The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-11-26
OHIO STATE NEWS.
STARTLING SUGGESTIONS.

STARTLING SUGGESTIONS.
Additional Legislation wanted to Prevent
the Incarceration of Innocent Girls In .
Penal Institution.
COLUMBUS, o., Nov 2O.--In the TWEEN
ty-third annual report of the Girls in
dustrial home, filed with the governor
Thursday, Superintendent j. M. Craw-
ford makes startling statement He
says there is great need of additional
legislation to prevent the incarceration
of innocent young girls in the home by
mercenary and designing parents and
guardians, who wish to benefit them
selves by putting their children or
wards out of the way.
The financial statement in the report
shows that the current expenses, in
Guiding salaries of the officers, amount
ed to $37.830.97. The annual cost per
capita was $l2s5S, and the weekly cost
per capita $2.47. The appropriations
recommended for the ensuing year are
as follows: Current expenses, SIS, 900;
salaries, SIC, 900; furniture and carpets
$1,000; ordinary repairs, $1,000; grading
and improving grounds, 5000; fruit trees
and plants, 500, library, $500; religious
services, $3.50; expense of trustees 5000;
telephone, $500; chapel and school
room, $780, Total, $50, 900. The aver
age number Of inmates during the year
was 294.
GEAUGA county has no saloons.
JOHN ADAMS general store, with
100000 pounds of WOOL was burned at
Hainesville.
IDA SUTTON, was divorced in the
afternoon at Norwalk, and in the
evening married A. s. Gaskell, of Buff
falo.
Mrs. w. K. BEcHTEL.. wife of the
superintendent of schools at Sterling,
Wayne county, died from the effects Of
dose of poison. She was welded only
a few months ago, and came to Sterling
three weeks ago from Cleveland. Her
| husband, on coming home from his
school, found her very sick. She told
him she had a pain in her bowels, and
took some liniment for it. He made a
hurried investigation and found that
she had taken a teaspoonful of bella
donna.
JOHN MCCLURE, administrator of the
estate of Thomas Sterling, has COM
menced suit in court against the Pitts
burgh and Western railroad for $40. 900,
| for causing the death of Sterling, who
was employed as a puddler at the mills
| at Hazelton.
A JUDGMENT of nearly $40 000 the
aggregate amount sued for by the Mad
| river and the First and Second national
banks, of Springfield, VS.. the Ashville,
| Tonnir md 1',,cl- T.,,r, hov C0c
represented by stockholders has been
rendered.
THREE boys of New Bremen went
duck hunting and bagged the barn-yard
variety of farmers who made the
parents pay 50 per duck.
| THOMAS GoRMAN, a twehty-year-old
iron worker in the Etna mill, Martins
| Ferry, was struck in the stomach by
| the handle of crane, and died soon
| afterward.
BERT GAY, n farmer near Guilford,
was killed by falling from wagon. He
struck a stone, crushing his skull He
was married and well-to-do.
BERT the fourteen-year-old son OF
George Hetzler. a farmer of Orange
township, Shelby county, mounted a
| lOISc III IL HdrTOW BULL Ullc OUutT dlUcTs
noon, when the vicious animal threw
him off, trampling on his prostrate
form, killing him instantly.
A MINERAL spring of great medicinal
properties has been discovered near
Weather6eld, Mahoning county.
CLEVELAND claims illuminating gas
can be made for six cents per 1000
cubic feet, hence trouble as to fran
chise
MADDEN Bros, farmers. of near Ur-
bana, failed for $4,000, and j. d. Tyler.
boot and shoe man, of Monroeville, did
the same for same amount
The Ohio Oil Co. drilled in well near
Findlay that flowed salt water, but has
changed to 600 barrels of oil per day.
The supreme court a few days ago
granted motion for leave to file pc
tition in error to that court in the case
of murderer w. j. Elliott. He will,
however, remain in the Ohio state
prison until the court has passed on the
merits of the case.
SpRINGFIE1D will bore for natural
gas again.
| POLICE raidcd the gambling dens al
Lima.
U. s. WHITE, one of the first settlers
in the northwest, died at Bucyrus.
| JOHN G. DRAKE, farmer living west
of Piqua was held up by highwaymen
in the suburbs, the other evening.
Charles Moxham and Barney Bunder.
berg are charged with the offense, and
are in Jail in default of bail.
A DISASTROUS accident occurred on
the Panhandle railroad at Burgetts
town, twelve miles east of Steubenville
few days ago, caused by one freight
train running into the rear end of an
other Charles Hardy, the front brake
man of the rear train, was caught un