The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-01-18
NEWS ITEMS.

Valiant will probably be executed
in private.
Gov. Altgeld, of Illinois, has reprieved
George Painter until January 26
Ohio coal mine operators ask for
reduction of 90 cents in the mining
rates.
The great fumes and dams washed
away in New Mexico last fall have
been restored.
At Lafayette, John James, aged 80,
has obtained divorce from his wife,
Al!nira, aged 80
Four St Louis building associations
are believed to be wrecked by NJ. L.
Bogardus' doings.
Rev. Anson Carter died at Des Moines,
Ia, aged lO2 years. He was born a
slave in Virginia in 1892.
Thomas j. Gemp, soap manufacturer,
of St Louis, hanged himself Thursday,
Dull business was the cause.
A dispatch to the London Times from
Paris says: NJ Flobert, the inventor of
the Flobert carbine, is dead
A. j. Mack, the American National
bank, of Kansas City, embezzler, has
been arrested at Cleveland. o.
Judge Henry Brannon was elected
to the West Virginia supreme bench,
in place of Judge English resigned.
Sim Smith shot Harrison to death
while resisting arrest in Butler county,
Ala. A mob hanged Smith in front of
a church.
The fire at the Chicago Worlds fair
ground has put the Mid-winter exposi-
tion officials on the watch for the safety
of their buildings.
Herndon & Wood. tobacco dealers at
Clarksville, Tenn, have been suspend
ed from the boar of trade for alleged
crooked transacti5ls.
At Parkersburg, w. Va, the grand
jury Friday returned $50 indictments
80 being against Mrs. Lucy Reed for
selling liquor to minors.
L. d. Vandoren, of Elkhart, Ind, :,
drew his pension from the government
and on his way home was held up by
three masked men and robbed.
A city license granting permission 70
! the Duval Athletic club, of Jackson.
vile, Fla, to give the Corbett-Mitchsll
contest was issued Friday morning.
1t was announced in Berlin Friday
that the Russian delegates have agreed
upon the proposed Russo.Germaa
| treaty, and it's duration to be ten years
The 400 employees of the Charleroi
| Plate Glass Co., at Charleroi, Pa
struck Friday against 271S per cent
reduction in wages. The plant is shut
| down.
/ Chairman Carter, of the national re-
| h hne nc
| chairman of the executive committee,
to be succeeded by Mr.. Manly, of
| Maine.
| The remains of a man of gigantic
stature were unearthed near Paducah.
KY. They are believed to be of one of
an ancient tribe corresponding to the
| Aztecs.
| Hugh Higgins and Eugene Finch
| quarreled over a game of pedro in AL
mena Mich. Finch is dead while
Higgins is in Jail, awaiting trial for
murder.
A cablegram from Rome to Cardinal
Gibbons announced the appointment ot
Rev. p. j. Donahue. rector of the ca.
thedral, Baltimore, as bishop of Wheel.
ing. w. Va.
The residence of Michael Shetterly,
near West Lodis, O., burned. While
the house was burning Shetterly drop.
ped dead from heart failure, occasioped
by the excitement
The Philadelphia and Reading rail
road company has suspended ninety OF
the employees in the car shops of the
company at Reading, Pa, in order to
reduce running expenses.
The post office at Ashley, Ill, which
is in a jewelry store, was entered by
burglars and robbed of about $500 in
stamps and money. A large quantity
of jewelry was also taken.
Window glass and bottle manufac-
turers from all over the country were
in session at Pittsburgh Wednesday
Their object is to break the wage scale.
| A big strike is threatened.
In fire at Memphis, Tenn, Wednes
day morning. 1900 bales of cotton Were
destroyed. The cotton was the prop
erty of Arbuclile Sons & Co. The tota
loss is not less than 100000.
Lawrence Sullivan, cashier of the
National Bank of Asheville, left Ashe
vile, n. c.. December 30, supposedly
for New York, taking $4,000 of the
banks money to be deposited there
Since then nothing has been heard OF
him.