The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-12-24
OHIO STATE NEWS.


COLUMBUS, u, Dec 10.-William Ed
ward Fitzgerald, murderer of Police
officer Freed, of Youngstown, was
hanged Thursday night in the annex of
the Ohio penitentiary. At exactly mid
night Fitzgerald, accompanied by
Father Logan, stepped with an easy,
springy gait upon the stage. The
straps were adjusted, and as those at
the knee were buckled, the prisoner
said, referring to the pain: "You know
that 1 am bow-legged." He looked
very handsome with his black suit
and his white tie. His face, clean
shaven, was deathly pale, but he showed
no symptoms of weakening. All things
necessary were quickly adjusted. He
was asked If he had anything to say.
i"No. "he answered. Then. looking into
the crowd, in a loud tone he called out,
Goodbye Doctor" He bade good
bye to the priest, thanking him for his
kindness; muttered a prayer, the black
cap was put on. the moose pulled tight
", and at 1903 the trap was sprung.
He never moved after the fall of seven
feet. In just thirteen minutes he was
dead.
A BOILER exploded Mt the Wallace
brick yards, near Steubcnville, killing
an en,ploye and domolishing the
works.
THE citizens of Stark county think q
work house is needed, and have taken
steps to establish such an institution.
The Mt. Blanchard Oil and Gas Co.
is preparing to drill number of test
wells in the vicinity of Mt Blanchard.
LATTY, near Van Vert, has an cpl.
,demic of diphtheria.
JOHN ARMENIA is under arrest at Alli-
ance charged with burning his build
ing.
R.. NJ. PETRIE, of Chagrin Falls,
pierced his hand with scarf pin and
blood poisoning set in.
WILLIAM MCNEvINs was killed in q
hand-car accident on the Lake Shore
road near Sandusky.
MRS DAVID GOLDMAN has sued a
Cleveland gambling house to recover
81, 165. alleged to have been lost by her
husband at faro.
BUcYRUs hasn't an empty house.
A FALLING tree killed Jacob Smith
near Defiance.
YOUNGSTOWN organized q company to
prospect for gold in Georgia.
JOHN LYNCH, a miner, was killed at
Buchtel by Thornton Sampson. an ex-
convict, who was subsequently hustled
out of town to prevent lynching. A
quarrel, begun by the murderer, was
the cause.
THE Jackson club of Columbus has
completed all the arrangements for it's
regular sth-of-January banquet and,
like its predecessors, it will be one of
the opening political events of 1892 on
the democratic side.
MRS. MARTHA CRADLE lives in an old
log house. near Plain City. She has
three children, the eldest of whom is
Amanda, comely girl of 16. and Mrs.
Cradle, though poor and ignorant, is
very fond of her, and properly careful
as to her choice of associates. Recently
the old lady sharply ordered young
suiter of her daughter, named Peters,
to leave her presence and stay away,
under threats of severe corporal punish
ment and the other day. when she saw
young member of Columbus anna
teur camera club focusing his instru-
ment on the house, she elevated her
spectacles on her wrinkled forehead
and remarked: There's that pesky
Peters talking through telephone to
Mandy, sure's shootin'." Then she
took down an ancient shotgun, which
was loaded for small game, and delib-
erately blazed away with it at the sup
posed Peters, tearing the face of the
camera into flinders and perforating the
amateurs coat-collar with bird-shot.
The young man vacated the premises
without asking for or Offering an ex-
planation.
THE annual Ohio Agricultural con-
vention will be held at Colum bus, jan
uary IA.
A WooD county weather prophet pre-
diets thirty heavy snow storms this
winter.
Work of grading the Sandusky &
Columbus Short Line will be pushed
right along.
COLUMBUS elks will erect $35, 900
club house.
OVER $4,000 has been subscribed for
public crematory at Cleveland.
AT East Liverpool stream of oil 200
feet high, which gushed from newly
bored well, burned for thirty hours
Tools, etc, valued at So, 500, were de-
stroyed
TwENTY-sEvEN oil wells are in drill
ing in Sandusky county.
THE commissioners of Knox county
have Leen asked to purchase the fair
grounds of Mt. Vernon, upon which the
county holds a mortgage for $1,000.
The Ohio university, at Athens, has
241 students. The trustees will ask for
an appropriation of 81, 800 the coming
session OF the legislature.
The corporate limits of Fremont are
to be extended three-quarters of mile,
which will include the villages of Ball
vile and Stony Prairie.
A NUMBER of Paulding county farm.
ers sold their live stock to a stranger,
and now hold worthless checks as a
valuable lesson.
The Union Window Glass works
were destroyed by fire at Bellaire, and
George Stewart, fireman, perished in