The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1900-03-08
SUNDAY.

SUNDAY.
Costa Rica is preparing to resist the
threatened invasion by Nicaraguan
troops.
Amy Head Wig, an Indian woman
more than 100 years old, was burned
to death at Mason, Tex.
Howell Kinds, of Cleveland, o., was
| injured in wreck on the Canadian
Pacific railroad near Toronto.
The senate has demanded the papers
in the court-martial proceedings held
during the war against Adt. Gen. Cor
bin.
A colored man named Whaite was
shot by a woman named Hill near
Montgomery, w. Va, the result of
quarrel.
The 18th convention of the National
Republican league has been called to
meet in the city of St. Paul, Tuesday,
July II.
A party of five or six Americans,
sent into the interior of Brazil to oc-
cupy rubber grant, were massacred
by natives.
Edinburgh university has decided to
confer the degree of doctor of laws
upon Joseph II. Choate, the American
ambassador.
The people of Porto Rico are show
ing signs of discouragement ut the
failure of congress to provide gov
ernment for the island.
Mrs. Catherine V, Waite, of Detroit,
aged II years, graduated from law
school, and will go to Denver and en-
ter upon the practice of her profess
sion.
Mrs. Henry F. Severens, wife of the
newly appointed Judge of the United
States circuit court of appeals, died
very suddenly at her home in Kalama-
zoo, Mich.
The United States transport Nc
Clelland arrived at New York from
San Juan, Porto Rico, Santiago, Guam
tanamo and Baracoa, with 81 cabin
passengers, Is undertakers and civil
ians and lO1 bodies of dead soldiers.
1t has just been discovered that a
number of Filipinos who claim loyalty
to the United States are secretly
working in the interest of the Agui-
nado government. The whole island
or Luzon is honeycombed with spies
and sympathizers, and preparations
are being made to wage guerrilla war
fare when the rainy season starts.
SATURDAY.
At Athens, Ga, Fletcher Freeman
played with Il gun and shot and fatal
ly wounded a boy named Homer Snow.
The entire 5th regiment of cavalry,
now in Porto Rico, will be recalled
and their places filled by native
troops.
From 5000 to 5000 Beers are To-
Gated four miles from the British lines
near Osfontcin, and several skirmishes
have already taken place.
George Steurer was killed and his
two sons were seriously injured by
the explosion of a Touring mill boiler
ct Wake. MiddleseX county, Va.
Reuben Cately and Hipolite Brown,
Negroes, were hanged at New Iberia,
La, for the murder of Martial Sorrel,
storekeeper near Oliver, La, last
August.
The mangled body of Robert H.
Day, of Providence, X. L., was found
on the Illinois Central railroad tracks
in Chicago. The police think it case
of suicide.
Gen. A. ID. Shaw, national comman-
der of the G. A.. r., announces himself
candidate for congress to succeed
the late Chas. A. Chickering from the
Twenty-fourth New York district.
Congressman Sidney Eppes, of Vir-
ginia, who was operated on for appen-
dicitis, died at the Garfield hospital
in Washington. He was 35 years OF
age, and journalist by profession,
) Lieut.. Gibbons, of the American
forces in the Philippines, made sue
. cessful raid into the southern part OF
the island of Luzon, bringing back
sos Spanish prisoners, 8 American sol,
tiiers, officers of the hospital ship
Relief and 3 surrendered Filipinos.
FRIDAY.
The Porto Rican bill passed the
. house by vote of 1862 to 107, and il
, now q law.
+ Four people were killed and seven
| Others injured In railroad wreck
near Plainville. CT.