The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1888-05-03
STATE NEWS ITEMS

TEE @. A. r. Encnmpment, Department
OF Ohio, ct Toledo, the other day. elected
the following officers: J. W. O'Neall, oi
lebanon, Commander. and J. W. Chapin
senior Vice. Commander. The Women,
relief Corps was addressed by Mrs. n, b
Hayes. Mrs. Mary e. Bancroft Of Colum
nus, was elected Department President fol
the ensuing year.
WILLIAM GsoRes, about to suffer thu
oeath penalty, was granted suspension
OF sentence by the Supreme Court at
Columbus, pending hearing on error.
STEWART KENxoN, . seventeen-year-old
BOY was fatally injured BY colt near
Barnesville.
BuRaLARfEs are becoming numerous al
bucyrus. Local parties suspected.
A CHILD was injured BY the accidental
discharge Of q revolver at Uhrichsville.
DArTox will be the meeting place next
year Of the Ohio q. A. r.
GEoRoH WfcKHAM, prominent farmer OF
Benton, 10 mysteriously missing.
The djutsnt- General received from the
War Department the other day q full
roster Of Ohio troops who served in the
war Of 1Sf2
MISS JULIA BUCK, we'll known young
lady OF Fostoria, had o tumor removed
from her the other afternoon. The opera.
ton proved too much for her constitution.
and she died within an hour. The father
has been quite unfortunate, his wife hav.
ing been taken to the asylum few tlays
before by reason Of insanity.
At Portsmouth William W. Williams
was killed BY damp air, while digging q
vault at the residence of Judge Calvert.
TnA -
oy the cars near Summit
THE next annual meeting Of the Jewell
ers' Convention will be held in Cincinnati.
MR. ALEXANDER BoLEN and Mrs. Anna
n. SHARP were married at Bellefontaine,
the other day. Descendants to the fourth
generation were present The groom il
seventy-one and thei bride seventy -one
years old.
THE warden Of the Ohio Penitentiary is.
sued an order prohibiting interviews with
Harper and Hopkins, by reporters for
newspapers, on the subject of Cincinnati
banks and banking.
A GIANT poplar tree, eleven feet and
eight inches in diameter at the base and
24o feet high, was felled near Taylorsville.
1t willn yield from 5000 to 10000 feet of
lumber.
AENRY WAGNER, secretary of the North
western Ohio Normal School, at Ada,
became insane from over-work.
JAMES BnowNINa, q Scioto County con.
vict, attempted to commit suicide in the
Ohio penitentiary.
THERE are nearly four thousand Grip
pied and disabled veterans in the Dayton
Soldiers Homo. Four hundred and eight
Of them are in the hospital.
ARBoR Day (the 27th) was pretty gener.
ally observed throughout the State.
SAMUEL THOMAS, one Of the Lima riot
ers, was arrested in Indiana.
The death rate at the Dayton Soldiers
Home is two for every three days
NELSON TAYLOR fell while cleaning q
ceiling at Hillsboro, and was seriously in
jured.
The First National Bank Of Cleveland
made an increase of 100000 to its capital
stock.
Two saloon-keepers at Plain City were
arrested and fined for keeping open ON
Sunday.
JOHN LrNKER, wealthy farmer, near San.
dusky, was killed by falling under the
cars.
TIE 81 900 slander suit Of Enoch Myers
against Noah Allen, at Newark, resulted
in verdict for the defendant.
MRS. Curtis HIxsoN, committed suicide
near Shanesville, with clothes line, be-
cause OF sickness and despondency.
FRED DuENIN, an aged hermit Of Stras-
burg, east Of Canton, was found dead in
his bed.
WV. BuRaHARDr, employe of brewery
at Delphos, suicided by shooting.
The postoface at Selig was burglarised
the other night. Loss $500. No clew.
J. q. RICHIE was nominated by the Demo-
Gratis at Lima, for common pleas Judge.
g. A. r. ENCAMPMENT, at Toledo, adopt
ed aresolution favoring the service PEN
sion bill.
ALLEN County commissioners offer re.
ward for the arrest Of the Lima rioters.
FRUIT prospects are good in the vicinity
Of Marietta.
LIMA will have new oil refinery.
FRANK HIGHLAND was caught in the
shafting at Palmer's stave-works, near
Fostoria, and miraculously escaped death.
MILLERsBuRa has the first Democratic
postmaster In twenty-six years.
LAFAYETTE Township, Coshocton County,
voted for local option.
CaAs EDGAR was cut in two by saw at
Burbank.
THOMAS DuoAN and &. A. Bird, promi.
nent hotel propristors at Springfield, were
punished for using bogus butter.
Mayor BABcoCK has begun q crusade
against Italians at Cleveland. Fruit
stands have been removed, and organ.
grinders must 60.
DANIEL L OsToTr was arrested at Spring
deid for embezzling q, 900 from his sister.
The sister went insane, and the mother
lied OF grief because Of her sons crime.
FURTHER investigation shows that James
Cummins, who suicided at DAYTON. was
'ver $4,000 short In his accounts.
Hon. 8. y. YoDER, of Lima, was renomi
mated by exclamation for Congress by the
Democracy Of the Fourth District.
THE Cincinnati oil fuel company was in
,orporated ct Columbus.
THREE townships in Madison County
Toted for local option.
EDWARD CoLvIN was wound around q |
Inc shaft ct Findlay and horribly mutt |
ated.
CHAs. G. MINNsR gets $4,000 verdict. st
sanesville, for the seduction Of his daugh-
or by Chas. A. Long.
hoBT. B. LANDyAIR, or the Godfrey
Guards, Celina, has been appointed ser-
yeant-major of the Second Infantry. o.
!. g., Colonel James G. Howe command
ne.
AsowEasuL gaa well was struck near