The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1875-01-28

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gers, and toes being frost bitten among
the men employed in cutting ice near
there. One man had his feet so badly
frozen, that when he pulled his boots
off a considerable portion of the. skin
came with them.
JOHN NUPP, residing five miles north
of Macarthur, was killed instantly by a
falling tree. He had cut the tree, which
in falling, lodged in another tree. Re-
moving it from the stump, it fell in an
opposite direction to that expected, and
before he could get clear of the branches
was crushed to death. He leaves a wife
and child. He formerly resided near
Ilesboro, Hooking county.
THE counties of Mahoning, Portage,
Trumbull and Ashtabula have an aggre-
gate tax duplicate of $57 100000.
THE police of Dayton are following
the example of Cincinnati, and are en-
gagged in "jayhawking" the gamblers.
VIM. HURD was arrested near Column
bus, the other day, and taken to Straits
vile, on a charge of bigamy. 1t is said
that he has two wives in Perry County,
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A MEETING of colored citizens has
been held in Columbus, taking action on
Louisiana affairs.
THE pickpockets of Cincinnati attend
church regularly. Their object is not
however, to ask an interest in the prayers
of the congregation; but to prey them
selves upon the good Christians who
attend there with a surplus of missionary
money.
URBANA has had a sensation in the
way of Lynch law. They hung a young
man to a catalpa, in the yard of the
courthouse, few days ago. He had
taken little girl, nine years of age, to
the woods and perpetrated horrible out
rage upon her person. 1t is said that he
afterward built fire, with the possible
intention of killing and burning the
child, when hunter came up, and asked
what he was doing there He made some
plausible reply, which satisfied the hun
ter, who went away. Having been seen
he thought it better to take the little girl
home. He went part of the distance
with her, and she found her way to her
fathers house. A reward of five hun
dred dollars, and hunt by the vigilant
and excited citizens of the surrounding
country, soon found the villain. He
was taken to Urbana and placed in jail
but a number of masked men took him
out at an early hour in the morning,
and hung him without ceremony. Pub
lie opinion favored the proceedings.
THE certificate of incorporation of the
Corwin Terrace improvement Company
of Cincinnati, has been filed with the
Secretary of State. Capital stock $25,
900. William r. Fee, w. S. Thompson
and Samuel Hill are the corporators.
BELLEFONTAINE satisfies all the de
mands of justice with eighteen lawyers
who let themselves out at reasonable
prices and make good living.
WEST Liberty has been afflicted with
forty thousand dollar fire.
SOME workmen digging a cellar neal
Wapakoneta, found the remains of a
mastodon. This is the second one found
in that locality.
A GENTLEMAN in Darke County, living
near Arcanum, recently attempted to
sever his jugular with a dull pocket
knife. AsOre throat was the most serious
result.
Margaret O'Bryan is the name of a
lady one hundred and five years old, who
has recently paid visit to relations in
Gettysburg, Darke County. She only
uses glasses in very particular cases, and
earns her own spending money by knit
ting. Oxford is her home.
A FEW nights since, as the northern
bound express train on the Dayton and
Michigan railroad was approaching the
switch at Grassy Creek, near Toledo, the
engineer saw something wrong with the
switch, and slackened speed, but before
he could stop, the engine and express car
were run on the side track. 1t was dis
covered that the switch bar had been
broken with a maui or heavy sledge, and
the target left all right, but the rails
were set for the side track. The same
thing occurred again, Friday evening,
with the mail train north, throwing the
tender and baggage car off the track, but
doing no serious damage.
A SAD accident by drowning recently
occurred in Cynthian township, Shelby
County. William Cramer, John Lane,
and Joseph Sewers, in the employ of the
Cincinnati Ice Company, went early on
the pond between Newport and Berlin to
plow ice. When about the center of
the pond the ice gave way, and the three
young men went into the water, which is
some twenty-five feet deep. Some of the
other workmen came to their rescue and
two of them were saved, but Cramer was
drowned. Lane was saved by his arm
freezing to the ice. He wasin the water
nearly twenty minutes, and was frozen
so badly that his life was despaired of
for several days.
As the local freight on the Bee Line
approached Sidney from the west, a few
mornings since, Frank Batch, one of the
brakemen, stepped on the rear platform
of the caboose, about mile and half
west of town, and in attempting to look
forward lost his hold, and was thrown
violently to the ground. The train was
going very fast at the time. The section
men were working in the vicinity and
saw him fall. They say he bounded full
ly three feet after he fell. They rushed
up to him only to find him dead. His
neck was broken by the fall, and death
was instantaneous. He was eighteen
years old.
THE Columbus NeWs tells us about a
German named Lewis Brandt, an inmate
of the Ohio Penitentiary: On coming
to this country when a young man,
Brandts father gave him starter of
$4,000. Being OF a rather profigate
character, he soon parted with his for
tune. He served as night clerk at the
American Hotel for a time, and while
there forged check for forty-two dollars,
for which act he was sent to the Peniten-
tiary for short term. Subsequently his
father in Germany died, leaving him
10000. This he received and was fast
making way with when he turned up
again as forger-this time in Cleve-
land-and was sent to the Penitentiary
for a term of five years, which will ter
inmate in about two months. At the