The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1888-07-12
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

have offered o reward OF
s25 for his capture, and the marksmen arc
ON the alert.
Tnn boiler Of the engine at the Marion |
water works exploded early the other |
scalding number Of persons
very severely. John Garberino, q boy
fourteen years old, was terribly scalded on
the face, hands, neck and. head, the fire.
man also suffering nearly a. bad. There
was no watersgauge TO the engine, which
made IL very difficult to know the exact
amount Of water In the boiler.
A NORMAL school Is 10 be established at
Hillsboro College.
An immense water wcll, situated In the
midst Of the great gas region, was devel.
oped ON farm near New Bremen.
A NEWARK boy who was injured by the
explosion Of frecrac kcr, will probably
lose one Of his eyes.
Two boys, aged twelve and fourteen
years, were Jailed at Urbana for larceny.
LEVI LKsLrH committed suicide at Day.
ton because Of dependency and sickness.
MRS. WIN. ELwnLL and her son were
killed by the cars at East Liverpool.
J. J. ROOMS was arrested at Newark for
attempting blackmail.
BURGLARS took $3.50 from the residence
Of Geo. Stoner, at Botkins.
Mrs. NuNAxAxnR, living in Marion
Township, few miles from Logan, has Q
wonderful cherry tree. Two years ego
she picked from this tree thirty six bush.
els Of cherries, and this season twenty-five
bushels. Who can beat itf
HrNRY KING, furnace builder at New
Beaver Falls glass works, near Tiffin, was
dangerously injured by falling brick
from the tower, seventy five feet high.
THE petition Of Clarence Curtain, prose-
cutting attorney, to restrain the county
commissioners from removing the stone
pillars from the front Of the courthouse
at Circleville, was called for hearing In
the common pleas court tho other morning.
Judge Lincoln decided that the commits
sioners had the proper authority TO have
them torn down II they thought 1t was
necessary. The columns will be removed.
WHILE playing in harvest field four
year.old daughter Of Elmer Martin, .
farmer near Roseville, Muskingum County,
was run over by reaper. Ono leg was
entirely severed from the body and the
other terribly gashed. The child will not
live.
from Mansfield had one hand shattered by
Davis had his hands and face terribly
burned with powder, and in TiHin, Eddie
Sheets, aged seven, had an ear nearly
blown of with cannon cracker.
WIN. MESSENGER had an attack Of cpl
lepsy while bathing near Marion and was
drowned.
JOHN SAVAGE, of Tifiln, fell twenty. five
feet from ladder to the sidewalk and was
fatally injured.
DAVID GARNET, colored, was instantly
killed by falling from Bee Line train, near
Gano.
GHo WEBER, an Alliance brakeman, was
fatally injured by cars.
CHARLES P. FfssENDEN, an engineer
on the Erie railway, sued the Erie and
N. Y, p. & o. Companies at youngstown,
for $4,000 for injuries sustained In October
last.
A TEN-YEAR.oLD girl was fatally injured
at Newark by falling from tree.
THE business portion Of Maumee was
swept by fire at an early hour the other
morning. Fire supposed to have been
caused by fre.crsckers. Loss, $4,000.
JAMES RowoLISTn, living three miles
southeast Of Norwalk, went to town and
purchased q barrel Of gasoline and arrived
home with 1t. In turning the wagon
the barrel fell out and burst open. Tho
gasoline escaped into we'll near by. Mrs.
Rowcliffe threw fire into the we'll and an
explosion followed which blew the we'll to
pieces. Mrs. Rowcliffe was burned SO se-
verify that her life is despaired Of.
oil h. hon, a
up on the Reese farm, in Wood County. It
is claimed that it will yield 1000 barrels
per day.
THE total rocsipts Of grain at Cincinnati
the past year were 10, ,980, ,s18 bushels. Tho
previous year the receipts were ID, ,sa1 ,67s
bushels.
A FAMILY at Newark employed woman
to assist In housecleaning. When she left
they missed seventy. eight dollars which
had been left In drawer In an upstairs
room.
A FouR.YHAR.oLpo child was fatally kick
cd by horse at New Concord.
THn records Of the coroner's office of
Hamilton County show that during the
past six months forty.three persons have
token their own lives. OF this number
thirty-two were males and eleven females.
Twonty suicided by shooting, nine by
taking rough.on-r rats, seven by hanging,
two by drowning, two by jumping out Of
/ windows, one by Paris green, one by
laudanum, and one by throwing herself
before locomotive. OF this number only
one was a colored man.
An unknown man was killed by Beo
Line train near Dayton.
Docs have been killing hogs almost
nightly in Clinton County. /.
A. HICKMAN, Of Marietta, stepped, while
osleep, from a passenger train running
thirtypiles an hour, and, strange to say,
was only slightly injured.
The first through passenger train on the
GAINESVILLE and Ohio railroad arrived at
Marietta few days ago,
A LARGE gray wolf has been ranging for
some time through the northwest part OF
| Marion County, killing sheep.
SEVERAL months ago Mr.. and Mrs. L. A.
| Breck were arrested at Cleveland for forg-
ing q will which made them heirs to the
| property Of q peculiar old woman known
as Martha Hail Mcdonald. Breck was a
medical student and politician. On the
I'd he and his wife were sentenced to the
psnitentiary for four years each.
The Ohio Supreme Court has adjourned
until October2.
| CHAs. PoLiNG wis arrested at New Lex
ington, for stealing horse In Vernon
County, Mo.
FIvEprisoners escaped from jail at woos-
ter.
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