The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1886-08-18
STATE NEWS ITEMS.


best OF health, and suddenly dropped dead
Her body has been shipped to her husband
The other night, during a quarrel In n
saloon at Newtown, Hamilton County,
mart Robinson, young man living u
fendieton, was shot in the left breast, an,
SO severely wounded that he died at the
nospitsl In Cincinnati, on the 10th. Hit
slayer was companion named Dudley
mdrpny. Robinson, Murphy, Bob Steele
ana young man named Frank Epply, ali
residents OF Pendleton, had gone to New.
town Tor . good time About ten O'Clock
tney and an unknown man became inyoly.
ed IN general fight. 1t was then Robin.
son received the fatal wound Epply was
also shot In the arm, but not seriously
Murphy escaped after the shooting.
IN 1855, while riding along in a funeral
procession, Mrs. Margaret Stall was thrown
rom her buggy by reason of her horse
taxing fright at telephone wires falling
upon IL. She sustained serious injuries,
wnich came near proving fatal. She now
claims TO have been permanently injured,
and for such injuries sues for dam.
ages at Newark. |f l.Ft y..
The other morning, between two and
tnree O'Clock, the extensive roller process
Touring mill, owned by Keynes & Well.
man, at Logan, was completely destroyed
oy hre. The fire is thought to have oc-
CURED from hot box or journal. The loss
= estimated by the owners at $4,000, with
$4,000 insurance.
WILLIAM gibson, a freight brakeman,
while at work at Bayard, Columbiana
County, fell to the ground in front of two
cars, which ran over him. Gibson was
married and resided at New Salisbury.
JOHN Boston, laboring man. aged forty
years, attempted suicide at Fremont. the
other evening, by cutting an artery above
the elbow, but failed.
SCoTT c. BoGas, who resides one mile
north of Kingston, on the Kingston and
Circleville turnpike, in Pickaway County.
while recently engaged in cleaning out a
spring on his farm, threw out slate tablet
that attracted his attention. Upon examin-
ing 1t minutely he found the following in
scription engraved ON it:
LOST IN ye wylderness. July ye Goth, 117p.
~. WILLIAMS"
This tablet has the appearance of a gen.
nine relic. 1t Is now in the hands of Mivs
Maggie Shannon, of Kingston.
ACCORDING to the State Auditors report
there are oin Ohio 725,sl4 horses, 1,8s7, 1s7
horned cattle, 4,277, ,4G3 sheep, 1886, ,37s hogs
and q, ,37S mules.
Mrs. JAcoBlMA AUTz, of Richland Township,
Marion County, was taken suddenly ill at
tne breakfast table the other morning, and
dled before she could be carried to her bed.
A PosToFFIcE has been established at
Blake's Mills, Tuscarawas County. F. Graft
is the postmaster.
rHIL1P LAUTHERBACH six months ago de-
c.ded upon August 10 as the date Of his
death. He was a cabinet-maker and had
suffered financial reverses. He took to the
study of philosophy and theology, and i'm
agined he was to redeem the world On the
10th he retired to rear room of his shop
S62 Walnut street, Cincinnati, and drained
a vial of nitric acid. He fell to the floor
In agony, and was taken to the hospital. A
year ago he tried to commit suicide by cut
ting the arteries of his wrist. His brother
committed suicide in Chicago.
On Spring Grove avenue, Cincinnati,
the other night, Nick Powers, saloon
keeper, playfully snapped revolver at
man who was teasing him. Unexpectedly
the weapon 'went off," and fatally wound
ed bystander, Alex. Griso.
WILLIAM FIELDS, cclored, was hound over
to Court at West Jefferson, charged with
shooting with intent to kill Robert Lewis
The mill and grain house of Fleischman,s
distillery, in the Mill creek bottoms, Gin
cinnati, were burned the other morning.
The loss is over 100000, partially insured.
The River and Harbor bill recently sign
ed by the President, appropriates the fol-
lowing amounts to Ohio waters: Ashtabula
harbor, $4,000; Black river harbor, 10000!
Cleveland. $93, $50; Fairport, 1880; Hu.
ron, $1,000; mouth Of Muskingum, S37,.
800; Sandusky City, %, 900; Toledo, Sll2, 500;
Ohio river at Louisville, $l5OOOO. For i'm
provement Of the Muskingum from the
mouth to GAINESVILLE, $4,000; and
the government also accepts the
MuskingHm river improvements. A
total of $685. 900 is appropriated for i'm
proving the Ohio. OF this amount, s1s,-
$50 is to be expended in building levee on
the banks Of the Great Miami, near its
junction with the Ohio, to lessen the dan
ger from floods. Five ice piers, costing
$37 800 will be built at Pomeroy, Middle
port 1ronton, Gallipolis, O., and Ashland,
KY; SIS, ,15O is to be expended In removing
instructions at the mouth of the Licking
river; $1l,25O for an ice harbor at Four
mile bar, Cincinnati; $4,000 for Davis
Island Dam. e4tF... "a. ....... r.. Il
CITIZENS Of Findlay are jubilant over the
decision of Judge Price, dissolving the In.
Junction against the city to bond for nat.
ural gas works. The work of laying the
pipes will begin at once.
A LITTLE son of James Robinson, near
Newark, fell in a we'll twenty feet deep,
with six feet of water in it. Although ouly
three years of age, the little fellow clung
tenaciOusly to the rock wall until his
mother found him and fished him out.
TEN of the Cleveland rolling mill men
who have been nightly drilling, in antici-
patton Of war with Mexico, shouldered
their muskets ON the 9th and started for
the frontier. Ff
The following postmasters were appoint
ed recently: Freeman Yoxsimer, Delight
full, Trumbull County, vice Ellen c. Pain
ter, resigned; Jacob Wogonstahle, REM
ington, Hamilton County, vice Jacob Wo-
constable, resigned.
CARRIAGE manufacturing in Cincinnati,
q leading industry, shows great improve
ment this season, which is Indicative Of i'm.
provement in other branches of business.
NEAR Cumberland, Jacob Rodgers
stabbed and killed his father, Thomas
Rodgers, because the father interposed to
prevent his son from whipping his wife. A
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