The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-08-18
NEWS ITEMS.


is dead. Wf 8
Smallpox has disappeared from Brit
ish Columbian ports
The Chicago Salvation army has gone
into camp at Lake Bluff.
1t is learned that President Harrison
will not leave Loon lake until abut Sep
temper 1.
The schooner Eva Douglas Is at quar-
antine, below Port Tampa, Fla, with
nine cases of yellow fever.
Several persons have been poisoned
by drinking water from well at Oak
Park, DEL, one of whom is dead
DR.. w. F. Carver, the famous marks
man. has challenged the editor Of the
Denver Republican to mortal combat
For little or no cause Joe Perkins
shot and killed William Coe nea,
Charleston, w. Va Perkins escaped
A child named Triddk, at Moorfeld,
w. Va, was nearly dead when its par
ents discovered q cat sucking its breath.
The Quijoloa mail stage was held up
by lone highwayman. The mail sack
was cut open but nothing Of value was
found
West Virginia gets 81, 1856, 200 from the
government for the improvement Of he,
rivera That state was ffth in the
matter of appropriations
It has been ascertained that the re
cent war in Honduras had its origin in
q quarrel over o woman who had been
wronged by one of the men.
At Port Townsend, Wash, the British
steamer Winifred, recently seized by
the customs officers for violation Of the
navigation laws, was fined $1,000.
At Depere, Wis, the three-hundred
barrel Merchant -four mill, owned by
John P. Dorsman, burned Wednesday
morning. Loss $4,000; insurance,
S15,O0
The quarantine regulations against
British Columbia ports were raised at
Port Townsend Wednesday, the small
pox having almost entirely disap
peazed
At the Driving park, Knoxville,
Tenn, Wednesday Name Marantett'a
high-jumping pony broke the worlds
record by going four feet eight and
half inches.
John Showacre, OF St Mary's, w.
Va. was cleaning we'll, and let down
lighted lamp to see. There was an
explosion and Showacre and a boy were
badly injured
While riding bicycle near Waymau
Lane Me-, Charles Werz reeled and fell
to the road dead Heart disease, super
induced by the heat and ovcr-exertion,
was the cause
John Orvis, socialist labor candidate
for governor Of Massachusetts, has de-
clined the nomination owing to i'll
health and lach Of unity among the
friepds of labor.
In the combined rife and pistol an.
nual competitive drill of the naval ca
diets 1T the Annapolis naval academy,
Naval Cadet L. c. Roberts, of Alabama.
won the first prize for craftsmanship
Smth Dakota will this year be the
banner wheat state of the union. He,
yield Is placed by experts at from 50,'
OO0, 900 to 60, 900, 900 bushels. There are
also abundant quantities of Other
grain.
The Canadian fisheries department
has received advices to the effect that
the mackerel catch of the New England
fishing feet to date is %, 600 barrels al
against II 900 barrels last year, and 33,.
600 in 1890.
Henry Gottlieb, lawyer with an
office on Park row, New York, was ar.
raigned in court on a charge of forgery.
The police say that they have as many
as fifty cases against him Of swindline
and forgery.
The Lima Natural Gas Co., drilled IN
large gas well on the Wish farm, nea,
st. Mary's, Friday afternoon, with ca
pacity of 100000 cubic feet The com
pany intends sinking nine more welL
on this field.
Mrs Eliza Roberts, of Battle Creek
Mich. who was one Of the eighteen per
sons injured in the Santa Re railroad
wreck near Petersburg, Col, on Tues
day, is dead. The rest of the injured
are recovering.
The Hotel Stafford, a new six-storJ
building at Fourteenth and H streets
Washington, was badly damaged by fir,
Fridays morning. The loss on furni
ture and fixtures is estimated at abou
$24, 900; insurance, $4,000.
There We're eight Indians in the gang
that murdered Hogdon and the Mexican
near Hatchita, Tex. They are led by
the ''Kid." No further particulars cal
be obtained, and it is not known wher'
tho Indians are at present
Announcement Thursday that th'
relatives of the late Mrs Hopkins
Searles were about to bring suit agains
her husband for what they considered
their fare share in the estate cause<
surprise in New York city.
The probabilities are that the talked
of republican brsnch headquarters Q
Chicago will be abandoned, or at leas
postponed for the present Mr.. Camp
bell admitted as much Friday, but di'
not care to make any explanation of tn
change
The division in the house of common