The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1888-01-26
0UN NEIeND0RS,,
The Doinss Of Surrounding
Counties
Az Culled from Their Local Pa
pers, with Occasional
Comment.

QueStiOn Oh ulvlulng tnelr vllla8e into
three wards.
Ripley has just gone wild over their
new steam ,engine-the only one in
Brown county.
Lebanon has adopted local option by
q majority of sixty.nine in total vote Of
seven hundred.
The mystery surrounding the disap-
pearance Of Mart Early, Of Hamersville,
is still unsolved.
The machine shop and carriage fac
tory at Loveland were visited by burg
lars few nights ago.
New vienna's clothing merchants,
Wolf & Stein. have made an assignment.
Peter Clevenser is the assignee. "a
Wilmington citizens are making efforts
to have established in their city Uni
formed Rank of the Knights Of Pythias.
The Chillicothe papers claim that
during the year 1887 $4,000 worth Of
new buildings we're erected that city.
DR.. L. F. House has resigned the Of
fee Of Coroner OF Favette county and
has located in the practice of medicine
at cambridge.
A number of good and influential citi-
zens of Spring Valley, Greene county,
including County Commissioner, have
been arrested for illegally catching fish,
and violating plain law.
Mr.. Josiah Gilman, a resident of
Feesburg, Brown county, and over
eighty.four years Of age, committed sui
eide few nights ago by hanging him
self to tree in the orchard. >
Owensville, Clermont county, is still
wild with gold excitement. Quartz
found near that village has been assayed
in Cincinnati and declared to contain
about $105 worth of gold to the ton.
Rev. DR.. Henry W. Briggs, who has
been pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church at Chillicothe for more than
twenty years, has been compelled on &C.
count of poor health to quit pulpit ser.
vice.
A Fostoria banker has brought mum.
Der of suits in the Clinton County court
against a number of citizens residing in
the Western portion OF the county to
collect money on notes given for Bo-
hemian oats.
Abe Leming, of Clark township,
Brown county, was robbed of $500 tew
nights ago. Two masked men forced
him at the point of q revolver to give
them the money, which he had secreted
in the house.
The little village of Laurelville,
Ross county, 10 on . boom, SOME
two hundred new town lots having
been laid out, accompanied by .
general revival Of business, all on &C.
count of the near completion Of the
Lancaster & Hamden railroad.
The Fayetk County Republican has the
following: While digging well on the
farm Of Joseph Finch, four miles south
of Good Hope, vein of good coal was
struck at depth Of eighteen feet. It
said that the prospects for coal are ex-
cellent. It ID being investigated.
Selling liquor to minors in Clsrmont
county il decidedly costly business.
o. P. Sullivan and X. Cramer, saloonists
of New Richmond, after paying costs
and fines of SIG and $5S respectively,
were sentenced to Jail, the first named
for 20 days and the latter for 10 days.
II. B. Campbell, Of Georgetown,
pleaded guilty to murder in the second
degree, and was sentenced to the penitsn.
tiary for life. He had been indicted for
murder in the first degree for the killing
of W. E. Whitaker, the Marshal Of
Georgetown, on the Esd day Of last May.
Quite . number OF Bainbridge's citizens
have been arrested ON the charge Of
stealing coal from railroad cars. It seems
that q regular organised gang, with
Chas. Moxley, the Marshal Of the village,
q ring-lsader, had been carrying ON .
systematic style Of stealing for some
time past.
Xenis seems to be getting up her
"rep" in the sensational line. Added to
the post Office sensation, Of which We
made mention last week, Il the investi-
CATION Of ONE of the City Council on the