The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1889-05-30
STATE NEWS ITEMS

TIE president Of the First National Bank
Of Newark was victimized to the tune Of
5000 BY forgery.
The next annual meeting Of the Ohio
Medical Society will be held at Columbus
the first Wednesday in May, 1890
URBANA was visited by an unusually
heavy frost the other night Wheat and
corn are badly damaged, especially In low
lands.
THERE was q severe frost in the Upper
Miami Valley few nights ago. Young
corn was badly nipped, and the fruit Is
| thought to be seriously injured.
THE Grand Ledge OF Odd Fellows SO.
lected Dayton as the next meeting place.
SPRINGFrELD is to have natural gas as
| soon as 1t can be piped there. 1t will be
brought from the field in Mercer County,
and the syndicate will bring it. 1t is be.
lieved that 1t can be burning in Spring.
the same as in Day ton.
| THE Comptroller Of the Currency has
authorized the First National Bank at
Bowling Green to begin business with o
capital OF $50, 900.
| THE Mercer County Gas and Fuel Com.
pany and the Dayton Natural Gas Company
have agreed upon terms Of consolidation.
JOHN w. HEBRON, of Cincinnati, has
been appointed U. g. Attorney for the
Southern District Of Ohio.
| A BALD eagle was captured by some
boys while 1t was bathing In the creek.
near the water.works at Gallon, and Is In
possession of 7. B. Burgert's son, one Of
the captors.
| DAVID ENsLEY, q wagon .maker, hanged
himself in his shop at Beavertown.
| LEVI LAMBRIGHT. while making coup.
ling in the Nickel-Plate yards at Fostoria,
caught his foot In rail guard. A car
backing onto him broke his leg in three
places, besides receiving other terrible In.
juries
MT. GLEAD voted to authorize the issue
| Of 5000 bonds to drill for natural gas.
| A THREE.YEAR- OLD child was burned to
death at Portsmouth.
| A CALL has been issued for the fourth
annual Convention Of the Ohio Republic
can Lsague, at Columbus, June 2j.
| WIN. COLLINS. on trial at Circleville, for
wife murder, entered a plea Of guilty Of
murder in the second degree, and was sen.
fenced to life Imprisonment.
WM b DAY, Of Canton, was appointed
| u. 3. District Judge for the Northern Dis
| trict of Ohio. .v
JOHN BERRY, living near Marion, has
| curiosity In the shape Of a three legged
lamb, which IL minus right fore leg Its
head is also decorated with couple Of
wattles, like those of turkey.
AT East Alliance, Daniel Collins, seven.
| ty-fve years Of age, cut cash in his
| throat, stabbed himself twics over the
heart and twice in the stomach, then tied
q rope around his neck and hung himself
to the limb Of a tree. Hs was cut down
alive, but can not recover.
THE city council OF Piqua, by vote Of
to 2, rejected the petition of the temper.
ance committee to submit local option to a
vote.
THE $780, 900 Of bonds issued by Green.
Vile to buy land and sink gas wells have
been taken by G. H. Vennor & Co, Of Bos.
ton, at premiu m Of S3,25O. ~. -
DAVID MCCULLOUGH, aged sixty five
years, while trying to rescue two Of his
grandchildren from n railroad bridge
near Ottawa, was stru OK by train and
fatally hurt The children were slightly
injured.
AN amateur base ball club has been Or
ganizsd at Lima. &c
ANGUS WEIGH, an employe CT Scioto
furnace Scioto County, while working
with some logs on a hillside preparatory
to rolling them down the hill, was killed
instantly by the logs starting before he
anticipated, and catching and rollin g over
him. He was crushed in frightful man.
ner.
AUGUST OILY, Of the wholesale liquor
house of Only Bros. g. Co. OF Sandusky,
suicided by shooting himself in the head
with q revolver. He married there two
weeks before, and had just returned from
his bridal tour He is supposed to have
been temporarily insane.
The thirty. eighth annual session Of the
Great Council Of Ohio OF the Imperial Or.
der Of Red Men convened at Columbus on
the 2lst The report Of the Chief Of Re-.
cords shows total membership in Ohio Of
8,0S4, an increase Of 1897 during the year.
Number Of Pocahontas Councils, six, with
q total membership Of 402 Total receipts
for the year. 500 491 90; current expenses,
$14 $50 81; expended for relief of widows
and orphans, $44. 4S4 At; investments, $685.
022 SO; In wampum belts, $15. 2o5 IS. The
present membership Of the Order at large
Is 7s, 791.
CLEVELAND teamsters are excited about
Canadian drivers that come across the
border with their horses during the sum.
mer to work at reduced prices.
THE Ohio Dem ocratic convention will be
held at Dayton August 81 and 2S. -
A sIx.YEAR-oLD boy was attacked by q
bulldog at Newark and fatally injured.
YELLOW SPRINGS has voted In favor Of
the building Of town hall
The Afty.seventh annual session OF the
Grand Lodge Of Odd Fellows Of Ohio con.
vened at Toledo the 21st inst The Grand
6eeretary's report shows the membership
to be 81, TIA, an increase OF 1910; total ex.
penditurss, $42o, ,ae7.eo; total assets. 81, cas-.
853 "a; number of Rebeksh lodges ITO;
membership, 10, 500, an increase Of I,6o8.
PREsIDESr HARRISON appointed the fol-
lowing Ohio postmastsrs, . few days ego;
Axariah G. Cooker, CALDWELL and John D.
Osyarman, Lou ionvllla ,lca
MAJOR r. L. WIRALr, an old .tims snort