The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-11-16
NEWS ITEMS.

Robertson Gladstone, a nephew Of
the prime minister, is dead.
Phil. Nelson, colored, is under guard
at Bardstown, KY, to prevent lynch
ing.
Chief Justice Beasley has decided
that the Jersey county excise law Is
unconstitutional.
There are now 2O7 students enrolled
at the West Virginia state university.
There are 10 lady students.
Francis II. Weeks, the forger, arrived
at Sing Sing prison Friday and was
assigned to the "Pile gang"
Oscar Smith, wealthy farmer and
stock raiser of Bourbon county, KY,
suicided Tuesday morning by shooting
himself with shotgun.
The latest estimates of the Massachu-
setts legislature give 3S republicans to
democrats in the senate and a repub-
lican majority of 135 in the house.
The Lake Shore passenger and
freight depot and post Office at New
Era, just south of Waterloo, Ind,
burned to the ground Friday. Loss
heavy.
The complete returns from Black.
hawk county, Ia, Gov. Boies' home
county, gives Jackson j. lII, Boies Z, 332,
n net republican gain Of sos over the
vote of 1891. =it."
The bapt,sm OF the infant prince of
Roumania by the Rounanian clergy.
according to the rites of the Greek
church, caused angry comments by the
Catholic press.
The total vote in South Dakota will
fall below 5000, less than half the
vote of last year The republican can
didates for supreme judges are elected
by from 1000 to 1000 plurality.
Secretary Hoke Smith has appointed
George Il. Crosby, of Sacramento, CAL,
a special agent to examine and report
on the condition of the Digger Indians
with view to improving their condi-
tion.
DIR. Herman August Hagen, professor
of entomology, at Harvard college.
died at Cambridge, Mass, Thursday
morning. Prof Hagen was born in
Kpnigsberg. Eastern Prussia, May 80,
1917.
The Grashdanin, organ of the Russian
court in special article upon the
European situation. recognizes the fact
that general disarmament is impossi-
BILE, and that a European war is newt
able.
Gov. Brown has ordered Col. John f.
Castleman, OF the Louisville legion, to
detail thirty men to accompany Phil
Evans, the rapist, to Bardstown and
protect him from mob violence during
the trial.
The marquis of Queensberry was
privately married. according to dis
patch received at London, to Miss
Ethel Weedcn, at Eastbourne. The
bride is described as being both young
and rich.
At New York Francs H. Weeks was
Tuesday sentenced to ten years inn
prisonment in Sing Sing prison. He
pleaded guilty on arraignment, and
the entire proceeding did not occupy
five minutes.
Francis Murphy closed ten days
temperance meeting at Greensburg,
Ind, with over 2,0)O signers to the
Ed. Wolfe, of Rushville, addressed the
large auQlence.
AT Atlanta Ga, Charles j. Crane
the young Baltimorean forger who was
betrayed into the hands of the Cincin-
natl police by man whom he had be-
friended. was Friday sentenced to five
years in the penitentiary.
A statue of Patrick Henry, which
used to ornament the old Monongahela
county courthouse is now an advertise
ment in Morgantown (W. Va-) store.
The people are kicking on this use of
the immortal Patrick's statue and want
it restored.
At Oak Ridge, 10 miles south of
Vanceburg, KY, Horace Goodhew,
while draining the last sip from a
whisky bottle, swallowed some slivers
of glass that were in the bottom of the
bottle. He died in great agony few
hours later.
There was double execution at Es-
sen in the Rhine province Friday. An
innkeeper, named Uebeluen, and
workman, named Metzger, were put to
death according to law for having
robbed and murdered Gruenbaum, a
cattle dealer.
Col. VIM. H. Able, of Kentucky, was,
Friday appointed an Indian agent,
with a salary of SO, 600 year. Mr.. Able
was an applicant for surveyor of the
port of Louisville, but that office was
filled by the appointment of friend of
Congressman Caruth