The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-05-11
NEWS ITEMS.


There win be reunion of Scots at
the Worlds fair, beginning J7.ly 81.
Reports from all parts Of Mtry Il, nd
say that the peach crop this year will
be unusually large.
The khan of Khelat is said to have
murdered 8, coo of his subjects Since he
began his reign in 1887.
Harvard and University of Pennsyl-
vania have definitely agreed to play
football on Thanksgiving day.
The official trial trip OF TIN cruiser
New York will occur between May Is
and 20, but the exact date has not yet
been settled upon.
Secretary Hoke Smith created some
thing of sensation Friday by dashing
up to the white house on horseback to
attend the cabinet meeting.
The Pennsylvania senate, by vote
of 80 to a., repealed the Allegheny
county special law imposing fine of
S25 for violation of the Sunday laws of
1893
Col. J. w. Cooney, appointed post
master at Boston, was made surveyor
of the port eight years ago and was
afterward private secretary to Gov.
Russell.
All the charges recently made against
officials of Buffalo, N. Y, for derelic-
tion in duty in alleged illegal dealing
with the city contrary to the charter,
have been dismissed.
The st. Petersburg Church Messenger
says that out of the $4,000 pilgrims
journeying to Nazareth the majority
perished of exposure during the terrible
weather encountered on the way.
The woman who stopped President
Cleveland in the corridor of the Lexing-
ton hotel at Chicago last Monday morn
ing was insane. Her name is Annie
Rink. She was sent to Kankakee.
The Montana people Friday morning
decided to open their building at the
Worlds fair May 10, when a formal re-
ception will be given Gov. Richards and
members of his staff who are in the
city.
An important step has been taken
looking toward a general combination
of all trades unions in Great Britain.
The Miners federation and the Sea-
mems and Firemen's union have affil-
lated.
The dead body of Thomas O'Brien,
printer, whose home is in Chicago. was
found by the side of railroad track
just out of ElShart, Ind, Friday morn
ing. He had evidently fallen from a
train.
Mrs. Potter Palmer threatens to re-
sign from the board of lady managers.
1t was the climax of the quarrelling
and lack of harmony that has char
acterized the meetings of the board this
spring.
At Columbus, Ind, Wednesday night,
Policeman Patrick Haggerty and the
force arrested Oliver Taylor, alias Oliver
Sackett and Noah Cox. Both of them
escaped from Jeffersonville penitentiary
April z.
While some employees of blacksmith
shop at Brazil, Ind, were hammering
piece of redhot iron part of the metal
broke off and few into box of dyna-
mite, causing a terrific explosion.
Three lives were lost
The international monetary confer
ence, which adjourned to reassemble in
Brussels on the 3Oth inst, will not re-
assemble on that date. 1t has been de-
cided to postpone the meeting until
some time in November.
Returns from Chinese registration in
New York city are about $50, Brooklyn
recorded 140 Mongolians, while in Bos-
ton not one registered. OF the 1000
Cinnamon in Massachusetts only 20
certificates have been issued.
The last link binding Judge Gres-
ham, secretary of state, to Indianapolis,
Ind, was severed Wednesday in the
sale of his homestead, on North Tennes-
see street. Col. Eli Lily was the pur-
chaser; consideration, $4,000.
The state department was Wednes-
day informed of the death of James w.
Taylor, United States consul at Winni-
peg, Manitoba. Taylor had been ill
fof some time. He was appointed to
the position from Minnesota in 1870.
A correspondent writes from Homo
lulu that the marriage of Commander
Whiting, of the U. s. steamer Alliance,
to Miss Eta Along, daughter of a
wealthy Chinese merchant there, has
been fixed for early next September.
There was Wednesday not an applica-
tion received at the treasury depart
ment from Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky,
West Virginia nor from Tennessee.
This is the first time this has occurred
since the inauguration of Cleveland