The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-02-18
OHIO STATE NEWS.

JOHN WADE, an eccentric old man Of
London, nearly choked to death. on
piece of bone. He was eating spare
ribs-bone and all.
Ex-Gov. FORAKER, Gen. Axline,
Charley Kurtz and other distinguished
Ohio gentlemen, are called on to pay
S171 each for back taxes on the "For-
aSer addition" at Fostoria, owned by
syndicate headed by the ex-governor
PRETTY Katherine Moore, of Cleve.
land. whose uncle, Capt. Reilly, sought
to prevent her marriage by having
q guardian appointed, fooled the old
fellow by quietly eloping with her
lover. Joseph Bernhardt, of New York.
FRANK ANDERSON, Pittsburgh
crook, under arrest at Youngstown,
tried to hang himself in his cell
CHRIS HoLz, a Cleveland ship carpen-
ter, was killed by train while going
for death certificate for his child.
The officers elected by the Young
Mems Christian Association of Ohio. in
session at Akron, are: II. Thane Miller,
Cincinnati, president; c. c. Brady, of
Columbus, 8. o. Jennings, of Mans
field, and Edward Rinearson, of Ohio
Wesleyan university, vice-presidents;
8. A. Baldwin. of Middletown, secre-
tary. The principal part Of the morn.
ing session was devoted to records from
associations throughout the state. All
showed progress during the year. The
following state committee was ap-
pointed: w. 7. Yerger and George 7.
Houser, Cincinnati; G. G. Brady, Column
bus; G. N. Shuey, Dayton; J. D. Tay-
w. c. Tisdel, of Painesville, II. G.
Hodge, of Springfield, and j. L. Taylor,
of Cleveland, made the principal ad-
dresses
A PERFECTLY developed two-headed
calf was born the other day on the farm
of John Spencer, a milkman on Glenn's
run, two miles west of Martins Ferry.
Both heads are as perfect rs can be, and
there are two distinct necks, standing
out from the shoulders at IN angle of
forty-five degrees One strange thing
about the monstrosity is thst it is as
large as q six.weeks-old calf, weighing
about seventy-five pounds. The calf is
spotted, and the mother is a common,
every day, spotted animal
j. SMITH STOWE, the Marietta forger,
Is back home.
BERTHE JACOBS, the Lima fire fiend,
tried to kill her sister.
NANCY FROST, of GAINESVILLE, is dead
She was 10s years old
LIGHTNING rod agents are working
the country around Hamilton.
THE Carbon Limestone Co., OF
Youngstown, has increased its en-
ployes' wages ten per cent.
PETER MIsKUsH, Cleveland tin
peddler, has been importing boys from
Europe, paying them sixteen dollars q
year and compelling them to sleep in
filth on the floor, after selling tinware
all day. Miskush has been arrested
| D.:BLAKEsLIE was commissioned post
master at Charloe, Paulding county
and L. M. Way, at Way, Monroe coun
ty.
The following nominations of presi
Dental post-masters has been decided
upon and will be sent to the senate
Samuel E. Fouts, Westerville, O..
vice William Rowe, commission ex
pired.
THE Overman court martial trial a
Cleveland is ended.
A BAD land slide at Lima came nea
wrecking c., Fl. & D. train.
A HUNDRED miners were made idl,
at Wellston by the bursting of fly
wheel. Engineer Mccarthy was fatal.
injured.
| CHARLES MOORE, son of wealth,
Indianapolis manufacturer, is under ar
rest at Springfield for raising"
check.
LINcoLN's eighty-third birthday an
niversary was celebrated in all tn
public schools of Cincinnati with mu
sical and literary entertainments.
AT Sandusky an ice field with sixty
five skaters was broken loose by
steamer and foated out into the lake
All were subsequently rescued.
GEO. MICKERsoN. a Caldwell farmer
suicided by hanging His wife tried
follow suit with a knife, but was pre-
vented from doing so.
| E. G. BARNES, the embezzling agen
of the Pittsburgh & Western railway
at Burton, has been arrested
MRS VIM CLARK, of Springfield, re
turned home unexpectedly, and foun
her husband and some friends playin
poker. She captured the money an
! outfit.