The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-12-10
OHIO STATE NEWS.

ANOTHER big gusher has been struck
In Cass township, Hancock county.
BowLINe GREEN and adjoining coun-
ties are going to build q soldiers me-
mortal hall.
The Tiffin Glass works has closed
down indefinitely.
P1QUA will wheel into line and organ.
ize Y. nj. C. A.
STREET cars are running in Lancaster
for the first time.
A NEW glaze mill will soon be in
operation Mt Youngstown.
AN anti.horse-thief association has
been organized at Newark.
URBANA is moving for government
building.
Mrs. LEAH SANDERS, an old lady,
died. the other morning, . few miles
south of jackson. She was the widow
Of James Sanders one of the first
school teachers in jackson county.
Some years ago the record of her birth
was burned up, but from her best recol.
lection, she was about 115 years old
She was hale and hearty, never taking
any medicine. She died from old age.
Mrs. LOUISA LEPLEY, one Of the two
Shelby county pensioners Of the war Of
1912, died suddenly the other morning
while handling her pension papers
She was "a years old.
THE resignation of R. j. Tanning,
captain of Battery H, of the First Regi-
ment Of Columbus Light Artillery, has
been received by Col Brush. Although
no action has yet been taken, there is
no doubt but that the resignation will
be accepted.
HUNTERS have killed q number Of
wild turkeys near Ottawa, Putnam
county.
AsHrABULA has half as many saloons
as Youngstown, although the latter's
population is four times greater.
IHE Columbus Pension agency, the
past fiscal year, paid nearly $4,000, 0Oe
to 7s.613 pensioners.
A PROJECT is on foot to build an cleo.
trio railway from Wooster to the state
experiment station.
JOHN Hicks, a farmer near Lima, re.
fused food to tramps, and they gave
him terrible beating from the effects
OF which he died None of the MUIR
derers have been captured
THE other morning the children of
Chris McNeal chased rabbit into
small rick of straw near the barn at
Unionville, and set fire to the rick to
smoke the animal out. The barn
caught fire from the flames and burned
down, with several bushels of wheat
and ton of hay. The children
thoughtfully removed a horse and cow
from the building in time to save them
from perishing. The rabbit gots away.
REUBEN BUTLER, a leading lawyer of
Somerset by mistake swallowed digita-
lis in place OF dandelion, and was saved
from death by prompt resort to emetics
and the pump.
A LARGE derrick at one of the
Epileptic Asylum colleges, now in pro-
cess of erection, at Gallipolis, fell the
other evening with terrible force while
being lowered, breaking the leg of Jack
Falkner, and severely injuring Jack
DuFour, both of whom are employed at
the work.
THE annual report of the Athens In.
sane asylum trustees was filed in the
governors Office few days ago. There
were admitted during the year 246
patients, and there are $40 patients al
together. The expenditures last year
was $215, CSC. IA, and appropriations are
asked to the amount of $130,O5O.
THE following fourth.cla postmas-
ters were commissioned a few days ago:
E. A. Higgins, vice c. II. Conway, re-.
signed; j. r. Drummond, vice s. Z. Md
dy, removed, at Boggs, Gallia county;
j. W. Woodworth. vice C. j. Frisbe, re-
signed, at New Lyme Station. Ashta-
bula county.
JOSHUA SIEBERT, a farmer living near
Galloway county, while crossing the
Big Four track in a two.horse wagon
near his home, the other afternoon was
struck by passenger train, and he
and the horses were instantly killed.
Gov. CAMPBELL the other morning
released four murderers from state
prison. John Moore, who, in a drunken
spree in Cincinnati in 1876, killed an or
gan grinder named Greensburg, and
was sent up for life, had his sentence
commuted to % years, which, with good
time earned let's him out at once. VIM.
Taylor, another Hamilton county man,
sent up in 1884 for numbering his mis-
tress for Is years. had his sentence
commuted to 10 years, and he walks
out a free man. The life sentence of
A. A. Wachler, of Lancaster, who killed
saloon keeper in 1885, was commuted
to 10 years, and he will be released at
once. The fourth murderer released
was Gamuel Durham, sentenced in Lo-
rain county in 1881 for life for killing n
man named Stone. Durham was par
doned.
The authorities of Lima will not al
low locomotive whistles to be footed
within the corporation.
THE Postal Telegraph and Cable Co.,
has enjoined the Defiance Light and
Power Co., from stringing wire in
streets now used by the former COM
pany
AT the Dayton Soldiers home thanks
giving the 5000 veterans ate 4,5OO
pounds of turkey. six barrels of cram
berry sauce, 30 arrels of stewed onions
and 1,30O minee pies.
MACK CHATHAM cut William Smiths