The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1900-04-12
THE NEWSIN BRIEF.
Gathered, and Cohdensed
From lDuy to Day.


MONDAY.
The postmaster general has divided
the free rural delivery into four di-
! visions
The American Plate Mirror Co.was
chartered al Harrisburg, Pa. with a
capital of S50,OOO,O0O.
| Fire partly destroyed the rilno and
organ factory of tn. NJ. +. Schulz Co.
in Chicago. Loss $4,000.
The Sans Loucl opera house block
and the Schaffer building at Ballston
Spa, N. ", were destroyed by fire.
| Loss $150,OO0.
Emily Coghlan, the actress, sister of
Rose and Charles Coghlan, died at
| Stamford. CT, earlv Sunday morning,
of pneumonia, aged 36 years.
BY the breaking Of the dam across
the Colorado river at Austin, Tex,
eight men were caught in the food
and only one escaped being drowned.
Chicago is making extensive ar
rangements to welcome ADM Dewey
upon his visit to tlat city on the an
! VI iuc Odttle Ol Mdliliu Ddy
There is an uprising in Swaziland
and several chiefs have been killed.
The whole country is in most un-
settled state. bordering on a reign of
! terror.
John Wright Dean, of Washington.
well known throughout he United
! States as ''rhc Quaker Evangelist
died at Pawtucket II. L., CT pneuna-
MIA .'aged 20.
Doonwell Bros large paper ,lilj:
at Forster's Station. four mile
west of Ann Arbor, Mich, burned
The loss will reach $4,000 with hi,
| rs 600 insurance.
All the miners in the Fairmont and
Catlin mines in Vermillion county,
H.. went out on a strike because the
| operators demanded 10 clear up this
| fails of rock which occur from time
| to time.
! Reports of encounters between the
American troops and the insurgents
| continue to arrive from many pom; :
in the Philippines y sergeant am
!
! don was wounded.
! The telegraph wires from Bloom
/ fonten have bean cut and it y
| probable that the Beers .lays again
| gotten possession of the railway line
Severe fighting took place Saturday
at Fourteen Streams. the engagement
lasting all day. Tnc Beers were driy-
EN- from their positions.
SUNDAY.
Miss Wllhelmina strecl<nan. of ST
Louis. drowned herself in pond be.
cause she was denied new Easter
bonnet.
Gen. Gatacre ha.. an engagement
with the Beers near Redersburg. in
which the British lest 10 killed and Al
wounded.
| Two women fought "A duel in the
outskirts of the City of Mexico over
a man. They used pistols, and one OF
them was seriously wounded.
At Charleston, w. Va, an indict.
ment was returned against Lewis
Stewart for murder. Stewart sho,
and killed his father, Z. r. Stewart
several weeks ago.
Gen. Otis has been relieved of the
command of the United States forces
in the Philippines and Gen. MacAr.
thur appointed to succeed him. This
was at Gen. Otis request.
NJ. A. Billmyer. aged 80 years g
freight engineer on the n. & w. rail
road, suicided at kenova, w. Va, by
cutting his throat. He was despond
ent and had been q, linking.
Andrew d. White. United States am
bassador to Germany, will return to
the United States for a brief visit
starting July 20. He will visit thu
Paris exposition in the meantime.
George Magill, the Chicago banker
who has for years fought charge O.
receiving deposits after he knew til,
Avenue Savings bar k to be insolvent
withdrew his plea of not guilty ant
was sentenced to tie penitentiary ant
to pay fine of $3,027.4O.
1t is estimated that the cost o
fighting the plague in Honolulu vii
reach at least $2,0O0,OOO, large par
of these expenses having been IN
Cured in finding Ecmes for the peo
pie who were burned out by the fires
particularly the great confligratioI
on January 20.
Indians on the Apache reservation
in Arizona have left their territor,
and committed a number of deprcda
tions lately, among them shooting |
miner named j. ID. Mack in Piner,
canyon, just OUTSIDE the reservation
A detachment of cavalry from Fl
Grant is in pursuit.