The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1899-07-13
SHORT SPECIALS.

The North Atlantic squadron ar
rived AT Portsmouth, N. H.. Sunday,
and will leave for Portland on Thurs
day.
Mr.. Samuel Clemens (Mari Twain
and family left Friday for Sweden,
where Mr.. Clemens will take the
Swedish cure.
Having reached the age limit, Col.
Wagner, of the 4th cavalry, has been
retired. His successor is Maj Hayes,
Of the 7th cavalry.
Sir Edmund John Monson, British
ambassador to France, entertained at
dinner the members of the Venelue-
Ian arbitration tribunal.
Gov. Roosevelt of New York, who
came to Washington Saturday for a
conference with the president at the
latter's invitation, returned to New
York Sunday morning.
p. d. Moxhan, a millianaire and
philanthropist, died at his home in
Vineland, N. j., Sunday, aged Is. He
accunu ulated most of his wealth in the
mining business in Montana.
Gen. Joseph Wheeler has written
book on the operations of his cavalry
during the civil war, and it will be
published for the benefit of the Wheel
el cavalry camps throughout the south.
M. Deniel, governor of the Isles dr
Sault and administrator of the penal
settlement on the Isle du Diable.
where Capt Dreyfus was imprisoned.
has been removed and will be succeed
ed by NJ. LaSoucan.
Otto Won Ohlen. aged "a years, whose
father is said to he a wealthy manu-
| facturer of Colu'nbus, o., was drowned
| in the Delaware river, Philadelphia,
| Sunday from sail boat which was
capsized by squall.
Adm. Cervera and the other command
ers of the Spanish fleet destroyed in
the battle of Santiago, whose conduct
, has been the subject of inquiry by spe-
cial court martial, were Friday acquit-
ted and formally liberated.
Brig. Gen. Wallace Randolph, U.S.V.,
has reported at army headquarters in
San Francisco !or duty. He will prob
ably succeed Col. Freeman in command
at the Presidio when the latter sails
for the Philippines on July IL.
| Willard E. Baker, who is wanted
in Boston for embezzlement from the
Adams Express Co., is now on his way
back to that city in charge of Inspect
or Morrissey and Capt. Dugan. He
was arrested in San Francisco.
Senator Chauncey NJ. Depew and his
son, Chauncey M. Depew, jr., were
among the passengers of the steamer
Campania, which reached her pier in
New York Saturday. The earl OF
Donoughmore was also a passenger.
A special from Denison, Tex, says:
The Houston & Texas Central officials
state that the road between Calvert
and Hearue will have to be virtua ally
rebuilt, owing to the food, and that
the cost will not be less than $500, 000
The large steam bakery of Henry
Wauklin, located at Roxborough, 6
suburb of Philadelphia, was entirely
destroyed by fire Sunday, entailing q
loss of $4,000, which is covered by
insurance. The origin of the fire il
unknown,
A special from Gresham, Wis, says
Sheriff Mcdonnell Sunday arrested A.
j. WEIGH on a charge of numbering
Wallace w. Tousey on the Fourth 0;
July. The shooting was the result OF
feud that had existed for years. The
arrest of Welch prevented what would
doubtless have been a lynching. =.
Lieut.. Samuel f. Pague, U. S. A., re
tired, committed suicide in the New
Era hotel, Chicago, Friday night. Hi
body was found upright in chair in
his room Saturday. Lieut.. Pague wa.
court-martialed in 1895 for an assault
upon Col. Crefton, of the 18th infantry
at TT. Sheridan.
A disaster has occurred at the new
Jagirsfontein diamond mine. nea
Capetown, where the fall of Thousands
of tons of earth has buried many peo
pie, including an Australian namec
Forsythe. Some other Australian
were killed. Several persons were in
jured and l6 are missing.