The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-01-13
STATE AND NEIGHBoRHoOD

Bupgling burglars were scared out Of Aliens
jewery store, Leetonia Thursday night, by sew
eral shots from A. Thompsons "dissolver."
A big black bear was shot in the streets Of Nor.
walk last week. It was tame bruln belonging
to W. H. Cleveland, who treated all his neighbOrs
TO bar meat
The state insurance department, started in 1879
has collected In the past eight years S2O4, ia &,
and paid out SS1 O9l, 12, leaving balance In the
treasury of s128 O28, 70.
E. julius Bolanz, Of Wadsworth, caused the
arrest OF E. ]. Loomis, president OF the Silver
Creek mining company, and LOOMS son on
a charge OF attempting to rob him.
An Avondale barkeeper on his desth.bed, con-
iessed that young man named Zah, supposed to
have shielded, was killed by Podgett, the propri.
etor Of the saloon where he Qhe barkeeper) work.
ed.
Casper Reichert, young farmer, living near
Milersburg, was arrested on a charge Of basardy
preferred by Mary Kelly, vOluptuous, but not
really handsome domestic. Casper is % small OF
stature, and of nervous temperament, and not
so handsome as to lead one to suspect that the
girls would lavish upon him such wealth Of
hueCllOu' OhoptI htepptu up W tuo GapNNALA o
office and settled by marrying Mary Kelly,
United Bretheren church at Seville is burned.
At New Philadelphia Mrs. Christina Hoffman
fell dead in her pew at church while singing q
hymn.
Mrs. Charlotte Wilson, of Youngstown, did not
care to live any longer, and swallowed carbolio
acid.
Old soldier at the Dayton Home was shoveling
coal out of wagon, when he fell out and broke
his neck,
Hon. Columbus Delano has presented Kenyon
College with $4,000 1t will be used In the erect
ion OF a preparatory hall.
Mrs. Ellen Douglass, widow at Cincinnati,
shot herself Thursday, because ]. Smith would
not marry her as he had agreed to do.
The Franklin county jury has been looking into
the charges made against Secretary Barnes ofap-
propriating illegal fees,
A bill has been introduced in the House pro-
viding that all practitioners Of medicine In the
| State must be over 81 years Of age, attend two
courses Of lectures, graduated at a school of med
icine, and be registered by Probate Court.
John L'Aommedieu, Of Ashtabula, who shot at
George Fargo, with intent to wound him, has
been sentenced to two years in the o. P.
Mary Jane Miller OF Mansfield sued Frank Hep
peard for bastardy, and Frank promised to make
matters right by marrying her, but he did not
come to time. The constable caught him aud
said he must either marry Mary Jane or go to jail
right off, and SO he went and got preacher and
married her.
most serious charge is made agairst a Ger.
man of Cleveland named John Lipscombe, a
resident Of Perry street. 1t is asserted that his
daughter, IS years old, is pregnan! by him. and
has already given birth to one child, Of which he
Is the father, 1t is further asserted that Lipscom
be is not married to the woman he calls his wife,
though she is 45 years old and has given birth 10
nine children, each Of whom calls Llpscombe
father. Report says, too, that the alleged Mrs,
Lipscombe was married when only II years old
and when 10 years old left her husband, and SUBJ
sequenty went to live with LipscOmbe The
whole affair is creating considerable talk, though
as yet no arrests have been made, but soon will
be.
Cincinnati electric light company incorporated
Saturday.
The So 900 Ohio Central depot at Mt. Gllesd, Il
nearly completed.
Phillip Keller, Of Bucyrus, was perhaps fatally
gored by bull Saturday,
The ice break in the raging Ohio river, die
! SlCO 900 damage at Cincinnati.