The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1901-01-22
IN SUPREME COURT
DiebOId Safe { Lock Company VS..
Emanuel BOwe.
BOUNDRY Lines ARE TO Be Changed
BY the United Mine Workers..
Stark County Boys parOIed
at RefOrmatOry.
m a staff Correspondent.

From a staff Correspondent.
Columbus. Jan. 19.-The case of the
Diebold Safe & Lock company, of Can
ton, against Emanuel Bowe, a former
employe of the concern, came up for oral
argument in the supreme court Friday.
The suit was brought to have set aside
n verdict for $4,000. given in favor of
Bowe in the Stark county courts. While
setting up a safe Weighing Al tons at
the company's works the defendant in
error met with an accident in which
his right hand and wrist were badly
mangled. and for which he was allow
ed damages in the sum stated. Will
cox & Friend and Clark, Amber &
Clark are the attorneys for the COM
pany, while McCarty is for the defend
ant. Bowes petition, which was filed
in the common pleas court in 1898, ask
ed for SIS, 900 damages. 1t recited that
the plaintiff was in the employ of the
defendant company, as common
laborer, belonging to what was known
as the "lugging gang" and that on
January 90. 1898, the accident which
disabled him occurred. He was con-
fined to his home ~ weeks under the
unable to use the injured hand and
wrist, which disability, it is claimed,
will prove to be permanent 1t is set
forth that Bowe was an uneducated
man and that he was unable to appre-
ciate the hazardous nature of the task
in which he was engaged with others,
all working under specific instructions
from a foreman.
In it's answer the company admitted
Bowe had sustained bodily injuries, but
alleged they were not of the extent
claimed by the defendant and that they
were caused through inadvertance,
carelessness and negligence on the part
Of the plaintiff. The case was tried at
the January term of court, in 1899, and
judgment with interest from January
., 1899, was given Bowe The circuit
court on February 26, 1899, confirmed
the finding of the lower court. The
petition of the company as filed in the
supreme court charges error through
out in the trials in the lower courts.
BOUNDARIES CHANGED.
At the convention of the United Mine
Workers yesterday the boundary lines
of the ub-districts of the state were
changed. Sub-district No. will in
clude most of Stark county and Wayne
Summit, Medina and Portage counties
That part of Stark county, south of
Canton, with Tuscarawas, Carroll Har-
rison and Belmont counties and the
Panhandle district in West Virginia
Will form sub-district No. s. Columbi-
ana, Mahoning and part of Carroll
county and the New Cumberland dis
trict in West Virginia will make up SUBJ
district No. 4. The reconstruction
divides Stark county, which formerly
was entirely in sub district No. 3. Il. 7.
O'Malley, of Canton, has been present
at the sessions of the miners He is
connected with publication devoted to
the interests of the operative miners
At one time he was interested in a
paper dealing with religious matters
in Canton.
STARK PRISONERS PAROLED.
Before adjourning the board of man.
ayers of the Ohio reformatory at Mans
field placed on parole two more Stark
county prisoners and three others from
Columbiana county. Harley Foltz, con-
victed of burglary and larceny, and
James Campbell, convicted of burglary,
were the inmates released from Stark,
Campbell's pagole being conditional.
Theodore Pryor (conditionaD man
slaughter, Charles Nelson and Edward
Hanselman. burglary in both cases,
were the lads released from Columbiana
county. They are all from East Liver
pool which city has furnished a large
number of reformatory inmates during
the past few years. Nelson and Han
selman made an attempt to escape
September IS, 1899.
Mayor Paul Huxley, of Salem, and
DIR. A. c. Yengling, of the same city,
were delegates to the meeting of the