The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-11-03
OHIO STATE NEWS.

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AT Martins Ferry, the trial of Rev. A.
G. Cumberland, for fmpoper conduct,
resulted in his being expelled from the
local ministry. M
The grand jury at Canton returned
bill for murder in the first degree in the
case of Robert Obernesser, charged
with the killing of Scott Smith, few
days ago.
THE large bark barn of Julius Chat
lain, near Dalton, together with its
contents and the threshing outfit of
Peter GRADER and Chris Rudolph, was
totally destroyed by fire, The thrashers
hauled the machine into the barn, in
tending to thrash next morning. Work
of incendiaries.
CHAs. BOYER, who committed bur-
glary at s o'clock the other morning,
in Cincinnati, was indicted, tried, sem
fenced for five years and ate hi supper
the next evening, in the Columbus peni-
tentiary.
GEO. Cook and Mrs. Alice Felter, of
Crestline, eloped and were married in
Mansfield. The bride was pretty young
widow, her husband having been killed
by railroad accident in Cleveland
some time ago. The couple wanted to
keep the marriage a secret.
Mrs. MARY F. BROWN, 62, a widow,
has brought suit against VIM. Wilson,
so, for breach of promise, at Youngs-
town. She says William loved her only
for the SiO0 she had savedup.
GRANT HARP, Nickel Plate brake
man, fell off car in Fostoria few
nights ago, and had both legs crushed
SO badly that amputation was neces-
sary. Death resulted three hours later.
His home was at Ceylon, and he was to
have been married in few days.
A 1S0-FooT vein of salt has been struck
at East Akron at depth of $500 feet.
The deposit is pronounced the finest
grade ever discovered in the state, and
Seiberling and other Akron capitalists
have already begun operations for work.
ing it on an extensive scale.
ED SLATTERY, a well-to-do farmer liv-
ing five miles east of London, smothered
to death the other night.
Hon. GEO DIEGLE, aged &C years, died
at Marion, the other day. Deceased
was an ex-official of the county, and un-
til sickness overcame him was tone of
the leading lawyers of Marion.
PROBATE JUDGE ZIMMERMAN came
near being asphyxiated in his room by
escaping natural gas at Fremont. He
was found on the floor, almost suffo-
Gated, and but for timely assistance
would not have lived an hour
THE Ohio Farmers Insurance Co. has
| been found by State superintendent
Kinder to have only S69, $50. 50 assets,
when 100000 net assets are required by
law.
\ FIRE broke out in the Cleveland
Window Glass Co.'S works the other
day and the building was filed with
smoke. The fire was quickly extin-
guished with loss OF $1,000. At the
head of the stairway Michael Sullivan
and Kittie Nolan were found insensible
They had been suffocated by the smoke,
| and had fallen close together. They
were carried down to the street and
Miss Nolan died an hour later. Sulli-
van will recover.
TEACHoUT 6 Co.'S big sash and blind
| factory, Cleveland, was destroyed by
fire few days ago. Loss S250,00O. An
explosion occurred in the paint shop
and several persons were hurt.
JOHN CoNNELLY, the man who while
in the employ of j. S. Caskey, Wooster,
stole S125 from the money drawer and
skipped to Indiana, has been sentenced
to three years in the penitenttary. Dur
ing his trial it was developed that he
had already served two terms in the
prison, and it is the belief that he will
now be held for life, under the nab:tual
criminal law.
DEPUTY WARDEN PLAYFoRD has dis
covered another attempt to escape from
the penitentiary by tunneling under
the wall The tunnel had been started
near the west wall, and a few days
more uninterrupted work would have
resulted in wholesale delivery.
PROF. CHAPLIN, in connection with
other savantS of the university at
Athens, has as a result of invenstiga-
ton reached the conclusion that the
continuous and mysterious rainfall
that has for some weeks past invested a
particular locality in Athens with wide
spread public interest, is caused by
heated current of air from the kilns of
the brick plant there, flowing through
a channel extending west from the
kilns and becoming sufficiently con-
densed to cause the precipitation at the
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