The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1888-08-16

saw which was IN rapid m0ti0n. ~ was
cut of at the wrist.
BERT Ersco, aged thirteen years, wss
drowned by falling from raft on pond
at Lima.
GENERAL GEORGE CRooK's old regiment
the Thirty sixth o. v. l., will hold their
regimental reunion this year at Columbus,
Wednesday, September II.
The population Of Columbus II e4,379.
IT 10 said that there 10 IN organised
band Of wheat thieves In Hancock County.
A BOT named Warren fell from Q NOV.
Ing freight car near Salem, and was seri.
ously injured.
BuRDEr HELMRR, q travelling agent
committed suicide at Piqua, because Of A.
nancial troubles.
AT McMEAL's tile mill near Convoy,
seven miles west Of Van Vert, Q boy
named Caleb Joseph caught his fingers In
right hand and arm were smashed fiat TO
the elbow; amputated.
AT Van Vert stone fell on the foot Of
VIM. Mccullough, who vas unloading .
car Of stone, crushing II 20 badly that IL
had to be amputated above the ankle.
A BoY named Atchison fell In front Of .
train 1t Van Vert. The wheels passed
over his body, crushing him internally.
B. HELxER, Of Piqua, aged Atty years,
In Ill health, poverty and distress, shot
himself through the head while consta-
BILE was dispossessing him Of the tenement
In which he lived. Death was instantane-
Gus.
BALDWIN University, ct Berea, has just
been given an estate valued at t$30, 900. The
transfer was made by the widow Of the
late Layman Baker, Of Beres. In return
Mrs. Baker will get an annuity from the
trustees of the college.
AT Dayton, by the crossing Of wires the
full power from the electric dynamos was
turned into the telephone exchange, setting
It on fire and destroying six hundred tele.
phones throughout the city, completely
shutting of all telephone business.
The residence Of Hon. Jas. w. Owens at
Newark, was entered by burglars and
robbed Of money, jewelry, gold and silver.
ware. The loss will reach 500 or $500.
Thieves also entered the residence Of Mr..
Andrew Smucker and secured pocket
book containing $50. No clew.
FRANK BADER was fined $25 and costs in
the Newark police court for violation Of
the Sunday closing law.
AT Lima two-year.old child Of John
Bell fell from q third. story window In the
Callahan Block and miraculously escaped
being dashed to death. The child's parents
left home, leaving the little child tied In .
high chair near the open window. Tho
chair was overthrown and fell from the
window, and, striking shed, glanced off
and struc OK the ground right side up WITH
Its precious burden. The little child was
rendered unconscious by tho shock, and
although no bones were broken It's recov.
cry IL doubtful, a. IL has been unconscious
ever since.
Ar Canton Mrs. Henry Fissler, aged six
ty, the wife Of . contractor and builder,
and mother of Ave grown.up children, after
doing days washing, committed suicide
the other afternoon by hanging herself In
the hall of her house with the clothes. line
she was going to use to hang out her wash
ing. Dependency and continual brooding
over the suicide Of Q sister In Indiana last
spring was the cause Of Mrs. FISHERS sui.
FRANK JAMESON, Q farmer living about
one mile south Of Ashland, was kicked by
horse and fatally injured while plowina
In field short distance from the house.
WHILE going to funeral VIM. Mating.
:. ly, Zanesville undertaken was thrown
violently to the ground BY the plunging Of
one Of his horses, and had his shoulder
blade and two ribs broken.
The farmers In the oil district have been
using crude oil to keep the chinch bugs
out Of the wheat fields. They claim that Il
is an efficient remedy.
Ar a meeting Of the town council Of Van
Vert, the other evening . prohibition local
option ordinance, to take effect September
I, was passed. .s 81
The Seabird National Bank, Of New York
will be reserve agent for the Ohio Valley
National Bank, Of Cincinnati
FRANK FERRY had his skull fractured by
afalling brick at GAINESVILLE.
LIGHTNING struck and burned the var
nish works at Akron, causing . loss Of
LIGHTNING rod sharks are working But.
Ter County.
AN eight-year.old girl was killed by the
cars at Brier HILL
THos. w. JOHNSON, Of Cincinnati, has
been appointed TO clerkshlp in the Roster
Department ofsths Adjutant- Generals Of
PETER ENsIN0ER, . carpenter, fell from
. scaffold at Tinin, and was fatally In
jured. 49,.
JOHN L. WHITE, deputy sheriff Of Madi.
son County, committed suicide by taking
laudanum.
PROHIBITION was defeated In Eomers
Township, Preble County.
THE other evening . sharp fash Of light
ming, followed BY aterriie peal Of thun.
der, startled tho large crowd in the Expo
sition Buildings, Cincinnati. All the arc
lights went out, and the Government ex-
hibit and Machinery Hall were left In total
darkness. The incandescent lights were
not affected. It seems that the electric
current struck the dynamos and extin-
Zuished the lights. The lightning pro-
duced . counteracting current and stopped
tho machinery instantly. whsn the cur
rent had passed the dynamos were started
up again all right, and where there was
darkness again was light. A young
gentleman named Kellogg, from New
York, who happened to be look
Ing into the mouth Of the Gatling gun at the
time Of ths occurrence thought the gun
had exploded, and was scared almost "a
death.
JoHN L. RUSSELL, an employe Of the
Plenkharp Caster Company, Columbus,
was, perhaps, fatally injured by the burst
Ing OF an emery.wheel which he was rum
ming. His nose was broken and his skull
at tho base Of the brain fractured.
WHILE hauling oats the other aftarnoon