The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1899-09-21
OUR SCISSORS.
Facts and Fancies Not Local But
Nevertheless of Local
Interest.
A Peculiar Conference.-The Same Old
Bull DOg-A Joke That Resulted
In q Damage suit.
THAT BULL DOG.

THAT BULL DOG.
At recent game of ball in this city
between q Portsmouth and Wellston
nine the score at the eighth inning stood
10 to 10 with Brooker, of Portsmoth, at
the bat. He knocked the ball into the
ribs of sleeping bulldog, which awak
ened the quadruped and he picked up
the ball and ran off with it. This let in
two more runs but the Jackson county
coal diggers declared the ball was inter.
fered with and the score was tie
Press.-That sleeping bulldog has been
attending political conventions for years,
and running off with 80 many balls that
Scioto has much more than her quota of
political offices, but his dabbling in base
ball is a new departure, and the coal dig
gers had a right to object.-Jackson
Journal.
ONLY JOKE.
Jackson Duffey, formerly of Greenup
county, old commonwealth of Kentucky,
came over to Otway sometime since, and
secured work. He saw Anna Ellington,
a pretty miss of the village, and then
after becoming acquainted, "set his cap
for her," and proceeded to spark her"
Things went we'll, and Duffy got in earn
est and proposed marriage, and he says
the fair and winsome maid promised to
sew on his buttons and bake his corn
cakes, but when the time came around to
be jined, the sweet and dainty miss re
fused to jine, and said that she did not
know that he was in earnest, and that
she considered the whole matter joke
Duffey went over to Portsmouth, Satur-
day, and employed an attorney to bring
suit for his broken heart, making Anna
the defendant.-West Union New Era
SPORT BREAKS HIS WRIST.
The Western Automatic Machine Com
pany was sued in Cincinnati Tuesday by
William ]. Wyatt for S., 900, based upon
a very novel cause of action. The Au-
tomato Company had one of its coin
controlled striking machines in a saloon
at Louisville, and Wyatt, no doubt
backed up by few drinks of Kentucky
rye, felt strong enough to rake in the
money in sight, and let 60 at the appa-
ratus with all his strength. The ma
chine didn't bulge. He might as we'll
have hit at church steeple for all the
effect the blow had on the indicator.
Something had to give way and he suf-
fered broken hand. Now he wants
$1,000 damages for faulty construction Of
the machine. Alleging in his petition
that if the machine had worked, no in.
jury would have resulted to him. If
Wyatt wins his suit there will be more
broken wrists from that cause than all
the rest of the Industries in the United
States.-Batavia Courier.
SHE GOT THE PROPERTY.
A number of weeks ago, j. M. Arnett,
OF Perry township, Fayette county, ran
away with Mrs. Caldwell, the wife of a
neighbor. Shortly afterwards Mrs. Ar
nett instituted suit for alimony. The
case has just been heard by Judge Wor-
thington, and he has given her $1,000
alimony, which is virtually all the prop.
erty the defendant had. When he dis
appeared he took about $1,000. Mrs.
Caldwell returned home, but Arnett has
never shown up, and his whereabouts
are Observation-Disclosures News.
BUYING THE PRESS
The newspaper business in Lebanon
will soon be fearfully mixed if all the
ideals" 60 through that are now talked
of. Atpresent there is one Democrat
and two Republican papers and one that
is supporting the Republican State and
Democratic county tickets Now it
is rumored that one OF the Republican
papers is to be purchased by q syndicate
and level headed editor put at the
helm, and the other one is to be sold TO
. company Of rock-ribbed Democrats
who want an organ of their own. II that
be 20 Il looks ~ though the Democrats