The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-08-03
NEWS ITEMS. ITEMS


England has annexed the Solomon
islands.
registered mail pouch en- route
from New York to Oregon was stolen
| at Utica.
Twenty-seven persons have been ser.
iously poisoned at Louisville by drink.
ing impure milk.
Three Oklahoma saloonists fought a
street duel. A. Cook killed two others
Smith and Stutzman.
Fire Friday on the docks at Bercy,
France, destroyed 10000 casks and 500
hogsheads of wine. The loss is $500, 600.
News was received in New York
that Nine Rhea, the actress, had mar
ried her leading man, w. f. Hart, in
Paris
The First national bank of Middles-
boro, KY, closed its doors Thursday
morning. Money stringency was the
cause.
The Putnam Tool Co.'S works at
Fitch burg, Mass, have shut down. The
company does not know when it will
resume.
The number of people who will go
from Colorado to the Chicago Silver
convention will number nearly three
hundred.
Mr.. Duncan Walker, the newly ap-
pointed consul for the United States,
began his duties at Queenstown
Wednesday.
workingman named Prinz was
stricken with cholera in the street at
Hamburg Thursday afternoon. He was
taken to a hospital.
BY boiler explosion in the Weather
wax lumber mill. Aberdeen, Wash, w.
M. Welch was killed and four others
were fatally injured.
Two Italian women, wives of farmers,
have petitioned Gov Flower for per-
mission to wear mems clothing while
they work in the field.
H. A. Mcconnell, prominent lum-
Der dealer of Knoxville, Tenn, was
run over by the cars at Jellico and
killed Friday morning.
ID. 5. Wilmot and Samuel S. Smith
have started from Philadelphia to
walk to San Francisco. The men ex-
pect to accomplish the journey in about
$50 days.
The dates for the annual interna-
tlonal cricket match, United States VS.
Canada, have been fixed by the Cana
dian association for September II and
IL at Toronto.
The little town of Palmyra, Pa, was
almost wiped out of existence by fire
Thursday. Twenty or more houses
burned. Many people were thus rem
dered homeless.
Cornelius N. Bliss is authority for
the statement that 5000 operatives in
cotton mills in Massachusetts, Maine
and Rhode Island are idle, the works
having shut down.
Second Mate Bolton and Quartermas-
,ers Emerson and Doug of the steamer
oceanic were arrested at San Francisco
Wednesday by custom officers for
opium.
The Portuguese government has de-
'lared Naples and all the ports of Sene-
yal to be infected with cholera, and ali
ports forty miles northwest of Naples
20 be suspected of infection.
John School, a German farmer, COM
nitted suicide by hanging in his gran
lry, north of Bucyrus, O. Financial
rouble was the cause. Notes were due
md he was unable to meet them.
The union boilermakers of New York
ity and vicinity have issued a circular
o the employers demanding the nine
iour work day from August 1. They
re at present working ten hours day.
Two persons are dead and several
'thers seriously injured as a result OF
J fire on the south side, Pittsburgh,
friday. The FIRE was caused by an ex.
'losion of stove-polish, which peddler
vas using on the stove.
News has been received at Hong
Kong that the Spanish ship San Juan
oaded with kerosene and which sailed
N June 90, for Annoy and Manila was
estroyed by fire. Out OF $50 people
n board only 21 were saved.
The sale of the entire Florida Central
nd Peninsular railway system to the
liant Investment Co. for s13, 600, 600 is
eported on good authority to have
cen consummated. The new manage.
,ent will take charge October /.
A telegram has been received at the
Interior department from Inspector
Alison announcing that the execution
I the nine condemned Choctaws had
cen further postponed from August
0 September 8, by order of the Choctaw
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