The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-11-09
NEWS ITEMS.

The police have closed the principal
betting club in Paris.
Gov. Reynolds, of Delaware, is par
doning convicts right and left.
At NASSAU, Wis, as a result of fam
lily quarrel, VIM Odette Friday shot
and killed his brother Louis
Petitions are being circulated in Chi
cago praying that the government buy
the Northern Pacific railroad.
The pope has consented to act as god
father to the king of Spain at his
approaching confirmation and first
communion.
The duke Of Portland denies the re-
port in circulation in London that he
will build yacht to challenge for the
Americas cup.
Nineteen new cases of yellow fever
were reported at Brunswick, Ga, Fri
day. No deaths. Fourteen patients
were discharged.
The University Of Minnesota at Min
neapolis, is offered for sale for taxes it
refuses to pay to the city, the officers
claiming exemption.
Lawyer Francis H. Weeks, the de-
faulter, reached Jersey City at 12:42
Friday. He was taken directly to po-
lice headquarters.
Two entire blocks in the town of
Lewisville, Ind, were destroyed by
fire Thursday morning, causing a loss
of thousands of dollars.
Vice President Stevenson left at
II o'clock Friday night over the
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad for his
home in Bloomington, Ill.
Capt. William II. Lee, ex-chief of po-
lice of st. Louis, died Thursday morn
ing of paralysis He was the only chief
ever promoted direct from the rank of
patroleman.
George X. Oyler & Co., wholesale
dealers in vehicles and agricultural
implements at st. Louis, assigned
Wednesday,. Assets, s250,O00: liabil-
tiles unknown.
Private advices just received at Ia
coma, Wash, state that twenty men
were eaten alive by wolves at Shensi,
October IA and 15 Wild animals over
run that district.
A majority of the Kickapoo Indians
have agreed to accept 5000 each and be
enrolled for allotment Allotting
against Neal has begun work. The
reservation will be open by spring.
Mr.. Young, U. s. minister of Gaute-
mala, informs the state department
that President Ezeta, of that country,
now proclaimed dictator, has suspended
the tariff duty on salt meat and live
stock
A syndicate of Americans has a pro-
ject on foot for the tablishment of a
gigantic clock and watch manufactory
in Toxic, which is to employ over 1O,-
900 workmen, labor being cheap in
Japan.
The body of an unknown man, 80,
was found on theK. & M. railroad, 10
miles south of Point Pleasant, w. Va.
He had built fire, and, by some means
his clothes caught fire and he burned
to death.
Edward M. Douglass, youthful
horsethief in Jail at Peru, Ind, was
married to Miss Alice Black Wednes-
day in the Jail. ~he bride is a we'll
known young lady of the northern part
of the county.
There is increased activity among
the mills in Pittsburgh, and it is as
serted that fully fifteen thousand more
men are at work in the various factor
les of Allegheny county than were en-
gagged in wage-earning on October l.
Mrs. Sarah Inman, aged "a, residing in
Indian Creek township, few miles
southeast of Bedford, Ind, committed
suicide by throwing herself into creek.
No cause can be assigned and the act
was probably the result of temporary
insanity.
A. H. Smythe, of Columbus, O., whose
connection with the Egyptian exhibit
of the street in Cairo, at the Worlds
fair, as manager of it, gave him wide
reputation, was married at Columbus
to Miss Charlotte Parmelee, teacher
of that city.
At Keithsburg, Ill, fire which
started at 1880 o'clock Wednesday
morning, burned three blocks of resi-
dences and store buildings, destroying
altogether twenty-five residences and
eleven places of business. The loss is
estimated at $4,000, with very little
insurance.
News reached Little Rock, Ark, of
the death in Tegucigalpa, Honduras,
July 81, of John G. Warfield, ex-sheritf
and collector of Desha county, who a
few years ago defaulted in the sum of
s22, 900. The information was brought
by the absconder's son, who has re-
turned from Honduras.
A dozen Italian laborers with emf
grant tickets boarded a Chicago & Erie
train at Huntington, Ind, and at
tempted to install themselves in a first
class car. Being ordered to the smoker
fight ensued, in which several were
injured, Conductor w. ii. Hampstead
seriously, with a stilletto.
LES Roi" drama by Lemaitre
which was to have been produced next
Monday at the Renaissania theater,
Paris, by Sarah Bernhardt, has been
interdicted, the Austrian ambassador
having protested because the principal
scene suggested too strongly the death
Of the Crown princa Rudolph