The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-08-31
NEWS ITEMS.

rosters advertising Tor recruits for
the U. s. army, were torn down in OF
tawa, Can.
During the month of July there were
701 deaths in Havana, of which 100 re-
suited from yellow fever.
]. Nj. Deardoff & Son, wholesale pa
per dealers, Chattanooga, Tenn, as
signed to H. L. Dayton, an attorney.
Mrs. Henry Courtney, of Pittsburgh,
Pa, suicided with poison because her
daughter married against her wishes.
The steamer Lady Lee arrived at
Memphis Thursday night from Osceola,
Ark, with the first bale of new cotton.
Iowa democrats renominated Boies,
sure enough. The Chicago platform
was indorsed and liquor license law
demanded.
Baron Won Saurma- Jeitscht, the first
German ambassador to this country,
arrived at New York on the Havel
Wednesday.
Two daughters of a bargeman in Mo-
abit, a suburb of Berlin, fell i'll of Ash
attic cholera Thursday, and were taken
to the cholera hospital.
Fall river manufacturers are expect
ed to start reduction of wages in Mas
sachusetts. The operatives declare that
they will strike in that event.
Gov. Waite, of Colorado says of the
report that Secretary Gresham has rep
rimanded him, that if it be true, he
does not know anything about it.
Search Reel, farmer, who lives five
miles east of Vincennes, was buried
Friday. His death resulted from being
kicked by horse a few days ago.
Lord Dunraven's cutter Vallxyrie the
challenger for the Americas cup, sailed
States early Wednesday morning.
DR.. William H. Williams, editor of
the Central Baptist, of st. Louis, drop
ped dead on the depot platform while
waiting for train at Alexandria.
Wednesday morning Mt Auburn
electric car, while crossing McMicken
avenue on Main street. Cincinnati, ran
over and cut in two Alfred Miller, aged
6 years
Real estate men estimate that there
are 5000 empty houses in Washington.
The business depression which has
spread over the country has at last
Sbi uSh oilC uuIlOudl Cd plUdl.
DIR. w. o. Williams, of Haughville,
Ind, was fatally shot Friday night by
Otto Bott, baker, aged twenty years.
Young Bott declares he was shooting
at dog from an upstairs window.
DURING the past three months thirty
five post offices in New England have
been broken into, the safes blown open
and the contents taken. In all the
government is loser by over $4,000.
Four hundred French Canadians from
all parts of the United States and
Canada assembled in convention
Wednesday at Apollo hall, Chicago.
They are to discuss questions of mutual
interest.
Chas. Baker, aged 10, was kicked by
a horse Thursday evening and died
from the effects of his injuries Friday.
He was son of Frank Baker, farmer
who lives three miles south of Vim
cennes, Ind.
The Benwood and Etna mills and the
Bellaire Nail works, three of the big
gest concerns in the vicinity of Wheel
ing. w. Va, announce that they will
resume in few days They will en-
ploy about 1000 men.
French Canadians, in. convention at
Chicago, Thursday decided to form an
organization of American French Can
adams 1t will be incorporated under
the laws of Illinois, with life insur-
ance and sick benefit provisions.
AT Terre Haute, Ind, Otto Brown,
aged 10, who played bear with his
cousin, Johnnie Brown, aged IL, We'd
nesday evening, and who was shot by
shotgun thought to be unloaded
which Johnnie held, died Friday.
Bert Handley, VIM. Pemberton, Net
tie Wainright and Daisy Crow were in
yawl on the river at Cincinnati,
Thursday. The vessel capsized and
Handley and Nettie Wainright were
crowded. The other two were rescued.
The doubt surrounding the cause of
the disappearance of VIM. P. Went
worth, the Victoria hotel book-keeper
of New York, was dlspelled Wednesday
by his arrest on a charge of stealing
s2s, 750 of funds belonging to the hotel
After spending $500, 900 on public i'm
provements to prevent hard times in
Knoxville, Tenn, the city Friday COM
menced $3.50, 900 worth of street paving.
The first brick was laid in the presence
of several thousand cheering laborers
and capitalists.