The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-03-26
OHIO STATE NEWS.

q grave for his horse unearthed q box
s240 in silver.
A LITTLE son Of VIM. Torbet, residing
at Bayard, near Canton, set fire to hay
in his fathers barn while carelessly
matches, and burned the build
ing to the ground. Cora, his ten-year-
old sister, was playing in the hay-loft at
the time. Her father, hearing her cries
for help, burst open the upper door, and
the little one jumped into his arms, not,
however, before her hair had all been
burned off and her body badly scorched.
She will probably die.
V. EMERIcH, revenue officer, and
his assistant from Toledo, arrested
farmer near Delphos, for Illicit distilling.
Other arrests will follow.
SPRINGFIELD has appointed COM
mission to redistrict the city into six
wards under their new charter.
GEORGE PooRMAN disappeared from
GAINESVILLE recently, and few days ago
his body was found in the Musskingum
river. Despondency, caused by over
work, is supposed to have driven him
to suicide.
The ]. & A. Simpkinson Company,
dealers in boots and shoes, Cincinnati,
assigned. Assets 100000, liabilities
$400, 600.
In Newton township, Licking county,
VIM. Darcus was crushed under a fall
ing tree. His injuries are serious.
JOHN NEEDHAM, of Mt. Oreb, return
ed home from visit and found his wife
drowned in cistern.
The president has appointed George
H. Sharp postmaster at Willoughby,
vice John A. Ellen, commission expired.
DWIGHT o. DENT has a mania for
burning money, and is under arrest for
insanity at New Philadelphia.
ELEVEN cars loaded with sheep and
hogs were ditched the other morning
by broken rail on the Pennsylvania
near Ada. Most OF the stock was
killed.
THE will of Mrs. Henry Roth, q
wealthy lady of Bucyrus, who died a
few days ago, was admitted to probate
the other morning. The conditions are
peculiar. She wills all h er property to
her husband, who survives her, if at the
end of five years it will be found that
he has visited her grave not less than
ten times.
MARGARETHA RUNNING, 90 years old,
died at New Bremen of la grippe, leav-
ing three children, seventeen grand
children and twenty-one great-grand-
children.
WM. A. STEVENS was acquitted of the
killing of Chas II. Wood, Cincinnati, by
Coroner Bange. He found that the
shooting was accidental
EUGENE RITCHART, aged 81 years,
committed suicide at Fostoria by shoot
ing himself through the temple. De-
spondeacy over ill-health and business
reverses the cause. He leaves widow
and one small child.
GEO. FINK and wife, of Reedsburg,
Wayne county, died within fifteen min
utes of each other the other night.
Fink died of Inflammation of the bow
els, and Mrs. Fink dropped dead from
heart disease onto the death-bed of her
husband A
THE senate, the other morning, re-
ceived from the house message an
nouncing that the house had passed the
Cincinnati new charter bill with certain
amendments and asked that the senate
concur in the amendments. The senate
concurred in the amendments by q
unanimous vote, twenty-one members
voting. In order to clinch this action,
Senator Richards moved to reconsider
the vote by which the amendments
were adopted, and stated that he
made the motion with the pur.
pose of voting it down. The motion
was defeated by unanimous vote. After
this action a motion to reconsider car
not be entertained and the bill is ire
vocably law.
"BIG LIZ" CARTER, the Cincinnati
murderess, has been found guilty o;
murder in the second degree.
A NoRwALK jury acquitted John Rec.
charged with arson.
EX-SENATOR MAJ. JOHN b. WILLIS
TON, of Fostoria, is dead.
THE Macarthur grand jury has in
dicted John and George Monroe ant
George and Isaac French for riot, per
jury, shooting with intent to kill ant
assault and battery.
Rev. JASPER SMITH, Of GAINESVILLE
died from Bright's disease.
Mr.. HUNT, Of Sandusky, introduced
in the House joint resolution to sub
NIT to the people at the Novembel
election the question Of amending tn,
constitution SO as to provide for bien
nial elections. The amendment pro
posed provides for municipal electioni
in the fall of odd years and state ani
county elections in the fall of ever
years. 1t is to do away entirely will
spring elections.
EDWARD KRKENDALL, of Hamilton
Junction, came near bleeding to deatl
from cutting his foot with an ak Will,
chopping.
FRANK EhLINeER is in Jail at Findlay
for forging telegram on which he OBJ
tanned $12. 81
A WOMAN and child were burned Il
death in frame house near the Come
mines, jackson.
AT St. John, Henry Elking and hi
sixteen-year-old son, were thrown from
. load OF hay and badly injured.
]. L. DEAN, a brakeman, on tn
Wheeling and Lake Erie. vyas Crusho,