The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-08-10
NEWS ITEMS.

died Friday of cholera.
The paid admissions to the Worlds
fair Wednesday were only 81 1,473.
Several shocks of earthquake were
felt at Belgrade Wednesday morning.
Two young sons of VIM. $. Britton
were drowned while bathing at Rich.
mond, Ind.
John S. Jordan was cut in two com.
pletely by circular saw at st. Fran
cisville, Ill.
Another bundle of rifed letters was
found near the railroad track two miles
from Columbus. o.
Farmer Hiram Brady, near Wellston,
o., was gold -bricked out of $500. Same
old way, identically.
L. A. Stitch, of Montgomery county,
KY, is taking to the Worlds fair a
steer weighing 4, ,130 pounds.
Lord Randolph and Lady Churchill
have gone to the south of France. His
nervous system is shattered.
The Peoples Savings bank, one of the
small concerns of st. Paul, Mimi,
closed its doors at noon Friday.
At Stevens Point, Wis, the CONNER
cial bank failed to opened Thursday.
Assets s200,000; liabilities 100000.
Isaac Sachs, merchant of Coalton,
O., reports that two veiled women tried
to kidnap him while he was visiting a,
jackson.
Henry Allen & Co., New York
brokers, will bring suit against the
National Cordage Trust pool to recover
$780, 900 commissions.
Pearl Sutton, aged ten, was instantly
killed at Sistersville, w. Va, by the
handle of windlass flying back and
striking her on the head.
J. c. Jeffries, of Carmel, Ind, drew
$500 out of the Westfield bank to pay a
debt, hid it in bed-tick for safe keep
ing; then thief stole it.
Mrs. John Fisk shot and killed her
husband in the street at Paris, Tex.
She was a morphine fiend. They had
been married but week.
John Lynch, a farm hand, was sun.
struck in distant field on farm seven
miles south of St Louis, and lay for
four days before he was discovered.
The steamship Aller, which arrived
at New York Thursday morning from
Liverpool, brought S5O,O in gold con-
signed to Ladenburg, Thalman G. Co.
The fatal scalding of Sylvester Fish
er's 2-year-old son is reported from
Amity, east of Springfield. O. His sis
ter pulled a pot of scalding water over
on him.
The st. Louis Republic claims that
the passenger earnings of the western
dc f0, he, ~f III,
decrease as compared to June earnings
of 100000.
The treasury department Friday pur-
chased 100, 600 ounces of silver at 72
cents an ounce, an adv ance of lie
cent an ounce over the price paid
Wednesday.
Theodore Thomas, musical director
of the exposition, has asked to be re-
lieved. He sent his request to the COM
mittee on liberal arts, but it has not
been accepted.
Beginning Wednesday, the extensive
locomotive shops of the New York,
Lake Erie & Western railroad will be
in operation but "a hours per week, at
Susqnehanna Pa.
j. w. Neff, of Cincinnati, was grant
ed the right of way through Clark
county Wednesday to build an electric
line from Sprir gfeld to Xenia. Work
will begin at once.
John Jackson, of Greenbrier, Ark. +,
invited his brother-in-law, John Pad
gett to his house, and when he pad
gett) came to the door, Jackson shot
him to death. No cause
At New York, Katie Reynolds and
Philippine Cooney, both young girls,
have been arrested, charged with
housebreaking. The girls had been
burglarizing fats for several weeks
past.
The London Standards correspond
ent at Budah Pesth says that the
wheat crop in Hungary will be one
million hundred weight in excess of
the estimate, and that the quality is
excellent
The first dirt on the Chicago and
Central Indiana Electric road was
turned in the south part of Noblesville,
Ind, Wednesday. The road goes due
south to Indianapolis in place Of via
Westfield.
Nicholas w. Hirschmann, cashier for
the consolidated Steel and Iron Co., of
St. Louis, was arrested Thursday,
charged with embezzlement. He ac-
knowledres his quilt He is nearly