The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-12-01
NEWS ITEMS.

American capitalists have bought mp
all the Nova Scotia coal mines.
A slight earthquake shock was felt
at San Francisco at 1905 Thursday
morning.
William UConnor, champion oarsman
Of America, died at Toronto, Ont, OF
typhoid fever
John B. Ryan, OF Marion, O., who was |
soon TO have been married. has myste- !,
riously disappeared.
The Church of the Advent, the lead
ing Episcopal church in Birmingham,
Ala, was destroyed by fire.
There is a possibility of an amicable
adjustment of the boundary dispute be.
tween Great Britain and Venezuela,
The Widow Aliens three children
were fatally burned by the explosion
Of a can of powder at Marlbank, Ont
A case of smallpox was found among
the steerage passengers arriving on the
steamer Saale on Tuesday at New York.
VIM. Gehl, son of prominent citizen
| of Port Arthur, Ont, fell into vat OF
boiling beer and was scalded to death.
Sam Lancaster, fireman, drank six
small beer glasses full of whisky in
| Knoxville saloon and died ten minutes
| afterward.
| The two men who robbed the bank at
Roslyn, Wash, September "a last, and
secured $4,000, were captured at Arl-
ington, Ore, Friday afternoon.
premature explosion of blast in
the Oakland coal mine, Belleville, Ill,
killed Gustave Gardner and badly in
jured Samuel Wiles, both miners
The paper mills of G. s. Garrett s.
Sons at Beaverdam. Chester county,
Pa, have been destroyed by fire and
the loss is estimated at nearly $50, 0oo
1t is reported that the United.States
Express Co. has captured supreme con-
troll of the express business of the l.. e.
N. lines, and will locate head Office in
Louisville
Robert Barbour, president of the Bar
bour Flax Spinning Co, Paterson,
N. j., died of apoplexy. He left for
tune variously estimated from Sc, 900, 900
to $40, 100000.
A meteor of great brilliancy passed
over Kenosha, Ia, Tuesday morning.
1t exploded soon after passing the
zenith, and report like a distant can
non was heard.
Miss Emma Crosby, of Chattanooga,
was to marry John Criber. He bet on
Harrison, lost got drunk and failed to
call on her for three days. She has
bounced Mr. Criber.
The well-known French painter, NJ.
Ferdinand Blayn, has committed sui
eide by shooting himself through the
heart The act is said to be brought
on by family troubles. =
Sneak thieves entered the jewelry
store OF S. Jonasen & Co., Omaha, Neb.,
and succeeded in getting away with
|. worth of gold watches.
A. Z. Rudd, who has been connected
with the business department Of the
Knoxville Crenn.) Daily journal TO,
,, years, did not give thanks Thursday
He was in Jail for forgery.
Death warrants for the eight colore(
!. men and boys in Chesterfield (Md jail
convicted of the murder of r. r Hill
!. have been prepared. December 13 il
: the date fixed for the hanging.
!, Burglars broke into the residence o
DIR. Thos Montgomery, of Elkhart
Ind, chloroformed the doctor, his wifi
!, and daughter, and stole a large amour
of valuable jewelry and silverware.
!. A shower Of meteors W as observed a
/ San Francisco. Wednesday evening
: Over twelve hundred were counted b,
Prof. Davidson, of the coast and geolo
. logical survey, in about an hour and
: half.
Z Stambonl is again king of the turf
He trotted on a kite-shaped track a
Stockton, Cal in 2:07k. L day wa
2 not favorable, it being cloudy and col
: and the track was damp from previou
rain.
Dispatches from different point
! in Texas report the sky as bein
} full of meteors of different sizes an
shapes, Thursday night Lexingto
and Wharton report a perfect shove
Of stars.
4 Sylvester Critchlow, the FIRST of th
Homestead strikers tried for murde,
was acquitted by the jury. The cas
against him was said to have been tn
strongest the prosecution expected
present.
The four young desperadoes who q
tempted to rob the bank at Erie. Pa
and in doing so shot the CASHIER, ha,
been sentenced. Charles w. Howle.
who shot the cashier, was sentenced I
nineteen years.
''T'he Breakers," the handsome CO
: toge of Cornelius Vanderbilt, which W;
situated on commanding site at Ocea
! Point R, l., was completely destroys
by. fire Friday afternoon. Loss $500, 90
heavily insured
Miss Amelia De Mendonca. the secor
daughter Of the Brazilian minister, ar
a. Archibald G. F. MoKean, of Chicag
were married in Washington Thursds
night, Rev. Tuuis s. Hamlin, the past,
! OF the Church Of the Covenant, ofiicia
. ing. /;
q. A band of $50 Dervishes, presnuaab
q part Of the forces OF Osman Dgn
: aAtxcked Furt Tamayin. near Tuku