The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1888-08-09
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

at youngstown by taking poison. Domss.
tic trouble.
The indications are that the New York, |
Mahoning and Western railroad will 60 |
through Tiffin.
Ar New Bremen Fred Bernholt, while
picking mp q bunch of weeds that had |
fallen from his wagon, struck his six-year-
old girl in the eye with his fork, almost
totally destroying that member.
WV. Hayes attempted to hang himself
In prison cell at GAINESVILLE.
SERAPHrNE HEIDELsPERGER committed
suicided at Chillicothe by cutting his
throat with pruning knife.
soxB Of the late "Blinky" Morgan's
GAINESVILLE friends propose TO erect o
monument to his memory.
WHILE several hundred people were
watching diver at Silver Lake, near
Bellefontaine, searching for the body Of
drowned man, Martin Burke, aged sixty,
walked into the lake, and, getting beyond
his depth, was drowned. Two Of his sons
and q daughter saw him sink. Ills thought
that he committed suicide.
A COLLISION occurred on the B. q o. r.
r., at Hunts Station, between freight
and passenger train, because Of mis-
placed switch. Several persons were in
jured.
JOSEPH BRYToN, . farmer, was robbed
by highwaymen near Dayton.
THERE IL an epidemic Of typhoid fever at
Marietta.
WHILE at work at planning mill at
Wellsville, steel bit from planer, In
front Of which Emerson Keyser was work.
Ing, suddenly flew out Of place and struck
him In the stomach, producing frightful
gash and lodging in the intestines. The
man died instantly.
FRANK McGRAw, operator Of q motor
on the Lima electric street railway, was fa.
tally injured the other night. The travellers,
which convey tho electric current from the
wires to the motor, came Off, and as Nc
Graw was in the act Of adjusting them he
caught hold Of both wires, forming a
complete circuit. He was knocked from
the top Of the car, distance OF about ton
feet, and seriously injured. He was rom
dered insensible, and was with great
difficulty resuscltated. His hands were
badly burned, and he was injured intern-
ally, SO much so that his recovery Is doubt
full.
WEST UNITY, o small town near Toledo,
was almost swept out of existence by fire
the night of the 3D.. Thirteen stores were
totally destroyed, involving loss of from
$4,000 to 100000 The heaviest losers are
Ely & Smith, dry goods; Adam Gosber,
clothing; Lee e. Charter, hardware, and
tho proprictors of the Hergon House, the
best hotel In tho place. The origin Of the
fire Is unknown. Tho citizens turned out
en- masse, and worked hard to control the
flames.
j. NJ. RICE, a highly respected citizen Of
Buchtel, was Instantly killed by a fall Of
slate in tho new Pittsburgh Coal Com.
pany's mine The slate struck his head,
pressing 1t against the top Of the car,
mashing 1t beyond recognition. He leaves
wife and four grown stop -children. Mrs.
Rice was formerly the wife Of James Rus
sell, who, singular to relate, was killed
In q mine at that place In q similar man
ner about five years ago.
As Lewis Snyder, Of Payne, accompan.
led by his wife, son, daughter and infant
child, was driving into Defiance, q few
days since, his team ran away, throwing
the entire family into pile Of broken tile.
Every one Of them was terribly cut up,
and Mr.. Snyder sustained q broken arm
and collar-bone.
WV. LANNING, O nine -year-old boy, was
run over by q Wyoming street car, and
sustained injuries from which he died soon
after.
CANTON gave royal welcome on the Sd
to the first delegation Of two hundred
Hampden Watch.works employees from
Springfield, Mass, who arrived there at
four o'clock to start watch-mak ing In
the new Hampden building just completed.
GEO. RIGNEY, the nino- year-old son OF
Michael Rigney, was drowned while swim
ming in the Scioto river at Chillicothe the
other noon. His body has been recovered.
REPORTS from the fruit-growing regions
Of the southeastern part of the State are to
the effect that the extreme heat has great
ly injured the peach, apple and plum crops
by baking the exposed portion of the fruit.
Defective fruit will be the result, and loss
of not less than 25 per cent. Of the entire
crop is predicted. Not since 1854 has fruit
been SO badly injured by the hot weather
and blisterlng sun.
AT Tifiin, as Mrs. John Canty was get
ting dinner the other day, the gas went
out, and when she attempted to light 1t
there was an explosion and the stove was
blown into thousand pieces. Luckily she
escaped serious injury.
MARY ANN DoNNELLY, saloon keeper
Of London, persuaded Timothy Linsky, a
farmer, while he was in drunken condi-
tion, to give her deed for his farm.
CHAs. CoREILL was drowned while bath
ing near Portsmouth.
FERDINAND KIRoHNER, for many years
chief dyer at the Tiffin Woolen Mills, died
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