The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-12-28
NEWS ITEMS.

Inc temperance crusade at M1nneap-
oils is still in full blast.
The trouble in San Domingo is a re-
volt against President Heureaux.
A number of mills are to start up at
Fall river, Mass, but at reduced wages
A mass meeting of workingmen in
Troy. N. ", denounced the Wilson
tariff bill.
Fire destroyed Hall g. Hayward's
candy factory at Louisville. Loss, $780,
900; insured
There was a falling off in the output
of the Minneapolis mills the past week
of 10000 barrels.
Prendergast's lawyers say they will
accept any verdict except one of cap
ital punishment.
Commodore Stanton has been APP
pointed to the command of the North
Atlantic squadron.
John Tharp, white, was hanged at
Apalachicola, Fla, for killing his SON
in-law, George Knight.
James M. Bowling, late cashier of
the New Orleans mint, has been in
dicted for embezzling $4,000.
Hartford labor unions protest against
Carlisle's proposal to issue bonds to
meet the deficiency of S2S, 900, 900 in the
treasury
Squire Alden j. Kittinger, young
sport of Canal Fulton, O., has sued sew
eral Massillon resorts for money he lost
at poker
Three children Of John Peterson, of
Chicago, died of smallpox and were
buried in one grave. They had never
been vaccinated
Eugene Brady, sole survivor of the
Dalton pursuers has arrived at his home
at Lafayette. Ind. full of bullet
wounds, but he will recover.
The controller of the currency has
declared dividend of % per cent. for
the creditors of the Indianapolis Ma
tional bank, payable January 1.
Austin Corbin & Co., of New York,
are negotiating for the services of Ar
kansas convicts to use them in raising
cotton on an island in Chicot lake.
r. c. Vandergrift & Son, contractors
and builders of Charlottesville, Va
have made an assignment. Assets
about S35, 600, liabilities, about $4,000.
Peter Ellis, aged seventy-nine years,
and Lucinda, his wife, aged seventy
seven years, of Spartansburg, Ind,
died within an hour of each other OF
the grippe.
1. W. Miller, of Somerville, Ore, has
given up the search for his stolen child,
being satisfied that the little girl taken
from gypsies at Lancaster, o., is not
his daughter.
Milo Dodds, of Cincinnati, has for.
warded to Washington a petition
signed by thousands of democrats and
others indorsing him for the United
States marshalship.
Mrs Frank Roadson finally died al
Abilene, Kan, having last October de
liberately driven two-inch nail into
the top of her head. She had beer
paralyzed ever since.
In the senate on Thursday Mr.. Proc
ter Or. of Vermont, introduced bill
to annex the territory of Utah to th'
state of Nevada. Referred to the com
mittee on territories.
Ex-Cashier Koeting, who wrecked
the Milwaukee Southside Saving
bank, asks for a change of venue, OF
the ground that if acquitted he fear
he will be lynched or assassinated.
Two girls named Hemphill and Ste
fani, while out sleighriding witt
''Shorty" Babcock, near Vermillion, S
d., were shot to death by Babcock, VIII
then killed himself. Cause unknown
Justice Truax, of the superior court
New York city, appointed Edward 5
Stokes receiver of the property of tn
Hoffman House corporation. Liabil
ties, 100000; assets, less than half that
Seth Crawford, colored, killed hi
stepfather, Billy Crawford, in Henr
county, Tenn, Thursday, while tn
latter was beating his wife, the former
mother. Seth Crawford is but II year
old.
The two largest glass window fat
tories in Bridgeton, N. j., will shu
down January 1. Several hundre
men will be thrown out of employment
The cause of the factories closing dow
is no sale for glass on account of ovel
stocked market.
At Paris there was sale of the pei
sonal effects of the gifted but unfol
tunate Author Guy de Mapausant wh
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