The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-07-14
OHIO STATE NEWS.

" u. HILL, OF GAINESVILLE, was
|, elected steward of the Lancaster indus
trial school to succeed Mr. Scott, re-
signed.
ELIZA JANE RoBERrs, ~, has sued for
divorce from her husband, Sam Roberts,
80. They have been married twenty
three years.
The cause of Stella Sanders at
tempted suicide at Springfield was
broken promise of marriage made by
John Showalter, an actor.
TETT1E KINGSLEY, wife of the assist
ant chief of the Wooster fire DEPART
ment, has been granted a divorce.
Both will marry again soon
ABOUT $4,000 in small bills was re-
ceived at the state treasury the other
morning from thirty-six county treas
urers in the state, being the amount
collected by them under the Dow
liquor tax. This amount shows an ag-
gregate increase of $1,000 over the col
lections from the same counties last
year.
SECRETARY OF STATE PooRMAN has
requested both political parties to
choose their respective men to be ap-
pointed supervisors Of elections
RAILROAD hack at Showine struck by
train and Mary Campbell, 1s, was
fatally injured.
THOMAS REMINGTON, Wilmington
farmer, fell under his horse and was
badly crushed.
NEWARK is overrun by thieves and
burglars.
JAMES LAWSON, who killed Harry
Scouten at Findlay,, was captured on q
farm near Deshler.
A MISPLACED switch derailed b &
o. train at Thornport, near Newark,
Engineer Albert Hef1ey and Brake-
man White severely injured.
THE other evenip. as James Dalton, a
printer, was crossing the Lake Erie and
Western railroad In the northern part
of Lima on his way home, he was
struck by the Lima and sandusky &C.
commodation train and killed
COMMISSIONS issued by Gen. Pocock at
Columbus, as follows Frank w. Rick
enbaugh, first lieutenant and adjutant;
Karl A. Flickinger, quartermaster; Eu-
gene E. Newman, inspector Of rifle
practice, and Martin L. Donahy, chap
lain, sixteenth infantry, Toledo. The
designations of r. c. Paul, first lieu
tenant Co. Fl, Seventeenth regiment,
and j. R. McQuigg, first lieutenant, Co
A, Fifth infantry, have been accepted.
DANIEL SYLVESTER GREELEY suicided
with laudanum on farm near Colum-
bus.
THE Peoples bank at Logan will re-
sumo business as soon as the assign
ment can be raised
THE largest fire that has visited To
ledo for several years occurred the
other evening. The dry goods house of
Neuhausel Bros was completely gutted.
The stock in the building amounted to
fully $50, 900. 1t was insured for $780,
600. The building Is owned by Alex.
White, of New York, and is valued at
s65,OO0. 1t is total loss, with no in
surance. The origin Of the fire is not
known.
S. II. ELLIS, R. II. Warder and c. e.
Thonne, board of control of the state
experimental station, opened bids for
building four green houses insectry,
boilerroom and arcade Ames, Stence
& Shepherd, of Wooster, got the con-
LIdCt Sll l,OOU, UAiINt Ol06s NOIA hoo
begun and the buildings will be com
pleted November /.
AT Newark, the mayors sentence OF
H. LoewendiclS to twenty days IN jail
and fine of S14O, on an alleged plea of
guilty after failure to convict by a jury
for Sunday liquor law violation doesn't
stand Loewendick was released from
custody on writ of habeas corpus by
the probate judge the other evening.
FRED. BOWMAN, wealthy farmer, of
franklin township, Wayne county, was
arrested the other night for shooting
squirrels out of season. He pleaded
guilty and was fined twenty-five dollars
and cost This was the first conviction
in the county for the offense.
eighteen hundred and fifty-sfx con-
victs, the largest number ever confined
at one time in the Ohio penitentiary,
enjoyed on the Fourth the largest lib
crty that could be given them with
safety by the prison officials No labor,
except works of necessity, was per-
formed at the pen, and all day long the
men were given the freedom of the
great quadrangle, which is hemmed in
by the frowning walls of the cell blocks
on three sides and rows of workshops
and factories on the fourth. They were
allowed to go and come within the linn
its of the vast inclosed square as they
pleased, the only restriction being that
they should not pass its limits, and
should preserve proper order.
DETECTIVE WOLF, OF the Columbus
police department. is searching for the
perpetrators of a most brutal outrage.
Two COWS belonging to a dairyman
named John German were literally
chopped to pieces with an ak the other
night by some unknown person. The
poor animals were injured In such a
way as to torture them to death, all
the wounds being inflicted in points
where they would be slow in proving
fatal The affair is supposed to be spite.
work.