The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1890-05-15
STATE NEWS ITEMS.


jackson, was burglarized and So5 in
money taken.
A BRANCH Of the Amalgamated Asso-
citation Of Steol and Iron Workers has
been instituted ut GAINESVILLE.
OwEN MCDONALD was arrested at
Lima for stoning G., Il. & d. passen-
ger train.
CHARLES HALLETT, aged about 20, In
Jail at Athens under an Indictment for
murder in the second degree, dropped
dead the other night. He was afflicted
with pulmonary affection.
JAMES MORGAN HIATT, professor Of
modern languages at the University Of
Cincinnati, has boen appointed to the
chair OF rhetoric and English philology
recently established at Cornell UNI
versity.
THE body Of Daniel McNally, who
mystcriously disappeared from Canal
Dover last Christmas, has been found In
the Tuscarawas river.
HILLsBoRo will adopt standard time
June 1.
AUDITOR Of State Poe announces that
he is ready to issue warrants for the re-
funder of the fishing-net tax The per-
sons who paid the tax should send proof
of their claims and receipt for the re-
funder, and the warrants will be for
warded at once.
THE ten bills providing for the erec-
tion by the Federal Government Of
buildings in Ohio towns, introduced in
the Congress, are for the following
places: Youngstown, Lima, Defiance,
Hamilton, Akron, GAINESVILLE, Steuben-
vile, Piqua, Fremont, and one for in
creasing the limit OF the cost Of the
building already authorized for Ports
mouth from $50, 900 to SIS, 900.
DURING q quarrel at Sciotoville, be-
tween Jared Clark and Grant Pennell,
the former shot and seriously injured
the latter An old grudge was the cause
Of the trouble.
TIE Democrats of Tuscarawas County
will hold their Convention at Now Phil
adclphia, June Z.
JAMES j. ANDERSON, of Springfield,
crazed on the subject OF religion, has
been sent to the Dayton Asylum.
THE Marion County Medical Society
has elected the following officers: Pres
ident, A. NJ. Crane; vice-President, j.
A. Mouser; secretary, e. d. Lake; treas
urer, o. w. Weeks.
IDA SHAW, aged six years, was struck
by tho engine Of passing train at New
ark, and instantly killed.
WM. KING was kicked to death by o
colt in Auglaizo County.
TIE Mexican War Veterans Associa-
tion closed their sixteenth reunion at
Mt. Vernon, the other day. The next
reunion will be hold at Sidney, May Z
and s, 1891.
WM. Z. BUNDY, of Cincinnati, o
nephew of ex-Governor Foraker, and
Miss Lecdom, daughter of John p. Lee
dom, late Sergcant-at-Arms of the House
Of Representatives, cloped to Coving-
ington, Ky, and were married at an
early hour the other morning. The
lovers met only four days before, in a
stage-coach in Adams County.
GEO. STUMP, q young man resident Of
Buena Vista, while returning from
| church, got In q quarrel and had his eye
punched out with an umbrella. He was
already sightless in the othor eye.
THE executive board of the Ohio Dis
trict of United Mine-W Workers has fixed
on the following scale for day labor:
Drivers, So O5; No. track layers, 50 25;
inside laborers, So; trimmers, 81 90;
bumpers, 81 90; fircmen, 81; outside la
borers, 81 75. This is on advances in
the majority Of districts, the largest be-
ing about 90 per cent.
THE carpenters strike at Youngs-
town, inaugurated some days ago, was
settled on the 9th, the contractors allow
ing an advance Of twenty-five cents per
day and nine hours to constitute day.
A MEETING OF the Republican State
Central Committee will be held at Co
lumbus, May 90, to fix time and place
for holding the State Convention.
The Senate passed the pension APP
preparation bill with Sherman's amend
ment. which provides for division of
Ohio into two agencies.
THE city boundaries OF Dayton have
been extended, and the population, 1t is
claimed, will thereby be increased to
10000.
MARTIN DIETZ committed suicide at
Akron by tying one end of rope, made
OF cloth, to spike iIr the wall, and the
other end about his neck.
FRANK BLocKsoME, aged fifteen, en-
ployed by Charles Almendinger, living
six miles south OF Marion, had his skull
crushed by being kicked bya colt. 1t is
feared he can not live.
WIN. II. DYER, an electric light line
man In Cincinnati, took hold Of '1ive"
wire, the other day, and was hurled
from building and sustained probably
fatal injuries.
TnOs. GADDIs was killed by cars near
Madisonville.
w. j. GLEASON has been appointed
Comptroller of Cleveland.
PRESIDENT HARRISON will be present
ut the dedication of the Garfield monu.
mont at Cleveland, Memorial day.
Six hundred coal miners struck on the
9th at Bellaire and Cambridge, against
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