The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-08-06
OHIO STATE NEWS.

ceeulngS IN Cne COInnOu pledb COurC dt |
Columbus TO secure the release of John |
Hsnley, sent to the penitentiary from
Montgomery county two years ago for
burglary and larceny. The case tests |
the constitutionality of the habitual
criminal Inv. At the same time that |
Hanley was indicted for the offenses
named, he was also indicted as IN |
habitual criminal, and his sentence
having expired, he is now held by the
authorities Of the penitentiary. The
Law provides that persons sentenced q
third time to the penitentiary shall re-
main there for life,
GEORGE BAIRD, welded but few
months at Coshocton, suicided with q
gun.
TIE wheat crop of Crawford county
il coming in in good style, and is found
to yield an average of twenty bushels
70 the acre. careful estimate places
the amount Of wheat in Crawford coun-
ty this year at 80, 900 acres, which at
twenty bushels to the acre would be
yield of 600, 600 bushels of wheat for
1891. The entire crop of 1890 was 4oO,-
900 bushels.
ED HoRcH, of Columbus, a brake
man, fell from train at Lowell, and
was killed.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY CRoUs has di-
rected that the public building at Lima
be located on the property at the south
east corner Of High and Elizabeth
streets, owned by d. G. Faurot and val
ued at $4,000.
BOARD OF EQUALIZATION cut down
values of Muslsingum county farm lands
per cent
A GAS well that promises to be one OF
| the most remarkable ever struck was
drilled in north Of Upper Sandusky,
| the other morning. The flow of gas is
| at least 5,OoO,Coo cuhio feet. The sur
prising part is thnt the field there had
been given up.
JOHN WEBER, q prominent farmer,
was killed the other night at Bloom
! dale, six miles west of Fostoria, while
! crossing the B. & O. track. He stepped
! off one track Oh to another to avoid a
train, another train backing down on
him, mangling him horribly. He lived
six hours.
THE town council, by unanimous
vote, granted to the Athens County
Monumental association right to inclose
and adorn the Public Square in front o.
the Ohio university for the purpose OF
erecting thereon soldiers monument
that will cost not less than $4,000
LErTIE MooRs, aged Tyears, daugh-
ter of Howard Moore, was found drown
ed in the cistern ut her parents home
in Newark the other afternoon. The
child had been absent some time before
the parents concluded to institute a
search.
MRS. GEORGE WH1TNER was run over
and killed by IN Erie express at Cres-
ton, eighteen miles from Akron, the
other afternoon. Mrs Whitner was
walking on thu track with her two
children, and her little boy, aged s.
caught his foot in a cattle-guard wher
the cars were almost upon them. lr
desperation the mother turned to res
cue her child, and succeeded in pulling
him out, but too late to save herself
The train, going at the rate of sixty
miles an hour, struck Mrs. Whitnel
square in the back. Her mangled body
was carried 100 yards, where 1t wai
thrown to one side. The woman's heaG
was pounded to Jelly.
THE state board OF equalization prac
tically finished up its business, th'
other evening, and It was agreed tina
there should be no further reconsider
alton of valuations. An adtournmen
was had and committee Of five wa
appointed to examine the books Of tn
secretary in the meantime.
A GUERNSEY county wool buyer ha
shipped $50. 900 pounds of wool thus fa
} this season. He paid on an average o
rs cents per pound.
COLUMBUS has adopted standard time
WV. j. ELLIOTT, editor Of the Sunda.
Capitol, at Columbus, was found guilt,
Of murder in the second degree for tn
killing OF Albert G. Osborn, q newspa
per man Elliott's attorneys apple,
for new trial
The Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling
railroad has abandoned several tele
. graph Offices to cut down expenses
JOSEPH G1AMRL, while at work In
, fire clay mine st Malvern, Carol
county, was crushed to death by q POI
, ton Of the roof falling on him.
FIVE horses were killed by light
ming near Clyde while standing under
tree.
A FARMER had horse and bugg
stolen at Mansfield, that was hitche
, In the center Of the town, In broad day
, light
r FREMONT rs bound 70 have goo
streets, and bonds were issued for tn
Improvement
q WORK has been commenced In the new
tin plate mill. at Irondale, jefferson
county.
WIN. SAuERs, Q railroad brakeman
!, had an arm cut of and wss otherwis
3 seriously injured by cars at Berlin Cen
!. Yer. sns tr ff yjt.r r-.
CITY COUNCILMAN GEosaR MRBcH
i ERLE's stable burned, at Dayton, an
4 two hours later the cremated bodies O
Two little boys were found In the ruins
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