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

OlAlL NL VO llLMOs
A BOILER exploded in the drill house
ut the works Of the United Salt Com.
pany, on the lake shore, in the eastern
part of Cleveland. The boiler was
broken into fragments and the drill
house wrecked. Martin Schearney was
killed, Frank Geiner perhaps fatally
scalded and Thomas Fox, the engineer,
was scalded and had both legs and one
arm broken. Another man is missing,
and it is feared he was blown into Lake
Erie.
+ 6 DAYTON Soldiers Home had 4,50o
pounds of turkey and 1900 mince pies
among Christmas rations.
AT the penitentiary 1,80O convicts
were allowed to exercise the gift OF
speech and were served with an extra
holiday dinner Christmas.
The Ohio Oil Company, the land de-
partment of the Standard Oil Company,
with headquarters at Lima, has in
creased it's capital stock from $500, 900
to Ss, ,OOO, 900.
JOHN DREANY's clearinghouse and
Hall & Giniby's store, at Jacksonville,
burned.
MRS. g. w. D1LLMAN, aged fifty-five
years, fell on an icy sidewalk at Can
ton, and fractured her skull.
MRS. ARIA MYERS, who obtained q
divorce from her husband recently,
tried to commit suicide the other even
ing by taking huge dose of morphine.
A physician with stomach-pump saved
her from the effects of the rash act.
Cause, disappointed in love.
ELIZA TERHEIDE, a soldiers widow
aged so, died in Cincinnati of age, want
and exposure.
SECRETARY RYAN reports 1919 incor-
poration certificates issued last year;
total capital stock, $aS3. S65, 900. The
greatest increase of capital stock was in
building associations, amounting to S32,-
900. 600 more than ever before.
CHRISTMAS while firing cannon
made of gas-pipe, at Wellston, Allen
Emmert, son of Nickel Emmert, met
with most serious and perhaps fatal
accident. The cannon burst, and one
half of it entered the inner side of the
right thigh, tearing away all the mus
cular structure and lodging in the hip,
near the spine, from where it was re-
moved.
ED. MCCARTHY, the murderer OF
young Charles Nedderman, at Cincin-
natl, was sentenced by Judge Maxwell
to hang until dead April 3next. Conse-
quently Charles Craig, the assassin OF
Anna Craig, will have partner on the
gallows.
Mr.. JAMES BOOTH was murdered by
his farm hand, Henry Worley, at his
home, near Newcomerstown, while
seated at the breakfast table Christmas
morning.
jacksonville boys tried to encour-
age bonfire by pouring powder on it.
They have retired from society until
the skin grows again on their faces.
THE beautiful white Christmas was
general all over the Ohio valley.
AT Canton Herman Koch, a deaf and
dumb man, beca me insane and at
tackled members of his family with a
butcher-knife. He was captured after
hard struggle and landed in jail.
JAS. SMITH, aged Sand Geo. Kneisley,
aged IL, sentenced to the penitentiary
from Richland and Montgomery Coun-
ties for burglary and forgery respective
ly for two and three years each, were
transferred to the Reform School at
Lancaster by the order of the Governor.
LEVI JACKSON fell into an ore crusher
in brick-yard at Steubenville, and was
crushed to death.
The grand tax duplicate for the State
for 1891 is S1,777, ,S2s, 145, an increase OF
So. .G25,S01.
CANTON captured wild man in the
woods of Sugar Creek township and his
name is Daniel Crosley.
JOHN l.. TIsDALE was convicted OF
murder in the first degree at Lancaster
for shooting Geo. L. Boyer.
DIR. JOHN DAVIS, one of Cincinnati's
most prominent physicians, died sud.
denly Christmas night.
A YOUNG daughter of Sophia Walters,
of near Caldwell, died the day after
Christmas from eating too much candy.
MRS. E. M. SPRAaUE, of Cincinnati,
was found dead in bed by her husband
She was the victim of chloroform taken
to relieve toothache.
SLEETER BULLE, son of a farmer siz
miles southeast of Sidney, celebrated
the third anniversary of his birth the
other day by falling in a well. The
hole was twenty-nine feet deep, and CON
tanned nineteen feet of water. 1t had q
pump in it, and as the boy went
down feet first, he showed unex
ampled presence of mind by
throwing one arm around the pump
stock. A woman saw him fall. She
got long-handled rake, reached dowr
to him, and he grasped it. He lifted him
self too far out Of the water by this ani
his weight soon broke his hold. Agar
he embraced the pump, and held on un
til rope was procured. A man de
scended and the boy was saved.
THE woman killed in the Bolival
/ railroad wreck has been identified al
Betsey Lindsey, of Fremont.
MRS. w. A. ATKINSON, of Fremont
was burned SO badly by her clothing
| igniting from gasoline stove that sh'
| died.
THE new bridge over the Ohio con