The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-03-16
OHIO STATE NEWS.

DE-. ]. ". 8. GouDY, Postmaster at Newcom-
erstown, has resigned.
L. b. swEIaART, German printer, GAINESVILLE,
suicided by drowning.
MAN named Hogan, aged forty-five years,
was killed by the cars at Kent.
The Commissioners of Hancock paid, last
week, $626 for sheep killed by dogs.
R. E. FouTs, Clerk of the Court at Carroll
ton, has been missing since February 9.
Ex-SHERIFF F. G. THOMPSON, o prominent
grocer at Caldwell, has made an assignment.
MYRIADs of grasshoppsrs are reported to
have appeared in the vicinity Of New California.
GENUINE coal vein has been discovered on
the farm Of James McCurdy, near Marysville.
JOHN BusH, for the killing of Joseph Burbic,
at Youngstown, has been bound over in tho
sum Of $1,000.
MRs. SARAH SrELLwELI, . resident Of Free
dericktown, celebrated her Tooth birthday On
the 7th OF March. - = =
The Commissioners of Logan County, last
week, allowed bills aggregating &1, ,937.57 for
sheep killed by dogs during the past year.
Mrs. FLORA ]. S1LlNaER was divorced from
her husband at Celina, last week, and within
| twenty minutes thereafter was married to John
Wilson.
FERDINAND ScHUMACHER will erect fine
hotel at Akron. He will also shortly erect his
fourth oat-meal mill, eight stories high, and
the finest in the State.
CATTLE brought from ss to s5 per hundred
pounds at the monthly stock sales at London.
| One hundred head of horses found buyers at
an average Of $40 per head.
sU1T has been brought against Henry Sever
ling, Of Dayton, for $1,000 damages by
, selling liquor to her husband contrary to her
| warning.
| A LADY named Ross, living in Scioto Town
ship, Pickaway County, took what she supposed
to Be large dose Of quinine, but which after
ward proved to be strychnine, resulting In her
| death.
CHARLES MURPHY, young cabinet-maker,
Cincinnati, became insane over Harrison's re
viyals and suicided by cutting his throat. A
week prior to the act he spent his time reading
the Bible. -
JOHN W. DETREEs, senior editor Of the
Miami Union, published at Troy, died March
10, in his seventy third year. He had been con-
nected with the newspapers of Miami County
for over thirty years. =
JOSEPH CLARK, . freight conductor on the
| New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad
was run over and killed at North Main stree
crossing, Urbana, the past week. Bis homt
was Gallon. He leaves wife and two children
SAMUEL N. SHAFFER, Of Akron, has brough
suit against the Board Of Education for %, 00l
damages by reason Of the exclusion of hi
children from the Public Schools for non
compliance with the Board Of Health's com
pulsory vaccination rule.
OBERLIN had disastrous fire the past week
Goodrich, book store; Gardner, druggist
Bronson, the historic druggist Carter Wood
hardware; Tobin, harness maker the Kill
building, Herrick's building, the Skating Rinh
and three dwellings were entirely consumed.
JAS HKRHIoTr, aged fifty-two years, and
prominent politician of Union County, suicides
by hanging in his barn, two miles north Of th
village of Frankfort. One murder and sewers
suicides and q series Of financial disasters hav
occurred in the family to which he belonged.
As AN accompaniment to the use Of . bas
ball bat as 9 rod for the punishment Of unrul
school children, at Mt. Gilead, reported in th
column, Mt. Gilead now announces that or
John Mossman, school teacher, has take
"French leave" after assaulting fourteen
: year-old boy named Cox with his fist and bea
ing him terribly. Sheriff Modie is looking K
D McBsman. - 49,
An ALARMING statement comes from Morgs
. Center, Morgan Township, Gallia County. II
only physician in the com unity has been co
3 fined to his bed with typhoid fever, and mea
: time smallpox has spread alarmingly in Il
, neighborhood, which the inhabitants, In the
] treated it accordingly. 1t Is stated that ov
two hundred persons have been exposed to Il
r scourge, and that not less than twenty-five q
afflicted with the contagion.
, A CRUEL case Of wife desertion is report,
from Chillicothe. Lawrence Holtzderberg,
, tailor, whose wife is an invalid, deserted be
. leaving for Cincinnati with q widow nam
Summerset, who was employed at the house
domestic. They took away with them t
J even the bed clothing with which abe had be
covered, leaving her, with her children, IN d.
! titute circumstances. The 1nfrmary Directc
will send her to the Infrmary.