The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-05-28
OHIO STATE NEWS.

1hdV cOmpetltlve examination Tor the
appointment of cadet to West Point
from the Massillon district will be held
| in Massillon June 12.
ScHNETDER's brewery, on the South
Side, Cleveland, was struck by light
ming, the other night, and burned to the
ground. The loss is about $4,000.
AN enmity of many years between
John Grauer and Solomon Fisher re-
suited in the formers death by the
hands of the latter in Cincinnati tam
| merry.
j. s. JOHNSTON, leading druggist of
Newark, is dead.
AT Mt Eaton Julius Grosgean, car
| penter, made a misstep and fell across
a joist, rupturing himself in shocking
manner. While the physicians were
operating on him he expired.
A MISPLACED switch in the Hooking
Valley yards at Marion, resulted in
seven cars being smashed into kindling-
wood and several other cars and an en-
/, gine being damaged.
LICE HOLLAND (colored) and Andy
Peckem (white) are under arrest,
charged with participation in the MUIR
der of Daisy Reynolds, near Wiltshire.
The other night at Port Morrow a
fourteen-year-old lad of Carrolton, ate
| thirty-nine full-sized bananas in fifteen
minutes, and offered to eat fifteen more
| in five minues for IS.
The Mansfield paper mill, valued at
$3.50 burned to the ground, a few
| days ago, only small ware room being
saved. Origin of the fire unknown. In
surance in various companies $14,5OO.
The following officers of the
State Department, Daughters of
Veterans were elected and INSTALL
ed the other night: Presient,
Laura Thurston, Kenton; senior vice.
president, Louisa March, Prairie Depot;
| Junior vice president, Zoe Seachrist, AL
lance; secretary, Laura HARRISON, Ken
ton; treasurer, Lizzie Davis, Ada; tent
| council Carrie Siffert Estella Herring,
Massillon, and Name Hall, Ada; musi-
clan, Alice Gilbert, Alliance; inner
guard, Ella Trescott, Alliance; guard,
| Maude Stevens. Massillon; chaplain,
Ida Dickens, Ada. The next national
convention will be held in Massillon.
SECRETARY of State Ryan issues the
following notice to election officers
throughout the state: To the many in
| quiries concerning the new ballot law
being addressed to this department.
| permit me to say that the necessary
blanks, with the exception of poll books
and tally sheets and a pamphlet of in
structions, will be ready for distribu-
tion within twenty days. The law inn
poses upon the secretary of state the
duty of furnishing the forms for poll
books and tally sheets, and election
boards and ether officers whose duty it
is to provide the same are advised to
make no contracts or purchases for the
same until they are notified of the adopt
ed form by the undersigned.
DURING a severe thunderstorm at
Youngstown, VIM. Humphries, coal
miner, white, near his home, was killed
by lightning.
| SAMUEL d. MCCARTHY and wife, while
crossing the c., H. & d. tracks at Troy,
were struck by train. Mrs. MCCARTHY
was instantly killed and the husband
badly injured.
A CYCLONE blew in the walls of the
Bucyrus inirmary, injuring some of the
patients, but none seriously.
| AT Marion, while Jacob Oehler was
burning some stumps in field, the
clothing of his little fve-year-old
daughter caught fire and she was fatal
ly burned, dying few hours later.
At THIN burglars smashed the plate
glass window of Neigh & Keller's Jew
elry store and robbed the window of
quantity of watches and jewelry.
In Peters dash mandatory, Column
bus, Thos Montgomery was scalded to
death by the explosion of boiler.
Several other workmen were injured
AT Urbana Alexander Crisman's baby
drank ink and died in spasms.
A FATAL explosion of powder at the
| Rhinehart coal mines. three miles west
of New Philadelphia, occurred the
other morning, by which two sons of
Philip Croft were literally roasted
alive. The bank shanty, in which they
were eating their 10 o'clock lunch, had
stove fire, with keg of powder stand
ing near, and by some means spark
dropped in. The shanty was blown to
pieces and burned up, and the clothing
| completely burned off the two young
men. They ran and threw themselves
into the stream that drains the bank
until help came, when they were taken
home and a surgeon called. John,
aged twenty-one years, died two days
later, and Edward is still lingering in
great agony, with little chance of re-
| covery.
REPORTS from all parts of northern
and central Ohio confirm the report of
great damage done by the frost the 9TH
er night. Away from the lake shore
small fruits are ruined, and peaches,
pears and apples are greatly injured.
On low land the wheat has been badly
damaged, and even on high ground is
said tc be much injured. In some places
the thermometer fell to twenty-five de-
grees and temperatures Of twenty-eight
and thirty degrees are reported from
numerous other points. All that pre-
vented the most damaging May freeze
in twenty years was the dry weather.
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