The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1875-07-29
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The Council of Westerville has passed an
ordinance under the modified State law o
last winter applying to the sale of ale, beer,
and porter, all the regulations and restrie-
tions of the State laws in regard to the sale
of strong liquors. They say they will test
the validity of their ordinance, if necessary,
before the Supreme Court.
Thomas Adams, the old pioneer of Lees
burg, aged one hundred and three years, is
dead.
Two new batteries of artillery have been
formed recently, one at Van Vert, and one
at Troy, each of two guns. These are the
last artillery organizations that can be
equipped by the State, as the supply of arms
of that kind are exhausted.
Marcus II. Ross, ten years old, was
drowned in the river, near his fathers resi-
dence, Cincinnati. He had been at the river
but few minutes in company with another
boy, and was out on a raft of logs when he
undertook to catch a grasshopper, but
missed his footing and fell into the water
His companion could render him no assist
ance. His body was soon after recovered
in twelve feet of water.
An old gentleman, eighty-two years of
age, named Reuben Rogers, from Brown
county, was choked to death at the Broad
way Hotel, Cincinnati, by piece of fish.
j. X. Miller, of Steubenville, contractor
on the Southern Railroad, was robbed of
$500 at the Madison House, Cincinnati.
He had the money in his coat pocket, and
while in the water-closet hung the coat out
side the door. After putting on his coat
again he discovered that the treasure had
departed.
A lady, who resides in Springfield, and is
visiting at the residence of Mr.. Hiveling in
Xenia, went up stairs to the room which had
been assigned her to arrange her toilet for a
promenade. She was terribly frightened by
finding man hiding under the bed, and she
screamed so loud that she alarmed the in
mates, who came rushing up stairs; and they
met on the stairway a stranger, who was
making very fast time toward the street.
Missing his way out, he ran into a room
where Mr.. Hiveling was lying i'll, and the
doctor in attendance, with the aid OF a eou-
pie of visitors, captured the fellow and
handed him over to the police. ~~tThree
watches and several articles of valuable jew
elry which the fellow had secured in the
house were recovered.
A man named Joseph Deputy, employed
in the switch yard of the o. and NJ. Railroad,
Twenty-frst Ward, Cincinnati, was run over
by locomotive, and instantly killed in the
yard recently. His body was severed about
the middle.
There is an earnest effort being made in
the northern part of the State to call to-
gether in convention leading arehaologists
to organize State Archaeological Society.
A young man, Henry Schneider, was
drowned in the Miami River, at Miamisburg
He could not swim, and got beyond his
depth.
A young girl, fourteen years of age, named
Kate Thacker, was fatally burned recently
at Weston while trying to light a fire with
coal oil. The fire not burning to suit her,
she attempted to hurry it forward by pour
ing coal oil on the embers, when the oil in
the can exploded, throwing the contents over
her person, horribly burning her fesh-in
many places burning to a crisp.
The faculty of the Startling Medical Col
lege, at Columbus, as recognized, are as
follows: Francis Carter, Professor of OBJ
stetrics and Diseases of Women; Theo. O.
Wormly, Professor of Chemistry; James II.
Pooley, of Yonkers, N. Y, Professor of Sur
gerry; Startling Loving, Professor of the
Practice of Medicine; John NJ. Wheaton,
Professor of Anatomy; E. B. Fullerton, Pro-
fessor of Materia Mediea and Therapeutics
w. J. Conkling, of Dayton, Professor of
Physiology and Physiological Anatomy; w.
j. Wolfy, Professor of Diseases of the Eye
and Ear; J. W. Baldwin, Professor of Medi-
cal Jurisprudence; d. A. Morse, Professor
of Insanity; Otto Frankenberg, Professor
of Pathological Anatomy, and Demonstration
of Anatomy; Alexander Dunlap, NJ. D., of
Springfield, Professor of Ovariotomy and
Surgical Diseases of Women.
Eight business houses in the center of the
town of Mechanicsburg were recently de-
stroyed by fire, involving loss of $4,000,
with only $l,4OO insurance.
At Bedford, Chester Pardd sustained a
loss of $4,000 in the burning of his machine
and chair factory. There was no insurance.
Several persons were injured, and a large
number thrown out of employment.
William Pfeiger, a boy aged twelve years,
was thrown from horse lately at Colum-
bus, and, striking on the back of his head,
crushed his skull, causing instant death.
Charles Woods, son of a wealthy farmer
residing about two miles from Adamsville,
Gallia county, hung himself in his fathers
barn. Trouble in regard to girl was the
cause. He was only nineteen years old.
A Cincinnati Gazette dispatch says ::
The wife of William S. Crabb, of
Jackson township, Pickaway county, sud
denly and mysteriously disappeared few
days since. On thorough search being
made for her, she was found dead in a
neighbOring woods, having committed sui
eide No motive is assigned for the act.