The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-03-05
OHIO STATE NEWS.

THE Standard oil company has pur-
chased the refining plant ard oil terri
tory of the Geyser oil company, at
Lima. The reported price is ssO0,OOO.
JAMES MUSTARD, of PEBBLES, stabbed
his wife to death, and then ended his
own life with dose of rough on rats.
Domestic quarrels.
ELIZA J. SAVIOR, who was badly in
jurcd at the bridge catastrophe in
Springfield, last April, has sued the
city for IS, 900 damages
J. II. MoLL, of Defiance in his efforts
to commit suicide, cut his throat, stab
bed himself and then threw himself be-
fore a railway train. There is grow
ing suspicion that he was murdered.
The hardware store of A. Brose, at
Sciotoville, was burglarized and goods
and money to the amount Of $500
taken.
AT Marysville, David Latimore plead
ed guilty of shooting with intent to
wound, and was sentenced to one year
in the pcnitentiary.
ALLIANCE has debt of $4,000
CAPT. A. w. Hell is bridegroom for
the third time at sixty-one and Miss
Maggie Brown is bride at Martins Fer
ry.
JAMES M. AYREs, OF Cincinnati has
been appointed U. 8. consul at Para,
Brazil.
AT. Louisville, narcotics were given
A. Douglass Walser, an insane man,
ito quiet his nerves." and he died from
their effects.
VIM. GILLESPIE, an old engineer, was
fatally .scalded by the cylinder head
blowing off an engine at one of the Fire
Clay Company's works at East Liver
pool.
MRS. COOPER Brock, living four miles
west OF Jeffersonville, gave birth to a
child recently. The child had two
teeth at it's birth.
SENATOR RIcHARDs'bill providing for
separate toilet rooms for female en-
ployes ut factories and workshops Is
now law.
WIN. D. SHEPP, fireman on the
Cleveland and Pittsburgh railroad, fell
from his engine at Bellaire, and had
both legs cut off, and was so badly
mangled that he died.
THE men confined in the penitentiary
annex, under sentence Of death, have
taken cranky" spell during the past
few days. 1t appears that they are dis
satisfied with matters in general, but
the special grievance complained Of is
that their barber has been changed. In
q note to the warden they say that ''the
new barber has tendep ~ to make
their faces sore," and conclude by re-
questing that the old barber be re-.
turned to serve them as their tonsorial
artist. Ed. Mccarthy, the Cincinnati
man who is sentenced to be executed
on April 8, is the scribe of the party.
The complaints have become so pro-
nounced that q set of rules has been
adopted for the government of this class
of prisoners.
A NOVEL and exciting race occurred
the other day ON the cemetery road,
near Portsmouth. Officer Flannigan
was in pursuit OF an escaping prisoner,
who was little too fleet for the bluo-
coat. Pistol shots only seemed to &C.
celerate his speed. At the ''cut" in the
road Flanagan overlook hearse and
mounting 1t, made the driver put his
horses to their utmost speed in pursuit
of the runaway. The fugitive could
not leave the road on account of the
| high bank on either side, and when he
saw the officer laundering down on him
with hearse, he concluded it must be
q case of dead or alive" and threw
up his hands. Officers, rs q
general thing, don't go after their man
with hearse, but when they do, II
seems the moral effect is tremendous.
Mr.. CUTTER introduced joint resolu.
ton in the legislature to submit to the
people an amendment to section OF
article of the constitution, so as to al.
low three-fourths vote of q Jury to
render a verdict in civil cases.
The store of T. Desiletts, at Gallon,
was entered by burglars recently, who
carried of large quantity of razors
and other cutlery. :.
DAVID HILEs, young married man
aged about thirty years, while operat
ing an emery wheel ut the Hooking
Valley Manufacturing Company's agri
cultural implement works, Lancaster
was fatally injured by the wheel burst
ing, a fragment striking him on thu
right of the chest, cutting the collar
bone in two, fracturing two ribs, laying
open the thoracic cavity and ipjurin.
the top of the lung. He died abou
three hours after the accident
FoURTH-CLAss postmasters were mp
pointed few days ago as follows:
Laughlin, Chaseville, Noble county
h. 8. Klingeman, Ellsworth, Mahonin1
county; ]. H. Swope, Maple, Brown
county; W. j. Booth, Postboy, Tuscara
was county; 8. Hidy, Redo, Pauldinl
county; G. Urmston, Wood, Butler coun
ty. So
| WM. MoReRIDaE, a farmer near Plail
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