The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-01-26
OHIO STATE NEWS.

Tracy, Charles ii. Moss, Clark Rude,
Chas F. Mayer and Robert Gai rett were
elected directors; John Gardiner was
elected president and Jay o. Moss sec
retary and treasurer.
AT Darbyville Joseph Tipton's child
was burned to death while playing
about the fire.
A MOVEMENT is on foot to secure the
location of the new Odd Fellows or
phan's home at Bucyrus, midway be-
tween Bueyrus and Gallon, on the line
of the proposed electric railroad con-
Meeting these cities.
AT Cleveland Mrs John Scrapus cut
her throat with a case knife and will
die. She lived unhappily with her hus-
band.
THE only son Of William Lindsey, q
farmer living in Muhlenberg township,
near Circleville, died from inflammation
of the bowels, caused by eating pop
corn.
EDWARD STANTON, young man liv-
| ing on the west side, Portsmouth, Wis
tied his neighbor the other night, and
started home about midnight. In the
meantime terrific snow storm came
up. He thought he knew the path, but
walked into ditch that was filed with
snow. He sank to his armpits and was
unable to extricate himself. Stanton's
cries brought no assistance, and he re-
mained in the snow until day light,
| when he was found. He was thrown
rope and drawn from his perilous posi-
ton. Outside of his ears and face being
frozen he is all right as the snow kept
the rest of his BODY warm
DR. PRoBsT, secretary Of the state
board of health, received word the other
day of an epidemic of diphtheria at
Marion, thirty-seven cases having de-
veloped. The secretary went to inves-
tigate the matter
HIRAM MCKNIGHT, the lawyer con-
vict, who lost his case before Judge w.
II. Taft, in the United States court, at
Columbus, was returned to the peniten-
tiary under guard.
A DISABLED grip-car reared back into
a trailer, at Cleveland, fracturing Jacob
Eyerdan's skull and breaking Charles
Hagedarns leg.
HENRY STOUT. thieving peddler,
was sent from Marion to the Cleveland
work house for stealing sheep.
A PECULIAR MALADY exists among the
sheep of Eugene Beecher, of Uuion
township near Newark. Within the
past few days ten of them have died.
They suddenly become mad and butt
each other, and attack anything which
may approach them. A mad dog is
supposed to have bitten them.
PATRICK MORAN, charged with the
double murder of Blakeslee and Fox on
| ChriSf niphf at C1au.,lan1 HuaiuaI
examination and was bound over with
out bail.
ANDERSON LOGAN, aged eighty-four
years, Of Yellow Springs, eight miles
south of Springfield, and Mrs. Francis
McBrear. aged sixty-two have welded.
Ross WILLIAMS, a fifteen-year-old boy
residing at Blaine, Belmont county, is
five feet nine inches high, weighs 80
pounds and measures around the head
one foot ten inches; neck, one foot six
inches; shoulders four feet six inches;
chest, four feet three and one-half
inches; waist, four feet three inches;
hips, four feet three inches; arm,
between elbow and shoulder, one
foot seven and one-half inches; calf, one
foot six inches; ankle, one foot two
inches. He is probably the lagest boy
of his age in Ohio.
The other afternoon, at the sand cut,
near Hanover, Licking county, an Aus
trian named Pith G. Kuth met horrible
death. He was picking Jumps of coal
as trains were passing, and was struck
and knocked under the wheels, being
shoclSingly mangled. He was about
forty-five years of age.
| WTRSTER CORSR an insurance apenf
of Dayton was out sleigh riding the
other night and for fear some one would
hold him up, placed his pocket book,
containing valuable papers and $40 in
money, under the cushion on the seat
When he returned the horse to Raper's
livery stable, he forgot his pocket book.
Happening to remember it some time
later, he returned to find it had been
taken. Frank Bradshaw, a colored
man who worked for Raper was ar.
rested for the crime, and later Chief
Farrell, having recovered the papers
and money where Bradshaw had hidden
them, made him confess the crime.
Bradshaw will be held for grand
larceny.
THE arbitrators in the Poorman- Ryan
case say that Poorman is entitled tc
three-fourths of that 81 900.
A BIG party is being formed in Find.
lay which proposes to join the rush for
land claims in the Cherokee strip, which
is to be opened for settlement
March A.
MRS JONATHAN YARIAN, wife of g
farmer living one mile east of Column
biana, committed suicide the other
night by hanging herself. No cause i.
known except dependency.
THE diphtheria epidemic in Madison
} and Delaware townships, Hancock coun
ty, has assumed serious character
Entire families are ill, or have sue
cumbed to the disease. The publ,
: schools have been closed, and the vii
lage councils of Mt Blanchard and Ar
lington have ordered the churches