The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-08-09
NEWS ITEMS.

cured Friday morning.
The Spanish cruiser Don Juan d'Aus-
tria has been ordered to Corea.
1t is believed that the recent fires in
Minneapolis were due to conspiracy
A light frost fell at Marshtield, Wis,
Thursday night, doing some damage to
corn.
The depot on the c. & o. railroad, at
Bradford, KY, was robbed. Loss
small.
Postmaster General Bissel has issued
an order establishing a post office in
East Hamilton, o.
Congressman McRae has introduced
bill to prevent the free use of timber
on the public lands.
At Marysville, o., Seth Gibson, Ia
borer, was struck by lightning. His
recovery is doubtful.
At Americus, Ga, g. w. White was
nominated by the Populists to run
against Speaker Crisp.
Charles Munier, the condemned an
archist, has been transported to the
penal colony at New Caledonia.
Mr.. Hatch's pure food bill will be IA
vorably reported to the house, the ag-
ricultural committee having so voted.
w. w. Mohlers's residence at Forest
O., was entered by burglars, family
chloroformed and sixty-five dollars
in money and gold watch taken.
Secretary Gresham will see the Ha-
waiian royal commissioners as indi-
viduals, but it is unlikely that any
thing definite will come of their visit.
Acting Mayor Jamison and City En-
gineer Brown, of New Orleans, have
been indicted for receiving bribes in
connection with courthouse contract.
David Morris, of near Keiths, o.,
while engaged in digging well Thurs
day afternoon, lost his life by coming
in contact with fire damp in the well.
H. M. Bales, prominent citizen and
business man of Chattanooga, Tenn,
is mysteriously missing, and the sup
position is that he has been murdered.
Edward Howard Jones was convicted
for the fourth time of murder in the
first degree Wednesday morning at
Georgetown, o. Jones killed his son in
1891.
w. S. Melville, defaulting clerk OF
the Bank of California, San Francisco,
pleaded guilty and requested to be sen,
fenced forthwith to San Quentin peni.
tentiary.
Walpole Mass, is in great excite.
ment over an alleged incendiary fire
which eliminated in the arrest oi
Mrs. Susan j. Tyler and Mrs. Emma
L. Foster.
An attempt to rob the pacific express
on Train No. 8 on San Francisco road
at Eureka Springs, Mo-, was unsuc
cessful. The messenger was shot in
the hand.
Volders, the leader of the Belgian
socialist labor party, has become q
hopeless lunatic from overwork anc
, excitement, and has been confined il
an asylum.
The ex-soldiers of Licking and Mus
Singum counties O.. held their annua
reunion in 'Wickham's grove, at Blacl
Hand, Thursday. The attendance wa
about $500.
In the criminal court at Wheeling
w. Va, Giovanni Serigi, charged witt
criminally assaulting Anna Grisla, age
, 8, was sentenced to the penitentiar,
for 20 years.
, Chris. Evans was killed by his II
year-old son Bud, in Hamblen county
near Bulls Gap, Tenn. Evans wa
drunk and had shot the boy with
Winchester rifle.
) At st. Paul Judge Nelson, in the fed
eral court, ordered a verdict of az
quittal in the case of DIR. o. B. Gibson
; of Austin, accused of accepting brib
in the famous Van Luven pensio
cases.
l The German warships AleXandrine
Aroona and Marie, which are now o
the west coast of the United State:
have been ordered to proceed to tn
, scene of naval operations betwee
China and Japan.
Gov. Stone has honored the requis
tion for the surrender of Joseph 4
; Wilson, charged with leading the mo
which tarred and feathered Atty.-Ger
Tarsney, near Colorado Springs, on tn
night of June %.
. Finley McCord, aged 25, married
> committed suicide in st. Louis Thur
day by shooting. He left a letter
. his brother, saying that domestic trol
:. BILE caused his act4 He was a contrac