The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1888-09-13
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

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Q train near Bloomfield.
MRS. HARRIET Meyers was probably
fatally burned while starting f1re with
coal oil at Wooster.
A Posr-oFFrcE has been established at
Sutton, Guernsey County, with r. G Clark
as postmaster.
A THREE. OLD boy was killed by
moving machine near Youngstown.
CARR WOODS was seriously injured by
the cars at Springfield.
Two prisoners escaped from the Brown
County Jail.
JOHN L. LArrMER was killed by the cars
at Norwaik.
GEO. FoGKLMAN was found dead In his
bed at London. Heart disease caused his
death.
Geo. WARNER, an employe'of Cincin-
natl smelling works, was seriously injured
by molten zinc.
Ar Delphos, while preparations were
being made to move David Risk to his
fathers home at Mount Clemens, he drop
ped dead, cause by apoplexy.
| AN attempt was made near Loveland, to
blow up farm -house with dynamite.
| ROBERT WILTON, a railroad man, was
caught between two cars at Wellsville,
while at work and so terribly crushed that
he will die.
JOHN SELvAGE, of Newark, was taken to
the insane asylum by Sheriff Crilly and
Deputy Sheriff LAWN, Of Newark.
| WHILE attending the fair at Kenton the
other day, F. B. Slagle's farm-h house was
burglarized, and $500 in money and notes
taken.
WHILE Wilson McIIn was assisting at o
barn raising about nine miles from Find.
lay, and was on beam thirty .seven feet
high q chain which was above him sud-
denly gave way, one OF the links striking
McIIin on the head and knocking him to
the ground below, infictng injuries which
will result fatally. McHin is Young un.
married man.
A MAN named Cocheuner was badly in
jured at Cary few days ago. He was
standing on the platform, when a passing
train struck the projecting handles Of q
baggage truck and threw mountain Of
trunks upon him, crushing his leg and in
hicting severe internal injuries. A lady
standing near was also hurt, but how seri-
ously Is not known.
HAMILTON CREPs, a well known farmer
Of Westminter, Allen County, was victim
lied in the sum of 5000 by a skin game in
operation ut Lima during the fair.
A TRAVELLING man from Toledo was
robbed of $500 as he was boarding a train
at the Cincinnati. Hamilton and Dayton
depot at Lima, the other morning.
A TRAMP named Edwin Finn, from Day.
ton, being refused lodging by N. J.
Tomlinson, a farmer living in the northern
part of Richland County, undertook to
force his way into the house, and was shot
by Tomlinson.
A FREIGHT train and construction train
on the Valley railroad collided at Krum.
roy. Several persons were seriously in
jured.
MISS MAY HUFFMAN, a maiden lady aged
forty years, committed suicide near
Doylestown, by hanging herself in corn
crib.
WHILE Frank Ransbottom and John
Morris, two carpenters, were putting up
rafters for new house at Lima, the scaf-
folding gave way, precipitating them to
the joists below, distance Of fifteen feet.
Ransbottom had his collar bone broken
and shoulder dislocated and is internally
injured. He died shortly after. John
Mo rris was internally injured, and was
not expected to live. -. ,.,.scs.~f si,,,
JACOB JoHL, who was arrested for vio-
lating the Sunday law at::Newark, pleaded
guilty In the mayors court He was fined
$50 and committed to jail for twenty days.
]. F. WHERRY, agent at Mansfield, OF
the Louis Cook Carriage Company, Of Gin.
cinnati, is charged with defrauding the
company.
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$500 and costs and sent to the Cleveland
Workhouse for violating prohibitory liq'
uor ordinance.
GEORGE WARHURsT, farmer Of Colts.
vile Township, Mahoning County, while
cutting millet with q moving machine
was terror stricken on hearing the screams
Of child, and, stopping, found the almost
lifeless body Of his grandson, aged thret
years, nearly cut to pieces In the machin'
cry. The child lived but a short time
Mr.. Warhurst supposed the child was q
home, and Is nearly crazed over its ter
rible death.
A DESTRUCTIVE collision occurred at tn,
crossing of the Ft Wayne Lake Erie ant
Western and Cincinnati, Hamilton anS
Dayton railroads, at Lima. No lives lost
JAMES SwINDLRR was seriously injured
by a steam road engine near New Burling
ton.
URBANA will have natural gas. It vii
be piped from the Mercer County fields.
Mr.. ARCHIE WILSON, a we'll known
bachelor farmer, near Barnesville, diet
suddenly the other morning of heart dis
ease. He was seventy-one years Of ag
and quite we'll to do.
The farmers find that tobacco has q ten
dency to rust this season.
GENERAL and Mrs. John H. Young cele
brated their golden wedding at Piqua.
JOHN WAMBoLD, a fourteen year. old bo,
living near Dayton, had his ankle badl,
cut by a moving machine.
A RIOT occurred at Second street an,
Central avenue, Cincinnati, the othe
afternoon, in which 100 roughs attacke,
policeman VIM. Farrell. He succeeded Il
turning in the patrol call, but the rough
z got his club and hat. He then drew hi
slungshot and backing into the patrol -bo,
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