The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-10-26
NEWS ITEMS.

The new electric road at Charleston,
W. Va, will be completed ip a few
days.
Reports from the lake storms thus
far show fifty lives lost and twelve ves-
sells wrecked.
| Rev. Francis & Bateman, Baptist
minister of New York, has gone over
to the Episcopalians.
An organized band of cattle and
horse thieves are causing the farmers
much trouble west of Fostoria, O., in
Hancock county.
Emma Van Orden, the daughter of
Millionaire Orden, of New York, who
joined the Salvation army, has left the
army and returned home.
1t is reported that one of the largest
retail dry goods firms in New York has
been victimized to the amount Of $780,
900 by several of its employees.
Jules Lefort, the well-known French
chemist, and member of the Academy
of Medicine, died at Paris He was the
John Karpo, George Suto and Mi
chael Salokay, Hungarians, were con-
vieted of murder in the second degree
for killing George Klack at Wilmer
ding, Pa.
At Brunswick, GA, there were eleven
new cases of yellow fever Friday--two
white and nine colored One death oc-
Cured, and thirty-eight discharges
were made.
By the caving in of a trench at the
Homestead steel works, Homestead,
Pa, Thursday morning. two men were
killed outright and five others injured,
one of them fatally.
Two Jews at Brunswick, Ga, sick
with fever, were told that the doctors
were going to murder them. One has
gone crazy and the other is dying
Both were getting better.
Representative Cultivate says it is
the understanding that every MEM
Der of the Ohio delegation, including
Senators Sherman and Brice, will be in
the campaign before the 1st of Novem-
ber.
Ira Marlatt. a convict in the Ohio
penitentiary, tried to kill Guard w. w.
Short, but was foiled.' He was given
terrible punishment by ducking and an
electric battery called the cumming
Bird
James Smith, Washington county
burglar, and Nathan NJ. Burk, a Sum
NIT county prisoner, tried to suicide at
the Ohio pcnitentiary by inhaling coal
gas. They were both discovered and
saved.
Some. of the state commissioners OF
the Worlds fair have grievances
against the administration and bureau
of awards, and intend meeting and
passing resolutions expressive Of their
feelings.
The mystery of Anna Orrs disap-
pearance from the home of her father
on Holland Heights, near Bridgeport,
Ct, has been cleared up by the finding
Of her body in an old we'll a mile from
her home
The engagement of Senator Faulkner
of West Virginia, and Miss Virginia
Whiting, daughter Of Col H. Clay
Whiting, a prominent banker of Hamp-
ton, Va, is announced The wedding
will take place early in the coming
year.
Superstitious people are commenting
on the fret that there were thirteen
coaches in the fated train wrecked near
Battle Creek, Mich, Friday, and that
the car in which the fire started was
number 13. 1t had been in previous
wrecks.
Mrs. Ida Willems, of Milwaukee, ac-
cuses her husband Peter, his sister An
ME and his mother Christina of setting
fire to their house to secure the insur-
ance. They are suspected of setting
other fires that have occurred in Mil
waukee.
Mrs Rachel Logan, aged seventy,
near Pittsburgh, was tortured by
masked robbers and forced to give up
s5lb, saved for he: old age Later four
young men named Laughlin, Evans,
Shields and Shoemaker were arrested
and confessed.
Pope Leo has ordered his nuncic at
Paris to tender the coincidence of the
vatican to the widow Of Marshal Mac
Mahon. Cardinal Rampolla sent sec
ond message, containing the official
coincidence of the vatican, addressed to
the French government
II is probable that the investigation
before the committee on public lands
of the opening of the Cherokee strip
will be discontinued. It is believed
from testimony given by Commissioners
Lamoreux and Gen. Hall, that the
charges Of corruption were trumped up
for political purposes.