The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-02-11
OHIO STATE NEWS,

Wilbey and hit Samuel Aultman, at Mt
Oreb, has been bound over to the prant
jury.
THE Springfield board of affairs re-
iuses to sustain the council in its ef
Tort to bring the natural gas company
to time.
THE departure of ex.Mayor White
from Beaver Dam was celebrated in a
regular Fourth of July way. White was
very unpopular.
IHE schools at Waynesville closed
on account of diphtheria.
DURING dance at Oberlin, Art Pome.
roy was fatally stabbed by Orrin
Hughes.
IHE Grover Cleveland club, of Mans
neld, has changed the name to jackson
club.
WIN. SEAMAN, of Jones Station, tried
TO suicide because his parents accused
him of being lazy.
Jos, Spohn, aged So, died at Tiffiu.
from the effects of a fall on an lev pave
ment several weeks ago.
VIM L. Cisco, convicted of man.
slaughter, having shot corn thief lust
year ago, was sentenced, at Sidney,
70 ono year in the penitentiary. Chas
Covllle, who stabbed a man with a
pocket-knife, goes up for two years.
AT.Urbana, Don Purkeypile, indicted
Tor shooting Mrs Sarah Idle, with in
tent to kill, entered plea of guilty and
was sentenced to seven years in the
penitentiary by Judge Griger. 1t turns
out that Purkenpile is deserter from
the regular army, in which he enlisted
after committing the crime for which
he was sentenced.
W.. Il. REED, one of the Ohio Worlds
Fair commissioners appointed by Gov.
ernor Campbell, has resigned.
JOHN WARREN, alias Chas. Anderson.
an escaped convict from the Xenia
work house, was arrested at Dayton.
FERD SErTz, the old murderer who
served over fifty years in the Ohio pen.
ltentiary, has been declared insane.
JONATHAN MABKLEY, a leading law,
yer OF Springfield, was found dead in
ms bed the other morning. Death was
caused by rheumatism of the heart
The entire board of penitentiarv
managers has resigned to Gov. McKin-
ley.
Miss KATE RAYL, a Lima school
teacher, was arrested for severely pun
ishing paralyzed girl.
MICHAEL STAUCH, an ex-convict, was
discovered sneaking away from the
Pan handle depot Newark, with a mail
sack. He was chased two blocks, when
be dropped his load and escaped. A
warrant for his arrest was issued by
United States Commissioner King.
Stauch has skipped the county.
EDWARD K1MBALL, colored prisoner
serving ten.year sentence in the peni-
from Hamilton county, for
'utting to kill the other day deliber-
ately MANNED himself for life. .Kimbali
Violated the prison rules and was pun
shed. In spirit of revenge he re-
'urned to the hoe shop, where he was
sharpened one edge of an
unfinished hoe. placed his hand against
'he wall and at one stroke severed the
'wo middle fingers of the left hand and
aearly severed the index finger The
edge OF the steel was turned where IL
struck the finger bones. 1t is believed
hat the index finger can be saved.
Aimball is twenty-five years old and ia
loing time for attempting to cut a
mans throat in rough and tumble
lght.
AT NorwallS, Ernst Kenyon fell thirty
eet from an electric light pole the
ther morning, fracturing both wrists,
rushing knee-cap and nose, and suf-
ering internal injuries. 1t is thought
ife
WHILE crossing the track of the
Wheeling and Lake Erie railroad on
orseback, about seven miles below
teubenville, Charles G. Showalter. of
he firm of Showalter & Kamm, the OK. |
ensive Steubenville butchers, was
truck by train and fatally injured.
he horse was instantly killed
Mr. CLINGMAN, of Hamilton. intro.
uced bill in the senate to amend
ection 1928 of the Revised Statutes so
to give mayors of all the municipal
les hnal jurisdiction in petty offenses,
lstead of having such cases taken IN
the court of common pleas. All
1ch cases are to be tried by iurv.
owever.
LIMA is being flooded with counter
lit quarters and dollars.
AN effort is being made to knock out
le habitual criminal law.
IHE Dayton fair will be held this
ear September 5, 6, Z, and9.
The following patents were issued
lie other day: George McConover, Cleve.
nd, draw shave; Eugene Fontaine,
pper Auburndale, railway time sip.