The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-05-21

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retary of the local league of associa-
tions.
Hoe cholera, the disease that caused
SO much loss to Madison county farm.
ers last season, has broken out afresh
in different parts of the county with
devastating effects.
MAYOR JOHNSTON, of London, has is
sued a proclamation requiring all sa-
loon-keepers to keep their places of
business closed hereafter on Sunday.
The Sunday closing ordinance has been
openly violated during the past year,
and the outcome of the new order is
awaited with interest.
The Clark county prohibitionists
have put ticket in the field.
STRIKING miners at Coshocton have
resumed their picks.
KITTREDaE & WILBY, attorneys, have
sued the receiver of the Fidelity Ma
tional bank of Cincinnati for $4,000 as
fees in prosecuting the suits against the
directors.
ATToRNEY-GENERAL WATSON, at the
instance of State Superintendent of In
surance Kinder, has commenced proceed.
| ings in quo warranto in the supreme
court to revoke the charter of the Man
ufacturers' Mutual Fire Insurance Co.
of Columbus. Superintendent Kinder
finds the company to be insolvent hay;
| ing omitted from it's annual statements
items of liabilities.
WIN. STEWART, who murdered Hamil-
ton Prooit, at Van Vert last Thanks,
giving, pleaded guilty and was sem,
fenced to the penitentiary for seven
| years.
FRANK LUCAS, tho eleven-year-old
son of Hezel1iah and Anna Lucas, re-
siding in Oak Run township, Madison
county, undertook to ride a high-spir-
tied horse from the corn-feld to the
house. The animal took fright, threw
the boy from his back and dragged
him quarter of mile, his feet being
caught in the harness. Death was the
result =, l~
A BODY of man. murdered and buried
months ago, was plowed up on the Har-
rison farm at Cleves.
TRADERsvILLE horses have the CLAN
ders
WILLIE GoULDY and Clinton Wads-
worth, two young men from Yelling
ton, pleaded guilty at Elyrin to assault
Ing Tom Chin Sing, laundryman, and
were fined 5000 and costs and six
months in the work house. They then
changed their plea to guilty of robbery
and were committed to the penitentiary
for one year.
The general store of Charles McCon-
key, at Catawba, was burglarized the
| ~ ,irr1, nd TO-,
A CREMAToRY is to be erected at
Lima
THE number of delegates apportioned
for the Ohio republican state conven-
ton is 727.
By a blunder in engrossing the law
establishing depositaries for certain
Ohio cities the very ones for which the
law was made are shut out from it's
provisions
FRANK B. WALKER, Of Cleveland has
been promoted from a 81, 200 to 81, 400
clerkship in the general land Office.
AT the Cincinnati hospital Michael
Rudelen had his left upper jaw remov-
ed as relief for cancer.
A JURY at Toledo has convicted Rev.
Father R. F. Quigley, of refusing to
make report Of the pupils attending his
parochial school, as required by the
compulsory education law.
ONE thousand men are idle at Ashta-
bula, on account of the strike of the
coal and ore handlers.
GEORGE SrENsEL, of Cincinnati, has
been sentenced to imprisonment for
life for criminal assault committed
upon his fourtcen-year-old daughter on
the night Of the day he buried his
| wife.
OHIO Mexican vets will meet at Chill
licothe next year.
VAN VERT is out $50, 200 worth of
buildings by fire.
A WORTHLESS and vicious bulldog at
London attacked the fve-year-old son
| of Andrew McClimans and tore him to
pieces.
AT Fort Jennings, while unloading
threshing machine near the railroad,
projecting timber was struck by pass
ing train and three men were killed
and several others hurt
MRS. MARGARET LANG has confessed
stealing watch in Cleveland in 1874,
for which ofense John Gassaway, OF
Steubenville, served q two years sem
tence.
CADIz has repealed the local option
ordinance passed four years ago.
Mr.. WV. T. MCLEAN, OF Sidney, was
elected secretary of the state board of
public works. The board has deter
mined to appoint special officer to de-
tect and prosecute persons who allow
oil to run into the Mercer county reser-
voir.
DANIEL STANFORD. aged twenty-fom
and unmarried, was killed in West Mas
sillon No. . mine by fall Of slate from
the root. II was the first day he had
worked after three months sicknesA
AT Bentonville, Sam Leedom shot
Frank Stevens. Who was Q witness
egsinst Willie Le4dom, The quarrel
/ Grew out Of what 6tsvsnss proposed to
teatify q The ElAl