The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-12-21
NEWS ITEMS.

tlllery IN cannon street.
Scoundrels tried to wreck a train
near DeFuniak Springs, Fla.
Rumors of great strike in the En-
glish cotton trade are unfounded.
The Mississippi at st. Louis has
reached the lowest point ever known
Russian army maneuvers are to be
carried on in deep snow around Mos
COW.
The official count shows that Judge
Bartlett defeated Maynard in New
York 101, 064.
Thieves impersonated deputy sheriffs
at Muncie, Ind, and in this way looted
many houses.
Tom Woods shot to death masked
Negro who tried to hold him up near
| Welch, w. Va.
Floods have caused destitution in the
Pugallup valley, between Tacoma and
Seattle, Wash.
At Huntington, Ind, little child
of Daniel Boxwell fell into tub
of boiling water and was scalded to
death.
The Mcdowell county Jail at Peery-
vile, w. Va, has forty inmates, twen-
ty-three of whom are United States
| prisoners
Milton Kendall was liberated We'd
nesday from the Frankfort (Ky.) peni-
tentiary for the murder of Jones at
Mt. Sterling.
The republican state convention of
Pennsylvania will meet January 13 to
state officers.
valiant, who was arrested in Paris
charged with throwing the bomb in
the French chamber of deputies, con-
fessed Friday.
Col. David Lytle, ex-state senator, of
Frankfort, KY, aged 73 years, has just
taken as his fourth wife a charming
16-year-old girl.
James L. Clark, who enticed young
girl from Portsmouth for evil purposes
has been bound over to the grand jury
at Columbus, O.
Every time a man swears in the su-
perintendent's Office of the Armour
Packing Co. he is pledged to pay ten
cents into the poor fund
The committee on public buildings
has been ordered to investigate the
filthy condition of the culinary depart
AhChO VI tiiC iiouSC hlbShCb.
Gov. Jones, of Ala bama, did not have
the crank arrested who threatened his
life, but wrote him long letter full of
admonition and kindly advice.
Dick Robinson was hanged at Se
dalia, Mo, at 11:11 o'clock Friday morn
ing. In eight minutes he was dead,
having died from strangulation.
Gov. Altgeld granted a respite of six
weeks to Geo. H. Painter, sentenced to
hang Friday for the murder of his mis-
tress, Alice Martin, May II, 1893
A spark from miniature trolley
electric railway in H. c. Klein's jewelry
store, at Muncie, Ind, set fire to the
building and destroyed 81, 900 worth OF
goods.
The Pacific express room at the Mis-
souri, Pacific depot at Fort Scott, Kan.
was entered while the messenger was
absent for few minutes and 1,0O(
: taken.
At Toledo, O., the celebrated coun
terfeiter, Eli L. Ward was found guilty
Thursday. Ward was member OF
the gang recently unearthed at Du
pont, o.
John Foster, the burglar who es-
capped from the penitentiary November
Z, disguised as teamster, was capt.
ured in Cleveland, O., by Patrolman
Sweeney.
The New York board of trade and
transportation adopted resolutions ia
voring national monetary commits
sion to formulate sound currency anC
banking system.
A receiving order was issued by the
bankruptcy court Wednesday morning
against Capt O'Shea, formerly the hus
band of the now widow of Charles
Stewart ParnelL
John Armstrong was hanged Wednes
!, day at Athens, Tenn, for the murder
! of French Sharp last April. Mrs
Sharp, mother of ten children, is the
woman in the case
An elevator in Thoms' carpet store
Cincinnati, fell four stories Wednesday
carrying with it several passengers
One woman was badly hurt and other:
more or less injured
Miss Elizabeth Tolle, a young widow
, living near West Union, O., committed
, suicide by taking poison. Despondency
caused by her betrayer forsaking hel
l is the cause assigned.