The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-05-04
NEWS ITEMS.

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New Zealand, is dead.
Several Madrid newspapers announce
that Emperor William will come to
Barcelona from Italy.
Charges of dishonesty are made
against Giles Bros. a Co., in connection
with their failure at Chicago.
The Chesapeake & Ohio railroad paid
$500, 900 for wharf privileges at Norfolk
and for new depot and terminal
grounds. M E 5Ef
Col. William II. McCardle, veteran
journalist and co-author of recent his
tory of Mississippi, died at Jackson,
Miss, Friday morning.
| The Ann Arbor locomotive engineers
case will not be called by the supreme
court until October. All the attorneys
in the case have returned home.
| James T. Dickson, of Illinois, and
| Thomas P. Smith, of Indian Territory,
have been appointed special indian
agents for the interior department.
Cardinal Luigi Sepiacci is dead. Car
dinal Sepiacci was born at Castiglione,
in Italy, September IL, 1885, and was
created cardinal December IA, 1891.
Orlando f. Packard, of Plymouth,
Ind, was Friday appointed bank ex-
aminer for Indiana by Controller Eek
| els, in place of George w. Holman, who
| resigned.
The famous chess player, Arnold
| Schottlander, of Breslau, will leave for
| New York on the steamer Augusta
| Victoria, which sails from Hamburg on
May 4.
The commission appointed by the
French chamber of deputies have an
nounced $4,000 in prizes for design for
new opera comique. The building
will cost s7OO,O0O.
The Duchess of Buckingham arrived
in Chicago Friday on her way back to
England. having nearly completed
tour of the world. She will remain in
Chicago few days.
The reception given to the officers of
the. visiting naval fleets and the duke of
Teragua by the Union League club of
New York, Wednesday evening, was
most brilliant affair.
Chicago Railroad association, at
Chicago, it was agreed to eliminate
second-class rates to Columbus, Newark
anu OUner OnlO pOlntS.
Edward R. Bunnell, prominent
farmer of Wallawa county, Oregon,
killed his wife and daughter, and then
hanged himself Friday. Bunnen was
over fifty years of age.
The international convention of the
committees of the Y. W. G. A. opened
at Toledo, o.. Thursday, all the vari-
Gus organizations in this country and
Canada being represented by the dele
gates
Dom M. Dickinson, whose appoint
ment as one of the government direc-
tors of the Union Pacific railway was
announced by President Cleveland,
states positively that he will not ac-
cept it,
All doubts as to who will hang Almy
have been settled by ex-Sheriff Brig
ham of Lisbon, forwarding to Sheriff
Hurlbutt,- of Lebanon, N. H., the death
warrant at the suggestion of Chief JUS
tice Doe.
The Colorado Fuel and Iron Co.
mines are on fire and the prospects are
that it will take at least two months to
eXtinguish the flames. Nobody has
been injured, but the loss to the mines
will be heavy.
The body of the woman found above
Wheeling, w. Va, in the river the other
day has been identified as that of Mar
tina ID. Fulton, a married woman of
Pittsburgh, who disappeared from her
home in March while suffering from
temporary insanity.
The Washington papers noted the
fact that the absence of the cabinet
on Friday left nearly all the depart
ments in the hands of republican assist
ants. The presidential besom is maxi
ing progress slowly.
The question of building a wagon and
railway bridge across the Ohio at East
Liverpool, O., is being agitated. The
estimated cost is $500, 200. If erected,
it will be the only wagon bridge be-
tween Wheeling and Pittsburgh
A general exodus of German colonists
from Russia to America has begun. The
Germans leave because the official per-
secutions, melted by virulent TRADES of
the press against the colonists, has rem
dered their position in Russia insuffer-
able.
I United States Marshal Walker, of
Brooklyn, is making arrangements for
the appointment of a coupleof hundred
deputies to arrest all Cinnamon who
persist in refusing to register them
selves in the revenue Office on or before
May S.
The organization known as the
Ladies of the Grand Army of the
Republic, are having row in Louis
vile, KY, because the white ladies will
not associate with the colored sisters.
-Four or five circles have disbanded and
only one remains.
The duchess of Veragua has been
presented life membership medal of
the Mary Washington Memorial associ-
alton. The medal is of gold and bears
the relief portrait of Mary Washington
one side and ON the reyel,Se is the