The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-07-23
OHIO STATE NEWS.

after receiving great honors in Europe
Gov. CAMPBELL has pardoned III. A.
Smith, the Wood county bigamist In
accordance with the request of the par
don board.
STATE RAILROAD INSPECTOR Nc
INERNA finds that the rules of the COM .
rany made the Ravenna wreck possible,
and censures the freight crew for grosa
negligence
MRS. MIDDLETON, of .Pisgah, came to
life Just as the undertaken was about
to lay her out.
THE state board of equalization add
ed 10 per cent. to the valuation OF prop
erty in Cincinnati, and permitted farm
lands in Hamilton county to stand as
returned.
MRS. d. P. GEORGE, of Mt. Gilead,
put her one.year old baby to sleep
on the lounge and left the house. Re-
| turning after the brief space Of ten
minutes she found the child on the floor
| dead.
THE wife of Hon. M. Stuart, a prom
inent lawyer and vice-president OF th9
Ohio State Bar association, at Ravenna.
died from the effects of twenty grains
of corrosive sublimate taken with sui-
cidal intent. She was prominent So
ciety lady. Ill health is attributed as
the cause for the deed.
WHILE playing about her fathers
rendering establishment at Tiffin, the
four-year-old daughter of Samuel Del
mer fell into a kettle of boiling water
and was seriously and probably fatally
scalded.
THE valuation Of Cleveland real es-
tate was reduced from 81 TIC to 20 Per
cent, while the farm lands of Cuya-
hoga county were reduced from s to
10 per cent in the state board Of equal
ization.
SPECIAL AGENT WINDOW has recomv-
mended the property at the corner OF
High and Market streets, Akron, of~
fered by the Union club for $4,000, as
the site for the public building at that
place.
ACCORDING to census bulletin Cuyar-
hoga county is the only county in Ohio
which does not own a county aims
house.
THERE was a bad wreck on the Chit
cago and Erie railroad at Hepburn, q
station five miles east of Kenton.
Swift's refrigerator meat train east
running special, ran into the worle,
train pulling in the siding, killing ninS
laborers and injuring many othera4
Both locomotives are in the ruins, with.
ten or twelve cars.
The strike of the five thousand miners
on the Cleveland, Lorraine and Wheel
ing road and the Wheeling and Lake
Erie extension to secure the nine-houl
day. has been settled by conferences
between the operators and miners,
representatives, and work was resumed
The men accepted nine and one-half
hours to May next. They abandoned
their claims on deficiency of work.
MCCoNNELLsvILLE band returning
from funeral played "The Girl Left
Behind Me-"
The fve-year-old son of Henry
Menke, living near St Johns, Mercer
county, fell under a wagon, which
passed over his neck killing him.
TOLEDO has now forty-fve letter car
riers.
GALLIPoLIs voted strongly for cleo
trio light.
A New LISBON farmer has IT'S, 900 cell
cry plants.
EDWARD SPRINKLE was disembowel-
ed by hay-forl at Youngstown, while
putting away hay. He will die.
LAKE SHORE train killed Tabor
Wood, aged 92 at Oberlin.
THE penitentiary contains 1,631 male
and 33 female prisoners. Of this num-
ber 122 men and women are serving
life sentences. Several of the life-men
are serving for rape. On April the
prison contained ell federal prisoners,
since which 80 have been discharged
and SO received, making the total 27O
at this time. Clerk Reeves has for
warded the government bill for keep
ing these men calling for So, 312. 90 for
the past quarter.
RUFUS TAYLOR, Of GAINESVILLE, q
brakeman, was killed near Dresden
THERE are 4,975 head of sheep in
Hamilton county, with tax valuation
of $12, 524.
WIN. TURNER, ex-county commission
er, and his nephew, Frank Turner, had
bloody fight on the formers place
near Portsmouth. Frank lives on his
uncle's farm, and for some time there
/ has been bad blood between them. Tho
other night the uncle went over to-
serve notice on Frank to get off the
place. He was met at the gate by the
latter, who went at him with an ak.
Mr.. Turner is giant in stature and the
fight was terrific one. When Chief
of Police Schmitt went over to arrest
the nephew next morning, he found
him almost dead with frightful cash
in his forehead and similar one in the
. back of his head The ex-commission-
er was also in a serious condition. Both
men are prominent in the county
MRS DIR. S. HOLLOWAY, of Spring.
field, received authoritive news that
she is the only heir to $1,000, 900 left
r her by an uncle, Sir James Baxendale,
OF Manchester, Eng, whom she never
saw. He was noted for his large woolen
mills, and died year ago The execu-
tor has been searching for Mrs. Hollo-
way ever since.
Z A REII.ARR man has nafanfod ..