The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1890-12-04
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

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THE 1000 inmates Of the Ohio peni-
tentiary enjoyed extra privileges and
dinner on Thanksgiving day.
WILLIAM STEWART, in q quarrel at B
dance in Van Vert, shot and killed Ham
Prooit and Oliver Ramsey. All are col
ored
AT Moore's post-offloe, Adams County,
the residence Of Mrs. Annie Bayler was
robbed OF $50 in money and $125 worth
Of jewelry and clothing.
THE Commissioner Of Pensions has APP
pointed DR.. ]. L. Slayer Pension Evan
lining Surgeon at Paulding.
WILLIAM KIMMELL. a blacksmith OF
Hubbard, was using a pair Of pinchers
to pull the shoe of pony, when the
animal kicked, driving one Of the
handles of the pinchers into his head
over the right eye and coming out over
the right ear. He was taken home in
an unconscious condition. and, though
still living at last report, there is little
hope of his recovery, owing to the in
jury to the brain.
WHILE Michael Hogan, hooker-up at
the mills of Andrew Bros. & Co., Youngs-
.
iron through the rolls, he slipped and
was carried into the boxes, his body be.
ing whirled around seventeen times be-
fore the engine could be stopped. His
right arm was torn off. ribs broken and
his head crushed. He died in few
minutes. Hogan was twenty years old,
and unmarried.
Mrs. HENSON, wife Of John Henson,
OF the West Side, Portsmouth, while re-
turning homo the other evening after
obtaining supplies for Thanksgiving in
Portsmouth, fell dead near the west en-
trance of the Scioto river bridge. The
body was found shortly after death en-
sued, as it was still warm. Mrs. Hen
son was about sixty years old, and had
been troubled with heart disease for
some years.
FRANK DULIN, brakeman in the Big
-Four yards at Columbus, was run over
by locomotive and instantly killed.
His home was in Delaware.
REPRESENTATIVE ANDREW JACKSON,
OF Green County, is in a stew Twenty
four boils have popped out all over him.
THE jury in the trial of w. H. Clark,
at Columbus. charged with criminally
assaulting Mollie Beitinghaus, an eleven
ycar-old girl, returned verdict Of
guilty Of rape, the penalty for which is
imprisonment in the peniten tiary for
life Clark is the soldier for whom De-
tective James j. Murphy went to Cali
fornia last September, and, stopping of
at Ogden, Utah, mysteriously disappear
ed his dead body being found some
weeks later in o ditch where he had
been drowned.
Tie semi-annual report of the State
Sinking Fund Commission for the six
months ending November Is was filed
with the Governor few days ago The
total receipts, including balance Of
$243, 119 IS, we're $500, 470 90, and the dis
bursements $311.2l2 53 The pu bile debt
during the six months was reduced $780,
600, leaving the total debt OF the State,
the last of which natures in July, 1900,
at 50, 2,541, ,685.
THE population Of the penitentiary
for the past year was daily average of
1859; in 1887 the daily population aver
age was ,401; in 1888, 1890, in 1889, L.
497. The past year the average has been
1O2 more than ever known in the history
OF the prison One hundred and twenty
four U. s. prisoners have been received,
and 7Ss State prisoners, or total of OIL.
The releases are as follows: pardoned,
United States, 8; State, 3S; by expira-
tion of sentence, United States, 90;
State, $40; by parole, State, 1888; died,
United States, 6; State, 81; escaped.
United States, 1; State, IL; returned for
new trial, United States, /; State. Is;
number continued in prison October 81.
1890. United States. 207; State, 1, $50; to-
tai, 1,557; in prison November /, 1889,
United States, 1877; State 1892; total,
1,509. There have been 130 paroles
granted, which makes total Of 655
since the law was enacted, May 4. 1885.
AT Youngstown singular coincidence
has occurred Of two men by the same
name, though not related, recovering
Judgment against two different railways,
each for personal injuries. John w.
Henley commenced suit against the p,
and L. E. railroad, and secured judg.
ment of 81, 600, which has been affirmed
by the circuit court. John w. Henley,
on the same day, recovered judgment
against the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and
St. Louis railway for personal injuries
received in this State. The two men
have never seen each other. and yet the
two cases are similar in nearly every
particular. VS.
JOSEPH DONOVAN, who killed John
McManness in Findlsy over year ago,
returned from Canada the other day and
surrendered himself. He is charged
with rnurdar in the aecopd dooroa
ULRIc CAMPBELL, colored man con.
victed in Lorraine County about three
years ago Of rape and sent up for fve
years, the other morning developed the
possession Of nerve that entities him
to the belt He was paroled ON the 9th of
October aud has since been working for
Manager Watkins near Prospect. A few
days ago he went back to Columbus and
had been hanging about the prison with
| tho intention, IL was supposod Of sur-