The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1890-10-02

DRILLERs on the Kennedy farm, three
miles east of Warren, struck heavy
1ubricating oil, known to the trade as
Mecca oil. The strike creates excite
ment there.
A BIG gas we'll was struck few days
ago on the west side of the Muskingum,
one mile from the corporate limits Of
Marietta, at 1900 feet 1t threw out
stones and gravel 20 feet over the top of
the derrick. This is new field and the
excitement is high.
Miss JENNIE CARUTH of Martins
Ferry, burned while making apple but
ter, has since died
MARY HUGHES, insane, while in the
probate court, Cincinnati, threw an ink
stand at Judge Goebel, barely missing
his honor head and making dent in
the wall behind his seat.
AT Canton a two-year-old child of An
thony Chatter. unobserved by its mother.
drank cupful of lye Which was care
lessly left on table, dying in terrible
agony.
EIGHT prisoners in the county jail at
| Elyria, escaped the other morning by
| saving out. OF these three were in for
| burglary, two for arson, and one for
| highway robbery.
MARY TENNIS gave the Columbus law
yers delightful racket by kissing
| every body in the courtroom in her Joy
at having her petition for divorce
| granted.
The Farmers Alliance, of Wood Coun-
ty, nominated ticket composed Of
| Democrats and Republicans.
j. c. ANDERSON was arrest at Newark,
the other day, on charge of using the
mails for fraudulent purposes. He was
| taken to Columbus.
| JOHN BERGE and Frederick Raabe
were instantly killed at the Riverside
| Furnance, Bellaire. They had gone up
on the elevator with load of iron, and
| just as they reached the top of the cupo-
| la the rope snapped, precipitating the
| men and iron to the bottom, about sixty
feet. Berge was killed instantly, and
Raabe died shortly after being taken
out.
Hon. II. L. MoREY has been nomin-
ated for Congress in the Third Ohio Dis
trict
JOSEPH JENKINS was nominated for
| Congress by the Union Labor party of
the Fourteenth Ohio district.
FRANK GALLUsI, a we'll known Ger
| man farmer, living three miles south of
Norwalk, committed suicide the other
morning at two o'clock by cutting his
throat from ear to ear with corn
scythe. Temporary insanity is the sup
| posed cause.
D. F. TAYLOR was appointed postmas-
ter at Gervais, Scioto County, vice A. B.
Park, resigned.
COLONEL R e. DoAN, OF Clinton Coun-
ty, was nominated for Congress by the
| Republicans of the Tenth Ohio District
| on the 384th ballot irt
The new Cincinnati Flower Market is
TO be located in Sixth street market
| space. 3N
The boiler in saw-mill at Middle
point, blew up, killing the engineer and
badly scalding boy who was in the
building.
Mrs. WIN. PuLrz. of st. Mary's, said
that nobody loved her, took paris green
| and died. T fFf ~ -
The last issue of the Weekly Volks-
freund, Cincinnati, was seized by the
postal authorities, it contained a lottery
advertisement. in violation of law.
JAMES MALONE, an engineer, walked
out OF second-story window Of the Vine
Street Hotel, at Lima, while asleep,
fracturing couple of ribs and sustain
ing severe bruises about the head.
CHAs. e. SPANGLER left q $3.50 dia-
mond ring in the wash-room of the Nc
Donald House, Coshocton. Returning
twenty minutes later, the gem had dis
appeared. gt as,t -a.
MISS MARY ANDERSON and Miss Ada
M. jeffrey, Of Ohio, have been appointed
to clerkships in the Pension Bureau.
WIN. PARSONS, GOAL miner, was fatal
ly injured by fall of slate in w. G.
Hayes mine, near Coshocton. He neg
lected to protect the roof by propping.
| ALBERT REYNOLDS, one of the pioneers
of Allen County, whose home was in
Perry Township, complained Of feeling
unwell when he got up the other morn
ing, and laid down. When his wife
went to wake him he was dead.
| SALLIE O'CoNNELL, of Tifin; Celia
Boyle and Mary Dwyre, of Newport, R.
l.; Nora Shaw, of Republics; Mary Hem
ry, Of New York, and Emma Gossier, of
Crestline, took the vail at the Ursuline
Convent. Tiffin.
COMMISSIONS we're issued by Assistant
Acknowledgement Drill to j. William
Koos as Captain, Daniel H. Gaumer as
First Lieutenant, and Chas. T. Atwell
as Second Lieutenantof Battery G, First
Light Artillery, GAINESVILLE.
A sIx-YEAR-oID son of Charles Nun
| namacher died at Fremont from, baiuo
severely burned. The little fellow
was making cigarettes from some weeds,
and in lighting one his blouse caught
fire.
WM. MACK, a saddler, and Chas. Dicks,
timer, died the other day in Cincin-
natl from falls, the former through .
hatchway and the latter from scaffold-
ing llpon which he WAS working. .