“Front street, from Court to Chillicothe, which is now almost shoved out of the line of travel, and, when the mill is not running, is a quiet, deserted street, was forty years ago a lively and aristocratic portion of the city. Nearly all the travel up and down town passed along that thoroughfare, and some …
“The startling intelligence reached here Tuesday morning by wire, that Oscar Williams, son of Captain WB Williams of this city, had, while walking in his sleep, fallen from a window of the fourth story of the American House at Columbus, where he was boarded and was fatally injured. Later reports, however, bring the more gratifying …
“Clarence A., twelve-year-old son of J. Wllis Greenslate, of Malonton, Kentucky, died Wednesday night at 10 o’clock, of typhoid fever. His funeral took place at Fairview Thursday at 3 PM. He was a bright and studious lad and a general favorite with everybody. Three other children, two girls and one boy, are very low with …
“Theodore Barnes, “Taylor,” yardmaster of the B&O SW Railroad at this place, while coupling cars last Monday, was caught between the bumpers and so severely crushed that he died the next evening at 8 o’clock. Mr. Barnes came to this city from Wellson about four months ago. He was a sober and hardworking man, and …
“Andrew, son of Robert Gordon, of Limeville, Kentucky, died last Friday and was buried Saturday at Mt. Ebo. He was eighteen years of age, industrious and sober in his habits.”
“Henry Seibert, a farmer, who lives near Union Mills, was missed the latter part of last week. He was last seen at the opera house Wednesday. On the Monday following a man named Anderson was hunting in the Scioto bottoms west of Kaps’ brick yard. Approaching what he tool to be a log, he was …
“William Price vs. Eliza A. Price. The parties were married in Virginia in 1871, and have six children. The petition alleges willful absence, and that she, on various occasions, did have unlawful intercourse with various persons, both in this county and in Athens, and for these trifling reasons he wants a divorce.”
“Thomas E. Burt, an infant, by Thomas J. Burt, his next friend, plaintiff vs. Oly Burt, alias Oly De Berian, an infant over the age of fourteen years. At the time of the filing of this petition the plaintiff was nineteen years old. The parties were married at Ironton, Ohio, on the 3rd day of …
“Adams Slaughter seeks a divorce from Angeline Slaughter, because as he alleges, she willfully left him on or about the 15th of January, 1889, and since that time has been keeping a house of prostitution in the village of Wetmore, until recently, when she became enamored with one Harry Miller, so-called, with whom she eloped, …
“Lexie J. Sissel obtained a decree of divorce from her lord and master, John S. Sissel, because the said lord and master on the 30th day of October, 1889, at Pond Run, in this county, did commit adultery with one Susan Scott, and also Bell Ramsey and Laura Abbott, of the same neighborhood, on divers …