The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-08-17
NEWS ITEMS.

SnOlera IN SouCnern huSS1 10 rapid ~
disappearing.
The Austrian reichstag will reopen
beginning October.
Armour & Co., of Chicago, are i'm
porting gold direct to Chicago
The Seventh West Virginia cavalry
will reune at Elk City September 2O-2l
New York creditors charge fraud in
the assignment of the James II. Walker
| Co. at Chicago
The Augusta (Ga) board of health
has quarantined against Pensacola un.
til December 1.
The Martinsville and indianapolis
electric railroad will not be built, ow.
ing to hard times.
Marsh fires are raging about La
porte, Ind Life is endangered and con-
siderable damage done.
An eleven-weeks' drought was broken
by rain, at Peru, Friday. There never
was such dry time in that part of the
state.
Fire destroyed the shecky tanneries
and Consolidated Wire companys ware
houses at Rankin Station, Pa. Loss,
s125.000.
Rev. Samuel j. McElmer, of Indian
apolis, was poisoned on something in
the food at wedding at which he Off
ciated. and may not recover.
William Hayden, of Canton, o., aged
IL, left home with a Sunday-school pic
mic and en- route was stricken with
paralysis, dying soon afterward.
Owing to the small number of guests
the Hotel Victory, Put-in Bay has
closed. The hotel is now in the hands
of receiver, George Ketchum, of To-
ledo
Among the passengers on the steam
ship Colombia, which arrived from
Colon Thursday morning, are Hon. Pat
rick Egan, ex-minister to Chilli, and
family.
Judge Prewitt Friday handed down a
decision declaring unconstitutional and
void the action of the legislature re-
moving the capitol from Sacramento to
San Jose.
The fire in Pennsylvania colliery, at
Shamokin, has been extinguished.
Work was resumed Wednesday, giving
employment to 1000 hands after one
months idleness.
The executive committee of the
Worlds fair board of directors has ac.
cepted Theodore Thomas resignation
as musical director of the fair. 1t was
also decided to disband Mr.. Thomas
big orchestra of ia pieces
At Six-Mile, Creek, w. Va, Bud
Drake, single, aged 25, was on Al
Franklin's porch playing violin, when
some unknown person drove up, and
without a word of warning shot Drake
in the head killing him instantly
Two large pouches of mail for Chica-
go were stolen from a mail car at
Spring field, ILL.,, and taken to the out
skirts and rifled of their contents.
They were extra large pouches and the
loss will probably reach into the thou
sands.
At Idaho Springs, Col, Friday night,
an effigy labeled Stuffed Prophet
was suspended from telegraph pole
and then burned. A similar demonstra-
tion took place at Cripple creek, with
the addition of riddling the etfigy with
bullets.
A twenty-fve-t thousand dollar breach
of promise suit brought by Miss Emma
Sunpert, of Cleveland, O., against
Forest f. Ford, Cleveland and Pitts
burgh baggagemaster, of Bellaire,
caused excitement there, as the parties
are well-known.
Perry Griggs, a United States deputy
marshal was murdered in Cleburne
county, Ala, by whitecaps. At the
last court in Birmingham, six Cleburne
county men were convicted for white
Gaping, and were sent last week to
the United States penitentiary at Still
water, Minn. Since this their Cleburne
friends have vowed vengeance.
Fire broke out in the Elkins hotel at
Germania, w. Va, on the West Vir-
ginia Central and before the fire could
be eXtinguished the hotel and six
dwellings were entirely destroyed.
The loss is way up in the thousands,
with but very little insurance
Nelson Abbott, living two miles from
Buena Vista, o., killed one of the
strangest snakes, Wednesday, ever seen
in that section. 1t was about two feet
in length, and was the color of gold,
except that it had white stripe around
it's neck. 1t was of a poisonous species
and showed fight, fiattening it's head
out as large as a mans hand Its fangs
were unusually large.