The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1890-07-17
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

gold watch and 81 behind drawn re-
volver.
Miss HoRTENsE MAPEs has sued John
F. Harper, banker Of Chagrin Falls, for
$4,000 damages for breach Of promise.
She was his typewriter
HARRY d. LrLLIBRrpaE, Sixteenth
District, has been appointed cadet to
the U. s. Military Academy at West
Point.
THE census returns show that in some
OF the densely populated sections Of Gin
cinnati the average number OF persons
to house Ia as much as 17.A
CHARLES PBTRE, o young farmer liv-
ing near Springfield, while unloading
hay was struck on the head by heavy
fork, which broke from rope. His con-
dition is serious
THE approximate population Of Hills
boro, according to the census, Is four
thousand, an increase Of nearly one
thousand since the last census.
MRs. JOHN ALBRIaHT, of Republic,
was kicked by horse and seriously in
jured.
AT Tiffin, Joe Thomas, colored
crook, was fined $40 and sent to the To-
ledo workhouse for thirty days for peep
ing into the windows of residences.
A STATEMENT from the Post-office De.
partment shows that Cincinnati is sixth
place as to gross receipts, and at the
bottom Of a list Of twenty-nine cities as
to per cent. OF increase.
Hon. j. G. WARWICK, who was Lieu
tenant Governor while Hoadly was Gov
ernor, wSs nominated by the Democrats
Of the Sixteenth Ohio District for Con-
gress. This is McKiniey's district.
Mrs II. X. HOUSE, wife OF Norwalk's
ex-mayor, loft her home at Kent to 20
to church on Sunday. No trace of her
can be found since.
EDNER Brown, aged twenty-seven, o
brakeman on the Ft. Wayne railroad,
jumped of a passenger train west Of
Canton, tho other afternoon, and fell
under the wheels, having both legs
taken Oft at the knees He can not re-
cover
Mrs. ]. w. You've. who resides several
miles north OF Newark, was badly bitten
by copperhead snake which was lying
coilcd up on u shelf in tho cellar. Be-
fore physician could arrive, her head
and face were terribly swollen and it was
some time before the swelling could be
reduced. The snake, which was fully
three feet in length, was killed.
THE original 'Globe Tobacco Ware
house." Cincinnati, the old portion OF
the -Waterfeld Company, was
destroyed by fire the other night, togeth.
er with about one thousand hogsheads
OF leaf tobacco. Tho total loss is put at
$3.50, 900.
SOMETHING remarkable happened near
Sidney to COW. There were two large
trees close together on the edge of a
clover field. A fence touched either
tree, but the gap had no fence. The
COW squeezed into the gap, and without
passing through began to browse. She
soon began'to swell with gas generated
by tho green clover, and to get her out
one of the trees had to be cut.
MRS. NICHOLAS HUFFMAN, of Tiffin,
while leading COW to water, was drag
ged into the river and nearly drowned.
By decision Of Judge Campbell,
recently, GAINESVILLE policemen will re-
ceive sixty dollars back pay.
RECRUIT Michael Kopesake, tried be-
fore tho General Court-martial at the
Barracks, Columbus, on the charge of
deserting, has been sentenced to two
years in Fort Leavenworth Military
prison, to dishonorable discharge and
forfeiture Of pay.
WAD. UNDERWOOD and wife, Of Wash
ington, c. H., are parents OF one Of the
smallest midgets on record. The little
thing is seven months old and weighs
but four pounds. Its hanA are not much
larger than a postage stamp and its fin-
gers about as large in circumference as q
slate pencil. The strangest thing about
1t is thatthe diminutive creature seems
to enjoy good health.
AT Lima AL Ray attempted to kill
himself by grasping an electric light
wire, but was prevented by his wife.
WM. ORsINGER was seriously injured
by runaway team ut Upper Sandusky.
JACOB PENCE is under arrest at West
Union for violating the local option
law.
BucYRUs is excited over the depreda.
tions 4 burglars, dozen or more houses
having been entered in two nights
EDDIE SNYDER son of Edward SNYDER.
OF Vermillion, fell into an old we'll and
was instantly killed.
THE Post-ofiice Department has estab-
lished money order and postal note Of
fees as follows: Money order-Helena,
Sandusky County; Jewett, Harrison
County; Catawba Island, Ottawa County;
Hagerman, Darke County, Bonneville,
Ross County; Charlottesville, Muskin-
gum County; Conover, Miami County;
fitchyille, Huron County; Iberia, Nor
row County; jackson Center, Shelby
County; Martinsburg, Knox County;
North Georgetown, Columbiana County;
Ontario, Richland County; Richmond
dale, Ross County; Tarlton, Pickaway
County; Tedrow, Fulton County; Thomp-
son, Geauga County; Wilkesville, Vim
ton County. Postal notes-Blue Creek,
Adams County.