The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-10-13
OHIO STATE NAWH


eral hundred dollars IN bank notes oi
various denominations, issued by banlzl
of the olden time, the note Of remotest
date being dollar bill issued by the
Farmers and Mechanics bank Of Chilli.
cothe, O., of date May 4, 1910, and the
notes of most recent date being issues
of the Bank of Marietta, In 1884. A
silver dollar contained In this pocket
book is Of the coinage Of 1928
HEAVY frost In the Licking valley the
other night
JAS MCCAIN. Of Northampton, was
killed the other morning shortly before
noon at the Big Four crossing at
Isabella street by the Big Four express.
THE penitentiary viii be done In
model at the Worlds fair. Plans of the
drainage etc. will also be shown
HARRY SWEET and Frank Jones, aged
IS and 1s, were sent to the Reform
farm for burglary from Newark
PBrE TREY, Montgomery county
convict, attempted suicide by setting
his clothing on fire.
GEORGE BURKE, one OF the worst all
around crooks In the country died at
the penitentiary.
DR. A. d. OLIVER has accused De-
Howell before the Central Ohio Medical
society with plagiarism
WILLIAM B. SLAeLE has been arrested,
charged with firing his house In order
to secure the insurance at Marietta
The Women's Home and Foreign Mis-.
sionary Society of Miami Synod at
Springfield, elected the following Off.
GERS for the ensuing year: President
Mrs DR.. ]. T. Shaffer, Delaware; vice.
president, Mrs Louis Morris. Cincin.
natl, recording secretary, Miss Emma
Meyer, Cincinnati; corresponding secre-
tary, Miss Hattie Mitchell, Tippecanoe
City; treasurer, Mrs. Fanny c. Reeves,
Dayton; delegate to general convention
at Omah;,, next June, Mrs. DIR. Shaffer,
Delaware; alternate, Mrs. Sarah Pope.
Dayton.
MEssRs. R M. RowND and Daniel
Hartnett, of the State Land commits
sion, returned TO Columbus the other
day from Napoleon, whore they had
gone to investigate several claims Of the
state to land now in possession of pri.
vate citizens. Ex-senator Ryan occu.
pies observation-disclosures tract, and ad-
mits 1t belongs to the state, but thinks
the commission places an extortionate
valuation on it The commission was
unable to effect an agreement with the
ex-senator, and the land will probably
be sold to the highest bidder.
The public schools, by order Of the
baard OF education, at St Clairsville,
the county seat of Belmont county,
have been closed, caused by scourge
of scarlet fever which is prevailing in
that town. The schools have an en-
rollment Of over 1000 scholars
The Fostoria gas trustees drilled
well on the Hardinger farm, west of
town. which turned out to be gushing
oil well. 1t flowed eight hundred bar
rels of oil, and is still discharging at
the same rate The well was drilled In
what was supposed to be good gas ter
ritory.
JAMES KELLY, porter at the Powell
house, Columbus, fell down stairs the
other night and died from his injuries
STATE Dairy and Food Commissioner
McNeal has received report from state
chemist Webber of the latter's analysis
of some coffee taken from the stock of
an Athens dealer DR.. Webber finds
that there is no coffee whatever In the
product, but that il is manufactured OF
flour and other authorizations. 1t is Ia
beled Sunshine Coffee" put up in gor-
geouly printed wrappings, and sold at
thirty cents pound.
JOHN E. TREsTLE, the Cleveland, Can
ton and Southern railroad conductor,
who had his legs take off by falling un-
der train at Canton, died of his in
juries after terrible suffering.
HENRY FUNK, aIwatchman, was killed
at Coalton, while driving a COW from q
railroad track
The police the other afternoon ar
rested Bert Comfy on the charge OF
highway robbery, he having been iden-
titled by several parties as one of the
men who knocked down and robbed a
colored man named VIM. Hopewell, In
the rear of saloon in the outskirts of
Findlay, several nights ago. Thos
Marsh, who was also identified as one
OF the parties, has made his escape from
the city.
The body OF Jacob Glass, OF Dufleld
was found horribly mangled by the
cars near Kent He was partially De.
mented and had started for the doctor.
WALTER Forsyth, aged q the boy
burglar, broke Jail at Massillon BY the
aid Of poker and ths slight nSslecG oo
the part OF the jailer who forgot 10 look
the door.
ALLIANCE b on . boom Over two
hundred houses are needed 10 supply ths
demand ~
DEATH released the spirit q Charles
Jenkins, . United States eounterfeitet,
from its earthly prison while his boAy
was yet behind the bars OF the peniten-
Hary.
PROF. ORION, the eminent geologist