The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-04-13
NEWS ITEMS

EX-Sherfu L. II. carter was Killed In
q runaway accident at Monroe, Mich.
Farmers around Fairfax Court House,
Va, complain of the ravages OF rab-
bits
At Lincolnton, Ga, two distinct
shocks Of earthquake were felt Friday
morning.
Two men were killed at barn rails
ing near Liberty, Ind, by the unex-
pected fall of the structure
James Tollar, the murderer of Will
liam Snowden, near Pittsburgh, Pa,
was captured near Paramount, w. Va,
by trainmen.
Bowling Bros.' distillery, just recent
~ remodeled, was burned at Burgin,
KY. Loss $4,000; partially insured.
No whisky was lost
Rochester IN. W police captured q
girl burglar aged 10 years She had
broken into Wahl's dry goods store and
was at the safe with a Jimmy.
Negotiations for the formation of
gigantic national cracker trust, involv-
ing capital amounting to upward OF
50,O00,0 900 have been completed.
The president has signed the COM
mission of Max Judd as consul-general
to Vienna, disregarding the protests
Of the Anti-Semite societies of Vienna.
Mrs George Krause was driven in
sane at Pomeroy, O., by what is report
ed to be conspiracy of relatives All
concerned in the work will be prose
cuted.
The bill providing for the submission
to vote of the question of consolidation
of Brooklyn and New York has been
practically killed in the New York
senate.
Thursday morning during a storm,
the colored Methodist church at Aliens
vile, Tenn, was struck by lightning
and burned to the ground in few
minutes.
A Honolulu letter states that the pro-
visional government has recalled j. NJ
Smith, minister to the United States;
also, Consul-General Pratt, at San
Francisco.
Secretary Morton Thursday appointed
Martin E. Argo, of Indiana, to be state
statistical agent of the agricultural de-
partment in Indiana, vice John B. Con-
nor, removed.
A. E. Garrison, cashier of the Capital
bank, of Denver, COL, is missing. His
accounts with the bank are correct, and
his friends fear that he has been robbed
and murdered.
Almost the entire business portion of
Anson. Tex, was totally destroyed by
fire. Out of twenty-three business
houses in the town, nineteen were to-
tally destroyed.
c. L. Martin, auditor of the Charles
ton, Sumter and Northern Railroad Co.
was drowned in the Charleston harbor
Wednesday afternoon while out sailing
in small boat
An earthquake was felt in Edgefeld
Is. C. district Friday. Two shocks oc-
Cured at and q. m. No damage
was done beyond frightening people
out OF their houses.
James M. Bailey, of Parkeisburg, w.
Va, mail agent between Parkersburg
and Cincinnati, shot himself accidental
ly with q revolver. The wound IL an
ugly, but not fatal one. 20 Il
The International Printers Protec-
tive Fraternity has sent q memorial to
the president urging that the next
public printer be one who is in sympa-
thy with union printerA
The president has selected the old
Middleton House, on Woolley Lane
road, near Rock Creek, for his country
residence this year. It will be ready
for occupancy by May l.
James Powell. who weighs 400
pounds, fell down stairs at Muncie,
Ind, and was badly hurt The fall
shook the whole building, breaking a
number Of panes Of glass.
At Indianapolis the investigation by
Coroner Beck into the death of Mrs
Charles Wadley, took sensational
turn when Wadley was arrested and
placed in jail on charge of murder.
President Cleveland has withdrawn
the nomination of William T. Townes,
of Virginia, to be consul at Rio Janeiro.
1t was announced that he was specially
appointed to look after the tobacco
trade.
At San Bernardino, Cal Jesus Feun,
a Spaniard who Thursday killed his
mistress, Francisco Floves, and an old
German who came to her defense, was
taken from Jail early Friday morning
and lynched
At meeting of the Chicago navy
it was decided to invite the crews of all
the leading colleges in Europe and
America to participate in the aquatic
sports to be held in Chicago during the
Worlds fair.
A verdict of guilty" was found
against Charles Wisdom, who, with
John Willard, both colored, April 4,
1892, murdered E. A. Drexler, proprie-
tor of a cigar store in ST. Louis. SEN
tence was deferred.
The contest over the will of Mrs.
Barnaby, for whose alleged killing DR..
Graves is now awaiting second trial
at Denver, Col, has been settled at
Providence, R. l., and it is believed
Graves will not be retired.
The special legislative committee on
charges preferred against Land Com
missioner McGaughey, of Texas, re-
ported, recommending his impeach.
ment on twelve counts of violation of