The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1890-09-11

jon A. NELL has been commissioned
as postmaster at Gilboa, Putnam
County.
THE Democrats of the Third Congress
sional District nominated Hon. George
w. Houk, of Dayton
FRANK ROGERS, of Akron, attempted
suicide because his wife refused to live
with him.
THE Prohibitionists of Hamilton
County have nominated full county
and Congressional ticket
JOHN GARDNER, molder, was run
down by a Cleveland and Pittsburgh
train at Bellaire, and cut to pieces.
THE amount of the relief distributed
by the counties of Ohio to the relief of
INDECENT soldiers, sailors and marines
for the year ended June so, 1890, was
S4O9, 5s4.S9.
The Ohio State Board of Agriculture
estimates the condition of corn at 81 per
cent, and that of potatoes at 45 per
cent. Hogs are being hurried to mar
ket
JOHN Brown, of Cincinnati, caught a
young alligator in the Ohio river near
the East End Gas-works.
WIN. MCDONALD, a Big Four brake
man, was run over by a train in the
yards at Cincinnati, and cut in twain.
ABEL SMITH & Co., Pittsburgh, glass
manufacturers, have purchased the Ian
caster Window-glass Works, Of Lancas-
ter.
BY the breaking of an axle of
freight car five cars loaded with mer-
chandise, were wrecked on the Pan
handle, near Newark.
THE Republicans of the Thirteenth
| Congressional District nominated w. T.
Lewis, of Perry County.
The Commissioner of Pensions has ap-
pointed Dr. j. S. Fergu.on, pension
examining surgeon at Eaton. end DR.. A.
| O. Huntley, at Warren.
THE Fourth District Democratic Con-
| gressional Convention adjourned sine
die after six days session and 71s bal
lots, without being able to nominate. A
new Convention with new delegates
| must now be called.
JOHN N. Ross, aged eighty years, who
| has been living with John Rostover and
| sister, near Kirkville, Licking County,
was found the other morning dead, with
terrible cash across his throat The
cause of the suicide is not known.
The Lloyd Boot Company, of Youngs-
town, has granted the demand of their
employees of nine hours per day with
ten hours pay. The men were out only
o few days.
CATHARINE G. WARNER has sued the
Bolton Steel Company, Canton, for 81, 900
damages on account of the smoke, SCOT
and vapor from the works. 1t will be a
test case.
| THE mother of the executed murderer,
Otto Leuth, has written letter to Sher-
iff Sawyer, of Cleveland, invoking
curses upon him. She declares that her
boys life was taken because of political
and race prejudice, and she says: "May
his shadow pursue you by day and by
night, and in the hour Of your death
may you suffer the pangs now suffer-"
Four years ago, Ella Baker, of Cleve-
land, then eyed fourteen, contracted a
cold that developed into bronchial
trouble, and she lost her voice. Emf
nent physicians failed to afford her re-
lief, and she had been forced to talk by
signs ever since. A few days ago she
was crossing a street ahead of horse,
she became frightened and ran scream
ing into her home. Ever since she has
been able to talk. She says it seemed
some thing had broken in her throat, and
she has experienced considerable pain.
| ALMoNT, the $40. 900 stallion, was kill
ed at the Uhrichsville fairgrounds by the
shaft of sulky running into the breast,
penetrating the heart.
| Captain Bill Stoker is the commander
| of the boat Venus on the Miami and
Erie canal At Delhi he engaged in a
| quarrel with his half-brother, G. f. Ham.
mond, and losing control Of himself he
pulled his revolver and shot Hammond
in the back, producing fatal wound.
Stoker was arrested. He claims the
shooting was done in self-defense The
quarrel originated about woman who
is boarding ON the boat.
| During the excitement of the sham
fight at the Uhrichsville Fair, Thomas
McFadden, of Gilmore, was shot through
the end of the nose by ramrod and was
otherwise cut about the face. Two 9TH
ers were slightly wounded.
The Ohio Board of Penitentiary Man
ayers have paroled John 3. Haynes, q
bigamist; Edward Comfort in for at
tempted rape, and Lon Houk, murderer.
THE ladies of Wakeman have organ
ized crusade against shop tea," which
is steamed beer of about half the usual
strength.
FRANK LEARY, in attempting to jump
from moving elevator at Crane, Breed
& Co.'s factory, Cincinnati, slipped and
his head was caught between the eleva-
tor and partition and crushed, and his
| neck broken.
| The Commissioner of Pensions has
appointed DR.. A. J. Manville and j. G.
Lincoln pension examining surgeons at
Bowling Green and DIR. A. B. Fuller, at
| Ashland.
STEPHEN j. RIGHLER, who for the past
thirty-fve years, has been connected
with the Religious Telescope, OF Dayton,