The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1876-01-13

afternoon, and, it has since been ascer-
tanned, committed suicide by taking NOR
phine. No cause is known for the act, as
be was well of, his business prosperous, and
his domestic relations happy.
The Republican State Convention Of New
Hampshire nominated r. C. Cheney, of
Manchester, for Governor, and William R.
Pierce, of Portsmouth, for Railroad Com
missioner.
The Republican State Convention of New
Hampshire met at Concord on the 5th
of January. The resolutions passed favor
specie payments, oppose a third term, assert
that our free public school system is the
bulwark of American liberty, and say "we
approve, therefore, the proposed amend
ment to the Constitution of the United
States, declaring that no money raised by
taxation in any State for the support of
public schools, or derived from any public
fund therefor shall ever be placed under
control of any religious sect, nor shall any
money so raised ever be divided between
religious sects or denominations"
The message of Governor Groome, of Mary
land, to the Legislature shows that the re-
ceipts of the fiscal year ending September
30, 1875, were $2,909, ,0S0; balance in the
Treasury, 1866, JOG; total, $3,474, 1856; dis
burser,ents, 50, 43s, ,075; leaving in the Treas
ury $l,03S,1l1. Included in the disburse-
ments are $394,148 invested in the sinking
fund. The State debt, over and above pro-
ductive assets, is $5,304, ,167.
Anton Junker, of the firm Of Roelle, Jun
ker & Co., indicted whisky distillers, before
the Grand Jury, at Chicago, made
statement of the manner in which the
whisky frauds were perpetrated by his house.
He stated that by one transaction, involving
seven hundred thousand dollars worth of
whisky, the firm defrauded the government
of six hundred thousand dollars. He also
said that the firm had made arrangements
with the Gauger to overlook all frauds per-
petrated by it. He said that large sums of
money had been paid by the firm for politi-
cal purposes, but refused to specify for whom
they were intended.
Two executions of colored men, for MUIR
der, occurred January Z; one at Memphis,
and the other at small town twelve miles
from that place. Bill Williams one of the
men, admitted the crime, but said it was
done in self-defense. Frank Scott, the other,
asserted his innocence.
William Murray and Frederick Myers,
convicted of the murder of Gotthardt Wahl,
an elderly German residing a few miles
north of Allegheny City, Pa, on the even
ing of Tuesday, November II, 1874, expated
their crime on the gallows at Pittsburg JAN
uary 6.
A sensation dispatch comes from Osborn,
Mo-, on the Hannibal snG st. Joseph rail
road. The other night burglars broke into
drug store and stole bottle of chloro-
form, with which they drugged the whole
town. They went through both hotels, all
the stores, and many private residences.
They secured several thousand dollars and
escaped.
A Kansas City special says D. J. O'Connor,
chief clerk in the freight department of the
Kansas City, st. Joseph & Council Bluff
Railroad, in that city, has absconded, leaving
his cash account some S., 900 short. A Mrs.
Davis, left the city with him. His bonds
men are amply able to make the deficiency
good.
Philip Stiner, tea merchant and manager
of eighteen stores, scattered all over New
York City, has failed. Liabilities $I3S 900.
assets $4,000.
Theodore 7. Phillips, dry goods merchant,
of Pittsburg, was arrested in Jersey City
recently, charged with obtaining S11, 900 |
worth of goods from L. N. Bates under mis-
representation. Phillips, who was accused
of attempting to leave the city when arrested,
says he went to Jersey City for the purpose
of arranging his obligations to the firm.