The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-07-16
OHIO STATE NEWS

TO Otner 1nfantS
ALL rowboats on the Ohio hereafter
out at nights must carry white light
on the bow.
JAMES DAVIS was caught between en-
gine belt and fly wheel at Gallipolis
and fearfully crushed.
A CHAMPAIGN county farmer cut six
teen acres of wheat which averaged
thirty-fve bushels to the acre.
CHARLES LEE was elected postmaster
of Green Spring.
SECRETARY OF STATE RYAN has APP
| proved the Common Sense poll-book.
| and tally-sheet," designed by Short and
| Forman, of Cleveland, and it will be-
adopted by the election boards through
ont the state as the one to be used un-
der the new election law.
CARL LEvIcK, bitten a month ego
while in the field barefoot, by an un--
known kind of snake, died at Spring.
field the other morning in agony. The
| poison had dried up his stomach and
made the liver as hard as knot
| A TELEGRAPH operator at Falls juno
ton went to sleep at his instrument
Two freight trains collided and five men
| were crushed.
G. STAIGER, of Portsmouth, died
from drinking ice water while over
heated.
WILLIE MILLER, aged Z, was blinded
by stone-throwing playmate at Day
| ton
CONTRACTOR II. p RICHARDSON, Of
Newark, was arrested for sending ~
threatening postal card through the
| mail.
STEUBENvILLE has an artificial ics
factory.
MEASLES are raging in Meigs county
PROF. FROST, of Oberlin, married Ella
Marsh, of the senior class.
j. D. CARTER was crushed to death at /,
barn raising in Noble county.
j. w. BARRY, Cardington lawyer.
had his right leg cut off by the cars.
In freight wreck on the Fort Wayne,
railroad, near Massillon, two fiat cars
were wrecked and ten threshing ma
chimes were dumped into a creek.
MRS. JoHANNA'GARDNERw was killed by
an engine at Cleveland while picking =
up coal.
GEO. VAN SICKLE, an eighteen-year~
old boy, sentenced to the penitentiary
from Coshocton county for three and
a half years for shooting to kill, was
transferred to the reform farm by order
of the governor.
MAX CoPPERMAN, accused of firing
his sleeping wife's clothing, is honora-
bly, discharged at Cleveland, as it was
proved that it was the deadly cigarette
she was smoking that did it.
AT the Eleventh Ohio district repub-
lican senatorial convention, held IN
Springfield, Hon. d. W. Rawlings, OF
Clarke county, was nominated for statn
senator.
LIBERTY CENTER, Henry county, poo :
pie think that there is fortune be-
meath them and they will bore for OIL
and gas
WALNUT and poplar logs are being
shipped from Muskingum county to-
England.
The Republican central committees =
has selected the following executive,
committee to have charge of their cam
paign: George Fields, Toledo; A. s.
Bushnell, Springfield; G. d. Firestone
and NJ. R. Patterson, Columbus; John
Whiting jr., Canton; ]. E. Loves, Day
ton; Z. S. Wilson, Ironton; NJ. T. Her
rick, Cleveland, and H. B. Morehead.
Cincinnati w. II. Hahn, of Mansfield,
is chairman of the committee and W.
S. Matthews, of Columbus, secretary
A FRIGHTFUL gasoline explosion AZ
Akron fatally burned Charles II. Hell
wig and quite seriously George StubbsA
&, The men were employees of the HiH
F.. Sewer Pipe works and were emptying q
! barrel of gasoline into gas machine
l. when in some unaccountable manner
. the fluid ignited and blew up. A column,
of fire rose to a great height and en-
veloped Helwig in a mass of fire. He
rushed toward pile of sand and buried
himself in it, extinguishing the fameA
He was horribly burned, scarcely q
portion of his body escaping. Stubhs
was much more fortunate and his in
juries are slight.
The board of managers of the penf-
tentiary at their regular monthly meet
ing, few days ago, paroled the follow
ing prisoners: Timothy Donovin, Ham,
ilton county, two years for grand lar
ceny; Gertie Williams, Belmont county,
seven years for shooting to kill; Robert
Downing, Lucas, three years for at@
tempted rape; w. H. Wells, Hardin.
three years for attempted rape; Robert
Purcell, Sandusky county, four years
for robbery; James L. Downing, Pauld-
ing county, four years for burglarYs
i, John Campbell, Lawrence county.
I seven years for burglary and larcenys
= George Jones, Madison county, threa,
!. years for burglary; Charles Kline, Starh
. county, two years for burglary and lar
ceny.
n A SHELBY COUNTY farmer has an oli1-
sow that is adept at milking cows
L GRADING has beer. commenced on ths-
new Sandusky and Columbus short kne
railroad.
AL BAUGHMAN, farmland, living
) near Alliance, accidentally shot hin-
self dangerously while out hunting.
DARKE CoUNTY's wheat will averages
, 22 bushels to the acre
The state bar association will meet
at Putin Bay July 1917.
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