The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-03-02
NEWS ITEMS.

upon his return to Indianapolis will be
as informal as possible.
Robert f. Burton, wealthy plumber
of Camden, N. j., was kicked to death
Friday morning by spirited horse.
Mrs. Kenna, widow of the late United
States senator, John +. Kenna, is likely
to get the post Office at Charleston, w.
Va.
There are twenty-five suspects" in
the isolated tents for typhus fever vic
Tins at Bellevue hospital, New York
city.
At the North Meath election Mr..
Gibbon, the anti-Parncllite, polled 665
votes, and Mr.. Mahoney, Parnellite,
2376
An insane woman in Venezuela muir
dered her twelve-year-oldd daughter with
a machete. The girl was cut into forty
pieces.
The famous Hungarian cavalry gen.
eral, Baron Edelsheim Giulai, is very
i'll and there is very little hope of his
recovery.
The Chinese government has appoint
ed minister resident in the Pamirs,
who will rank with the minister resi-
dent in Thibet.
1t is asserted that about 400 clergy
men, of different denominations, from
Ulster, will take part in the unionist
campaign in England.
Commodore E. ID. Morgan has placed
his yacht Ituna in commission as the
flagship of the New York squadron by
raising his official flag.
The Berlin police continue their Wis.,
its in search of anarchistic and social
istic worknen. Several suspected men
were arrested this week.
'Mr. Hunt" the "man with the
cough" has been arrested in New York
city. He is the slick forger that worked
banks in Cincinnati and other cities.
The Panama investigating committee
has postponed further examination of
witnesses until Tuesday next. as Col.
Fellows, chairman of the committee, is
sick.
Admiral Gherardi with the United
States war ships Baltimore, Charleston,
San Francisco and Yorktown, arrived
at Fort Monroe at $3.50 o'clock Friday
morning.
Hon. w. e. Barrett, speaker of the
Massachusetts house of representatives
delivered, in the legislature, Thursday
afternoon, his eulogy on the late James
G. Blaine.
There was riot at Marines hall,
Chicago, between attendants at jew
ish wedding and democratic club,
both having rented the place for the
same night.
Frank L. Perley, the well-known
manager of the Modjeska company, was
Friday granted a decree of divorce for
adultery from his wife, Ida M. Perley,
by Judge Stein
Gov Pattison has appointed Judge
Heydrick OF Franklin to the vacancy on
the supreme bench caused by the resig-
nation of Chief Justice Paxson to accept
the Reading railroad receivership
| Piano manufacturers of New York
city have reconsidered their decision
not to exhibit at Chicago. Sohmer &
Co. and Chickering are among those
preparing to be represented at the fair
A serious commercial crisis is threat
| ening in Paris on account of the slack
| ness of the current trade and rash spec
| ulation in bullion. Several of the firms
are bankrupt and more are expected to
| fail.
Mayor Washburne signed the ordi.
nance Friday morning which provides
for the elevation of railroad tracks
| within the down town or burnt dis.
trict of the south side. Chicago, by Jan.
uary /, 1895.
| At Columbus, O., James McVey, a
switchman in the Hooking Valley yards
stepped on the wrong track and was
run down by q cut of cars. He wa:
killed almost instantly. He was 80
years old and unmarried.
Edwin Won der Abe, son of Chris Vor
der Abe, the well known baseball mar
of St Louis, and himself stockholde,
and treasurer of the ST Louis club, was
run over by grip car Thursday night
and probably fatally hurt
Eight whisky men and two sugar
men were arrested in New York fol
making whisky out of the refuse O.
sugar refneries. They will appear be
fore the congressional investigation
committee at Washington Thursday.
Mccarthy, M. p, presented in the
Canadian parliament petition signed
by 80, 900 members of Patrons of Indus
try, an organization of Canadian farm
ers, asking that coal oil, binder twine
and corn be placed upon the free list.
Commissioner of Agriculture Geo. M
Chaplain, of Arkansas, has, in circu
lar urging the reduction of cotton acre
age, called state convention of far
mers to meet at Little Rock, March II
to decide on the amount of reduction.
Joseph Zetzock, a Pole, undertook
at Johnstown, Pa, Friday, to drink two
quarts of raw alcohol on a wager of g.
The man actually drank one quart OF
the stuff, and was eating some sausage
preparatory to taking the other quart
when he fell, and when picked up he
was dead.
In free-for-all fight in country
store seven miles north of Ryan, KY,
John Jones and Ham. Ratcliff were
fatally cut with knives Hayden Holtz