The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1889-09-05
STATE NEWS ITEMS

WILL VINO OOuu W vonucTNOEN
FouRTH-cLAss postmasters were Ap-
POI ID on the 30th as follows: Benton
RI Hancock County, ]. H. Whistler;
El pia, Preble County, J. G. Rider:
We oint, Columbiana County, Henry
J. Bough.
CHARLES CoLLrsrER has been appoint
ed storekeeper and gauger in the
Eleventh District.
A COMPANY has been organised at
Springfield to manufacture steel by the
Bookwalter process. .--.
SUPERINTENDENT E. E. Sparks, Of
Martins Ferry, and James A. Douglas,
Of the Waverly schools, were the in
structors Of the Pike County Teachers
Institute, which closed on the S0th.
JOHN SHAFFER, q section laborer on
the Pittsburgh, Ft Wayne and Chicago
road at Nevada, was instantly killed by
being struck by the engine Of freight
train.
The G. A. R. Brigade Encampment,
composed Of the posts of the Thirteenth
Congressional District, will be held at
Lancaster October 2 and 8.
JOHN MAURER, well-known farmer
living on Crooked Run, near New Phil
adelphia, fell from the top Of high
straw-stack and was fatally injured.
THE skeleton OF a man was found low
down in an old hollow sycamore stump
by workmen engaged in blowing up
stumps, near Tiffin.
WHILE bathing in Licking Creek at
Newark, Burt Schraver, aged ten years,
att ral S,,sk
drowned. The body was recovered.
JAMES FARAeHER, q farmer living
east Of Lorain, was killed by being
thrown from his buggy near Elyria on
to the sidewalk, breaking his neck. His
horse became frightened at bicycle
and ran, with the above result Fara-
CHER was ffty-six years old and mar
fied.
A FREIGHT. train on the Lake Shore
ran into the rear end Of another freight,
one mile east OF Geneva One carload
Of paint and two cars Of grain were
burned. No one was hurt
A LITTLE son Of Stephen Hillworth,
living near Celina, was badly mangled
by dog.
HEIDELBERG COLLEGE, at Tiffin, has
been presented with museum valued
| at 5000
LONDON will have water-works.
The Republicans of the Fifth Ohio
District nominated Hon. Jesse N. Oren
for Senator.
A COMMERCIAL traveller named Hen
kle was robbed, at Youngstown, OF q dia-
mond pin worth 5000.
STANLEY G. JONES shot and killed A.
A. Amidon, a prominent attorney Of
Painesville, the other evening. About
week before Jones' wife applied for q
divorce, alimony and the custody Of two
children, and Amidon was her attorney.
Since the commencement of the pro-
ceedings Jones has been drinking, and
was somewhat under the influence OF
liquor when he committed the deed.
The Fairfield County Teachers Insti-
tute, with $50 in attendance, closed the
most successful session ever held on the
30th, and elected for the ensuing year
c. N. Turner, president, and J. L. Ora
ham, Secretary.
Two HUNDRED and fifty teachers at
tended the Sandusky County Institute,
which closed on the 30th. The instruc-
tors were Rev. j. X. Swanda and Profs.
Knox and Irish. /. M. Green was elect
cd president, and James A. Smith, Sec
retary.
THE twenty-ffth annual meeting Of
the Stark County Teachers Association
closed on the S0th with Ave days ses-
sion. One hundred and twenty-eight
teachers attended. The instructors were
Prof. Alston Ellis, of Hamilton, O., and
Superintendent J. j. Burns, of Canton.
| BRASS GREEN, an inmate OF the poor
house at Youngstown, the other night
cut his throat from ear to ear. His
wound is fatal.
THE Secretary Of the State Board Of
Health is engaged in mailing circulars
to the proper authorities Of cities, towns
and villages, calling attention to the
law requiring the appointment Of Q
board Of health. The law is mandatory,
and there are many places where no at
tention has been paid to tho enactment.
1t has been in such places where several
epidemics have occurred during the
present year.
T. 8. WARING, cashier Of the Farmers
National Bank at Greenville, died few
days ago, after short illness. Cause OF
death o gangrene limb, the result OF
rheumatism.
Gas and oil was struck at Columbus
Grove, at depth Of 1895 feet.
HENRY P. OWENS was killed by cars
near Columbus.
The late DR.. Bayliss, of Cincinnati, in
his will gave every thing to his widow.
He is said to have left an estate Of from
$50, 900 to 800, 200.
MRS. VIM. BEEBE drowned herself in q
:. cistern at Norwalk.
CLEVELAND has "fresh air camp out
side its limits, where the sick children
OF the poor are cared for in the summer.
The charitable people Of the city sus.
tain the camp with gifts of money, bed.
ding and clothing.
The shortage Of Halliday, the Mount
Gilead bank cashier, will reach at least