The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-10-12
NEWS ITEMS.

Inc NOrlu woman y y. 4. ". meets
at the Art palace, Chicago, October 16.
Mrs. Black burn can not and will not
withdraw her Pollard d-Breckinridge let
ter.
Fifty-seven census Office clerks were
dropped Thursday, among them several
from Ohio.
Ex-Auditor j. w. Metaker hanged
himself at Elgin, Ill, because of the
hard times.
Mrs. Dora Metzger fel. down an ele-
vator shaft at Columbus, o., and was
instantly killed.
Fire at Laporte, Ind, destroyed the
Summit Refrigerator factory. Loss
1000, insurance $4,000.
New Castle, Ind, is now talking
street cars in addition to her water
works and electric lighting.
The single tax theory, after hot de-
bate, was indorsed by the Missouri fed
Grafton of labor Thursday, and the
election of president, e-president
and senators by direct vote was recon-
mended.
At Liberty, Ind, Friday evening
Kosey Kelly, a painter, single, aged Is,
fell under moving freight train His
left leg was crushed below the knee
and amputated. Kelly is in danger
GUS condition.
A wholesale Jail delivery occurred at
8 o'clock Wednesday morning by which
six prisoners escaped from the Wood
county jail at Bowling Green, o. There
was one murderer and three desperate
crooks among the fugitives.
The Westinghouse Airbralte Co. has
suspended operations entirely at it's
works at Wilmerding near Pittsburgh,
enforcing idleness on between 900 and
1000 men. The shutdown will con-
tinue about three weeks for repairs.
VIM. Hoffman, an old soldiers, died
at his home suddenly of heart disease,
| aged about so years. Ha was the only
eyewitness of the murder of Jacob
Palm by VIM. Strong, in Circleville, last
July. The trial is set for this term of
court.
Senator Voorhees, would rather ad-
journ the senate than submit to COM
/ promise. He says that sooner than ac-
cept such terms of compromise as Sena-
tor Blackburn suggests, the repealers
will vote to adjourn until the regular
session.
Ed King and Thomas Dickson, the
Pittsburgh printers who beat to death
BILLY" Cunningham, of Cincinnati,
were found guilty of manslaughter, but
were recommended to the mercy of the
court. The extreme penalty is twelve
years and $500 fine.
Sallie, aged ) years, daughter of K.
G. Rogers of Faulkener's station, KY,
was burned to death Wednesday night
Her clothing took fire from a lighted
match with which she was playing,
and she was horrible burned before her
father heard her cries.
Every demonstration made by the
galleries of the senate since the debate
on the silver bill began has occurred
while free-silver advocate was speak
ing No manifestations of applause
have been made when those opposed to
silver were on the floor.
The wife of Charles Cadmus, of Kins-
man, o., was found lying in a field
near her home unconscious and nearly
dead from exposure. She had been
sick for some time with typhoid fever,
and, it is supposed, wandered from the
house at night while delirious.
The post offices at Barberton, Sum-
NIT county, and st. Paris Champaign
county, o., have been made presiden-
tial, each paying 81, 600 per year. John
Mcnamara will be reappointed at the
former and VIM. NJ. Huffman at the
latter Office, both being democrats.
The state federation of labor conven-
tion at St Louis Thursday passed a
resolution commencing Gov. Altgeld,
of Illinois, for pardoning the Hay
market anarchists, and Judge Reed, OF
Wichita, was denouced for declaring
the eight-hour law unconstitutional
An explosion of a gasoline stove oc-
Cured in Manlove's restaurant, Balm,
bridge, O., and several persons barely
escaped serious injuries. The alarm OF
the FIRE, which was spread, so excited
Mrs. Ada Manara, an aged resident ot
the village, that she suddenly died from
heart disease.
The London Times says that Ton
Mann, the associate of John Burns anC
Kier Hardie in leading the labor move
ment in Great Britain, is about to take
holy orders Some time during the
holidays he will be appointed to the
curacy of a populous parish in an in