The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1889-09-12
STATE NEWS ITEMS


TIE Mt, Gilead National Bank will re-
sume business.
The reunion Of the Fifty-seventh o.
v. !. will be held at Ottawa, September
1a ~
CHAnlss RADDnIk postmaster 1t East
Union, took morphine with suicidal In
tent. The cause IL unknown. ~
FIvS persons we're poiAoned by eating
cheese at RepAblic. "a ~ &
TnE Republicans Of the Twenty
seventh and Twenty-ninth Senatorial
Districts nominated w. 8. Kerr and
George H. Hilderbrand for the Senate.
CHAs. SMALLwooD. Of Chillicothe, has
brought suit against George Graves 10
recover s2lS lost in gambling.
The other evening John Eitler, .
butcher Of Wooster, was carried past
Crestline while asleep, got of the train
while 1t was In motion and lost his left
foot.
THOMAS T. THOMPSON, OF Cleveland,
rendered his resignation as member Of
the State Board Of Pardons to Governor
Foraker. His resignation has been &C.
cepted.
THE father Of little Maggie Thompson,
formerly Of Cincinnati, who was 80
brutally murdered last spring by the
boy, Otto Luth, was run down the other
morning by switch engine and in
stantly killed at Cleveland.
GRIMsBY Poor, o well-known farmer
and stockman, who resided few miles
nf all 1f
which he was driving and broke his
neck.
CAL JOHNSON, q vault-digger, in sink
Ing hole on Major ]. +. Brushart's
premises, near Portsmouth, at twenty
four feet below the surface ran across
petrifled rabbit, o pair Of tusks, each
measuring Ave feet in length. and .
dozen cQans bearing dates between 1850
and 1900.
WHILE grading street on high hill
In Sidney, huge stone wall was un-
earthed where no one ever saw build
ings. It is about ten feet wide on top,
increases In width as the excavation is
made, and is supposed to be about TWEEN.
ty feet high. II is built Of '.nigger.
heads," Of which over 800 loads have
been hauled out The hill at the point
OF discovery Is seventy feet above the
level Of the town. The stones were found
about four feet under the surface, they
being accidentally struck while cutting
q grade. 1t is ascribed to the work Of
Mound Builders.
AT Newcomerstown burglars entered
the houses Of Mr.. Yingling, Prof. Duff
and Squire Little and carried away
clothes, cash, keys and papers
The Democratic Convention in Mont
gomery County will be held Septem-
6et %.
THE Duke Norton Oil Company, at
Lima, has decided to the Standard Com.
pany 11S acres of the Lehman farm for
| S4Q,0
The Republican Senatorial Conven-
tion Of the Thirteenth Ohio District will
meet at Sandusky September 25.
A coLoRED boy was killed near Allen
town by traction engine.
A YOUNG man named Minzey was seri-
oqsly injured, near Newark, while
tying to put . belt on threshing ma
chine after the steam had been turned
on.
THE State Board Of Pardons held o
brief session on the 9th. The following
pardons were recommended: Frank
Heintz, sent up from Lucas County for
robbery, and sentenced for one year;
Samuel Wanamaker, convicted in Sep
tember, 1883, in Mahoning County of the
crime Of forgery on twenty-five indict-
ments Of two years each; Fred Davis,
sent up from Williams County for bur
glary, and sentenced for fifteen months.
The Governor paydoned Heintz, and his
mother being there, has taken him
home.
MRS. VIM. LEWIS, while interfering
with family quarrel, at Portsmouth,
was struck in the head by brick in the
hands Of Ed Oliver. Her skull is fract-
ured, and death will probably follow.
Oliver has skipped.
REVENUE collections by Deputy
Charles E. Clark, Of Dayton, during Au-
gust were: Special taxes, s487. 40; beer
stamps, @,sl7.2b; cigar stamps, IS, 500. S5;
WAnufaotured tobacco stamps, 81, 967. 80;
total collections, sls, ,s4245. The sale Of
spirit stamps has been transferred to
thu Germantown office.
FIFTEEN threshers were poisoned the
other day near Ttffin by eating cheese.
All were taken violently Ill, and it is
feAred some Of them will die.
0Ho. McWILLIAMs, OF Youngstown,
has q pair Of shoes made in 1s4o. They
are still whole, and he wears them oc.
casionally.
WALTER GAGE, young man living at
Danville. was Stabbed BY man named
Jones recently. Gage received four So
we're wounds which may prove fatal.
JAMES RUSKER, the fellow who has
been assaulting and terrorizing women
at Newark, was fned. 800 and costs and
sentenced'to four months in jail. There
are several Other Charges against him.
TIE Commissloper of Pensions ap-
pointed the following Examining Sur
geQls for Ohio on the Sd: Drs. A. II.
Hunt s. P. Grill, Jos. E. Barrett,
Wooster; F. J. Taylor, Glasgow; Isaac
RiGe, I. R. Turner r. M. Boys, Paints
vf1fe