The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1898-12-29
NEWS ITEMS.
Countess Thun- Il ohenstein, wife of
the Austrian premier, is dead.


the Austrian premier, is dead.
M..Jules Cambon, French ambassa-
dor to the United States, will probably
be transferred to Berlin.
At Hartford, c., in the Ryan-O' 'Brien
bout here Friday night, Ryan got the
decision In the 14th round.
An explosion of dynamite occurred
four miles west Of Huron, Ore, in
which FIVE men were seriously injured,
two of whom will die.
Maj. Gen. Merriam has ordered that
the work of preparing the transports
for another voyage to Manila be
rushed to completion.
A cable dispatch from wiesbadsn,
Germany, announces the death of Sc
bastian Bach Mills, well known plan
ist and composer, aged go years.
The will Of Mrs. Harriet c. Doane,
OF Springfield, Mass, was filed for pro-
bate Friday. Among other bequests
$1,000 is left to the Doane college at
Crete, Neb.
The indications are that Robert E.
Hit, OF Illinois, chairman Of the house
foreign affairs, has been asked to &C.
cept the ambassadorship to Russia by
the president.
The majority of the house committee
on military affairs Friday filed with
the clerk their report in opposition to
the Hull bill for increase of the regu-
lar army to 100, 600 men.
At Kansas City, Mo-, Maj Mortimer
Deering, capitalist, is dead of Bright's
disease. He was born in Lynchburg,
Va, in 1927; came west in 1S49 and for
time engaged in freighting across
the plains
According to dispatch received in
Madrid from Iloilo, Island of Panay,
several engagements have taken place
between the Spaniards and the insur-
gents and many of the latter have been
killed or wounded.
Tony Brosheit, a young woman %
years of age, who has been in trance
for the past five months at her home in
Milwaukee. Wis. was brought to her
normal condition through the influence
of hypnotism Friday.
The postmaster general Friday an
nounced the establishment of seven
additional military postal stations in
Cuba as follows: Pinar del Rio. Guam
ajay, Mariel, Trinidad, Las Tunas,
Sancti Spiritus and Cardenas.
Joseph d. Pierson, the man who cre-
ated disturbance by throwing mis-
siles through the plate glass windows
of the British embassy, Washington.
and was sent to the insane asylum, es-
capped from that institution Friday.
The secretary Of war has appointed
William P. Watson as auditor of Gus,
toms accounts for Cuba, at Havana.
Mr.. Watson was formerly examiner Of
national banks at Chicago and recently
connected with the Office of the fourth
auditor in the treasury department.
The government of Victoria, accord
Ing to . special dispatch from Mel
bourne, has accepted the tender of the
Pennsylvania and Maryland Steel Co.
for $4,000 tons of steel rails at Is, 600
pounds sterling (S75, ,OOO below the Eng
lish tender.
An evidence OF thrift in the navy de-
partment Is general order sent out
Friday to all of the nine naval stations
that the strictest economy is to be ex-
ercised in all expenditures Of public
money by the department officers un-
til further orders.
The Rosalie, which has arrived at
Victoria, B. c., from Skaguay, reports
the wreck of sloop which left Wran-
gel two weeks ago for Skaguay, with a
party of 10 bound for Atlin. The
sloop was found bottom up by Indians,
and it is feared that all have been
lost.
Companies ], H and M, LIST New York
volunteers, who have been in Homo
lulu, passed throu gh Pueblo, COL, just
before midnight Friday night, bound
for home in a special train of two sec
tionA Maj Sague was in command.
The general health of the battalion
10 good.
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