The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-01-11
NEWS ITEMS.

Mayor w. L. Clapp was reelected at
Memphis, Tenn.
Coroner Mccullough has commenced
bridge disaster.
The steamer A. L. Mason, struck
snag near Friar's Point, Miss, and
sank. Capt Keith was badly injured.
Queen Victoria has conferred upon
the ameer of Afghanistan the honorary
knighthood of the grand cross of the
Bath.
The commissioner of internal revenue
Wednesday appointed Francis w. Ho-
gan United States gauger in the fifth
district of Kentucky.
For the first time in thirty-six years
the post office at Louisville, KY, will
be under the control of democrat,
Charles P. Weaver, ex-assistant post
master.
The Knights of Pythias in Washing
ton are getting we'll in hand the work
of organizat tion for the encampment of
the order to be held in that city next
August
1t has been decided by Secretary
Carlisle, that Chief Drummond, of the
United States secret service, must step
down to make room for some deserving
democrat
John Flint and Eva Flint who have
been in Jail for the past three months
! at Albion, Ind, charged with being ac-
completes in the Lake Shore train rob.
berry, have been released.
! Speaker Crisp Thursday announced
the reappointment of Messrs Wheeler
of Alabama, Breckenridge, of Kentucky
and HIT, of Illinois, as the regents ot
/ the Smithsonian institute.
Senator H. M. Teller says that when
the statehood bills come before the
senate for final action he will worl
and vote for the admission of Utah
New Mexico, Arizona and Oklahoma.
At New Albany, Ind, G. Riley Fo1
was Thursday sentenced to serve eigh
teen months in the penitentiary fo
robbing the United States mails Fo1
was a postal clerk on the Monon rail
road.
At Louisville, KY, John Russell
aged 2s, of Cincinnati, threw himself il
front of Pennsylvania passenge
train and was fatally injured. He wa
respondent on account of his inabilit
to get work.
Admiral Stanton left New Londo
City Tuesday evening for New Yorl
where he will receive his orders, an
will Immediately sail for Port-ar
Prince He will take command of tn
Kearsage there.
The yellow fever season has set in a
Rio Janiero. Two cases of the diseas
and one death We're reported Frida.
The shore leave of all members of tn
crews of foreign war ships in the ha,
Dor has been stopped.
H. H. Prugh, late republican cand
date for mayor of Springfield, O., a
signed Tuesday morning. Mayor Johl
son, strange to say. is his attorne.
Assets, 81, 600; liabilities, $4,000. Nor
cages caused the failure.
The available cash balance in IL
treasury Wednesday was s90,375, 55
national bank notes received for r
demption, s42O,734. Government r
ceipts: Internal revenue, 1928, 1856; GU
toms, s246, 264; miscellaneous, $131, Is
Thomas Flagherty, a twelve-year-o
boy, and John Bauer, of Valparais
Ind, took a boat and went to Dee
River with net to fish. In some wa
the boat capsized and both we
drowned. Their bodies were recovere
The trouble between Mrs Lease al
Gov. Lewelling is likely to be patch
up. 1t is said the governor had ]
right under the law to remove her al
that there is no possible chance of /
securing her removal by due process
law.
Otto Singer, professor in the C.
lege of music, of Cincinnati, from t
start of that institution until the su
mer of 1892, died Thursday in New fo
city. Prof Singer had national re
utation both as composer and an
structor.
The Iowa State band, which was O
of the musical attractions at
Worlds fair, has been engaged to pl
at the Midwinter fair at San FIR;
= ciscof beginning January 20. 1t will
the only band, and was chosen out
2Os applicants.
In the circuit court at Richmoi
: Ind, Wednesday the case of the st'
- against Rev. John Dingledey for cru
ty to Werlen Orphans home inma
was postponed until next term 1t
now believed that the case will me-
come up again.