The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-02-23
NEWS ITEMS.

! The rubber combine has been effect
ed. Capital, $1,000, 600.
A dog poisoner is doing deadly work
at Bedford, Ind. Thirty-five have been
found dead within week
Twenty-seven lives have been lost
owing to deadly gas in the Impensada
lead mines, near Cartagena, Spain.
Gov. Flower Wednesday approved the
bill repeating the law providing for a
chief inspector of police in New York
city.
The West Virginia legislature passed
law making train robbery or at
tempted train robbery punishable with
death.
All the prisoners in the county Jail at
Burlington, Kan, escaped. Among
them was Van Orman, the Waverly
bank robber
The Washington house has passed
bill making it unlawful to buy, sell or
| give away, or manufacture cigarettes or
cigarette paper
| 1t is given out that the s57 depotitors
in Rockafellow & Co.'S broken bank at
Wilkesbarre, Pa, will receive about five
cents on the dollar.
Charles Scott, murderer of b. f. Cur.
tbs, has been sentenced at Tyler, Tex,
to hang on Saturday, April /, the hang
ing to be in private.
The Japanese press regulations bill
forbids women from publishing news
papers, confning this work to men over
twenty-one years old.
Samuel Bachelor, an old soldier of
Brazil, Ind, went to indianapolis Feb
ruary to draw his pension and has not
been heard from since.
The Deutsche Adelsblatt says that
Chancellor Won Caprivi is about to an.
nounce his engagement to the widow of
Col. Lehman, of 1ilsit.
Advices from Japan state that rail-
way projects are now under considera-
ton by the Japanese government, and
several surveying parties are now at
work.
F. G. Pratt, Hawaiian consul-general
at San Francisco, whose wife is one of
the royal heirs, telegraphed his protest
against annexation to Washington
Thursday.
Preliminary steps have been taken to
establish in Chicago a great medical
school-one which shall rival and pos
sible outclass the best institution of the
kind in Europe.
Ed Burkhart, of Leslie county, KY,
was shot and instantly killed by his
brother-in-law, John Saylor Both
were under the influence of whisky
when the killing occurred.
Dr. Blout state quarantine inspector
at Gloucester, Tex, received telegram
from Dr. Swearingen, Texas health Of
ticer, directing him to inspect all trans
Atlantic steamers for cholera
The Mississippi supreme court has af-
firmed the death sentence of Ben Nc
Coy and j. Terry, of Copiah county
gang of Negro robbers and murderers.
They will be executed March %.
The special senate committee, ap-
| pointed to investigate the conduct of
the California State Railroad commits,
sioners, has presented its report favor
ing the removal of the commissioners.
A large paper mandatory employ
ing 800 skilled mechanics and capital
stock of 5000, 900 will locate in Seymour,
Ind, provided the citizens will donate
six acres of land and erect the necessary
buildings
j. G. Shafer has moved out of the
Harrison homestead at indianapolis,
and the house is being placed in shape.
to be occupied by the president March
8. 1t will be arranged just as Mrs
Harrison left it.
Miss Laura Roberts, of GAINESVILLE, O.,
attempted suicide at an early hour
Thursday morning by taking morphine
1t was the same old story of quarrel
with her lover, where death was prefer
able to life without him.
| DIR. Goldsborough S. Griffith, presi-
dent of the Maryland Prisoners Aid So
ciety, states that Gen. Brinkerhoff, of
| Mansfield, O., will succeed the late
| Rutherford B. Hayes as president of the
| National Prisoners association.
AT a depth of 5000 feet oil has been
| struck six miles from Parkersburg, W.
Va, on the Ohio side. The well is
| guarded, and several thousand acres
have been leased. The owners are
Marietta and Parkersburg men.
George Laburn, an ex-United States
marshal, and j. L. Woolsey had an al
tercation on the street in Denison, Tex,
and the latter killed the former with a
pistol. Woolsey charges Laburn with
having alienated the affections of his
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