The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-10-05
NEWS ITEMS.

NEWS ITEMS.
The Forest Hill Coal Co., at Mont
gomery, w. Va, has resumed work.
Snow fell very briskly for half an
hour at Pittsfeld, Mass, Friday morn
ing.
Gen. Boisdetfre has been appointed
chief of staff in place of Gen. Miribel,
deceased.
Total admissions to the Worlds fair
Friday were S2,95S, of which 151, 1887
were paid.
j. w. Strauss, the prominent New
York Hebrew, has embraced the Budd-
hist religion.
Little Bennie Sharrott died at Au-
burn, Ind, from blood poisoning caused
by squirrel bite
Four new cases of cholera and one
death from that disease were recorded
at Hamburg Thursday. =
AN investigation into the lynching of
three innocent negroes in jefferson Par
ish, La, has been started.
The fight between the Dubs and
Esher factions of the Evangelical
church is breaking out again
At Ellenboro w. Va, William Grimes
was kicked by horse in pasture, and
his skull crushed like an eggshell.
Now it is said that Judge Long him
self led the mob that lynched three in
nocent blacks in jefferson parish, La.
During October North Dakota will
offer for sale 100000 acres of
its choicest lands in the Red river val
ley.
John ID. Rockefeller has bought 500
acres near Tarrytown, on the Hudson,
and will build million-dollar residence
there.
F. M. Sadler, while digging well at
Hawesville, KY, struck cave through
which is running a stream of cool,
crystal water.
The French government has decided
to present to every French exhibitor at
the Chicago fair a medal to perpetuate
his success there.
The paid attendance at the Worlds
fair Wednesday was 195,sO1, and on
passes, 35,327; the total paid attend
ance to date, Ia, 416, 729.
Secretary Carlisle has called for the
resignation of Charles F. Wenneler,
collector of internal revenue for the
First district of Missouri.
Alderman George Robert Tyler. of
the Queenhithe ward, has been elected
lord mayor of London, to succeed the
Right Hon. Stewart Knill.
Mrs. Steve Rowlands, of Lima, O., is
the lucky recipient of the information
that she is heir to an estate valued at
in,
Jasper N. Wilson, a wealthy West
Liberty (O.) farmer, died suddenly
from milk poisoning, caused from his
cows drinking poisonous water.
William Riley sued Ross Montgomery,
of Beallsville, at Woodsfeld, O., for
$4,000 for alternating his wife's affec-
tions. The jury gave him $1,000.
The Oak Leather Manufacturers, who
met at Columbus, O., with view of
forming a trust, adjourned without eff
fecting permanent organization.
The president of the Worlds fair
congress auxiliary, c. c. Bonney, was
sued for $1,000 damages for ordering
the expulsion of Free Thinker E. c.
Belts from the parliament of religion.
M. c. Percival, the defaulting cashier
of the National Shoe and Leather
bank, Lewiston, who was sentenced in
October, 1892, to ten years imprison-
ment died in the state prison at Thorn
aston, Me.
H. j. Sphinx and S ]. Hanschulte had
friendly sparring bout in north side
barber-shop, St Louis, during which
Sphinx fell to the floor and was dead
when picked up Heart disease was the
coroner's verdict.
Capt. Thomas Lyles, merchant and
postmaster at Midway, about nine
miles east'of Shreveport, La, in Bos-
sier parish, was shot and mortally
wounded by some cowardly assassins
while working on his books at his
desk.
During the football practice on the
Yale field Thursday two of Yale's best
men were injured. Butterworth, full
back, wrenched his ankle, and Brown,
tackle, it is thought, broke rib. This
may necessitate the latter's giving up
football for the year.
The Rome correspondent Of the Lon
don Central News, says: 1.-THE report is
confirmed that the vatican has instruct.
ed Archbishop Satolli to influence Cath
olic members of congress in Washing
ton in favor of Americas sending a
diplomatic representative to the vat
lean.
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