The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-09-17
OHIO STATE NEWS.

settlement
w. c. AUSTIN, of Geneva, fell from
his wheel by sudden attack of illness,
and the wheel of a heavily loaded brick
wagon passed over his shoulders He
may recover
ABOUT $4,000 Ohio farmers raise to-
bacco, and $4,000 acres are used to grow
the weed.
MRS. JAY Woop. of Coshocton, has
sued the parents of her husband for
alternating his affections.
MRS. LAURA G. EDwELL committed
suicide by jumping from the east bridge
at Cardington into the mill-dam. She
was demented, the result of severe
case of la grippe last winter.
The Forty ninth o. v. l., Gen. Glib
sons old command, held its annual re-
union, few days ago, at the fair
grounds, near Tiffin being the thirtieth
anniversary of the departure of the
regiment for the front. There are
about 200 survivors of the regiment
present
The unveiling of the soldiers monu-
ment erected by the citizens Of Scipio
township, Seneca county, in memory of
the dead heroes of the late war took
place the other afternoon at Republic
under the auspices of the G. A. r. post
of that village. Appropriate addresses
were delivered by Hon. d. d. Hare and
Allen W. Smalley, of Upper Sandusky.
1t was beautiful day, and fully six
Thousand people were present.
BRYAN's natural gas well is down
over 2,025 feet, and gas is looked for
daily.
The Junior O. U. A. M, of Wells
vile, have presented American flags to
public schools there. The Catholics
also raised an American flag on the
parochial school.
GALIlpoLIs strect-cars gather up
about Sl0o each week and pay out S4S
for operating expenses.
The Canton & King Co., of Cleveland,
will bid on 1,0o0-foot bridge for the
Imperial railway of China.
WHILE Isaac Nichols, living near
Cardington, was threshing the other
day he had runaway, d;slocating his
shoulder, breaking two ribs, leg broken
in two places above the knee and per-
haps internally injured.
WHILE jumping over q fence near
Shawnee, Geo. Rifles gun discharged
and blew off his right hand.
LIZZIE BETscH aged II, Of Columbus
attempted suicide by taking paris
green. The stomach pump saved her
life.
FARMER Peters killed twenty-four
copperhead snakes in fifteen minutes
near Carrolton, a few days ago.
AKRON Hebrews have organized a So
cial society.
AT Youngstown, contractor VIM.
Holtzworth and force of men were
engaged in erecting masonry for the
outlet of large sewer when derrick
broke, striking Francis Peters, a ma
son, on the head instantly killing him.
THE canal commission found that an
acre of valuable ground in Cleveland
and ten acres in Muskingum county be-
long to the state.
PERRY's victory was celebrated at
Put-in-Bay a few days ago. EX-Presi-
dent Hayes delivered the address.
ALLIANCES free fair will be held Oc-
tober 10.
JACOB II. SHAFFER, a wealthy farmer
of Champion township. Trumbull coun-
ty, accompanied by his daughters Ella
and Plunna, was run down by Penn
sylvania Co. express the other morn
ing, while driving to the Trum bull
county fair. All three were instantly
killed
BURGLARS entered the store of w.
| II. Nees & Son at Uniontown twelve
miles from Akron, and secured 81, 500
| in money and notes. the other night.
| They entered through a window and
blew the safe door out with powder.
| Officers have no clue.
THE following post offices will be
raised to the presidential class October
/: Bedford and Salineville.
Browns RUN, three miles northwest
| of Middletown, boasts of being possess
ed of the smallest living woman, Ella
Tickel, daughter of William Tickel. a
well-to-do farmer Miss Ella is now
thirty years of age, having been born
in 1851, at Miamisburg. When born
she was of natural size, and continued
to grow and develop until three years
of age. She is but twenty-eight inches
tall at the present time, and weighs but
thirty-six pounds. Her parents are of
the usual size, and her five brothers
and five sisters, some of them grown to
| manhood and womanhood, are endowed
with all the gifts of nature.
SHELBY county has 6S4 ex-soldiers.
ST. CLAIRsvILLE has let 81, 800 con-
tract for an electric light plant.
The other morning Mrs Fl. M. Pan
| cake entered w. R. Cooks saloon, in
| Van Vert, with a basket of brick-bats
| on her arm. She first accused the pro-
prietor's son of selling her husband
liquor and demanded the return of SIS,
which she said had been spent in the
place. The young man denied that any
liquor had been sold to Mr. Pancake,
whereupon the enraged woman threw
brick-bat into a fine eight-by.
twelve-foot French plate-glass mirror
behind the bar breaking itinto thou
sand nieces Then going ont she