The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1889-07-04
STATE NEWS ITEMS

by lightning near Urbana.
AN unknown tramp was killed by cars
near Dillsboro.
A MAN named Eli Ferguson was struck
by Il. & o. engine while walking on
the track near Belmont, and fatally in
jured.
A NAN named Casey fell from train
near Columbus and was fatally injured.
LIMA temperance people are aroused
by the council extending the hour for
closing the saloons at night, and at a
large meeting decided to petition that
body to call an election on the prohibi-
tion question.
GAME WARDEN STROKES arrested at
GAINESVILLE, George w. Shaw, for vio-
lating the game laws by shooting
squirrel on May 80. Arraigned before
Squire Graffee he pleaded guilty, and
was fined S25 and costs.
A GREAT curiosity was found by M. v.
Rowand while digging in gravel pit on
his farm near Bellefontaine. 1t is q
square stone tablet which unfolds into
four facets, on each of which are in
scribed curious hieroglyphics, apparent
ly Of gold. 1t is undoubtedly of great
antiquity.
c Held, prominent shoemaker re-
siding in Portsmouth, has hen that
lays eggs with double yelks, and in
some instances three yelks.
A DIVINITY HALL for theology, to cost
$4,000 is to be erected at Wittenberg
College, Springfield, at once. DR.. l.. A.
Gotwald has been installed as exegetical
and Dr. s. +. Breckenridge as practical
professor of theology.
OF the 1869 prisoners in the Ohio
penitentiary, only thirty are women.
Mr.. JOHN II. JOHNSON, Of McComb,
brought suit against DR.. Jessie Watson,
OF the same place, to recover ten thous-
and dollars damage for alleged malprac-
tice In setting dislocated shoulder
blade.
A CLoUD-BURsT occurred over Akron,
on the 2Sth and two inches of water fell
IN an hour. The cellars Of several busi-
ness blocks were badly flooded and the
damage to property is estimated at ten
thousand dollars. Sand was washed up
on the railroad tracks in such large
amounts as to prevent transportation al
together.
For failing to enforce the Owen law
on Sunday, June 22, Chief Deitsch was
formally reprimanded by the Board of
Police Commissioners Of Cincinnati on
the Goth.
THOMAS EDwARDs and Frank Meyers
were sentenced, at Columbus, to three
years each in the penitentiary for grand
larceny.
Dn. 8. G. AYERS, Of Cincinnati, has
been elected president of the American
Medical Association.
FIRECRACKERs, rockets, roman can
dies, etc., exploded in Edward Merkle's
grocery, at Dayton. The show-windows
were blown into the street, but nobody
was injured.
A FREIGHT train was wrecked at Bar
nett's Station. Five cars were entirely
destroyed, with their contents, and 9TH
erswere damaged.
STOCK company is being organized
to develop the gold fields recently dis
covered in Adams County.
AT Lima, while playing in wheat
bin, which was being drawn of into
car, Ben Marks and Judson Horton, two
young boys were drawn into the chute
and smothered to death.
BROKEN sword, supposed to have be-
longed to Crawford, the Indian fighter,
has been found near Broken Sword
Creek, in Wyandot County, where, 1O7
years ago, Crawford was captured by the
Indians.
fol1 l.
vator shaft at Chillicothc, and was
fatally injured.
AT Mt. Vernon, John Baker, chicken
thief, was sentenced to three years in
the penitentiary. Moses Lepley, for
stealing a forty-dollar watch, was given
two years and four months.
Jos, JONES was run down and fatally
injured by train, at Youngstown.
JOHN MOHERMAN, fell through tres
tie at Youngstown, and was fatally hurt.
RICHARD SCHwIsKES, aged fifteen,
was drowned in the canal at Navarro.
GOVERNOR FORAKER has accepted the
resignation of DIR. John ID. Jones, of
Cincinnati, as member of the State
board Of health. DIR. Joseph L. Ander-
son, of the same city, was appointed to
fill the vacancy.
WILLIAM REED was accidentally shot
and killed, near Bellaire by man
named Carbin while shooting at mark
CHARLES ELLERMAN, gunsmith of
Cincinnati, was convicted of selling
revolver to minor and fined three dol
lars and costs.
The Ohio State Entemologist reports
the wheat pest extraordinarily abund-
ant and widespread, and in appearance
the grain gives evidence of being greatly
damaged.
A MOVEMENT has been started in Gin
cinnati to Close all churches through
July and August each year in future.
81. c. GRAFFLIN, has been appointed
by the President, as postmaster at
Piqua.
DANIEL II. GAUMER, was nominated
by the Democrats of the Fifteenth and
Sixteenth District, for State Senator.
In the oratorical contest at the Yale
Law School for the Townsend prize the
T. - -