The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-12-30
COLUMBUS NOTES.

THE State Bar Association met at Columbus
on the 2Sth.
GOVERNOR FOSTER has pardoned Thomas
Mcmahon, sentenced for three years in Geauga
County for attempt to rape.
JAMES M. DUNCAN, of London, charged with
violating the postal laws, has been acquitted
| after trial in the United States Courts
GOVERNOR CHARLES Foster, in letter to
Hon. Thomas A. Cowgirl, announces his with
| drawal from the contest for United States Sem
| ator.
THE Trustees of the Soldiers and Sailors
| Orphans Home have submitted their annual
report to the Governor. The institution is said
| to be in excellent condition.
THE Board of State Charities has made its
annual report to the Governor. 1t recommends
| that the pay of Secretary Byers be raised from
| 81, 200 to 81, 600 a year.
| THE Duckworth Club of Cincinnati, haz
| been incorporated with capital of $40, 600.
Its object is mutual improvement and the per-
| petuation of Democratic principles.
THE Scottish Union and National Fire Insur-
ance Company, of Edinburgh has been admit
ted to do business in Ohio, having deposited
/ $4,000 in United States bonds to secure
polioy-holders.
THE Baltimore. and Ohio Railroad Company
has SO far failed to make its annual report to
General Robinson Railroad Commissioner, and
steps are to be taken to compel them to do 80
through the Supreme Court
JOHN SHORT, of Columbus, loses $500 by
the burning Of the Milburn Hotel at Toledo.
| He had sold it, and was on his way home to
get the transfer made, when he got the tele-
gram giving the news of the fire.
The current expenses for running the Ohio
Reform School for Boys, including sslaries,
during the last year were $74,5 SOL The aver
age number of boys in attendance WAS 545, and
the cost of maintaining each boy S136.
Y. NJ. BREvoRT, ON his way home with Christ
mas presents, was assaulted by highwaymen,
who robbed him of all his money, presents,
watch, and other valuables. Several other rob
berries of similar nature were attempted, but
unsuccessfully.
The State Mutual Aid Association has served
notice on the Columbus Sunday Morning Netcs
of q second suit for libel, laying its damages at
$4,000. The suit is because of criticisms on
the methods used by the officers of the Associa-
| ton.
REPRESENTATIVES CHHAPMAN, Sawyer and
Davis, of the House Cooperative Insurance In
vestigating Committee, have met to prepare
their report for the Legislature to the result
! of the work of themselves and their colleagues
during the summer.
5 THE State Grange last week adopted by a
e vote of Sc to memorial to the Legislature,
asking for local option law. A memorial Was
, also adopted asking for an appropriation sut-
ficient to establish an experimental Agricul-
3 | tural Station at the State University.
i CHRISTMAS was made pleasant for the States
| unfortunate wards. There were concerts at
8 the Blind Insane, and Imbecile asylums, a
8 balls in one or two of the institutions. Proper
p observances were had in the penal and reforma-
tory institutions, and in all, good dinners were a
p | special feature.
g WALTER THOMAS and other Columbus capital
d lists, who have investments in the northeastern
It part of the city, have offered the Hagerstown
= Agricultural Improvement Company seven
> acres of land near tic Panhandle Round
10 house, and SIC, ,0Oo as an inducement to locate
Q their works in the city. The company has been
g negotiating with parties at Columbus and al
Tifin for some time.
If THE coming session OF the Legislature
N promises to be lively one, and of longer dura-
l. ton than the last. Local option legislation will
Le be persistently pressed forward by the temper.
20 ance people who now have the support Of the
1T State Grange. Many bills are pending, mos
RS of them in forward state, and these added te
N new bills indicates that the next volume Of
laws will be larger than the volume for 1880.
le TIE State Board of Equalization having un
IN der consideration the appraisement OF rairoad
n for taxation, last spring increased the valuation
of the trans-OhIo lines of the Baltimore an;
Ohio in this State some $700, 900 over the sun
total returned to them by the County Auditors
The Company mas resisted the payment, and
- is understood that an injunction is to be ap
% piled for by the Company in order to settle tn
l. question.
II JOSEPH SM1THERs, a resident of Franklin
le County, was sixty-four years old. Everybod,
ID knew him. but few, if anybody, knew any
10 thing good about him. During one o
. his evil spells he set fire to the barn o
Is Andrew Fix, neighbor, and it burned 70 tn
is ground. Smithers was arrested, tried, an
v found guilty, and was placed in the Count
q Jail to await sentence. He borrowed q razo
a of fellow prisoner to shave himself, and wit
y, ~ that severed both juglar veins. The old ma
:! died. He had no friends, and the old man
IN body was carted off to the medical college
I'd do service to the science of surgery.
n WHILE the convicts at the Penitentiary th
or other day, were in file to march to dinner, job
- - Brown, a colored convict from Xenia, sent u
VI for three years for burglary and larceny, Dire
10 a sharp tool something like q razor and bega
or slashing right and left with it. The first slas
a he made he cut through the right cheek of
Al fellow-convict named Charles Mclaughlin,
ten-year burglar from Erie County. The guart
ne E. B. Taylor, and convict jumped upon an
or disarmed him, accidentally cutting his hand {
nd as to disable him, and took him to his eel
be Brown claimed that "they were making fact
"a at him.
"a B. J. LOOMS, Secretary of the State Board {
Equalization, in answer to numerous inquire
ou has made statement, from which we quote IL
IA following: '"The Auditor of State and myse
IN have been crowding the State Printer with ST
av tistical matter from the day of your adjourn
i ment. There is quite mass of figures, as yc
W. can readily Judge. The table of county, tow
lS- ship and city valuations viii of itself NAL
zee eleven signatures of sixteen pages each, sol
Ter figure work. We are fortunate if we can 6
he one of these signatures for proof-reading p
- day. There is faint hope Of gettir
NY this part of the work done in time for distrib
we ton before the return of members in Januar
he condensed table, prenered by the Auditor
OIL State, showing the aggregates of valuations
LEFT 1870 and duplicates of 1880, will be ready in
few days"