The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-01-05
OHIO STATE NEWS.
HISTORICAL TREASURES.

ITO ISHtSAL tnEASohGSs
The Ohio Archaeological Society Suggest
Permanent Museum for Their Dis
play.
The State Archaeological and Histori-
cal society has filed its eight annual re-
port with the governor. The managers
of the society, who have charge of the
display, state that their object is to
creditably represent the state and to
have the historic articles returned and
placed in permanent state museum in
the capital. Room has been offered in
the museum building being erected at
the State university, and the report ex-
presses the opinion that, II properly
fostered, after being permanently To-
Gated, this generation will see col
lection illustrating Ohio's history from
the ice period down to the present un-
equaled in this country" The re-
port explains the improvements made
at Fort Ancient and Fort Recovery. now
owned by the state, and makes sugges-
tions for future preservation, and then
says: 1.-THE stigma which is cast upon
Ohio for allowing SO much Of her histor-
ical treasures to be taken out OF the
state would be, by such action, in
measure removed. An active interest
in these and other objects of interest
should be shown at this time. Ohio Is
being robbed constantly of her rich
treasures of archaeology and history,
simply from lack of practical interest
by our people, who do not realize what
they lose The total receipts of the
society from membership fees, book
sales and the $1,000 appropriation from
the legislature. aggregated sS,209.9o,
and the expenditures footed up 81, 979.63,
leaving a balance Of s23o.a7
Miss LYDIA DIXON, of East Liver
pool, died the other day from mys-
terious poison supposed to have been
brought about by a pin puncture.
THE Waverly hotel at Massillon was
gutted by fire few days since. Loss,
s15, 000
The steam heaters in a parlor car ex-
ploded at Lima. Conductor William
son was seriously hurt.
d. E. STEVENS and his entire family
were poisoned by cheese at Columbus.
They will all recover.
Much indignation resulted the other
day over the announcement that fac
tories and prominent citizens of Toledo
had been purloining the city's natural
gas. The trustees held private ses-
sion, at which they decided that every
ounce must be paid for or the offenders
stand suit and arrest
Mrs. CARALYN MORSE, sister of DIR.
James Whitaker, of Cincinnati, died
recently at Amelia
The body of John Mather, a we'll
known German about A years old, was
found the other morning hanging,
frozen stiff, to limb Of a tree near his
home, at Akron. He and his wife quar-
relied and Mathers left the house, after
demolshing the furniture, declaring his
purpose to hang himself.
Mr. JAMES BUFoRD, wife of a promi-
nent republican politician, found Daniel
Green, boarder. dead in bed, at
Springfield The shock was too great
for her and she fell lifeless to the floor,
a victim of heart disease Green's death
is attributed to the same trouble.
A TABLE of receipts and disburse-
ments of school money for the state for
the year ending August 81, 1892, has
Just been prepared for the Forthcoming
annual report of Commissioner Corson
and shows the following: Balance on
hand September l., 1891, 1881, 4O5. 80;
received from state tax, 1858. 494. 50;
irreducible school fund tax, $20S, 800 So;
rents on section, $1,64o, sl8S1; local
school tax for buildings etc, IS, T57, l3s
62: amount received on sale of bonds,
81, 500, 9S4.47 fines, licenses, tuition of
nonresident pupils and other sources,
s40s. a55. H. total, 81, ,a9o.66. The
expenditures for the year have been as
follows: Teachers, elementary, IS, 500,
Os9. 05; teachers, high, 1896, 1856. 81; man.
aging and experimenting, sal5, 5,s4l.s2;
sites and buildings, 1880, 117.7s; inter
est and redemption of bonds, 1888, 1863.
96; contingent expenses, s2,5S1, ,S13. 10.
Total, s12, 56S, 1867. This leaves bal
ance on hand September l, 1899, OF
f4,6l1, 12S 90.
AT GAINESVILLE after the family had re.
tired the other night Anna Kenner
went to her own room, locked the door
and drank an ounce of a solution OF
Paris green. Some time during the
night her sister had occasion to go tc
her room and was unable to get an
answer to her knock. She awak.
ened her brother and he forced
the door and found Annie lying on the
bed unconscious and almost inanimate
A physician was hastily summoned and
restoratives tried, but although the
spark of life has been preserved fol
some time by continuous use of electric
batteries it is growing fainter and she
can not live. She was a very attractive
girl, with many friends, and her lover
was Chas. II. Radsbottom, a pottery
manufacturer of some means. He hat