The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-09-26
NEWS IN BRIEF.
faisrsstins nvents Tah,ns Risos Through
out the Country Boiled Down and
Given In . Condensed Form.
MONDAY.


The city bank at Republican City,
Ncb., was robbed by safe-blowers.
About $1,000 was taken.
The Beers are overrunnirg Cape
Colony. They are on both coast lines
and within 40 miles of Cape Town.
Jake and Boney Williams, brothers,
were shot to death at Bryan, Tex.
Tom Williams, nephew of the dead
men, hus been arrested.
Broomcorn Is on the boom, and the
farmers of Central Illinois are profit
ing. During the last three days the
price has jumped from sos to $3.50
per ton.
Gen. Leonard Wood. military gov
ernor of Cuba, announces that he
expects to be able to hand the Is
land over to the Cubans by the first
of next May. ,
Cleveland police believe they can
unearth plot to kill President Nc
Iiinley which was laid over a year
ago near Czolgosz' former home,
near Cleveland.
Poisonous vaccine points were used
Oh cattle near Chicago for the pre-
vention of athrax, and hundreds were
killed The curcasses were piled upon
heaps and burned.
The condition of King Edwards
throat is causing him increased an
xiety and inconvenience. Sir Felix
Semon, noted throat specialist, has
been summoned to make an exami-
nation.
Archduke Frederick, cousin of
Emperor Francis Joseph, was shot
at by poacher at his country seat
in Hungary. The bullet trnversed
,he sleeve of the .Archduke, but did
not injure him.
An express train and petroleum
train were in collision at Palota, Aus
tria. The petroleum caught fire and
a2 persons were burned to death.
Both trains and everything within
a quarter of a mile of the place were
completely destroyed.
Aguinuldo's bodyguard, Maj Al
hambra. two captains. two lieuten-
ants and 20 men, with % rifles, sur
rendered about 40 miles north of b.
Ter, island of Luzon, to Capt George
A. Detchmendy, of the 22d United
States infantry, Saturday, took the
oath of allegiance and were released.
Mrs. Charles Davis, and her daugh-
ter-in-law, Mrs. Charles Hancock, of
Albion, Mich, while out driving were
attacked by highwaymau. Mrs.
Davis was shot in the neck, but es-
caped, but in doing so she drove In
front of passenger train and was
probably fatally injured.
| Twenty anarchists. armed with
shotguns and 1000 rounds of ammu-
milton, are standing guard over the
Office OF HAurore, the notorious an
archist paper published at Spring
Valley, Ill. Fully 1000 citizens of
adjoining towns are preparing to
march upon the place and destroy
the printing Office. Serious trouble
is threatentd.
Three men were killed and two 9TH
ers badly injured in collision of
freight trains at Abbeyvlle, Miss.
A terrific northeaster, the forerun-
ner of the great gulf storm, prevailed
along the Carolina and Virginia
coasts.
A mass meeting of soldiers of the
civil and Spanish wars, held at Lin
coin, Neb., passed resolutions de-
nouncing anarchy.
A severe shock of earthquake was
felt at lryeness, Scotland. The peo-
pie were greatly alarmed, but no one
was seriously hurt.
Ernest Poweley was killed at Shell
don, ILL.,, by the explosion of boiler
in an electric light plant. Another
man was badly injured.
Miss Caroline Lewis Gordon, daugh-
ter of Gen. John b. Gordon, of Attain
tn, Ga, was married to Orton Brown,
of Maine. Sixteen hundred invita-
tions were issued.
A collision between passenger and
freight train on the New York, New
Haven and Hartford railroad, ut Avon,
resulted in killing six persons and in
juring twenty-five others.
Frank Idings, the Cleveland black
smith, who offered $4,000 to any man
who would kill President Roosevelt, is
la paroled convict and will be taken
back to the Ohio penitentiary.