The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1899-08-17
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

George H. Barber, of Peru, N. Y,
aged 1s, was struck by lightning and
instantly killed Saturday night.
The french schooner Pauoboto was
sunk in collision Sunday off Lowest IF
by the steamer Hercules and five per-
sons were drowned. The steamer res
cued the remainder of the crew.
The Albany, N. Y, branch of the
American protective league has trans
mitted to Gov. Gambler, of Georgia,
congratulatory letter on his manly
stand against mob law.
Delegates to the convention of the
national association of colored
womens' clubs will meet Monday
in Quinn chapel. Chicago Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday will be devot-
ed to the business of the convention.
Advices from the Arctic whaling
feet brought to Port Townsend, WASH,
Sunday by the schooner j. NJ. Coleman,
IS days from Port Lawrence, are not
encouraging. The season, it is stated,
has been complete ia lure.
Col. Charles Page Bryan, United
States minister to Brazil, in an i'm
portant communication to the Argen-
tine and Brazilian press, asserts that
the United States wants nothing Of
South America but trade and harmony.
At Reading, Pa, Solomon Quinter,
we'll known citizen and former rail-
road employee, shot and instantly killed
his wife, Annie, aged 4s years, and her
paramour, Edward H. Kitzmiller, aged
%. at an early hour Sunday morning.
1t is reported that the imperial heir
presumptive of Austria, the Archduke
Francis, is bctrothed to the Grand
Duchess Helene Vladimirovna, of Rus
sia. who was formerly affianced to
Prince Macmillan, of Baden.
The United States cruiser Olympia
arrived at Leghorn, Italy, Sunday,
from Naples, and was received with
salutes and cordial welcomes. The
commander of the Italian cruiser
Tripoli and the captain of the port
both visited Adm. Dewey on board.
The body of Lizzie MacNichol, the
opera singer who died at Chorura, N.
H., Saturday night from peritonitis.
will be taken to Washington :or inter-
ment. Arrangements have been made
to have the funeral take place from the
home of her parents in Washington
next Tuesday.
The North Atlantic squadron, COM
posed of Adm. SIMPSONS flagship New
York, the Brooklyn, Indiana, Massa-
| chusetts and Texas sailed from Bar
Harbor, Me-, at Z o'clock Sunday morn
ing. The squadron will go to sea for
q few days practice and then proceed
to Newport.
A convention of the Afro American
| council of colored men will be held at
Bethel church, Chicago, beginning
Wednesday and lasting until Saturday
| evening. This convention will prob
ably be one of the most important
| gatherings OF colorcd men that has
been held for some time.
DR.. f. H. Finke, of Baltimore, q
member of Commissioner General
Peck's staff, died in Chicago Sunday
of heart failure. DR.. Finke had been
assigned to duty as expert in medicine,
surgeon, dentistry and chemistry in
the department of liberal arts and
chemical industries at the Paris expo
sition.
Near Baltimore George Grauers,
aged 1s, and Tony Rixes, aged 81, were
struck by lightning and instantly kill
ed Sunday. They had taken refuge
from the storm under large tree.
Their clothes were torn to shreds but
beyond black spots on the forehead
and at the ankles there was no mari
on the bodies.
The United States transport Centen
NAL arrived at San Francisco from
Manila Sunday, after most exciting
round trip. She narrowly missed /;
couple of typhoons; was ashore on ;
coral reef, where the entire crew bare
ly escaped capture at the hands of thu
Filipinos; one of the sailors was killed
by a parting hawser, and one of th'
quartermasters was stabbed by col
| ored cook