The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-01-29
AID, HILLsBORO. O.-THURsDAY, JANUARY 90 1901.
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

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MARION COUNTY Farmers Alliance
elects E. Conley president.
THE formal opening of the GAINESVILLE
city hospital took place few days
since. Rev. j. G. Holiday recited the
history Of the enterprise, and Rev. f.
Richards delivered the dedicatory ad-
dress.
EX-SENATOR T. C. SNYDER, Of Can
ton, met with painful accident the
other evening. In his hurry to catch q
passing street car he slipped and fell
down the steps of his business Office,
breaking his right leg The same leg
was broken some six years ago by be-
ing thrown from q buggy.
DR.. JORDAN, Of Johnstown, Licking
County, became respondent and COM
mitted suicide by swallowing NOR
phine.
TREASURER vErTH's defalcation at
Upper Sandusky forced his old father
int0N bankruptcy.
FARMER THOMAS G. BOND, Of New
Vienna, is crazed by the death Of an
only son and was sent to the Athens
asylum. 5'f go 4fJ
STEWART LAKE was probably fatally
injured by being struck in the face with
baseball bat by companion named
Priest. Both boys live in Madison
township, near Newark.
A TALL, thin lady, well-dressed and
aged about As, journeying from Sharon.
Pa, to Cincinnati, became suddenly in
sane and is in the Dayton Jail
THE towboat Silas P. Coo burned to
the waters edge while lying at the foot
of Vine street, Cincinnati. Loss 818,OO
with S12, 900 insurance. The watchman,
VIM. Carney. was burned 10 death.
PATRICK LEO and George w. Moxham,
held at Dayton for counterfeiting, had q
hearing before United States Commis-
sioner Corwin, few days ago, and as
the prisoners would not tell where they
got the coin they were passing, both
were held to answer to the United
States Court at Cincinnati in the sum of
| $1,000.
A. c. CHAPMAN has been appointed
postmaster at Thorndyke, Portage
County.
THOMAS MrERs, aged over 100 years
and his wife ea died few days ago,
and were buried together at Akron.
GOVERNOR CAMPBELL has pardoned
Henry Frohman, recommended at the
last meeting of the Board of Pardons.
Frohman was sent from Hamilton Coun-
ty, last October, on a sentence of year
for cutting.
bon, willed his entire $1,000 to his per-
f-.l1
THE Senaca County Farmers Insti-
tute closed two days session at Tif-
fin. Officers were elected as follows:
President, Samuel Baker; vice-presl-
dent, B. f. Tomb; secretary, James II.
Knapp; treasurer, Isaac Baldwin; ex-
ecutive committee, 3. F. Moore and D.
F. German.
AN indictment against Henry Free
man, at Cadiz, for voting twice at the
last November election, has been
| quashed, the document not stating for
what officials the election was held
| Freeman was released on his own reoog-
nizance.
! HUGH M. THOMPSON, of Sidney, was
elected Senator to fill the unexpired
term of Senator Robertson, deceased.
| Thompson is Ill. The vote was light.
| JOHNNY MOORE, blacksmith OF
| Barnesville, fell down stairs and broke
| his neck.
FARMER B. w. BANB fell from a
wagon at Dayton, dead, of heart dis
case.
The Third and Thirteenth regiments
o. N. O., have consolidated.
| L. fooC a. a. =
other day.
| MRS. LUCY WOODMAN, a widow fifty
| years of age, on return from q meat
shop, Dayton, the other evening, drop
ped dead on the kitchen floor. She
was subject to Mysteries and easily ex-
cited by the school children who passed
her door. On her return to the house
she complained that the children had
been teasing her, and a moment later
fell dead.
CANTON was visited by gang Of bur
glars the other night and several
housee were entered The home of John
McGregor, ex-county clerk, was burglar.
lied and two gold watches and chains
with an overcoat secured. Loss about
$780, The North Cherry Street school
house was entered, and an organ cover
end some property Of the scholars taken.
At the house of N. Holloway nothing
beyond pair Of overshoes was missed,
although the house was ransacked An
attempt was made TO enter the house
OF Geo. G. Lindsay, but the burglars
were frightened away. Next morn.
ing the store-room Of jacob SpideH
was entered and furs 10 the value OF ESQ
taken.
REV. TIMOTHY HowB, one OF the old
est ministers IN the country, was ad-
judged insane the other day by Probate
Judge Rees at Newark. He Is eighty
SIX years Of age, and being nervous, he
endangered his life by escaping from
his home and wandering on the railroad
track.
In Dayton saloon, the other night,
jacob Schmidt, o6 years Of age, was al
the bar drinking o glass Of beer and