The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-07-20
NEWS ITEMS.

National Retail Furniture Dealers
association at Chicago decided to hold
their next meeting at Cincinnati.
A four-year-old boy of Frank Graz
ham, living near Logan, o., was kicked
to death by horse. 1t occurred in q
runaway.
The Peary expedition sailed from ST.
Johns, N. f., Friday for Labrador set
Elements to get dogs and thence to
Greenland.
The steamer City of Alexandria ar
rived from Havana with $500, 00o in gold
consigned to the Western national
bank, of New York.
Herman Eggert was sight when
married to Miss Kate Vergettes at
Newark, N. j. He had been the victim
Of assault by unknown men.
News has reached Jeffersonville that
P. II. Callahan, wealthy farmer re-
siding at Borden, Ind, was held up by
four masked men and robbed of $500 in
cash.
Jack Turner, farmer, was Wednes-
day night murdered while asleep at
Lake Creek, Tenn, and Thursday his
wife, aged 13, was arrested for the
crime.
The Germanic arrived at Queenstown
at $50 Thursday, and reported that on
the 9Th she sighted portions of wreck
ninety-seven miles out from Sandy
Hook.
At Enterprise, KY, Joseph Reeder,
aged 81, was struck by lightning while
reading book. The chair he was sit
ting on was demolished, but the boy
will recover.
1t is reported that the National Citi-
Eens' Rights association, Judge A. w.
Tourgee, president, has interested
itself in the case Of c. ]. Miller, hanged
and burned at Bardwell, KY.
Chas. Vastine, the Scioto county muir
derer, now in the penitentiary at Co
lumbus, O., will probably be granted
new trial, as his attorneys claim to
have discovered considerable new evil
dence.
Services over the remains of Mrs.
George Drew-Barrymore, the actress,
who died in California on the I'd inst,
was held in St Stephens Episcopal
church, Philadelphia, Wednesday af-
ternoon.
A shower Of million half-inch toad
is reported about Grand Falls, Me.
The roads are covered with them. 1t is
thought they were swept up the river
by water spout that occurred few
days ago.
The first clause of the army bill was
passed in the German reichstag Thurs
a W hu of al
isterialists are jubilant, as this prac-
tically amounts to the passage of the
whole bill.
While attempting to light gasoline
stove, Mary Gearty, II, and Anna
Schroeder, aged 5, daughters of farm
ers near Port Clinton, O., were burned
to death. The gasoline exploded, ig.
hitting their clothing.
At Mint Springs, eighteen miles north
OF Huntsville, Ala, John Walker mur-
dered VIM. Campbell. A half hour be-
fore, the men were drinking together,
the best of friends, but dispute arose
and Campbell was killed.
VIM. Miller and his small sons ar
rived in Muncie, Ind, Thursday, ex-
and half starved. They had
walked from Parkersburg, w. Va,
distance of 300 miles. They left Park
ersburg forty-six days ago
Miss Schurz, the insane niece of ex-
Secretary Carl Schurz, has mysterious
ly disappeared. Her Chicago relatives
say she has been lost A love affair in
Germany is mentioned as having caused
her mind to be unbalanced.
A man giving his name as William
Meyer has been duping Detroit manu-
facturers by contracting for new affairs
for the German Catholic church at La |
Porte, Ind, and borrowing money on
the strength of his contract.
A big oil we'll has been struck on the
Frank Winget farm, near Portland,
Ind. 1t is flowing 400 barrels daily,
and has strong pressure. The well is
N entirely new territory, and is four
niles from any other oil we'll
The annual report shows that the
Baptist Y. P. U. society is making a
wonderful growth. In the past year
ZOO new societies have been organized,
making the total now $500. There il
low s13,s46 in the founding fund.
Sarah Bolten, Indiana's pioneer
'oetess, is lying at the point of death in
indianapolis Among her productions
s the old saying, Paddle Your Own
Janoe." She is universally esteemed
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