The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-01-08
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

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GovERsoR CAMPBELL has pardoneal
Frank Rowe, on the representation Of
the warden and physicians of the peni-
tentiary that he is in the last stages Of
consumption. Rowe was sent mp in
January year ago from Darke County
fer four years for burglary and larceny.
VALENTINE BoHLENDER, eighty-four
years Of age, and one Of the pioneer
German citizens Of Dayton, met his
death by falling down stairs at his resi-
dence. His skull was fractured, and
his death resulted within few minutes.
He was very highly respected.
CORNELIUS LAwRENcE, . coal miner,
at Turner's Station, three miles west Of
New Philadelphia, had his arm shot on
the other morning, while fooling with
q loaded shotgun.
THE post-ofice at Minerva was raised
from the fourth 10 the third Tor presiden-
tial) class January I. paA
PC. CALLAHAN has fled suit in court
at Urbana, against the Erie railroad for
5000 damages. The suit IL TO recover
that amount for the loss Of both legs Of
his son Willie, at Mingo, several weels
ago. y 't3 it 9t pan A2f 3'e
LOUIS LAcLEDE, performer In va
riety theater at Columbus, sustained &C.
rious Internal injuries the other night
by q fall from q trapeze. Z
Ed =. IRWIN, young single man,
was celebrating the birth Of the New
Year at Dennison by firing off a revolv-
! or, one chamber Of which refused to ex-
v1r~da ord L., o%<>sxr<sx<~ %<~ ,.~,,, o,,n a.
cartridge It exploded, the ball entering
1rwin's stomach. He is still living, but
with small hopes of his recovery.
An old man named Alfred Lyon was
struck by Panhandle passenger No. z,
near Pataskala, and instantly killed.
He was, walking along on the north
track and did not hear the engineers
warning. He was aged about 7S years.
His body was horribly mangled by the
wheels.
GOVERNOR CAMPBELL has ordered q
special election in the Seventeenth
Twenty-eighth district, for a successor
to the late Senator Zimmerman to take
place on the 18th inst. t
The Governor has appointed DR.. Will
liam T. Miller, of .Cuyahoga County, a
member Of the State Board Of Health
for the term ending December 13, 1896,
vice d. H. Beckwith, term expired.
ST.. ANTHoNY's Catholic Church, Mi
Ian, Erie County, was burned New
Years day. Cause, defective furnace
CAPTAIN Jos. ERWIN, 90, the Oldest
man in Clark County, died the other
morning. He came there from Cincin-
natl, and was an Ohio river captain for
80 years.
ELMIRA NEEDLES, an unmarried wom-
an 81 years of age, who made her home
with widowed sister on a farm seven
miles south of umbus, in the village
of Groveport, committed suicide by hang
ing herself with a clothes-line, which
she, attached to beam in an clubhouse
She was Respondent on account Of ILL.,
health.
ELI Foster, convicted at Athens, Of
murder in the second degree, has been
sentenced to the penit-ntiury for life.
THE Ohio National Guard association
will hold its annual convention at the
First Regiment armory, in Cincinnati,
January 2s and 30.
ELLEN j. McCoMB began suit in the
common pleas court, Findlay, the other
day, for $1,000 damages for breach of
marriage promise against John f.
Franks, the son of wealthy farmer in
Allen township. Both the parties are
prominent young people.
JOHN MACKENZIE, aged seventeen, Of
Cleveland, committed suicide on &C.
count of disappointment.
Miss LILLIAN ROBERTSON, Amy Coyle
and some children were playing on a
pile Of lumber at the Panhandle depot
at Newark, the other evening. The
lumber fell, burying the Robertson girl
beneath it, and seriously and probably
fatally injuring her. Her breast was
crushed in. Both Of the other children
were slightly hurt.
GEO. SNYDER, Of Cincinnati, nine
year-old child, leaning out third-story
! window, q few days ago, lost his bal.
ance and fell in q full length position tc
! the brick pavement in the rear of the
/ building. In his fight the boy struck
! slantingly against q two-story frame
/ house abont six feet from the ground
The body then alighted full force on the
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conscious, and II was thought every
bone in his body must be broken. But
on examination It was found that not I
bone was fractured, and tho body wal
but slightly bruised. He recovered con
sciousness in q few minutes and is al
right, The fall was twenty-seven fee
and two inches. , .aa
i AT Lima, Peter Boose, his wife ant
two-year-old child narrowly escapes
suffocation by gas from 9 stove.
| AN explosion Of q boiler in the sau
sage factory of Ben Lowenstein
Bros, Cincinnati, damaged six small
dwelling houses; killed Jennie Grey
| aged four years; fatally injured Mr.
Loewenstein, aged eighty-eight, an
less seriously injured several other pc,
sons. VIM. Longlutz, q butcher VIII
ran the engine, was arrested for run
ming an engine without license; ais
his employer, Ben Loewenstein. Tn
loss to property is about 5000. n