The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1897-11-04
CONDENSED NEWS
Gathered From All Parts VI the Country
by Telegraph.


The president has appointed John
Hall, United States attorney for the
district of Oregon.
United States Ambassador White is
now in Paris, but will return to Berlin
about the middleiof November.
There are probably less than half
dozen Americans held prisoners in
Cuba exclusive of the Compel tor crew
The Mississippi board of heal TIL, in its
official statement Sunday night, chron
icles but two new cases of yellow fever
in this section of the country and these
are at Clinton.
Fire in the business section of War
rem, Mass, early Sunday morning
caused $4,000 damage. The town hall
was partially burned and several
blocks destroyed.
Speaking at political meeting in
Cam bridge Friday night, DIR. William
Everett, democratic candidate for gov
ernor, paid touching tribute to the up
rightness and sincerity of Henry
George.
Won Cannon, one of the players on
the University of Georgia football
team, died Sunday morning from in
juries received ina game between that
team and the team from the University
of Virginia in Atlanta, Ca, Saturday
afternoon.
The body of John Foyle, engineer of
the New York Central train wrecked
at Garrisons last Sunday. was Sunday
brought up with graphing irons from
the big hole made by the engine when
it plunged into the mud at the bottom
of the Hudson.
DIR. Otto Nordenskiold, the we'll
known antarctic explorer, will super
intend an expedition to be fitted out at
den, to ascertain whether any trace of
Prof. Andre and balloon can be found
near Prince Charles promontory.
All the preliminary arrangements
for meeting between Peter Maher
and Tut" Ryan have been made, and
the parties will get together Monday
and sign the papers. Ten thousand
dollars is to be hung up and the fight
will take place within seven weeks at
some place near New York.
The Wabash railway, whose head
quarters, st. Louis, were burned, have
secured three floors of the handsome
new Century building, where what re-
mained from Wednesdays fire has
been taken. General Manager Ramsey
says he hopes to have everything in
good running order by next Monday.
Charles Bluejacket, the head chief of
the Shawnee Indian tribe, died Satur-
day night in the village of Bluejacket,
l. T., after long and eventful- life.
He was over so years old and the last
chief of his tribe. He has been the
foremost diplomat of his nation in
treating with the whites, and was uni
vcrsally esteemed.
The Tennessee state supreme court
has ordered the sale of the Morristown
& Cumberland Gap railroad, to be made
by the clerk of the court. the proceeds
to be distributed among half dozen
creditors whose claims aggregate about
$40, 900. The road is a small affair, ex-
tending from Morristown, Tenn, to
Cumberland Gap, Ky.
Alexander w. Stevenson, wanted at
Lisbon o., to answer to several charges
of forgery, is under arrest in Kansas
City, Mo. Stevenson, who is about 30
years of age, and who is said to be an
attorney. has been known there as Ross
Fiscuss, and has attained some prom
inence as the coach and right tackle of
the university medical college football
team.
The government has instructed the
governor of the province of Tromsoe,
the most northern province of Norway,
to charter steamer at the expense of
the state, to provision it for six
months and to send out q relief expe-
dition for Herr Andree, the aeronaut
who assembled in his balloon, the Ea-
gle, on July II last, from Spitzbergen,
400 miles northwest of the North cape
of Norway in proposed expedition to
I the North pole.
It is announced that ST. Louis will
soon have q magazine printed in 10 diff
ferent languages, and it will be the
only publication of the kind in the
world. The idea originated with Will
liam Borsodi, in connection with Alex
ander Konta, of this city; will publish
a separate magazine for each nation
ality in their native tongue, but the
contents of each will differ but little.
The home Office of this company will
be in St. Louis. =.