The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1886-07-07
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

STATE NEWS ITEMS.
A LIGHT how Of gas was struck at the gas
we'll, Sandusky, few days ago, at the
depth Of 2, 1853 feet There was great excite
ment and several other companies are be
ing formed. The we'll will be shot, and
hopes are indulged of q big how.
A AwELL-PREsERvED piece Of human flesh
is living at New Holland, in the person Of
Mrs. Margaret Arnold, born in Augusta
County, Va, July A, 1777. She was married
eighty-fiv years ago, and now lives with
her youngest son, who is seventy-two years
old, and sprightly rs a spring chicken. Mrs.
Arnold has two sisters living in Iowa, one
of whom is 112 and the other 1O6 years old,
an average for the three Of 100 years.
CHARLES SHuMAKER, of Toledo, was seri.
ously wounded at Perrysburg by the acci-
dental discharge Of a gun in the hands of a
man named Lausker. They were on fish
inR jaunt IN
GRAssHopPERs have been doing much
damage to the crops in Moorefeld Town
ship, Clark County.
Work has been suspended on the Gov
ernment building at Columbus.
VALUABLE driving horses belonging to
George Stanberry, Jacob Nader and VIM.
Mccoy, of GAINESVILLE, have been stolen. No
trace Of the thieves. .1l
The Cincinnati Board of Public Affairs
is not In favor Of letting out any more con-
tracts for asphalt pavement. until that on
Race street is tested by next winters
weather, le-
A srx-YEAR-oLD son Of W. M. Ferryman,
nj al ,Ss,k~
dropped dead the other day of supposed
heart disease while playing.
AN abstract Of personal property in Al
len County puts the total value at s2,5l5,-
212. Nfr
ALL the saloons in Ada are closed. The
Dow law and City Council did It,
THE health of Judge johnson, of the
Ohio Supreme Court is slightly improving.
THERE is a movement for the admission
OF girls to the classes Of Marietta College.
WIN. JOHNSON, former employe of tho
Louis Cook Carriage Company, of Cincin-
natl, secured judgement of $1,000 against
the company for the loss of leg while in
its employ.
GEORGE W. KooNs, q plasterer, was Kill
led by fall from a scaffold at Massillon.
CITIZENS Of Grove Station, near Lima,
believe in the existence of a wild man In
the woods near that place.
FELICITY, Clermont County, At special
election, concluded to stop the sale of liquor
within the corporate limits.
CONRAD Horn, owner of brewery at
GAINESVILLE, attempted suicide by hanging,
but was cut down in time to save his life.
CITIZENS Of Springfield contemplate the
holding of musical festival next May,
with home chorus and the Cincinnati
Orchestra.
RATTLEsNAKE jim, of Wooster, says that
the only reliable cure for the bite of rat
tlesnake is turpentine. He says that lit
tie bottle Of turpentine held over the bitten
spot, the uncorked mouth down, will
draw out the poison, which can be seen as
1t enters the turpentine in sort of blue
flame. Although he has never been bitten,
he has tried this cure on his dogs, always
with success.
a NAN named Vim. Brady was found
mortally wounded, with q bullet hole in
his head, In front of Columbus saloon.
Several parties have been arrested, but it
is not certainly known who did the shoot
ing.
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