The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-04-27
NEWS ITEMS.

AlOnzo wilmington, aged oU, was KILL
ed by train at Clarksville, Ind.
The British ambassador gave brill
liant reception at Washington Thurs
day night
Little Anna Boylston fell from pear
tree at Dunkirk, N. Y, while plucking
blossoms and was killed
Mrs DR.. Graves has joined her hus-
band in Denver She fully believes in
her husbands innocence.
1t is said the rumor that the United
States would buy one of the Galapagos
islands, off Ecuador, for q coaling sta
tion, is groundless
Jas A. Tawney, congressman-elect
from the first Minnesota district fell
down a fight OF stairs at St Paul
Wednesday, and It Is thought is fatally
injured.
c. w. Mosher, president of the
wrecked Capital City national bank Of
Lincoln City, Neb, is in Jail at Omaha
He had skipped his $4,000 bond given
q year ago.
The railroad commissioners of the
various states began their fifth annual
convention in the interstate commerce
commissions rooms 1t Washington
Wednesday.
The Episcopal diocesan convention of
Tennessee is in session at Nashville.
Bishop Quintard favors division of the
diocese. If it is done, Rev. T. f. Gailor
will be made bishop
The earl of Derby died at $50 o'clock
Friday evening. Lord Stanley, gov
ernor general of Canada, succeeds to
the title and the estates, worth nearly
million dollars year.
Joe Cook, while working at his books
at Scranton Miss, was attacked by rob-
bers, who got away with $1,000 and
marched him to a swamp, where they
shot him, but not fatally.
THE Turkish Theatrical Co., which
will give exhibitions at the Worlds fair,
has reached Chicago There are four
teen women in the party, and some of
them are said to be pretty.
George Burris, teacher of the Mt
Pleasant (W. Va) grammar school,
eloped with Jennie Williams, one of his
scholars He is married man and has
q family of several children
The panorama of the Bernese Alps,
in the Midway Plaisance at the Worlds
fair, was officially opened Thursday, A.
Hollinger, the Swiss consul in Chicago,
making the formal address.
The latest news from Mexico is to
the effect that the town of Guerrero
has been captured by the rebels, al
though it was defended by regular
troops under Gen. Hernandez.
The IA of hoe 80
quested the resignation of Maj. s. s.
lockwood, assistant chief of the
weather bureau, and the resignation
has been rendered and accepted.
PETER STEWART, the father of Simon
S. Stewart, the editor-forger of Parkers-
burg, w. Va, says he will pay all notes
to which his son forged his name.
Young Stewart has disappeared.
The Belgian senate has approved the
compromise granting universal suf-
frage. accompanied by plural voting
based on education and property, as
adopted by tho chamber Of representa-
tiveA =,
The walters At the Hotel Waldorf,
New York, 140 In number, have been
granted an increase in wages. They
will receive go month and board A
number of them speak half dozen
languages
The American bark G. Southard
Hurlbert Capt Southland, from New
York November II, for San Pedro and
Redondo, has arrived at Montevideo.
She reports the loss of four of her crew
on the voyage
The United States government has
acquiesced in the proposition of the
French and English governments for
the establishment Of . telegraphlc sig
nal station on the coast Of Cape Spartel,
Morocco, Africa.
Anthony Bratton, aged nineteen
yearA Of Springfield, o., was killed
Thursday morning st Plattsburgh
while stealing ride on q Big Four
freight His body knocked q couple Of
cars Of the track.
John A. Cahill, Trenton, N. j., Law
and Order league member. has brought
actions against twenty bookmakers at
the Elisabeth track to recover s19, 900
for violating state laws If successful
he will get $4,000.
During meeting of the Farmers
Mutual Benefit association at Lowdell,
W. Va, John Coltrider and JAS Cohen,
formerly bosom friends, got into fight,
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