The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-04-14
OHIO STATE NEWS.


In the house the other morning Cal.
win s. Ganyard, tho member-elect from
Medina county, who takes the place of
the late Camp, was sworn In.
RAILROAD COMMISSIONER KIRKLY has
appointed Ed Archer, of Noble county,
his chief clerk, and Jesse Werlich, of
Seneca county, stenographer.
A CAGE in which Gov. Mckinley is
one of the defendants, was filed in the
supreme court the other morning. 1t
comes from Stark county, and beside
the governor, the Rollstone national
bank sues M. G. Barber and G. d. Sax
ton who, together with the governor,
were executors Of the will of James A.
Saxton, deceased; Angus Mcdonald,
Alexander Laughlin and Mcdonald Sc
Co. Tho suit grows out of a note given
Mcdonald & Co. for $4,000 to James A.
Saxton in his life time, and which has
been sold to the bank. The governor is
sued, of course, in his capacity ns ex-
ecutor.
The resignation of R. X. Paige as
trustee Of the Cleveland asylum for the
insane, was rendered and accepted by
the governor few days ago. Paige is
the Painesville bank president.
THE governor few days ago appoint
ed g. R. Davis, of Wapalroneta; c. w.
King, NJ. d., of Dayton, and A. B. Rich
ardson, of Cincinnati, to locate the now
insane asylum.
Edmund BAUER, of McConnellsville,
has been sued by the United States for
importing gardener in violation OF the
contract labor law.
WESLEY WILKERMAN, Louis Sanders
and John Hattinger are held at Newark
for burglary.
TIE Fourth district republican con-
vontion will be held at Lima, May 4.
HERBERT SruCKEY, of Paris, mistools
Jug Of concentrated lye for cidor and
was fatally burned.
JOHN MYERS heirs are claiming all
the land upon which the town of NAL
vcrn, Stark county, is built
THE crop bulletin of the state board
Of agriculture Just issued, estimates the
wheat crop of this year at 25,OOo,O 900
bushels, an increase over last year of
100000 bushels. The barley yield is
estimated at rs per cent. of last years
crop; rye at 76 per cent; corn at S5 per
cent and fruit at "a per cent
SAFE-DLowERs cracked the safes in r.
Heslop & Sons coal Office in the Bellaire
Stove Co.'S Office the other night, COM
plotely running both and only got s2.1S
for, their trouble. They also stole a
| typewriter and clock from the latter
Office.
Ar JTcy w. 70 ,1foooc h1-
| cars at Steubenville.
KNEBLER's brewery at Sandusly was
| burned.
E. PADGET is arrested at Washington
c. II. for selling land which he never
owned.
| JOSEPH CoNAR, of Norwich town
ship, near Columbus, is nlysteriously
missing.
| AT Canton, the other afternoon, John
McCurdy, plasterer, aged thirty-fve
| years, shot and killed his employer, L.
| T. Waltenbaugh. He made o similar
but unsuccessful attempt on his wife
and then blow out his own brains. Nc
Curdy had charged his wife frequently
with infidclity. Lately he became de-
spondent and imagined that Walten-
baugh so placed his work that he could
not interfere with their intrigue. In.
stead of going to work after dinner he
hid near the house, and saw his en-
ployer enter. In few moments,
with a 32-caliber revolver in his hand,
he crept to the cottage bedroom win
dow. Hearing voice inside, he broke
in light and fred. He then ran to the
front door and shot down Waltenbaugh,
who was escaping. Turning, the In
furiated man pursued his fleeing wife
and fired at her twice, striking her in
the head, before neighbors interfercd.
Being satisfied with his work he re-
turned to his yard, and by shot in the
temple ended his existence. Mrs. Nc.
Curdy up to last report was living and
perfectly conscious. Waltenbaugh stood
high and leaves q wife and five children,
two adults.
THE verdict In the Woolwcaver case
at Macarthur was manslaughter.
w. NICK VANCE has been elected SUI
j perintcndent of the Urbana schools.
A HEAVY hail storm at St. Clairsville
destroyed considerable property.
The c., A & c. depot, at Millersburg
was burned.
MRs. CHARLES IsHAM, Of Ada, took 6
dose of strychnine by mistake and died
ANNIE RousH, died at Gallipolis at 10!
years.
A WOMAN. named Green suicided a.
East Liverpool.
JACOB HELrY, the dcfaulting Treas
urer of Lima, was fined 81, ,40O-doublt
the amount of his shortage-and giveI
one year in the pen.
GEORGE DAVIS, colored, died at Co
lumbus from severe burns.
THE village of North Jackson, Ma
honing county, was visited by the mos
destructive fire in its history. The fir
originated In the building occupied b,
Jesse Smith. The flames spread rapid
ly, and in few minutes the following
business places were mass Of ruins