The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-04-16
OHIO STATE NEWS.

NVSlIOWN mas suOppeu ploWiuk uho
gone TO digging since local minerolo-
gist claims to have discovered gold and
copper in the soil.
The Mansfield electric street railway
has been bought by a local company
from the bondholders in New York.
Clarke Rude, of Sanduslxy, is the heav-
lest stockholier.
PERRY E. WEYeRANDT, aged % years,
school-tsacher of Marshallville, sui
cided by shooting himself in the fore
head. He lived an hour after commit.
ting the deed. No cause known.
NEAR Spencerville two-year-old
child of r. Winters was perhaps fatally
hurt by being struck on the head by a
fiat-iron, which fell from an ironing
board.
A PARTY of capitalists at Youngstown
will organize company, with capital
Of s4OO,O to build plant for the man.
ufacture of shect-iron lath, to take the
place of wooden lath in the construc-
ton of buildings
THERE is proposition to consolidate
the Hooking Valley Coal and Iron Co.
and the Ohio and Western Coal Co.,
and capitalize the new company at $9,-
400, .W
FIRE destroyed the Cincinnati Union
Stock-yards the other night. 1t burned
over ten acres of shielded ground, and
the loss is put at $4,000
w. H. ATKINSON, brakeman on the
Muskingum Valley railway, had hand
crushed SO badly at Trinway as to rem
der amputation necessary
A SPECIAL election for local option
was held in Jackson township, Shelby
county, the other day The vote cast
was precisely that cast for governor
339-and was as follows: Montra, ''wet,"
e3; 'dry," 81; Jackson Center, "wet,"
81; ''dry," 1853. Dry majority, Ill.
AARON HOLMES, aged about thirty
years, a conductor, in the railroad yards
at Alliance, while engaged in uncoupling
his engine from some cars while in mo-
tion, was caught between the bumpers
and crushed so badly that death ensued
an hour later. He leaves a wife and in
FAINT in poor circumstances.
A ANAD dog scare of large proportions
prevails at Clifton, nine miles from
Springfield hound belonging to
Chas Speaks, went mad and bit num-
Der of dogs and cattle. Another mad
dog swept into Yellow Springs the 9TH
er day, and bit lady named Mrs. Nc
Laren and also Chas. Knott severely on
the hand. Sixteen dogs have been kill
ed ut Clifton within a week, and every
canine without an owner has been kill
ed on sight. An actual reign of terror
exists there, and there is no telling how
many dogs, cattle and horses have been
inoculated with maddening poison.
c. s. HUNTER, a justice of the peace
Of the northern part of Richland coun-
ty, stopped at the Grand Central hotel,
Mansfield, the other night and was dis
covered next morning nearly asphyxiat-
ed by gas. He did not recover con-
sciousness until the evening.
ELsY SIEBERT, aged thirty-seven, un-
married, living near Ontario, Richland
county, attempted to throw the belt
from saw.mill with his foot and was
caught in the belt and hurled with ter
rifle force against pile of lumber,
nearly every bone In one side of his
body being broken. He died in an hour.
The state assembly Of daughters Of
Rebekah closed a two-days' session at
Akron the other day by the election of
the following officers: President, s..
Ollie Schuler, New Dover; vice presi-
dent, Frances King, East Liverpool;
secretary, Jennie Groby, Miamisburg;
warden, Ida Thomas, Ironton; inside
guardian, Rella Wilson, Dublin, and
chaplain, Helen Bishop, Worthington.
The next annual meeting will be held
| at Lima.
WIN. BALES, who murdered Policeman
Harper at Kenton, several nights ago,
was taken from jail by mob of about
fifty men at 3 o'clock the other morn
ing. and hung to q maple tree near BY.
The mob gained entrance to the Jail by
breaking down the door, which awak.
ened Sheriff Neville, who rushed down
stairs with his revolver. A dozen men
met him at the foot Of the stairs and
thrust four revolvers in his face. de-
manding the jail keys saying they
wanted to get Bales and hang him. The
sheriff refused to get the keys, not hav.
ing them with him. They found them
in an adjoining room, opened the jail
doors, got Bales and gave him time tc
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took him out and hung him to the maple
tree on Wayne street, near North street,
shout fifty yards from tho jail.
AT a special meeting OF the stats
board Of public works the following
resolution, offered by Mr.. Hahn, was
unanimously adopted: Whereas, Com
plants have been made to the board o.
public works that the waste weir al
the southwest corner of Mercer county
reservoir Is insufficient 10 carry of The
surplus water, and thereby crops arr
being damaged in the Vicinity; re
solved, that the acting commissioner
Hon. F. J. McColloch, be hereby in
structed to proceed forthwith to in
crease the wastage by lengthening tn,
waste weir and also by placing in sucf
devices as win enable the state to lower
the surface Of the watar to q point be
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