The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-01-04
NEWS ITEMS.


Mrs. Ann Stimson, of Hancock, NY,
! is dead at the age of 1O6 years.
Bank Commissioner Briedenthal has
closed the Bank of Greensourg, Kan.
Charles Koch, a wealthy farmer, per-
ished in the blizzard near Grand Forks,
N. d.
Assistant Secretary of State Uhl
is acting secretary in the absence of Mr..
Gresham
! r. w. Shapleigh was Tuesday elected
president of the Western Travellers
association.
Ex-Mayor Hugh J. Grant has been
bank, New York
Dr. f. Flay, dentist, was burned to
death in the fire at Providence, R. l.
Total loss, 100000 insured.
The grip is very fatal among Odanah
Indians in Wisconsin. Within a few
days four prominent ones have died.
The Ashland, (lNis.) blast furnace
will shut down January till June 1.
Five hundred men will be thrown out
of employment
The Brazilian legation in Londor
discredits the report that the Portuguese
minister is compelled to stay at Ric
against his will
At Buck Creek, O., while lifting some
barrels of feed from sled, Reuben
Martin, a farmer burst blood vessel
and bled to death.
Amack Lambert, salesman. com.
mitted suicide by shooting, at the st.
Nicholas, hotel, Cincinnati, Thursday.
He was tired of life.
The Italian government has notified
the government of Spain that it is not
possible for Italy to take special meas
ures against anarchists.
Mrs. Andrew Trim and an unknown
man were drowned near Detour, Mich.
while crossing the ice from Drummond
island with a dog team
At Albany, N. Y, Judge Wallace
Wednesday morning appointed Thorn
as c. Platt receiver for the New York
and New England railroad.
Henry Clauser, Jr., the well-known
New York city brewer, died Thursday
morning at o'clock. He had been
suffering from liver trouble.
Harry L. McIlvaine. at one time 6
wealthy coal merchant of that city
committed suicide at Chester, Pa.
Wednesday by hanging himself.
Miss Louisa Alexander, the young
detective employed by Broadway IN
~ jewelry stores, has captured eight
thieves so far during the holidays.
At Youngstown, O., Charles Sass
aged II, went in a coal slope Wednes
day morning to pick up some coal
when the roof fell in, crushing his life
out
At 1885 Thursday afternoon the mon
itor Miantonomoh left the Brooklyn
navy yard. She has sea stores sufficient
for two months and 24O tons of Goa
| aboard.
, Valiant will be tried on the charge
of attempting to destroy public
building. His attorneys will advise
| him to apply for an appeal, to delay
matters.
Catherine Fade and Mary Lamar
Z! servants employed at 26 east Fifty-sev
! enth street, New York, were fount
dead in their room, supposed to have
been suffocated by gas.
Capt. John Golfer, one of the best
/ kuOWu IneH III WHlShy clrcleS, uleu d
Louisville, KY. He was native o.
| Kentucky and served with distinction
in the confederate army.
By the death of an aunt in Califor
MIA, Patrick Fitzgerald, formerly O
Grand Rapids, Mich, has fallen he'll
to fortune estimated at 1880, 600
! His present address is unknown.
! Mrs. Margaret Martin, relict of th'
late VIM. Martin. one of the most EN-
inent women in the Methodist Episco
! pal church, and author of many book
on Methodism, died in Columbia, S.
The Hanging Rock stove foundry
| two miles below 1ronton, o., burned
| Wednesday morning and is total loss
/ 1t caught from an engine on the Nor
folk g. Western railroad. Loss, $50, 600
fully insured.
At Michigan City, Ind, police hav'
discovered an organized gang of high
way boys, who are aged from 12 to IA
They were we'll armed and hold vi
boys caught in lonely places. Arrest
will be made.
A careful investigation made failet
to locate the crank, Joseph Donjon, un
der arrest at Washington for sending
threatening letters to United State
senators, asever having lived or worket