The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-06-04
OHIO STATE NEWS.

you are dead, dead, dead!'
CHARLES CRAIG, the murderer will
be hanged on July 10, unless the gov
ernor interferes. The other morning
the circuit court made final entry in
the case affirming the action of the
common pleas court. The clerk was in
structed to draw up a warrant on the
warden Of the Ohio penitentiary, order
ing him to carry out the order of the
common pleas court on July 10 next.
A YOUNG child of Alexander Crisman,
residing at Cable, Champaign county,
was fatally poisoned by drinking BIZ
chromate of potash.
HORSES and cattle are dying in large
numbers in the neighborhood of Chan
dlersville from disease the veterinary
surgeons pronounce la grippe.
THE board of pardons, in the case Of
Stanley c. Jones, the Lake county man
sentenced to hang June 10, recon-
mended to the governor that the sem
tence be commuted to life imprison-
ment
WARDEN DYER, a few days ago, re-
leased from the penitentiary twenty
three good-time prisoners under the
new law.
SPRINGFIELD has captured the first
state convention of the new peoples
party recently organized in Cincinnati
The date is Wednesday, August S.
AT Bellaire, Mack Torbett, B. and
o. man, was run over and killed by the
accommodation train the other evening.
ERsKE PosT was fatally hurt by fall
ing on the saw at mill in Washington
c. II.
THE store of Lewis Holmes at
Brownsville, Licking county, was en-
tered the other night Powder was
used and the safe blown open. Over
$500 in cash was obtained. The robbers
made good their escape.
W. w. VARNEY, in the penitentiary
for the Niche robbing at Cincinnati,
has sent word to c. H. Price, arrested
for completely, exonorating him, and
! saying it was Billy Boquet, now dead,
who helped him.
Six tramps boarded freight trains at
Ashtabula and before they were driven
away badly injured Conductors Geo.
Shepard and John Burns. Two of the
tramps were captured
BURGLARS went through the Stark
county poor house.
| BOYS and matches set fire to large
stock farm at Urbana.
AT New Philadelphia Henry Wehely
was convicted of murder in the first de-
gree for the killing of James Booth.
ISAAC DEwIT's residence burned al
Mt Gilead, and his mother perished in
the flames.
THE republican judicial convention in
the Seventh district has been called to
meet at Portsmouth on the Gath day of
June.
THE state board of pardons reorga1f-
lied the other day by electing John R.
Malloy president and L. A. Koons Sec
retary.
PAPERS have been served by Sheriff
Custer on e. l.. Harper at the peniten.
tiary, notifying him that he had been
sued in the superior court of Cincinnati
by the Merchants National bank, of
Hillsboro, to recover $4,000, with in
terest at per cent, from April s, 1887.
The writ is against ]. c. Thomas ct al,
executor, ct al. Harper must answer
by June 20.
ALEXANDER CAsEMAN, of Lima, aged
eighty-three, who married three months
ago, has sued for divorce on the ground
of desertion. The wife is sixty-five.
MARTIN HOWE, an old soldier residing
in Jackson, was robbed at Springfield
of 800 and watch while asleep, and
Walter West, of Yellow Springs, got
drunk and nearly drowned himself in
the Arcade fountain.
JAMES BECK, at Martins Ferry, quar-
relied with his son John and shot him
fatally.
ATT'Y-GEN WATSON says the good.
time convict law OF Ohio is not retroac-
tive.
The Barnesville fair association has
made an assignment
The grand lodge Knights of Pythias
held their meeting in Cincinnati. The
chancellor in his report said he had ad-
mitted 50 new lodges to the order in the
past year, making 495 lodges on May 1,
with membership of $4,000. This is a
gain from July 1, 1890, to May 1, 1891,
of $3.50. This is an excess over the gain
of last year Of 500. The Tuesday after
the second Sunday in June is set apart
as memorial day for the order by the
supreme lodge, to which fact he calls
attention in his report.
THE report of the condition of
the state treasury at the quar-
terly examination, made Monday,
May 4, by Auditor of State Poe and
Treasurer Brown, was fled with the
governor a few days ago 1t shows
balances as follows: General revenue
fund 1851, ,s64.75, sinking fund 81, 1885,
253. 45, common school fund SIG, 785. SO.
WILLIE COCHRAN, a twelve-year-old
lad, attempted to board Norfolk and
Western passenger train, at Ironton,
missed his hold and had his feet ampu-
tated
1T is said that the damage done by
frost to the Strawberries at Barnesville,
will reach $4,000
81 MORRIS, proprietor OF the Peoples