The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-02-02
NEWS ITEMS.

| oOuunern cOttOn planterS Stlll IavOr d
decreased acreage.
Leo Bloom lost s115, 900 at Chicago by
being short on lard
Benz Gore was murdered by bur-
glars near Ocala, Fla. They got about
81, 100.
DIR. Dearson Cheney, American minis
ter to Switzerland, presented his cre-
dentials Thursday.
Gen. Abner Doubleday died at his
home in Mepham, N. j. Death was due
to Bright's disease.
The senate confirmed the nomination
of Louis McComas to be associate JUS
tice of the District of Columbia supreme
court.
Clerk Hutchins who transcribed the
late Senator McDonalds will is hope
lessly insane at the Central insane hos
pital of Indiana
The Kentucky board ofWorlds fair
managers elected W. H. Dulaney, of
Louisville, president of the board, and
Hon. John w. Yerkes, of Danville, Sec
retary.
1t is stated that Mr.. Julian Haw.
thorne, the noted American writer, has
announced his intention of taking up
residence in Jamaica for himself and
family.
Henry Howard, sentenced to be
hanged Monday at Camden, Ark, for
the murder of Joel Jones, has been
granted respite for forty days by Gov.
| Fishback
John Grossman was sentenced to life
Imprisonment Thursday at Alpena,
| Mich, for the murder of Molitor and
| Sullivan seventeen years ago at Rogers
City, Mich.
Prof w. w. Jameson, for twenty
five years superintendent of the Keo-
kuk public schools, died at Keokul, Ia.
ors of the west
| At Methodist revival eight miles
from Springfield, Mo-, James Simons
and John Snow became involved in
| quarrel and fought with knives. Both
were fatally cut.
Mrs. John Anderson celebrated her
ninetieth birthday at Springfield, o.
She was born in England and rode in
Napoleon's chariot captured with his
other belongings
The wife of Gus Blonde, of New
Orleans, Friday morning gave birth to
| four children, three girls and one boy.
| Three of the children are alive, but one
| girl, died at o'clock.
The quarantine at the white house
has been raised, and little Marthena
Harrison has entirely recovered from
her illness The white house has been
thoroughly disinfected
VIM. Scroggins, white boy aged II,
~.
day, for the murder of Jewish peddler
known as Schustig. He claimed to have
been paid to do the deed.
William Tenney, boy of eleven
years, ran against horse while coast
ing at Boston. The animal fell on the
boy and crushed him to death. The
body was horribly mangled.
Herr Nasse, a Prussian mining expert
| publishes an estimate that the coal of
Europe will be exhausted in five centu-
ries. The American supply, he says,
can hardly last beyond the same pc
| riod.
Gov. Cleave, of Maine, Friday issued a
| proclamation to the people announcing
| the death OF James G. Blaine. The leg
islature appointed a committee to at
tend the funeral and adjourned until
| Monday.
Col. w. B. Hughes, for the past six
years in charge of the quartermaster's
Office of the department of the Platte,
has been ordered to Baltimore, and Col.
Dandy, San Antonio, Tex, goes back to
his old place.
A large number of the most infiuen-
tial business men of Halifax, N. S.,
have signed request to be presented
to President-elect Cleveland and petit
tioning him to continue in service Con-
sui General Fry.
The Alabama senate has reconsidered
its vote of last Tuesday, and Thursday
passed bill giving an annuity of $500
for Mrs. Jefferson Davis. 1t now de-
pends on the lower house whether the
bill becomes law.
Street railway companies all over the
country which use the single trolley
system were sued at Boston Thursday
for infringement of patent by the Sher.
man Electric Power Co., which claims
priority of invention.
Wednesday morning fire broke out in
w. e. Frosts planning mill, Chicago.
The east wall fell burying three fire.
men; two others We're badly hurt by an
explosion of gas in cistern. One of
the firemen will die.
Two more victims of the Wann ex-
plosion near Alton, ILL.,, died Friday
morning at the hospital They are
Joseph Herman, jr., aged l2 years, and
Otto Hagerman, aged IA years This
makes "a victims SO far
The danger of duel between NJ.
Bourgeois, minister of justice, and NJ.
Paul Granier de Cassagnac, has been
averted, the seconds of NJ bourgeois
having satisfied M. Cassagnac that his
aspersions were unfounded.
1t is announced that Prince Delin, ac-
companied by two attaches, will repre-
sent Belgium at the vatican on the oc-
casion of the pope's Jubilee. The Bel