The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1890-12-11
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

the Athens County Childrens' Home,
thirty of the Juveniles being now con-
enc to bed with the diseAse, which
number is likely to be largely increased.
THE other afternoon as John Robbins,
young man Of twenty years Of age, re-
siding near Kirkwood, four miles from
Piqua, was out hunting, he slipped and
fell, his gun being discharged, tearing
away his right cheek. He will recover.
/ CHARLES WALLACE well-known
farmer and stock raiser Of Fayetteville,
west OF Winchester, while working with
team of mules, was kicked in the alb
domen by one Of the animals and died In
few hours.
! AN old man named Brady has been
breaking stone on the old National
, road, just east Of GAINESVILLE, for several
weeks. At night he slept in covered
wagon. The other night being cold he
/ obtained permission from Adam Rock to
sleep in an unoccupied shanty at his
coal mine. During the night the shanty
caught fire and was burned down, but
the accident was not discovered until
next morning. Mr.. Brady has not been
seen since, but his dinner bucket was
found in the ruins. 1t is believed he
perished in the flames.
THE Board of Managers of the Ohio
Penitentiary has paroled and turned loose
upon the State four men convicted of
manslaughter. and one each convicted
of rape, grand larceny, robbery, horse
stealing and shooting into train. None
of the sentences, ofcourse, had expired.
THE net Indebtedness of Cincinnati
is 1874, 737,6 500. The available assets are
S2S, 53s, 843, besides which there are per-
manent investments in public
buildings and works aggregating $21,-
100000.
UPPER SANDUsKY has new plant
for steam brick and tile machines.
VIM Il. GAMBLE has been appointed
postmaster at Akron.
FIRE at Frankfort destroyed a number
of buildings. Loss $4,000.
AT Columbus, Mary Weimer was con-
victed of manslaughter for killing the
newborn child of her daughter.
In the United States Court at Column
bus, prisoners were found guilty of
crimes as follows and sentenced to the
Ohio penitentiary: Geo. Kimes and An
drew Sanburn, of Meigs County, maxi
ing and passing counterfeit money, tho
former two and one-half years and the
latter two years; Frank r. Richards, of
Newark, using the mails for improper
purposes two years; Frank s. Green,
ex-postmaster of Centreville, embezzling
from the mails, two years.
AT Hamilton, George Bonner had his
rirht arm torn from his body by the
bursting of an emery wheel.
FOREST w. BRAYToN, an inmate of
the College Hill Sanitarium, committed
suicide. His hallucination was that he
had committed "the objectionable sin,"
and he took his life in fit of melan-
choly.
| RAYMOND LAKE, painter living at
% Lane avenue, Columbus, fell from
scaffold, breaking his back and sustain
ing internal injuries which it is thought
will prove fatal.
OHIO Democratic clubs will convene
and elect officers at Columbus, January
8, 1891.
U. S. EXPRESS office at GAINESVILLE is
out 81, 600 money package per thief
By the explosion of potash tank in
the A. l.. McReynolds Chemical Works,
and John Fehl were so badly burned
they may die. Tho building was
wrecked.
CHAN SING LEE, Chinese laundry
man, of Marion, took out license, the
other afternoon, to marry Miss Signe
Hanson, a Danish girl of that city. The
marriage was to have occurred in few
days, but for reasons best known to
himself he changed his mind, and went
to the residence of the probate Judge
and announced: me no want to mally
Mellican girl" and presented the Judge
with tho license.
The elegant home of DIR. j. A. Kim
mel in Findlay has been almost COM
pletely looted by burglars during the
absence of the family in Europe for
several months past The burglars had
been visiting the house almost every
night and have taken away every thing
that could with safety be carried out,
including silverware, valuable pictures,
books, curtains, bed-clothes, and even
furniture. The value Of the goods is
fully 81, 500.
The Wheeling and Lake Erie rail-
road has been completed to Steuben-
villa
JESSE HEADINeToN, aged 81 years, Of
Mt. Vernon, survivor OF the Mexican
a. we'll 40 the civil war. committed sui
eide by swallowing arsenic dissolved in
whisky.
JACOB KoRNTHAL, q married man,
agad twenty-five, killed himself at his
d home in Cleveland. Kornthal had been
i'll for several weeks and had lost much
time from work. He had frequently
threatened to kill himself.
l THE State Convention of the Knights
OF Labor of Ohio will be held at Gallon
on December %, the same time as the
Farmers, Alliance. ~ tdE
The Superior Court of Cincinnati has
affirmed the decision Of the Hamilton
County Common Pleas Court against the
Cincinnati Inclined Plane railroad of
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