The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-02-15
NEWS ITEMS.

Chairman Jones, of the greenback
party, has issued . call for conven-
ton.
Fire destroyed the Phoenix brewery
at Detroit Loss, $40, 0,000 Insurance.
small
First national bank of Arkansas City,
Kas, has been permitted to reopen its
doors
| Martin l. Kumpe. postmaster at
Ironton, Ark. was shot by an unknown
Negro
| A six-foot vein of coal was struck at
Mascoutah, ILL.,, Friday at depth of
175 feet
The proprietors of Godey's Magazine
have made an assignment It is "a
years old.
Gov and Mrs. Altgeld, of Illinois, left
for Hot Springs Thursday to remain
two weeks
Lucy Evans died at Independence,
Mo-, aged 100 years She was native
of east Tennessee
Jas. A. Nugent, intoxicated, shot and
killed his 14-year-old daughter at
Maple Lake, Mimi.
Miss Cora Arnold, a young school
teacher Of Belleville, w. Va, drowned
herself. No cause
Louise St. John, disreputable wom-
an, killed herself at Vincennes, Ind,
Thursday by taking morphine.
Col j. D. Stevenson, who marched
into California in 1s48 with regiment
Of New York volunteers, is dying.
Boston's 5000 unemployed gathered
in the common, heard speeches and
threatened to mob the state house.
Archbishop Kahn has been appointed
administrator of the venerable Arch
bishop Kenrick's diocese, St Louis
John Neil, the wealthiest cotton
planter in Arkansas, died at his res
idence near Little Rock Wednesday,.
Chauncey M. Depew denounces the
report of his intended marriage to MIRA
Elliot f. Shepard as both cruel and
absurd. as.as-x,s.se,~''~,sr4,- --'tsT'-r-s-.
Fire destroyed the public school
building at Hartford City, w. Va. to-
gether with three residences Loss
about $4,000.
After serving nine months City Bngi-
neer Bratt, republican appointee, was
confirmed by the democratic council at
Portmouth, o. 7'@7*s's-~-' 'ss...
Fire Wednesday morning destroyed
seventeen stores and Office buildings at
Montgomery, Mo Loss, $780, in
surance, Sos, 900. -. ~-E@-~
At Jacksonville, Fla, William San
: son, a plumber, OF Dayton, O., over
turned pot of molten lead on his face.
His eyesight was destroyed.
James Skinner, agent of the Great
Northern railway, at Culbertson,
Mont, was murdered and the station
burned to conceal the crime.
James Smith, 40 years old, criminally
assaulted Minnie HULL child of Z,
Thursday at Seymour, Ill. He escaped,
but is pursued by an excited mob.
, Senator Lindsay, of Kentucky, will
, vote for the confirmation of Judge
: Peckham, notwithstanding the instfuc
, tions receiy ed from mis- legislature.
, The Ohio senate, by vote of II t.
13, defeated Mr.. Earnhart's bill to pro
hibit the management of the Ohio pen
itentiary from receiving United States
prisoners
| Charles Randall who left New Yorl
January 6. on a wager of s10,0 600 tina
he could walk to San Francisco by
April Is, passed through Canton, Ill.
at noon Friday.
r Chairman Wilson, of the ways ant
: means committee of the National hous'
, of representatives, arrived in Chicag'
, Friday, with his wife, seriously IL
: from throat affection.
: The receivers of the Northern Pacifi
t railway will modify their order redue
ing wages. Details of the settlemen
will not be made public until Judg
Jenkins has passed upon it.
In cross petition filed at Spring
: field, O., Thursday, Mrs. Catharin
Hartman, of New Carlisle, sues Dr. j
M. Dean for $4,000 for neglect an
: carelessness in setting her broke
limb
At Stanford, KY, A. c. Dunn.
peaceable citizen, Friday morning she
James Todd fatally. The latter,
quarrelsome man, attempted to draw
pistol to shoot Dunn, but Dunn got hi
out first
The Dublin cotton compress, at Dull
!, lin, Tex, valued at $3.50, 1000, has bee
burned. The property has been tn
!, subject of litigation for some time b
: tween local parties and consolidate
comnany