The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-04-30
OHIO. STATE NEWS.


Ar Canton Joseph Kaiser, an eighteen
year-old boy, was attacked by a vicious
bull, which he was leading. and thrown
. considerable distance against fence.
He remained unconscious about six
hours His injuries are internal, and
will probably prove fatal.
The Hooking valley miners and oper-
ators have come to IN agreement on q
basis of roc per ton and nine hours labor
per day.
The Tiffin woolen mills have been
sold to q Canadian firm, and will re-
sumo operations, giving employment to
$50 hands
Both houses of the Ohio Legislature
have agreed to the conference commit
tee report on the Australian ballot bill,
and 1t thus has become law. The bill
embodies all the essential features Of
the election law in force in Australia.
Blanket ballots and county boards Of
elections are provided for.
The Ohio State Association Of Mex
lean War Veterans will hold their
seventeenth annual reunion in Sidney
on Thursday and Friday May and 8,
1891.
LITTLE WRIT ALLEN, the two-year-old
son of Oscar. Allen, who lives near
Portsmouth, had a fearful experience.
While playing near the house he fell
upon huge black snake summing itself
on the hillside The suddenly awaken-
ed reptile struck the little fellow seven
times about the feet and body. One Of
the wounds is almost in his eye. The
child's screams brought his mother, who
arrived just as the snake began coiling
around the baby. The mothers screams
brought speedy help, and his snakeship
was promptly dispatched. The dead
reptile measured six feet in length. AL
though the bite was not considered
dangerous, curatives were administered,
and the little fellow is doing well.
JOHN GRAHAM, aged 1S years, fell in .
well at his fathers residence near Cald-
well and was drowned.
Gov. CAMPBELL has pardoned Mason
L. Award, sent from Fulton county on
six years sentence for rape.
Four children at the county home,
Woodsfeld, were poisoned few days
ago by eating the roots of weeds which
they dug from the garden. Serious re-
suits were at first feared, but the child
rem will all recover.
MANSFIELD complains that medical
students are scattering decomposed re-
mains around the city.
Mr.. AND MRS. JACOB RICK, aged re-
spectively n and 7e years, died the
other night within eight hours Of each
other, OF la-grippe, at Gallon.
MRS. WILLIAM SHILLING, of Ruraldsle,
Muskingum county, was burned to death
by her dress catching fire.
MASKED robbers secured 81, 500 Of
aged Mr.. and Mrs. Sutton's wealth with
revolvers at Cassville, and escaped.
An epidemic Of measles has closed tho
public schools at Killbuck, near Millers-
burg.
MUCH damage was done by the storm
the other night throughout central
Ohio.
AT Cadiz Geo. Coleman, an incurable
but heretofore harmless lunatic, shot
his sister in the back, then fred again,
the shot taking effect on the girl, her
mother and Coleman. It is believed the
girl will die.
Gov. CAMPBELL has nominated as q
| member of the board of trustees for
the Toledo asylum for the insane Henry
Rohrs, of Napoleon. Henry county.
He succeeds Trustee Campbell, whose
term recently expired. The senate re.
ferred the nomination to the committee
on benevolent institutions and recon-
mended it for concurrence, which was
agreed to by unanimous vote.
| GEO. GRADER, of Cincinnati, worth.
less fellow, who had been separated
from his wife, returned to demand OF
her portion of an inheritance in Ger.
many, and because she refused to dc
anything for him, shot and killed her
and then blew his own brains out.
In accordance with the recommends.
ton of the board of pardons, the gov.
ernor has respited Stanley Jones, the
Lake county man, sentenced to be hang
ed May 1S, until June 10.
| MRS. URIAH MILLER, aged 80, of East
Liberty, six miles from Akron, wa.
found by her husband the other night
in COW stable dead. Heart disease
the probable cause.
THOMAS G. THOMAS, miner employ
ed in Clover Hill mine, Of the Fox Lake
Coal Co., Massillon, died the other night
from injuries received Tuesday by Z
fall of coal.
ASHER PosT, aged IS years, q farmer
residing four miles northeast of Crest
line, was killed by passenger train.
CoLoRED citizens Of Columbus hav.
raised fund to contest the division of tn.
congressional grant between Ohio state
university and Wilberforce. Hr
The Peters Cartridge Co. has secured
Q verdict against the p, c. & St. L. Ry
Co. for 8ee,o 900 damages in the King'l
mills explosion case.
STATE SENATOR MORRISON has re
signed, to accept position in the cit,
government of Cleveland.
w. II. MABrINo. freight agent Of tn,
Cincinnati and Muskingum Valley rail
road, died at GAINESVILLE of pneumonia
following the grippe. He was 40 year
old and had been c0nnected with kha q