The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-02-16
NEWS ITEMS.

Galv1sa, NY.
Ex-Congressman Louis St Martin, of
the First Louisiana district, died at
New Orleans, aged ~.
Miss Mary Stanbury, a young society
lady of Rome, Ga, suicided with pis-
tol because of bad health.
Col Hernandez, of Mexico, will not
be shot. His sentence is commuted to
fifteen years imprisonment
Charles Pool, aged sixteen, is strange
ly missing from Columbus, Ind Sup
posed to have been kidnapped.
The Epworth league committee has
decided that the convention will be held
at Cleveland, O., July 6, z, 8 and 9.
For the first time in many years the
gambling houses of Kansas City, Mo-,
have closed; that is the police say they
have
Harry, the fve-year-old son of Lee
Shirk, of Louisville, o., fell into ket-
tie of boiling tallow and was fatally
burned.
At Harlan, Ia, the case of murderer
j. X. Cumberland has been appealed.
There was consequently no hanging
Friday.
The Oregon legislature has passed
joint memorial to congress for the issue
of more legal-tender notes to the
amount of $50, 600, ,OOO
Collingwood & Co., lumber manufac-
turers and dealers, of Wayne and Pike
counties, Pa, failed. Liabilities placed
at 500, 900, and assets s35, 900.
Robert Kremer hypnotized his friend,
Thomas Esmond, in New York, and the
latter barely came to life twenty-four
hours later. Kremer will quit.
At Parkersburg, w. Va, Lewis jack
son, more than ninety years old, a
colored man, was found at his room
with his neck broken Friday morn
ing.
Louisville detectives are trying to find
out who robbed the body of James
Tierney, the fireman killed at the As
phalt siding wreck on the N. N. & NJ. v.
road.
The railway automatic car-coupler
bill engaged the attention of the senate
Thursday after the morning hour. The
railroads are fighting the bill most bit
terly.
The Mastodian gas-well, near Mont
pCliCi, lhS. tlC ldTXcSJ III Gue SCdU6,
was drilled in Thursday, and the noise
forced Nathan Henderson to abandon
his home.
Deer in Michigan find it almost i'm
possible to get through the snow,
which is over five feet deep, and hunt
ers pursue them on snow-shoes and
catch them alive.
Witness Frenzel swore in the Nc
Donald will case at Noblesville, Ind,
that certain signature Of Senator Nc
Donald was genuine. 1t had been
forged purposely.
Representative Harter Thursday in
troduced bill to pay Seth H. Kellogg,
OF Lorain county, O., $42s, 53S for cotton
taken by the United State authorities
during the war of the rebellion.
The valued policy bill," requiring
fire insurance companies to pay the full
amount of policy when the property
is entirely destroyed, was reported ad-
versely in the West Virginia senate.
The Pennsylvania senate has adopted
concurrent resolution asking Penn
sylvania congressman to vote against
any repeal of the Sunday closing pro-
vision of the Worlds fair appropriation.
committee composed of 500 Protest
ants has issued invita- tions to a meeting
to be held on the goth inst, at Bremen,
for the purpose of protesting against
the readmission of the Jesuits into Ger
many.
Rev. w. B. Kelly, of New Haven, Ct,
has accepted the position of editor of
the Methodist Review, of Chicago,
which was offered him at the meeting
OF the book committee of the Methodist
church.
A car famine Is just now being felt
with more or less severity by nearly all
OF the lines running into Cincinnati.
The main cause is heavy business which
has caused an increased demand for
empty cars.
A syndicate of Tennessee gentlemen
has purchased the asphalt beds in Logan
county, just over the Montgomery coun-
ty line, in Kentucky. These asphalt
deposits cover over 1900 acres and are
pronounced inexhaustible.
A council of Spanish ministers has de-
cided that the U. s. ship Newark, which
sailed from Marseilles, Thursday, for
Barcelona, will have to undergo quar-
antine before being allowed'to ship ar
ticles intented for the Chicago fair
A remonstrance against further con-
cessions to the Panama Canal Co., has
been signed by five hundred of the
leading Columbian citizens residing on
the isthmus 1t has been forwarded to
the Columbian government at Bogota
From bills now pending before the
legislature which the committee of the
whole of both houses recommended
passed, there is no doubt but horse
racing will be killed in Minnesota by
the elimination of the pool selling
feature.
If the weather does not soon permit
the moving Of freight there will be an
Irish crisis at Chicago more serious than
home rule. The wholesale price of po-
tatoes was eighty-fve cents, Wednesday
the price was $1.00, and Thursday 81. 25
was predicted.
The Pennsvlvania Railroad % bas