The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-05-17
NEWS ITEMS.

Fort Mcintosh will be removed to
Laredo, Tex.
Miss Cordelia Clymer, of Bucyrus, O.,
will teach music in Honolulu.
Two messenger boys were killed at
Winnipeg, Man., by the fall OF Chin
ney.
The will of Marquis Eugene X. L.
Murphy, of San Francisco, is to be con-
tested.
A war is on in the National Burial
Case association that means cheaper
caskets
Mr.. Richard Potter, a member of New
York's four hundred, is down with
smallpox.
Half dozen Berlin editors got short
terms of imprisonment for criticising
the police.
The World says the New York and
Brooklyn ice companies have formed a
gigantic trust
Bill to allow cities to furnish electric
power for heating passed the Massa-
chusetts legislature.
The Indiana appellate court decides
that injured employees can not recover
from railroads after accepting bene-
fits
The paving brick companies of Gales
burg, Ill, Friday morning opened an
abandoned coal mine, putting fifty
men to work.
The city gas trustees of Fostoria, O.,
shot an oil we'll on the Charles Redfern
farm, in Perry township, which it is
said does 500 barrels day.
The coal operators of the New river
and Kanawha districts met at Clifton
Forge, Va, and agreed to start up May
IA, regardless of the strike.
Judge w. s. Blair, of jefferson coun-
ty, ILL.,, has decided to attack the con-
stitutionality of the senatorial appor-
tionment acts of 1898, and 1882,
Maj D. D. Wheeler, depot master at
Gen. Miles headquarters, has been
transferred to New York, where he will
occupy the same position at Governor s
island.
1t is announced that the prospectus
of new daily newspaper in Dublin,
devoted to the interests of the Healy
faction of the Irish party, will shortly
be issued.
William N. Whitley, the burned-out
reaper manufacturer, has contracted
with other firms to furnish 5000 ma
chimes which had been ordered of him
this season.
Albert Woodley, Wednesday morning
shot and killed Mrs. Buchanan, a
widow, in Allegheny, Pa, and then at
tempted his own life. He will recover.
jealousy the cause.
The sheriff Thursday sold out the
furniture, silverware, paintings, etc,
belonging to the Monmouth Park asso-
citation, at the Office on Madison ave-
nue., New York, for 81, $50.
The house committee on public build
ings and grounds authorized favorable
reports on bills for public buildings at
Altoona and Pottsville, Pa, Cumber-
land, Md, Helena, Mont, and Boise
City, Idaho.
Rt Hon. Herbert Henry Asquith,
British secretary of state for home af
fairs, was married in St Georges
church, London, to Miss Margot Ten
nant, daughter of Sir Charles Tenant
of Glasgow
Information in possession of the
Bureau of American Republics shows
that abundant rains have fallen along
the line of the International railroad
in Mexico. This fact insures good cot
ton crop this year.
Controller Eckels appointed w. A.
Latimer, bank examiner, temporary re
ceiver of the First National bank, o.
Sadalia, Mo. Mr.. Eckels said the ap
pointment was made to place the banl
in position to sue.
Middleton, O., was terrible excited
: Wednesday night over the alleged de
falcation of City Treasurer Weisbrodt o
almost $4,000 of the city funds. Th'
peculations are thought to have ex
! tended over many years.
The secretary of war has given per
mission for the use of Ft Pike as
leper hospital for Louisiana, at the re
quest of the Louisiana representatives
acting in the name of the state O
Louisiana and the city of New Or
leans.
: Fifty striking potters, with thei
.. families, have arranged to leave Eas
Liverpool, O., for England early mex
. month to work in English potteries
e The men are all skilled workmen, an
more of the English strikers may fol
= low them.