The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-10-22
OHIO STATE NEWS.

Norwalk, her estate of $40, 900 is to be
equally divided between the Missionary
society of the M. E. church and the
Board Church Extension of the M. e.
church, the latter portion to be added
to the Zones Loan Fund" established
by her husband, Rev. Joseph Jones.
THE Norwalk savings bank has
been Incorporated with capital of
500, 600.
LIZZIE MASSEY, of GAINESVILLE, put the
muzzle Of a shotgun in her mouth and
pulled the trigger with stick. She
blew the upper part of her head Off
The president has appointed Uriah
nj. Eckhart postmaster at Monroe
vile, that office having become presi-
Dental.
ASHLAND has about 100 cases of scar
let fever.
A NATURAL gas famine in Ohio is
feared.
FosToRIA will have new 1O-pot win
dow-glass factory.
FOURTH. CLASS postmasters will soon
hold a state convention at Columbus
l.. THE forged check racket has been
played on several Dayt merchants.
ABOUT five miles of the new Sandus-
XIV and Columbus Short Line has been
graded.
AT boarding house kept by her
mother, Annie Lacy, young colored
girl but 10 years of age, at Canton. was
shot and killed by Charles Hawkins, q
boarder. Hawkins then shot himself in
the head, dying in short time after
ward The cause of the shooting is un-
known.
The grand centennial celebration of
the battle of St. Clair closed on the 10th,
and the expectations of the Monument
al association have been realized fully.
Great crowds of people have assembled
each day to pay homage to the dead
heroes. Fully Is, 900 people assembled
on the last day on the old battle-ground
of Ft Recovery to witness the sad rites
of placing the remains of the dead he
roes in their third and last resting
place.
j. HOMER WADE, JR., of Cleveland,
has given land to the value of $685. 900,
near the park bearing his name, to the
Woman's College of Western Reserve
university. The new buildings are rap
idly progressing.
HARLEM CRoNKLEToN, while work.
ing in a gravel pit near Radnor, Della
ware county, had leg badly crushed
by heavy mass of earth and stones
falling upon it. A companion named
Price, was also struck by the falling
mass and slightly injured.
The c., D. & l. machine shops, at Day
ton, were burned. Loss $4,000.
| AT the third days session Of the Mis-
sissippi Valley Medical association at
st. Louis, it was decided to hold the
next meeting at Cincinnati in October,
| 1892.
| AN unusually large number of cases
were acted upon favorably by the board
of pardons at the quarterly session ter
minating few days ago Six murder.
ers and three other prisoners were REQ
commended for clemency by the board.
A PECULIAR disease is raging among
cattle in Mercer county, which resem-
bles epizootic apatha, contagious dis.
ease hitherto unknown in this country.
Scores of cows are afflicted and several
fatal cases have been reported.
A VERY strange death occurred al
Kent, few days ago. A week before
Thomas Smith, native of Ireland, was
taken i'll with typhoid and malaria
fever. He was not seriously ill, seem
ingly, and it was expected that he
would be able to be out in few days.
Two days before his death he was
taken with hiccoughs, which kept w
necessarily until his death. The at
tending physician had never seen case
of the kind before, and called othel
medical men in consultation, but the
case puzzled and baffied medical skill
The sufferers strength was rapid.
overcome, and death came to his relief
THE state is full of ten-cent theatrica
snaps
HENRY Coon. of Centerville, died o
lockjaw.
DAYTON is after the Natural Gas Co
with an order in court to restrain
from supplying other towns until it
3 contract with the city is fulfilled,
Two prisoners sawed their way ou
of the Elyria Jail by making saws from
the steel shanks in their shoes
A GANG of horse thieves is working
in Licking county.
OHIo's average yield of wheat for thi
year was seventeen bushels per acre.
ED KUHL, at Van Vert, fell from hi
wagon and burst his windpipe, dyin
almost instantly.
THE supreme court the other day rer
dered an important decision in the cas-
of the Ohio Oil Co. against the state
: brought up on error to the circuit coul
s of Putnam county, that will serve as
o precedent. The company was indicte
and fined for polluting the Portage ri'
er with refuse from their refinery an
appealed to the supreme court to tes
the law under which the corporatio
was prosecuted and escape the penalty
The court affirmed the judgment, an
Q thereby sustained the law, establishin
IS the right to prevent the pollution {
If streams in Ohio.
q THE grand jury has indicted Willial
Garfield, the alleged wrecker OF the lin