The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1898-01-06
NEWS ITEMS.

pcSh dppoluteu CONSUL general IOr huS-
sia at New York.
The steamship Etruria, which sailed
for Europe Saturday, took out .O55, 900
ounces of silver
The steamer Concho, which arrived
at New York Friday from Havana,
brought 996 bales of Cuban tobacco.
DIR. Won Boetticher, the former Ger
man minister of the interior, has been
gazetted governor of the province of
Saxony.
The mutilated body of Gen. Sir Henry
Havelock-Allan, it is announced from
Ft. Ali-Musjid, has been found and is
being conveyed to Peshawaure.
Theodore Durrant has again been
removed to the death cell to await the
hour of his execution, which has been
fixed for 1890 a. m, january. Z.
The steamer Topeka sailed from
Tacoma for Alaska with a full cargo of
freight and 200 passengers, many Of
them tradesmen bound for the interior.
An advance of 12H per cent. in the
wages has been granted to the en-
ployes of the Wick China Co., Kittan-
ming, Pa, and the men will go back to
work.
RI. Adm. Lord Charles Beresford has
accepted the invitation of the union
lists of York to contest that seat in
parliament, vacant by the death of Sir
Frank Lockwood, Q. c.
The schedules in the assignment of
George b. Moorewood & Co., shipping
and produce merchants, New York,
shows: Liabilities, $1SS,S 1923; nominal
assets. SOL, ,756; actual assets, $50, ,o49.
Jim Redd and Alex johnson, the
condemned murderers of w. +. Skip
per will not be executed at Monticello,
Ark, Friday. The supreme court has
issued stay of execution pending an
appeal.
Mr.. Nathan b. Scott, of West. Vir-
ginia, Friday took the oath of Office as
commissioner of internal revenue in
place of Mr.. w. S. Forman, of Illinois,
who returns to the practice of law in
East st. Louis.
A cablegram from London to the To-
ronto Evening Telegram says Lord
Hertford disclaims any knowledge of
the reported intention of the imperial
authorities to appoint him Lord Aber.
deems successor.
The directors of the Chicago Exposi-
tion Co. have decided to rebuild the
Coliseum on the site of the structure
recently burned. The building will be
fire proof and probably as large as the
original Coliseum.
1t is rumored in Paris that Prince
Rupert-M tpoldFerdinand, eld-
est son of Prince Louis, of Bavaria.
will be betrothed to the Archduchess
Elizabeth, of Austria, daughter of the
late Archduke Rudolph.
Mayor Strong's police commissioners
held their last meeting at police head
quarters Friday night and one of their
last acts was to restore Capt. Stephen
son to duty and to order the payment
OF his back salary amounting to about
| $4,000.
Assistant Secretary Howell Wednes.
day received a telegram from Collector
Mcfarland, at Tampa, stating that he
| was advised that the embargo on the
expectation of tobacco from Havana
Cuba would be raised within the nexi
% hours.
L
izing the following national banks tc
begin business, were issued Thursday
| The Corn Exchange national bank. oi
Chicago H., capital 81 900 600; The
| National Bank of Kirksville (Mo), cap
| ital $4,000.
The council of the Canadian Anna
teur Skating association has decided
not to hold any speed skating cham
pionships this year, as there are very
few skaters available. The figure
| skating championships will be held al
| the end of February
A destructive wind storm visited
Chattanooga at an early hour Friday
morning. A large frame church and a
| two-story dwelling were demolished
and numerous other minor damages
were done. The wind storm was fol
| lowed by heavy snow storm.
| Adam Pfeffer, who had second-class
| transportation from New Ulm, MINI.
| to Hamburg. Germany, jumped through
a car window of the Atlantic expires:
east in the vicinity of South Fork, Pa.
Thursday morning, and was instantly
killed. Pfeffer was demented.
| Advices from Ottawa, Ont, indicate
that the British government is prepar
| ing to actively resist Russian occupa
| tion of Port Arthur and Russian intlu
ence in Corea; also that the co-opera
tion of the Japanese fleet with tha
of Great Britain is well settled
fact.