The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1889-01-17
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

SuAIe NEWS IJeMSs
PATRICK ENoLIsH, Of Bell sfontaine, aged
twenty.six, while stealing q ride on q
through freight on the Bee Line east Of
that place. fell from the train and had his
skull horribly crushed. He can not live.
MICHAEL MoFADDxN was sentenced, at
Urbana, to two years. Imprisonment in the
penitentiary for burglary.
NICHOLAS LAIR, an old gentleman living
at Navarro, Stark County, fell on an icy
sidewalk and died soon afterward from
conclusion Of the brain.
A BOY named Conklin, aged eight years,
was mangled, disemboweled and killed by
an Erie yard engine at Gallon while pick.
ing up coal.
A PosT-oFFIcE has been estab ablished at
Turner, Tuscarawas County, and Joseph
K. Turner commissioned postmaster.
AT Lancaster Judge Friesner sentenced
Dick Marcus to the pententiary for life for
killing Howard Moore, and Hugh Cunning.
ham TO imprisonment for one year for
shooting Charles Seifried. Both are col.
ored men.
THE post .office at Stollburg, Pike Coun.
ty, has been abolished.
STATE TREASURER Brown has COM
pleted his annual report, showing the
condition Of Ohio's finances. November
| l8, 1887, there was cash balance Of $222,-
27S.78 in the Treasury. The gross receipts
for the year were 81, $3.50, ,231.62, making a
total Of 8,121, ,510.25; disbursements from
all funds amounted to $4,000, 7s4.76, leaving
a cash balance in the treasury November
49, 1883, Of $119, 72560. OF this balance
| $40. 752.71 is to the credit Of the General
Revenue Fund; $1,44S.69 to the Sinking
Fund, and Sol, ,624.10 to the credit Of the
School Board. The total receipts from the
Dow law for six months (June collection)
was 1925, ,278S8, an average Of $440, 653. -
for the year.
EDWARD CARROLL was cut and danger
ously wounded by Harry Bickel, at Glen
dale.
The jury in the Patrick Hughes murder
case at Lima returned verdict Of guilty
Of murder in the second degree against
William Coins, colored, indicted as one of
the accessories.
WINFIELD BOWER, Of Liberty, Ind, was
struck by cable car, at Cincinnati and
seriously injured.
"A DAzzLINaLY brilliant rainbow imme.
diately in the zenith was peculiar mete.
geological phenomenon which attracted
universal interested observation at Ath.
ems, q few days ago.
AT Circleville, Mrs. Mary Redman and
| Amanda Tam have sued for 5000 each
against the G. and M. V. railroad for the
| accidental killing Of their daughters,
Alice Redman and Mamie Tam, on No
vember 10 last, alleging that the accident
was due to the negligence Of the railroad
company.
JOE PLYMER, Charles Bowles and Henry
Hurd, jr., all living near Philothea, Mer-
Ger County, were arraigned before Squire
May for violation Of the game law In hunt
ing on Sunday. Bowles and Hurd pleaded
guilty and got s25 and costs. Plymer de.
manded jury, who found him guilty, and
he was fined $40 and the costs, about $40 in
all. The arrests were made by Game
Warden Charles w. Medford.
CERTAIN portions of Cleveland were
flooded at an early hour the other morning
by the bursting Of water main. The
torrent uprooted shade trees, undermined
buildings, tore up pavements, and, In gem
ieral, conducted itself in most reprehen.
sible manner. No lives were lost, but the
damage is estimated at $4,000.
EDWARD L. GIBSON, aged forty mine, a
saloon keeper at Reading in Columbiana
County, eight miles east of Alliance, sui.
cided by shooting himself through the
brain with revolver. He leaves q wife
and six children. No cause Is assigned for
the act.
HoRsE.THIEvEs the other night stole
1900 mare from Samuel Rudy's barn, in
Summit County, making the fifth horse
that has been stolen in that vicinity within
the past three weeks.
The Legislature meets on Tuesday, Jan.
uary 8, 1889.
On farm near Lima, the five-year-old
son Of Andrew Jacobs was killed by the
accidental discharge of Flobert rife.
MICHAEL DoNNEY got 500 verdict
against the city Of Urbana for injuries
sustained by the giving way Of aNbridge.
The new Chamber of Commerce build.
ing at Cincinnati 10 about ready for occu.
pancy.
AT Cincinnati, Christ Meyers, while
walking in his sleep, fell down a flight Of
stairs and was seriously injured,
AT Youngstown Mrs. Jacob Henry at.
tempted suicide by swallowing quantity
Of opium, but was saved by physicians.
Two men were instantly killed by
boiler explosion at Trowbridge. Three
persons were seriously injured.
MRS. JOHN MILLER tried to kill her hus-
band with an axe at Toledo.
TIN THOMAS was shot and fatally wound
ed by Harm Hendricks, during a saloon
row, at Dayton.
JOHN B. PRICE, aged forty.flve, en-
ployed as a miner in the No. mine Of
the Wellston Coal Company, was caught
under falling slate and very seriously In.
jured.
AUGUST SUMMERFELT, Cincinnati
blacksmith, attempted to commit suicide
by jumping into the river He was
rescued.