The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-09-10
OHIO STATE NEWS.

c1ded by pouring coal oil over his clotn-
ing and setting himself on fire. He was
insane.
TUESDAY, October 6, has been fixed
upon as Democratic Governors day,
and the Democratic state committee
has sent invitations to all the demo-
cratic governors in the country to be
present on that day.
ARTICLES of incorporation have been
drawn up and will be filed with secre-
tary of state for mammoth enterprise.
The project is to pipe Lake Erie water
through central and southwestern Ohie
10 Cincinnati, taking IN the mort in
portant cities ana towns along the
route. The counties through which The
great piFe line is to PASS ave saaAssky.
Erie, Seneca, N5nnSot, Marion, Bella
psse and Frankliu, and frea Csl~nbw
through the southwest ~ Heniltoa
sOSaty ana OlAslnU3 he COMPANY
is composed of Fromi6At capitalists of
this state. While the corporation will
not have a large capital stock 10 start
on, II will be increased tenfold whom
oYsroti0s an connasea- Tks par
poss q - eeaaGsag h - supply tAs
iahnA statsss ssd tow.s via p~ss lake
water. The point frSm which y b -
be pipsd Is eAaAuslry.
THE county commissioners OF Cham
paign county, have awarded ~ con
tract for the building of the Childrenb
home to the Piqua LuMbsr Co, at S11,.
sts 80.
Ar Clyde fair, t3ss sSl.sx afternSeA.
during the rases, three gTAs attempted
~ ossss ne typ>k oud ~ - 6hsA
daughter of VIM. Grover, aged seven,
YVES struck on the head " the thin 0f
| . sNlky, and so seriously haiussd NbaA
she died In an hour.
JAMES LESTER, of East Liverpool.
was committed to the county jail q
New Lisbon, few days ago for dY~nls-
enness, being unable TO pay his hsA
! During his incarceration his luck has
changed. His wife has received word
from Scotland that by the death Of an
uncle he had become heir to an estate
| of $s5, 900.
ANNIE EMERICH, aged II years, played
with matches the other evening, at
from her clothing catching fire that
death resulted next morning.
YHE following Ohio boys have been
appointed cadets at West Point: G. w.
Moses, Edentown, and E A. Feazel, of
Lodi
JOHN w. BooKwALrER expresses his
belief that the price of wheat will
reach 81. so.
MISS SARAH JOHNSON, aged go, was
burned to death by an exploding lamp
| ct Eaavike.
BERT ZIMMERMAN, of Springfield, was
bramped to death by team Of horses
1t Lancaster.
A GREAT gas well was drilled at
Leipsic the other afternoon by J. Gu
sack. The well is q strong one and Is
good for 9, 500, o0e feet per diem. The
town will be piped at once.
A. C. HUTCHINSON died in Springfield,
the other morning from blood poison.
Several weeks ago Mr.. Hutchinson was
troubled with a corn on his right foot,
Pnd in pairing off the offensive growth
he wounded his loot. 0angrene set In
and finally blood poison. Deceased was
"a years old.
NICHOLAS WEBER, the old man who
shot his son-in-law, Philip Buhlman, at
Mansfield, the other afternoon, and
then fired seven shots into his own
head, is still alive and likely to recover,
though four bullets are still imbeded in
his head, the surgeons being unable to
locate them by probing. Buhlman,
who stopped Weber's bullet with his
teeth, has a badly swollen jaw, and Is
in about as bad condition as Weber.
TOLEDO comes to the front with one
Of the largest casks now in use In this
country 1t is of oak, weighs 40, 600
pounds and holds &C, 900 gallons of wine.
It is twenty feet high and rests on a
massive cradle of oak, which raises II
about three feet from the floor.
THE Ohio State fair, at Columbus,
September 1919. promises to be the
most successful of recent years.
THE United States Baking Co., that
controls factories and the cracker trade
in this and surrounding states, the other
day completed the purchase of tho Bau.
man Bakery and Cracker factory in
Dayton and has taken possession of the
plant
THE state senatorial convention Of
districts Twenty-fourth and Twenty.
sixth, was held in Cleveland few days
ago. The late President Gardeld's son,
James B. Garfield, was a candidate
from Lake county. He was showed
under on the first ballot by ex-Speake,
Lampson, of Ashtabula. Lampson re.
ceived los votes to Garfield's SO.
THE Cincinnati tax commissioners
are stirring UP taxpayers with Q shary
stick. So far they have summoned
about one hundred wealthy men who
failed to make accurate returns Of thei,
personal property.
WAYNE county gets the Ohio agrieul-
tural experiment station. for which
s100, 900 will be put up
MARTINS FERRY has a new Ere alarm
system just like the big townA
Two Dayton young men drove liv-
cry horse at such furious pace that II
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