The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-04-19
NEWS ITEMS.

Missouri river.
Now they say Coxey's unknown is
Pinkerton detective.
Another ocean cable is talked of from
Nova Scotia to Ireland.
The total membership of the latter
day saints is shown to be 7,112.
A cooperative stove foundry will be
started at Parkersburg, w. Va.
The st. Louis tailors strike is settled
and a thousand men have resumed
work.
The first section of the Spanish pill
grims six hundred in number, arrived
in Rome.
The late John Wolfe's collection of
paintings brought 100000 at auction
in New York.
Editor Dana, of New York, sailed
with his wife for Hamburg on his an
nual vacation.
The Durango Coli region is excited
over unparalleled gold findings in La
Plata mountains.
An incendiary fire destroyed the his
toric guardhouse in the United States
jailyard at Ft. Smith
Gertrude Wering. aged 3 years, was
fatally burned while playing at bon
fire, at Lafayette, Ind.
| The trial of Dr. Henry c. f. Meyer,
! for the poisoning of Ludwig Brandt
was begun in New York.
| The general election of The Hague
resulted in the defeat of the govern
ment by large majority.
| At the Republican Congressional con-
/ w d ,,
was renominated for congress.
A fire in Wooster street, New York,
caused a loss of $3.50, 900 in the Amer
lean Straw Board Co. S building.
A dispatch from Rio Grande do Sui
says the federal troops have completely
routed the insurgents in that state.
At Fremont, o., Mrs. A. A. Reynolds
was attacked by large ram and in
jured so badly that death will doubtless
ensue.
Mr.. Shelley, a well-known American
dentist, in Paris, committed suicide by
shooting. He had suffered from melan-
cholia.
Willie Gulley, aged seventeen, blew
his brains out at Salem, w. Va, be-
cause his parents refused to let him
marry.
All the strikers at the Werner litho-
graphing works at Akron, o., have re-
| turned to work except pressmen and
feeders.
The sale of the Worlds fair buildings
to l.. c. Garrett, of st Louis, for S15,-
500 has been called off because the cash
is not Forthcoming.
An organization of persons interested
in the Druggists National association
has been formed at Detroit to knock
out cut-rate dealers.
Inquiries among Dakota stockmen
from all sections developes the fact
that the losses from storms this winter
have been greatly exaggerated.
Fred Morelock's country store near
Mt Vernon, Ind, was blown up by the
explosion of a can of powder. Three
men were dangerously injured
Robbie Purcell, aged 8, was standing
on the Vandalia track at Terre Haute,
when he was struck and killed, one
ar m and both legs being cut off.
The Argentine cabinet will demand
| satisfaction and the return of those
Brazilian refugees who were forcibly
taken from an Argentine vessel
The Roman Catholic cathedral at
Newry, Ireland, was entered by burg
lars, who broke open all the aims
boxes and carried off the contents.
Congressman Jason Brown is said to
be making the canvass in his Indiana
district dressed in an old suit of clothes,
leaving his fashionable attire in Wash
ington.
A natural gas explosion, at McKees-
port, Pa, wrecked the home of VIM.
Malseed. Mrs. Malseed and her twelve
year-old daughter, Effie, were fatally
| burned
Five prisoners confined in the jail at
La Plata, Mo-, placed an iron rod in
the stove and heating it red hot set
fire to the Jail and broke out through
the flames
Wednesday marked the one hun
dredth anniversary of the birth of Ed
ward Everett, the distinguished orator,
scholar and statesman, who died of ap-
plexy in 1865
| Edward Beeson, who bought the
Fond Du Lac journal nearly fifty years
ago, and is the oldest journalist in Wis
consin, was dying Friday night He is
80 years of age.
At Wheeling, w. Va, while going to
fire at gallop the Niagara fire en-
gine knocked down and ran over Clar-
ence Hill 8 years old. He was dead
when picked up.
The people of Gatesville, Tex, are
terribly wrought up over the lynching
of Ed Cash, who was hanged to a tree
in the presence of his wife. The muir
derers are unknown.
At meeting of the directors of the
chamber of commerce, of Toledo, O.,
a committee was appointed to investi-
gate the feasibility of ship canal
from Chicago to Toledo.
A large number OF gentlemen promi-
nent in politics and finance have prom
ised to take part in the international
bimetallic conference to be held in the
Mansion house, London, on May 2.
The badly decomposed body of an
unknown man was found in Buffalo
creek, about two miles east of Farm