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

TIE Dayton Board of Trade has collected
and shipped to South Dakota large
amount Of clothing and supplies for the
sufferers from the recent storms and fires
in that section.
sold to an Eastern syndicate for $4,000.
The gauge will be widened and the cars
run by electricity. gxssg \,
Ex- x-REPREsENTATivE DAVIS, Of Cleve-
land, Is to be appointed Assistant In
spector Of Shops and Factories for Ohio.
PIQUA may have a centennial celebra-
tion befcrs ong The Indian agency q
Upper Piqua was established nearly q
hundred years ago.
The Sixth and Seventeenth regiments of
Ohio Infantry, on their way home from
New York, sre,t day in Washington,
visiting the various places of interest in
thu city. Many OF their members called at
the White House. The War Department
was source of great interest
The Bellefontaine bank gave $4,000 for
$1S, 900 of Belfefontaine wal err works bonds.
"CHRIsTIAN Science" advocates will hold
o convention in Cleveland, June ~ and 1a
AFARMER named Sheerer and his daugh-
cident near Tiffln.
A PETITION Is in circulation to have local
option in Salem, should Urbana adopt that
method Of shutting off saloons.
FARMERS say that the tramps are multi.
plying, and In some localities are becom-
ing greater nuisance than ever before.
THERE is a general complaint from all
parts OF the State that horses do not bring
as good pr ces as usual
A BOX car that had been closed for six
weeks was opened in Findlay, and in 1t
was found a luckless hen that had been
without food or water all that time. It
was still alive and soon recovered its Gus
tomary sprightliness when led.
THE contract has b. en- awarded to pipe
natural gas to Upper Sandusky. The work
is to be done by August TO- and the price
is $42,5)o.
A LIFE-MAN at the Ohio penitentiary,
named Rice, sent up from Butler County,
committed suicide by taking morphine.
A FREIGHT train on the Cleveland, Lor.
ain and Wheeling railroad went
through a bridge into creek, at May.
nard. Tho conductor was fatally injured,
and two mon were badly hurt.
TIFFrN will have band and freman's
tournament and natural gas celebr alton
July 3, 4 and 8.
FRANK SoHERER committed suicide at
Youngstown. He was Respondent
A THREE-YEAR-o OLD child was fatally
burned at Tifiln.
DIR. NJ. H. MIEssIE, Of Circlevile, has
received official notification Of his appoint.
ment as one Of the medical examiners Of
pension claimants in that district
SHERMAN ROBINSON was arrested near
Macarthur, few days ago on dispatch
from Columbus, charging him with being
q deserter from the United States Army.
He was taken to Columbus.
AT Hartwell, Mrs. Protzman, wife Of the
ticket agent of the Bee-line road, was
sandbagged in the office and choked to in.
sensibility by thief, who stole s15) from
the drawer, AMI escaped. The woman did
not recover consciousness for several
hours.
IT will be rem mbered that the Legisla.
ture at its last session passed IN act in.
creasing the fee, for interpretations to be
fled with the Secretary Of State. The
law went into effect May 1. According
to the new fee bill the charge on $40, 00J is
$40, and sums over that one tenth Of on O
per cent.
The city council of Urbana, by vote,
has decided to submit the question Of
local option to the people on Saturday,
May 25.
Mr.. MORTON a young and enterprising
farmer OF German Township, Clarke Coun-
ty, was offered the privilege of renting q
big farm He concluded il he took charge
he must have helpmeet On a Sunday he
called on young lady, neighbor named
Miss Della Miller almost stranger. He
explained the situation and proposed. Mon
day he got the license, Tuesday they were
married and Wednesday took charge Of
the farm
THE chief of police Of Columbus. in com.
pliance with the mayors order, in.
structed the police in that city to notify
keepers Of professional gambling rooms to
close them after May /.
A BELLAIRE lady got up fine dinner for
company, then went to the parlor to invite
the company out When they got to the
dining-room they found that some tramps
had cleared the table Of everything.
JOHN SMELLING aged eighty seven, and
3AAes Aooitud <ACAoIIuau, dBou oIkuty~
three, Were recently married In Wayne
County.
AKRON Is trying to form board Of trade.
One hundred and fifty names have been
secured.
In making an excavation for an avenue
at Cumminsville, Cincinnati, whole trees,
perfectly petrifed, were found forty feet
from the surface of the ground.
CHRISTIAN RUcHLE was robbed Of $500
and shot through the thigh by two high
waymen, near Tiffin. IlelE
SUIT has been brought at GAINESVILLE
against the Cincinnati and Muskingum
Valley Railroad Company for $40, 900 dam.
ages. by Thomas Smith, former smploys,
who was injured, as he claims, BY the
company's negligence. l
A CHARLESTON Nv. Va.) syndicate hal
purchased the Hotel Martin block and thu
opera house at Lancaster.
Mas SAx'L HoovER, aged eighty years
dropped dead at Bsllsfontains, while ap.
parsntly In good health. Supposed hsar'
disease. fuo 4,lat,5t aal