The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-09-14
NEWS ITEMS.

Prairie fires are doing i'm nense dam
age in northern Indiana.
Ex-Sheriff +. M. Stiles was killed by
his team running away near Paducah,
Ky.
Lieut.. Peary's party are now at the
head of Bowdoin bay, north Green
land.
Mamie Congill, of Henry county,
Ky, fell from window and broke her
neck.
Two furniture factories at Gallipolis,
o., have closed down because of hard
times.
Davie Green, a printers devil, was
fatally injured in an elevator accident
at Springfield, o.
The total admissions to the Worlds
fair Friday were EOS $50. of which
177,252 were paid.
By order of the National Brewers'
union no brewery worker can be
member of the militia of any state.
The gunboat Castine on four hours
trial Wednesday averaged 1916 knots,
thus beating the record of the Machias.
The prince of Naples will accompany
Emperor William to the maneuvers at
Stuttgart on the 10th inst, and will
then return to Monza.
In his speech on the home rule bill in
the house of lords, the marquis of Lon
donderry referred to the Irish as being
boycotters and as5assins
The cholera spreads rapidly in Lozer
and Neft on the west shore of Lake Al
Sibrah. Two hundred fresh cases have
been found in the two towns in the last
twenty days.
w. IL. Peck has begun suit for s25, 900
against the Knoxville Southern rail-
road. Peck's wife was killed by
lightning in a railroad depot He
alleges negligence.
George IL. Thomas Post, No. s, Of
Chicago, won the competitive flag pre-
sented by the citizens of indianapolis
for the largest number in line in the
Grand Army parade
M. Auguste Bartholdi, who presented
New York with the beautiful statue in
the upper bay, wants to establish an
American pantheon on Bedloe's island
to perpetuate American heroes.
The Illinois Steel Co. filed bill in
the circuit court at Chicago, asking for
the appointment of receiver to wind
up the affairs of the Chicago steel
works. Judge Baker granted an in
junction.
Fl. Nj. Flagier, secretary of the Stand
ard Oil trust, has issued a call for a
meeting Of the holders of trust certifi-
Gates, on September Is, in New York
The purpose of this meeting is to wind
up the trust
The trouble between the printers and
the Richmond (va.) Publishers asso-
gust has been satisfactorily adjusted,
and the lockout" or strike has been
declared off.
The new Chinese minister, Yang In,
accompanied by his wife and three
children, the members of his official
suite and servants, numbering fifty
seven in all, arrived in Washington
Friday night
Seven seamen who shipped at Swan
sea, Wales, on the steamship Etna for
Red Sea ports have died of cholera.
The Etna carried a large number of
Mecca pilgrims of whom two or three
hundred died.
dispatch from Rio .laneiro says that
at the instance of the French com
mander the foreign adniruls in Brazil
ian waters have decided to prevent the
bombardmcnt of the city by revolution
ary squadrons
Kannwha City has been selected as
the place for the encumpment of the
West Virginia mil tia. Anderson was fl st
selected, but the grounds We're found
to be unsuitable. About 800 or 1000
viii be there in uniform.
Another payment of ten per cent. on
the bonded indebtedness of the EXposi.
tion Co. has been ordered by the eXecu-
tive committee. The payment will be
made September 12. and one-half the
bonds will be then retired.
f. NJ Donaldson. who is alleged to
have wrecked eleven banks in Kansas
ard dcfaulted in the sum of 5000. 900, il
living in Pueblo. Mexico. He has just
published long statement DENYING all
the charges made against him.
At Gienwood. Ind, Mrs. VIM Cook
has given birth to a ten-pound boy.
She is Is years old and her husband ~.
They have named the baby Grover
Cleveland Cook and the little one has
brothers who are grandfathers.