down by Dr. Smith with
heavy walking cane and secured.
Russell schcOnover and John Justice, brothers
In law, living near Columbus, had dispute, and
Daniel Nichols got mixed up in II. Daniel took
his shot gun and shot Schoonover down, the
charge entering the lower part Of the abdomen,
laceratlng him terribly.
Robert Dunley, who escaped from the Peniten
tisry Decembey, 1879, under the Dyer administra.
tlon, came 10 the prison Saturday night, and de.
llvered himself up. He had been taken there
under sentence Of four year. from Noble county
for grand larceny, November, 1876, and had only
little over year TO servo when he escaped.
which he chooses to put In now so as tc get bis
papers and feel freedom.
Thomas Mcmahon, drunk, fell off freight
train at Mantua Saturday night and was killed.
A bad storm at Newark Saturday evening" did
much damage to trees and buildings and several
people injured by lightning
MrC Parker, Of Toledo, did not get along
we'll with Mrs @ G Parker, his wife. Mrs got
q divorce. Mr. told bad stories about her.
Mrs @ @ got horSewhip and gave him public
logging.
The receipts Of the State Fair, in round mum.
bers, were about S2S5OO, as against S22 800 last
year, and S2S 200 In 1879 The expenses are known
to be lets than in 1879 and 1880 The net surplus
will be over $4,000
The investigation Of the State House ventlla.
tion Commissioners have discovered that the bad
gas manufactured at the Penltent ary has eaten
out the pipes in the State House, which can be
pre- ssed together and almost fiatlened out with the
hand at places Gas now escapes through these
defective pipes and permeates the air, to the det
Tlment Of the personal comfort and health of the
inmates Of he building, The sewerage under the
basement wei found to be choked up and emit
ting foul OdorsH .lff
Considerable excitement has been caused about
West AusIintOwD, MahonIng county, over the
sudden deathyof en- aged citizen named Louis
Harroh he. was sold morphine at q country
store in doses that should have wade ten times as
many. He took tWo,or really twenty doses OF the
poison, and died Saturday, the accident having |