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The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1896-01-30
HOLLOWTOWN.

January 81, 1896.
Mrs. Jacob Reedy is seriously ill.
The remains of Godfrey Faul, vener.
able and respected citizen of this vicinity,
were inferred in the cemetery here on the
18th inst.
Elders, B. s. Landess and Mervin
Roads, have gone to Stone Lick to hold
a series of meetings.
Mrs. 6. w. Martin gave delightful
social entertainment, Saturday evening,
in honor OF her guest, Miss Eta Hibbs,
OF Uniontown, Pa.
The petition for local option by
biennial vote was extensively circulated
here last week.
Mrs. DR.. j. d. Ridings, of Buford,
was tha recipient of pleasant surprise,
Sunday, the occasion being her birth.
day. just how many anniversaries had
passed before this one, the records fail
to show. But whose business is that,
anyhow? Quite large number of young
people were present and participated in
the festivities of the occasion. A sump.
tuous dinner was partakeh of, to which
the NEws-HKRALD man did justice.
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Time-Tried and Fire-Tested.
Phoenix Insurance Company,
HARTFORD, CONN.
STATE OF ONO, INSURANCE DEPT, |
COLUMBUS, January nth, 1906

STATE OF OHro INSURANCE DEp'T,l
COLUMBUS, January nth, 1896 !
I, W. M. HAHN, Superint endent of Insurance
of the State of Ohio, do hereby certify that the
Phoenix Insurance Company, located at Hartford,
in the State of Connecticut, has complied
in all respects with the laws of this State relating
Insurance Companies other than Life, incorporated
by other States Of the United States, and is autho
rzed to transact its appropriate business of Fire
Insurance in this State, in accordance with law,
during the current year. The condition and busi-
ness of said Company on the 3Ist day Of December,
of the year preceding the date hereof is shown
by the statement, under oath, required by Section
2S4, Revised Statutes of Ohio, to be as follows:
Aggregate amount Of available assets.$ s246,s1o 90
Aggregate amount Of liabilities Except
capital) including re-insurance..... 2,82I,576 az
Net tAssets.......... ........" a,424,o43 Al
amount OF actual paid up Capital.... 100000 90
Surplus. 424,o43 Al
Amount of Income for the year........ ssS5,78o 66
Amount of Expenditures for the year 3Ss5,aSs IT
~ IN WITNESS WHEREOF, have
! hereunto subscribed my name and
( SEAL caused my official seal to be affixed,
the day and year first above written.
~ w. M. HAHN,
Superintendent of Insurance
o. N. SANS Agent at Hillsboro. Ohio
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Notice of Accounts Filed.

The executors, administrators and guardians
Of the following named estates have fled their
accounts IN the Probate Court Of Highland
county. Ohio. for settlement and said accounts
will b. '"r hearing op Friday the 2lst day of
February A. D.. 1898. at 10 O'Clock q. m i:
J. B. Davis. admr Of L y. Ciyburn. second
and final account.
fnsl account.
Chas. W. Carr. admr Of Joseph whistler, first
and fn.l account.
Geo. L Garrett. sdmr with the will annexed
of Jas. p. Garrett, frst account.
@. +. Underwood, exr Of Sarah N. johnson,
hrst and final account.
]. FRANK Wilson, Probate Judge.
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SUGARTREE RIDGE.
January q, 1896.

January q, 1896.
Mud, mud, mud!
Rev. Peal is holding protracted meet.
ing at Wesley Chapel.
d. H. Redkey spent Sunday at home.
W. E. Galley, our teacher. gave an in
teresting reading school recently.
Prof. Minnich and e. o. Hetherine.
ton, who were to have been here two
weeks ago, will be present and address
the Epworth League next Sunday night.
Everybody invited. An interesting pro.
gramme will be rendered.
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FOLSOM.

FOLSOM.
January 2s, 1895.
Protracted services begin at the M. E.
church, at this place, Feb. 8.
Miss Hughes, of Marshall, spent Sun.
day here with her friend, Rosa Fox.
Will Leslie and wife, of clear creek,
were guests of w. T. Shannon and fami.
ly, Saturday and Sunday.
The revival services are still in pro.
gress at Union Chapel.
Mrs. Charles Shan and little daughter,
of Petersburg, visited her parents, W.
F. Hathaway and wife, last week.
On the sick list.-J. A. Gilmore, Mrs.
M. V. Mccoy and Eddie Hopkins
Thomas Mcclure attended church at
Union, Sunday night.
Miss Martha Matthews has returned
home, after spending several months
with her brothers, in Greene county.
Call on Steve Hobbs for good job Of
barbering
Stanley CLANCY is contemplating
raising guineas, the coming spring.
Mr.. Lafe Eakins, of Russells, is call
ing on friends here.
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"Why did you break of your engage
ment with Miss Bertha 7"
because her parrot was always say.
ing, Stop that, George
"But what difference did that make !?
Your engagement was not secret"
"But my name Is not George"
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A mind reader at Ironton having dem.
onstrsted TO Q party Of ladies and gentle.
men his ability to read . newspaper
through two thicknesses Of Q horse
blanket, . couple of the girls left the
room, with the remark that they weren't
going to stay there any longer.
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NEvIN.

January 70, 1895.
Mr.. Woods, of Wilmington, was seen
in our village, Sunday. !.
Miss Hattie Stroup visited her sister,
in Wilmington, last week.
John Pence and wife, of near Hills.
boro, spent Saturday and Sunday, the
guests of Geo. A. Roush.
Quite an interest is being manifested
in the revival services at this place, con.
Quoted by Rev. Smith. Twenty eight
have been added to the church. We
surely think this town ought to be a
good place pretty soon.
Dame Rumor whispers to us we can
report a wedding in the near future.
That's right, girls, make good use of
Leap Year. Remember, it will be eight
years before another.
We think the little place of Shackel.
ton is getting to be very popular, as they
need two correspondents, one to give
the home news, and one the foreign,
we suppose. But we noticed the one
was requested by the other to study
spelling and we think, too, they had
better, because people would like to
have their names spelled right. And
we don, know which is the better, to
copy items, or take no paper, and borrow
one to read. If either, we prefer the
first. So in the future please be careful
and spell peoples names correctly.
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1t is probable that "liquid air" will be
commercial article within short time.
Many uses have been found for it, and
1t can be quite chesply made.
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Assignee's Notice Of Appoint.
ment.

The undersigned has been duly sppointaa
and qualified e. Assignee in trust for the bsn.l
eat Of the creditonI Of Frederick Schermsr
Charles 6chermer and William 6chermer. All
persons indebted TO said sssignors will msls
immediate payment. and creditors will present
their claims, duly authenticated, to the under.
signed for allowance. b. d. DAVIS,
Jany ID, 1895. Assignee Of
Frederick Schermer.
Charles 6chermer.
William 6chermer.
D. Q. Morrow. Attorney.
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John Eimpkins had several fingers
amputatsd by . saw, ct the cooperative
chair factory, this morning.
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A mid.winter clearance sale in all de-.
pastmsnts st John Bowles' store, North
High street, opposite jail.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1896-01-30

Hebron whom does he inherit his
talent for drawing?
She-From his father. He 10 den.
tist.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1896-01-30

Heavy SHOES for women At quite Q re
duction now, d Chas. Richards.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1896-01-30

BEST TINE YET to buy Ladies' Shoes
right now, at Ohas. Richards.
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TowELING-See what we sell for 4 and
cents. CHAs. RIcHARDs.
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$1,000 cloaks for $500; 81 90 cloaks for
$3.50 now, at Chas. Richards.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1896-01-30

Fine caaaiss At 8. K.-Morro~'s
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Buy PAIR Of the best S2. 90 shoes 10
women. ct Chas. Richards'.
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20 NIT act harmoniously with
f1OOO'S 8 FlllS Hoods sarsaparills. ~
The Red Cloud chief., 1896-01-31
AMERICAN ENERGY WINS.
Minister Whites story of n Chance Meet
ing with u Former New Yorker.

From the Troy Times: The Ameri-
can can always be trusted to make his
way, no matter what may be his envi-
ronments. \ story told by Andrew d..
White. oX-minister 10 Germany and
Russia, illustrates this fact. Mr.. White
stated that once when he vas at Ber-
lin, after al the diplomatic corps had
been duly presented to his wife, the
Chinese minister. in pursuance TO GUS
tom. brought round his principal secre-
taries and presented them 10 his col
leagues. Among these was IL tall, fine
looking man, evidently a European,
dressed in a superb court costume II
covered with gold lace. AS his Chinese
colleague introduced him to Mr.. White
In German, the conversation was con-
t!nued in that language, when suddenly
this Observation-Disclosures parsonage said
in English: MIR. White, | do not see
why we should be talking in German.
I come from Waterloo, in western New
York. and was educated AT Rochester
university under your friend, DR.. An
d~ersor." Mr.. White said that had the
gentleman dropped through the ceiling
it would not have seemed more surpris-
ing, and that 1t was hard TO believe that
the pretty little village Of Waterloo, "
even Rochester, with all the added pow
er OF this noble university, should have
been able 20 Develop IA creature so gor'
geoug. 1t turned ont that the gentle
man concerned, after graduating at the
University of Rochester, had gone tc
China with certain missionaries, hat
then been taken into The Chinese scrv'
ice. aad had proved 10 be a thoroughly
intelligent, patriotic man faithful to hi
duties to china, as we'll rs to the CniteC
Sta,Cs.
The Red Cloud chief., 1896-01-31

We did not go very far. ] induced
Paul to land and camp on a spot that
seemed favorable. Our camp fire
cleaned brightly in the gloom OF that
dismal place, but did not drive the
shadow from my heart.
That night slept little. Paul
seemed to slumber as peacefully as a
babe. Morning came. and | awoke to
find that | was alone. | had slept
soundly the last two hours Of the
night.
I started up in terror, fearing I had
been abandoned there, but the boat
fioated close by, and the outfit had not
peer disturbed. Paul and his rifle
alone were gone. | called to him, and
he answered from the forest near at
hand.
Come here" he shouted; "come and
see what / have found"
| followed the sound of his voice.
and found him not very far from the
camp. He was standing and staring at
something that lay stretched toward
him on the ground in a moving twist
ing mass. | thought he had shot
something, and hurried to see what 1t
could be.
What is it?" I asked.
"The serpent vine!' was his reply
at must be that. solomon did not lie
after all"
| gazed at the thing, fascinated, for
/ saw that 1t was indeed a vine that
grew from the ground there amid the
rank growing things of the swamp. II
lay stretched toward my cousin, seem.
ing to reach out and grasp for him
but he was safe beyond its touch. Il
twisted and twined like a mass Of ser.
penis, and | felt my heart grow sicl
and faint as | looked.
Come Closer cried Paul. ut can.
not reach beyond its length"
He drew me nearer, and then. of f;
sudden, with a strong thrust he sent me
Keeling and shrieking fairly amid tina
mass Of writhing things. In thu
~twinkling Of an eye they had coilet
about my legs. and I could not breal
away, although l desperately strove t.
do so.
Paul. Paul, save mel"
My answer was a hooking laugh.
Save me-" l painted again.
Save you!' returned my cousil
scornfully. ~ brought you here 70
this! l hate you. l swore that n o
us should not leave this swamp alive
You miserable little Yankee; wha
right have you to come here from tn
north and displace me in my uncle
The Red Cloud chief., 1896-01-31
THE BURSTING OF A GLACIER
A Trightfui Disaster Near the Gemmi
Pass.

A correspondent. writing to the Lon
don Globe, from Zurich, on Nov. -.
says: AT daybreak on Wednesday a
frightful disaster took place at a dis
tance of four miles from Kanderstag,
on the Gemmi pass. A huge mass Of
Ice, measuring 1,250.O 0 cubic meters
detached from the Altels glacier and
was precipitated into the valley. Such
was the impetus of the might avalanche
that it was not checked in the valley,
but dashed up the opposite side, which
has a slope of i5 degrees, to a height
of 5000 feet, carrying everything be-
fore 1t until 1t met a wall of rock which
sent the main mass surging back.
AT the foot of this rock lies, or rather
lay, the Spitalmatte. an exceedingly
beautiful and rich mountain pasture,
with chalets for the cowherds. for stor-
ing cheeses, etc. At the time of the dis
aster there were collected there $50
head of valuable cattle, under the care
Of four cowherds. There were also two
officials from Leuk, who had come up to
arrange about bringing down the cat
tie, which event has always taken place
on Nov. Is. All have been over
whelmed. OF the animals, only three
have escaped. The loss in the live
stock, the ownership Of which was par
titioned among about thirty families,
mostly quite poor. belonging to the VIII
lage OF Leuk, is estimated at 1905 900
francs. The pasture itself, which for
| years will now be useless. strewn as 1t
| Is with debris. Is valued at 400 900
| francs. The bodies of the two officials
and Of two of the cOwherds have been
recovered, but in a horribly mutilated
condition. 1t seems that the disaster
overlook them while sleeping in their
huts. The other two men. whose bod
les have rot yet been found, are sup
posed to have been up early for the pur-
pose Of milking the cows. The blocks
of fallen ice and rocks cover a space
of W square miles to a depth of many
yards, the whole scene being one of in
describable desolation. Besides the
trees which were in the track of the
avalanche, great numbers have been
uprooted by the wind which 1t pro-
duced. Many OF the cattle, too. lie
about in such positions that they must
have been hurled great distances
through the air by the same force. Men
are hard at work trying to make some
sort of footpath over the debris, the
ordinary road being, of course, COM
pletely obliterated. From old records
in L.euk Il appears that a similar catas-
trophe occurred at the same spot in
1882, also only two days before the date
fixed for the return OF the cattle TO the
valleys"
The Red Cloud chief., 1896-01-31

affections! II 1t were not for you he
would leave me everything when he
dies. You are a sneak and a coward.
but l have brought you to your death
here, although my hands shall not be
stained. TIL serpent-vine will do the
work for me. Good-by, cousin mine
good-by!"
Unheeding my cries and entreaties,
he turned and hurried away, disap-
pearing in the direction of the camp.
| was left alone-left to die In the
| clutch OF the horrid vine that was
twining about my legs and creeping
| up, up, up. | fought It off, | shrieked,
I shouted, | called to Paul, | prayed.
1t seemed that | was in the grasp OF
that thing for hours. and yet | had
beaten and torn 1t off so that II had not
reached my neck.
All at once a dark figure glided to-
ward me from the shadow OF the for
est.
Paul" / gasped-"you have come
back to save me, Paul! | knew you
could not let me die thus"
Paul gone. / hear you cry-I come"
1t was Solomon!
To this day | know not how ne re-
leased me from that horrid vine. /
know that he gave me his knife
and told me to cut at the arms that
were twined about me, and | know that
one of my hands he grasped. as he
sought to draw me from the clutch of
the monster. Between us we tri-
umphed, and | fell fainting to the
ground, TO be dragged still farther away
by the faithful Indian.
AS ! was slowly recovering, a great
cry rang through the swamp, a cry
that brought me to my feet, quiverine
with fresh excitement.
did you hear 1t, Solomon" I asked
"Me hear" he replied. Come on
We went toward the camp. AS we
came near we saw that Paul had gath,
cred up the outfit and carried 1t down
The Red Cloud chief., 1896-01-31

TO the boat. which still swung % the
bosom of the dead water, held fast by
the mooring line. My cousin had not
gone.
No, he had not gone. Beneath the
trees near the waters edge a dark form
dangled above the earth. | would have
rushed up, but solomon held me back.
Look he said. THE end has come!
The snake vine was not to be cheated
this time
But the tree-my cousin-he Is
hanging"
THE snake vine climbs trees to find
food; lock neal root of tree. See II
grows there see. 1t runs up runk-
out on limb. 1t is round his neck, and
he Is dead already"
It was true. In passing beneath that
tree Paul had been clutched by the
dangling vine. One cry was all that
ever came from his lips, for the SER
pent vine quickly choked him to ST.
lence.
1t was retribution swift and sure, but
such a death seemed none the less ter
rible to me that it destroyed n who
had doomed me to a like fate a short
time before.
One of us would not leave the swamp
alive.
The Red Cloud chief., 1896-01-31
CRAWLED ON HIS BACK.
Experience Of n Man with q Broken
Leg on q Tresite.

James Starr, aged SIS, took six hours
to crawl with a broken leg from the
trestle at the foot of oath street to High,
says the Louisville Courier-Journal.
Starr Is a carpenter who lives with his
daughter, Mrs. X. NJ. Sanders. at 24O9
West Jefferson street. lie left home
Saturday morning and did not return.
He drinks some and his son-in-law be-
lieves he was drunk Saturday night
when he started to cross the canal on
the trestle. The old man said it was
about 10 o'clock Saturday night when
he concluded to spend the night across
the canal and not go home. When he
got opposite oath street he missed his
footing in the dark and fell. AS he
shot through the trcstle his head struck
one OF the ties, and he landed on the
ground unconscious. How long he lay
there he does not know. When he
awoke 1t was with the consciousness
of great pain in his leg. He tried 10
yell, but his voice was weak ana ne
was unable to speak above a whisper.
The pain in his leg made cold perspira-
ton cover his body. lie waited for wha
seemed an hour in the hope that some
one would pass along and lend him
assistance.
The place was as quiet as n grave,
and he could not hear even the rap OF
a policeman. He started to work his
way from under the trestlework, but
every attempt to move forward made
him scream with pain. Finally ne
turned on his back and began to crawl
along with his head and hands, drag
ging his injured leg with him. This
was very slow and very painful. once
he remembers to have lost conscious
ness, the pain was so great. He does
not know how long he lay where he was.
but the thought that he might die there
before any assistance could reach him
nerved him to press on. He began agar
to crawl on his back. He felt that he
was about to faint again. so he stopped
He struggled with himself to keep from
losing consciousness, fearing that he
might never awaken. When he felt
that he had gained enough strength to
venture on he began his laborious and
painful task again. After he had strug'
gled along between rests and partial
Inconsistencies for what seemed tc
him a week he began to break down
He rested from his labors awhile
thinking some one would surely pass
along, but no one appeared. He spiet
some salt sheds near by and made hi
way toward them. When he reached
the sheds the night Waterman wa
making his last round. Just as tn
Waterman discovered Starr the latte
tainted. The Waterman saw the maj
was badly hurt and telephoned for tn
ambulance. BY the time the ambulance
reached the sheds Starr had regaine'
consciousness. He was taken to tn
city hospital. where it was found h
had suffered a compound fracture of tn
left leg.
The Red Cloud chief., 1896-01-31
HIN POI Eng (rnIr.

Among Occasiona. OBJECTS OF one's
pity are the little pet dogs whicA e.der-
ly ladies', who are generally clad IN rich
black silk, cUldlc in their arms, in
doors and out OF doors, through the
liyolong day. At n certain Brighton
hotel | counted NO less than seven OF
these little curly-haired animals
c.utchcd to seven capacious bosoms.
Some visitors, /, Is we'll known, object
TO dogs in n hotel, and consequently
a p~rohibitiyc price is put upon their ad-
mittance. Tho charge is sometimes as
high ms one guinea per day.-St. James
Budget.
The Red Cloud chief., 1896-01-31
launching IA HIy Shin.

That 1t costs something to launch .
big battlcship Is shown by the state
ment that the expense of getting the
Victorious, the latest addition TO Eng
She is a sister ship to the Magnificent
and Majestic, and is 800 feet long, Is
feet beam. and 271a feet draft. There
were used up on the ways over which
she slid into the water 1000 pounds of
Russian tallow, 100 gallons of train oil
and 700 pounds Of soft soap. The gross
weight of the ship, equipped and ready
for sea. is 1925 tons.
The Red Cloud chief., 1896-01-31

i HAVE ALN .N1n L'N III l'N'
during the winter season in town
might be interesting TO her, and GER
talnly profitable"
Anything | do Is interesting to her.
she responded, coldly.
do you know" he said, Il have been
marvcling over you ever since | came.
| annot quite realize that YOU have
been ten days in the country without
being bored. How have you accom-
plished 1t? | thought that the day OF
miracles was past"
"My good Tony" remarked Miss
Gresham, patronizingly, you must not
Judge other people by yourself; II is a
very foolish and narrow-minded way
of doing. Because YOU cannot exist
happily without your clubs and theaters
Is no reason why | can't
81 never knew You belonged to n
club observed MARYLAND, mildly,
Have you developed into that won
der, a new woman
"Oh, nonsense. You know | was
speaking hguratiyoiy, mean that |
am not welded to any particular state
OF ~things-that ! can adapt myself to
circumstances and enjoy whatever
comes"
Can You? How delightful, But,
testing aside. has II not been rather
slow for you here, without any girls
for you to see through and scorn and
be amused by-uor men to analy2e and
draw YOU ont and get interested i'm"
How do YOU know there have beer
no men?"
II have your own word for II,
heard you refuse four OF your hes
friends permission to visit You dow
here, and | inferred that the common
herd had been NJ better treated"
Yes" she said, you were right. NJ,
solitude has been %uninyaded. | hay
been resting ana enjoying myself thor
oughly. By the way'-suddenly-
"who told YOU that you could come
mo one, but | had to run down I
my place on business. ana | thought
would look unueiPhborly not TO dro
in ana find ont how you were gettin
on"
Very thoughtful, indeed. So yo
have remembered your old home
last How long has it been since 20
were here?"
Five years"-pondering-"fye yea
his June"
"Is II much changed?"
"A good deal; the old willow by Il
pond is down; fell in the August storr
Baston tells me-"
"Oh, ! am so sorry! We used to
she paused. blushing,
YES" he responded, so we did
Apd he glanced at her lapshingly.
The Red Cloud chief., 1896-01-31
IN at Delphi.

Two more slabs Of stone inscribed
with words and music have been found
in the treasury of the Athenians at
Delphi by the French. BY using some
of the fragments previously discovered
a second hymn to Apollo, with its notes,
has been put together. The date Is
after the conquest Of Greece by the
Romans. The Greeks seem to have
used twenty-one notes in their musical
notation, where we use only twelve.