The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-10-19
NEWS ITEMS.

A. D. Dress, the forged will sw4ndler,
is in Jail at Reading, Pa. He made
$4,000 off the Spang family alone
Charles Magram was arrested on a
charge of having embezzled s22S. 95
from the Toledo (O) typographical
union.
The famous Craddock murder case
has begun at Parkersburg, W. Va.
Over fifty witnesses have been sum-
moned.
President Sattley and Cashier Dar-
ragh have been indicted at Kansas City
for defrauding the Kansas City Safe
Deposit Co.
The Manchester cotton mills, about
three miles east of Ft. Worth, Tex,
burned Thursday morning. The loss
will reach 100000.
Two boats of the fishing feet were
capsized by the heavy seas off the bar
at Charleston, S. c., and five of the
crew drowned, all Negroes
The Edgar Thomson steel works at
Braddock, Pa, will resume work in all
departments on the 10th. Some of the
men will receive an increase and others
slight reduction.
Mrs Frank Moore told the officers at
indianapolis that her son murdered
John Young there in April last. The
mother kept her secret until her son
beat her shamefully.
At Marion, Ind, Abe Stump and
Frank Stevens were discovered steal
ing potatoes and were fired upon by un-
known parties. Stump was killed.
Stevens has disappeared.
The cricket match between the Aus
tralians and eighteen of All-Massachu
sets, ended at Boston Thursday morn
ing in favor of the visitors who made,
without trouble, their needed fifty-one
runs.
The Baltimore city Jail burned FRI
day night. The prisoners were hur-
riedly collected and marched into the
yard. Quite a number, however, were
overcome by smoke, and had to be
dragged out
Notice of 10 per cent, reduction
was posted at the wire nail works at
New Castle, Pa. A reduction of about
10 per cent. has also been announced at
the Atlantic iron works and at the
Arthesus iron works
William Harlis, of Hawkins county,
Tenn, has just celebrated his 107th
birthday. He refuses to sleep in his
bed at his grandchildren's house, but
every night repairs to a hollow tree
near by and sleeps there.
The grand jury of Conway county,
Ark, after an exhaustive investigation
of the case, discharged Frank Hickey,
and the assassination of John M. Clay
ton, the republican politician, is as
deep a mystery as before.
The trial of Franz Welluhun, at She
boygan, Wis, for the murder of the
husband of the late Bertha Hunt last
June, is ended. The jury found him
guilty of murder in the second degree
and Bertha was acquitted.
Hase Blankenship started out squir-
rel hunting with number of other
young men from Raymond City, w. Va,
and while shooting at a squirrel the
breech pin of his gun flew out and en-
tered his brain. He can not recover.
March Walker, the Negro who as
saulted Helen Young, the young mute
! girl, in her home last Saturday night,
was shot and instantly killed by a
| squad of mounted police at Ways sta
ton, sixteen miles from Savannah,
| Thursday morning.
Grace, the eight-year-old daughter of
Anderson Miller, prominent farmer
! living near Kokomo. Ind, was fatally
injured by vicious boar while passing
through the barn lot Her body was
frightfully lacerated by the tusks of
the infuriated beast.
VIM. A. Gallor, aged go years, prom
inent man living near Bellaire, o., was
arrested in Wheeling Thursd ay even
ing, and when brought into court Fri
day morning dropped dead. He was a
G. A. r. man, and recently had been
dissipating He leaves a large family.
c. A. Mason, the 7S-year-old horse
thief, of Lima, o.. pleaded guilty in the
common pleas court at Wauseon, O.,
Thursday, on the charge of stealing
Thomas Murr,y's horse about six weeks
ago This will be the third sentence
Mason has been given on the same
charge.
Guard O'Brien arrived at the Ohio
penitentiary Thursday night, having
in custody Frank Williams, who es-
capped from the institution April 10 last.
Williams was received from Scioto
county November l6 1892, on three
year sentence for grand larceny. Will
Jams wrs arrested at East ST. Louis.