The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-05-26
OHIO STATE NEWS

Oacner as SuperlnCenOengO Oh the AtneuS
insane asylum.
Ed LEWIS, n fake detective, was ar
rested at Columbus for practicing the
detective agency bunlxo game.
JOHN Bowen, Of Akron, was crushed
TO death under an S0O-pound casting.
Miss IDA BEEBE was struck by light
ming at Mt. Gilead.
JAcoB HARVEY, the condemned Day
ton murderer, wrote the governor,
pleading for mercy.
CHRIS. SILKINs, boiler cleaner, foil
only five feet out of cab Of II Big Four
engine, at Springfield, the other morn
ing, and was instantly killed, breaking
his neck.
MARSHAL JONES fired several shots at
n man supposed to have been one of
three who robbed n Big Four freight
car of fifty dollars worth Of goods at
Franklin, the other morning. 1t is
thought the man was shot in the arm,
but he escaped.
JAMES ARrMAN, foreman Of the Erie
night switching gang, fell from the top
of freight car at Gallon. He struck
the rail, his neck was broken and his
head horribly crushed. He was aged
twenty years and resided in Gallon.
DALTON is invaded by gang of
tramps who nightly burglarize the more
pretentious residences.
THE Lima national bank will prob
ably pay all claims in full.
Four horses were burned to death In
Isanc Roebuck's barn at Huntsville.
-. "a ~
tins Ferry, was burned with three
horses.
VAN Loon, the condemned murderer
ind bank robber, wrote letter to Gov.
Mckinley asking that he be nailed to a
cross rs test Of his innocence.
THE body of Jennie Sutton, of Bell
nirc, who suicided in the river because
her love was not reciprocated, was
found.
cI.orELLE, Springfield colored girl
who was stoned by two boys some time
ngo, died from the injuries received.
FINDLAY will vote on the question of
issuing s10o,0oo bonds to secure new fac-
tories.
CHARLES NEwMAN's two hands were
blown off at Portsmouth while he was
fooling with u shotgun.
Two Feesburg farmers were poisoned
by handling fertilizer.
STEPHEN CI.EvNZER, living near Spring
boro, has hog with one head and two
bodies.
HoCKINa VALLEY miners and owners
have agreed to settle all future troubles
by arbitration.
JOHN HAMILTON "a colored insane man,
ut Chillicothe, imagines himself q loco
motive.
MARY GurHR1DaE, aged o3, died at De
Graft.
TIE large barn belonging to Isaac
Roebuck, six miles north Of Huntsville,
was burned the other night. A great
effort was made to save the contents,
but it was unavailing. -Four work
horses. q lot of grain, hay, etc., were
burned, entailing loss estimated at
$4,000. It is thought that the fire was of
incendiary origin.
THE efforts to secure . pardon for
Herman Peter, serving life sentence
in the penitentiary from Fairfield ooun-
ty, is meeting with considerable oppo-
sition. Several citizens Of Lancaster,
including the prosecuting attorney, have
protested to the governor against Pc
ters' application for clemency.
The funeral services over the remains
of State Librarian Tuthill were con-
Quoted at his late residence in Lam
caster, the other morning, by Rev.
Mechling. The remains were placed In
vault The state house officials sent
handsome floral offerings. A number
of the state officials and friends from q
distance attended the obsequies.
GEORGE w. LAsnLEY, q Mead town
ship farmer. near Bellaire, made an as
signment to Geo. Arnold. Liabilities
about ST., 200; assets probably 5000.
ELRoY CHALFANr and Emma Hutton
eloped from GAINESVILLE and were mar
ried on the train.
SPRINGFIELD's B.P.A. has granted the
street railroad company franchise for
an electric road.
THE sheriff Of Richlnnd county took .
prisoner to the penitentiary and when
the pen was reached the prisoner was
boiling drunk.
CLINTON z. VICTOR was killed by the
cars at Columbus.
SEVERAL Columbus children were
poisoned from bananas.
A DESPERATE effort wns made by four
prisoners to escape from the pen by
means of false keys, but the plot was
discovered in time.
A MAD dog bit q number of hogs neor
Ilicksville. The hogs ars now suffering
with hydrophobia
Ex-WARDEN DYER has received q letter
from Amos NJ. Inskeep, an ex-convict
who was received at the penitentiary
from Union county In 1880, on life
sentence, which was commuted TO six'
teen years by Gov. Campbell Inskeer
was released from the penitentiary
January Q, 1893, on condition that be
leave the state, never TO return. He
has since lived with his sister. at NIL
ford, Iroquois county, Ill Ho threatens
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