The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-01-12
NEWS ITEMS.

There is $500 shortage in the post |
cffice at Rockport N. Y.
Beer is 81 barrel at st. Louis as
result of the war of rates.
Several Russian soldiers were frozen
to death on the ice off Cronstadt.
The new opal field in Washington |
state promises to excel every other |
mine IN the world.
Albert Delpit, the well known writer, |
is dead at Paris Albert Delpit was
born in New Orleans, on January 80,
1s49
The Halleck & Howard building,
Seventeenth and Market streets, Dem
YER. Col, burned. The loss will be |
$3.50, 900. tsef
The steamer New South was stopped
at Stevensport, KY, on account of the
ice. The los passengers were sent north
by rail-
Charles Floquet authorized denial
of the truth of reports that he intended
to resign the presidency Of the French
chamber. H
Arthur Kennedy, 10 years old, and
George Freese, ~ years old, were
drowned while skating near Sparrows'
Point. Md.
Queen Regent Christiana has signed
the commission of the Duke of Almo-
dover del Valley, as Spanish minister 10
Washington. ,t q4l tfs-s.
In the national house Clover, of Kan
sas, introduced bill forbidding d.
yorces in the District of Columbia or in
the territories.
The shipping Of the Maritime prov
inces Of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick
and Prince Edwards island, shows an
alarming decrease. sE.t. i
Bob Talton, who brutality murdered
Jesse Elliott at Catoosa, l. r.. in No
vember last, has been convicted and will
hang on February s.
The republicans organized the Col
orado house Wednesday by one major
ity They will also, it is thought, do
likewise in the senate.
The pope has declined to receive Senor
Valeria, the Spanish envoy recently ap-
pointed, on the ground that he has
written immoral novels
The U. S. senate Friday confirmed the
following nominations: Gilbert A. Pierce,
Of Minnesota, to be U. S. minister resi-
dent and consul general to Portugal
Col. John n. Caldwell, coroner of
Bourbon county, died at Paris, KY,
from Brights disease. He was 7s years
old, and once noted as an auctioneer.
Geo Rains, leading lawyer of Roches-
ter. N. Y, is said to be slated for solici-
tor general and perhaps attorney gen.
eral in president-elect7 7Clevelands cabi-
net.
1t is learned that within the next few
days the president will issue an order
extending the civil service law and
| rules to letter,carriers at all free-deliv-
| cry post Offices.
Senator Warren, from the select com
| mittee on woman suffrage, Wednesday
| reported to the U. S. senate joint
! resolution to amend the constitution.
extending the right of suffrage to
| women.
Mrs. Elizabeth Wright, Of West Nash
Vile, Tenn, ~ years old, was standing
| before an open CRATE when her dress
took fire, and no one being in the house
she was burned to death before aid
reached her.
| The legislature of North Carolina
organ lied Wednesday by the election of
John l.. King, presiden, of the senate,
and Lee y Overman, speaker of the
house. This assembly does not elect a
! q. $. senator.
| At Huntsville, Tex, in family row
Friday, Albert Mcdonald shot and
killed his father and fed. The peniten-
tiary bloodhounds were put on his trail.
and he was caught in short time. He
confessed the crime.
| 1t is estimated that before the gates
of Jackson park are opened on May /,
this greatest of all international expo
sitions will have cost in round figures
$50, 600, 900. The largest single item
Is SIS, SIG. 60a, for construction.
The cold weather in France continues
unabated. Two persons have been
frozen TO death at Toulouse and one At
Bordeaux. The River Rhone is frozen
over at Tarascon, the Garonne at Tou-
louise and the canal at Marseilles.
The republican legislative caucus at
Augusta, Me-, unanimously renominat-
| Cd Eugene Hale for United States sena-
tor, Nicholas Fessenden for secretary Of
state, George L. Besll state treasurer,
and Fred A. Powers attorney general