The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-12-30
OHIO STATE NEWS.
TIE porkpacking season at Piqua has closed.
GODFREY SMALLEY, tried at GAINESVILLE for

THE porkpacking season at Piqua has closed.
GODFREY SMAILEY, tried at GAINESVILLE for
perjury, has been found guilty.
SOME of the pnblic schools of Kenton are
closed in consequence Of scarlet fever.
3JosEPH STINE, near West Salem, suffering
from an injury received last summer, suicided
by,hanging.
SAMUEL THoRNLY, of Urbana, while hunting
in Cedar Swamps, in Champaign County, killed
large wildcat.
The Orphans Home, at Newark, was last
week formally opened. It contains eighteen
boys and seven girls.
Francis BARTON, aged seventy-two years,
of Ravenna, was struck by the engine of pas
senger train and instantly killed.
MATTHIAS SCHMIDT, at the Dover Furnace,
Newcomers town, upset kerosene lamp and
spilled the oil over himself, which took fire and
burned him to death.
JOHN G. MAaER, living near West Cairo,
Scioto County, laid down on the railroad track
in an intoxicated condition and was fearfully
mangled by a passing train.
AT Berea, Martin Taydish was killed in
win, while stepping from stationary to NOV
ing freight car, fell between the cars and was
fatally injured.
Rev. JOHN A. POWELL, of Findlay, minis
ter in the United Brethren Church for thirty
years, has been pronounced insane. The cause
WAS ulb Idllur6 10 QlSpOS6 OF q DOCK on UQ6 Ills
tory of the Powell family.
OWING to the death of sister and excite
ment over religious subjects, Vim. Mckee, a
worthy and highly respected young man of
| Mechanicsburg has become insane and sent to
| the asylum at Columbus.
THE miners at New Straitsville have notified
| the operators that after January /, 1881, they
must be paid their wages every two weeks.
If they are not, they intend to strike, and a
| correspondent says the demand will not be ac-
| ceded to.
SOMEBODY left waif on the steps of the resi-
| dence of that Cincinnati philanthrophist, Mr..
Reuben Springer, as Christmas present Mr.
| Springer did not want it, however, and the lit
tie fellow ultimately found q home at the Chill
| drens' Home.
In twelve pages of manuscript, ]. G. Rob-
erts, of Vanlue, Hancock County, charged G..
W. Brown, of the same place, with purloining
toothsome turkey, and now mark the result
Brown sues Roberts for 81 600 damages, which
he AYERS his charactAr has sustained
Cook HovEY, convicted of issuing forged
bonds on the city of Urbana, was last weel
taken to the Penitentiary to serve out his sen.
tence-two years. He stated that che wa.
alone in the crookedness." He said also tn,
prison wall had no terror for him; that all his
pride left him the hour he was forced to make
his fight from Urbana.
ALLEN WISELY, who was swindled by the
travelling sharper Cole, has recovered the forget
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buggy and other valuables at Nevada in hi
flight from the officers. Wisely attached tn
articles and brought suit against the partie
who had purchased the note. They gave ul
the note and took the horse and buggy.
Miss BERTHE HARTMAN, a good-lookinI
blonde of eighteen, disappeared from her hom
near Bronson, the past week, and is suppose
to have been temporarily insane. She was las
seen walking east ON the railroad, when she re
marked to a person she met that she was 'tgo
ing to meet John," young man who som
months since broke an engagement Of marriag
with her by leaving home and -omainin
away.
SYLVIA G. HuRD, aged sixty-three years, {
Urbana, has filed a petition in the Commo
Pleas Court for divorce from her husband
John H. Hurd, who is aged forty-three. Th
petitioner was left widow twenty years ag
by the death of A. B. Winslow, a promineI
and influential citizen of Urbana. few yeal
after, she married man named Barber, froi
: whom she afterward sought and obtained
, divorce, upon what grounds is not known. 81
+ was married to Hurd in 1877. She now aga
asks for decree of divorce, for 81, 900 whic
she lent her husband, and $1,000 alimony.