The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1876-12-28
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From the Capital.

From the Capital
In the Court of Commissioners of Ais
bama Claims, the claim of Geo. NJ. Robe
son, Secretary of the Navy, for S150,0OO, fo
the loss of the Hatteras, destroyed by th
Alabama, and for $23, 500 for the loss of tn
Greenland, destroyed by the Florida, hav
been dismissed.
Western Items.
The following hiss been received at th'
Headquarters of the Department of Dakota
FoRT PEcK, W, T., December s, 1876.
Yesterday, with force of one hundred men o
the Fifth Infantry, 1 followed and drove SittinI
Bulls camp, Of oae hundred and ninety lodges
south across the Missouri River, near the mouth o
Bark Creek. He resisted my crossing for a shor
time, and then retreAte5 to the Bad Lands. Sit
ting Bull is in camp on Bark Creek, with five
hundred warriors. FRANK d. BAA AADwIN, d
IsignedI Lent. Fifth Infantry Commanding
Disasters by Fire.
Another disastrous fire occurred at Little
Rock, Ark, on the 10th of December, on
the corner of Markham and Sherman streets,
adjoining the Miller & Pencil block, which,
though confined to one block, badly DAM
aged those in the vicinity. The loss is esti-
mated at 500, 900. The fire is thought to be
the work of an incendjary, intent on de-
stroying the city.
A Louisville special says considerable
portion of the town of Mays Lick, KY,
was destroyed by fire on the morning of
December 20, involving a loss of about
81, 900, principally on uninsured property.
Little Rock, Ark, seems to be under the
control of incendiaries. Anotter fire broke
out there on the 21st of December, on the
corner of Louisiana and Fifth streets. 1t is
nrff fnao ofa1T hoN hrrn Arod nd AOl-
lars viii barely repay the loss. This is the
sixth fire in six days.
Items IN General.
Charles vorys, eldest soa OF WmsVorys,
q prominent lumber merchant of Lancaster,
Ohio, met with a horrible death in his
fathers shop. He was adjusting belt on a
pully, when his arm was caught by the belt
ing, and his body whirled round the shaft
with frightful velocity. The top of his head
was knocked of, and not whole bone was
left in his bo2y....The dwelling of r. Nc
Innis, in Huron County, Ontario, was
burned few mornings ago, and four chill
dren persisted in the flames. McInnis was
severely burned while attempting to rescue
them.
As Peter Eckard and August Schenck
were approaching the bridge crossing the
Des Perces River, near the farm of Presi-
dent Grant, south of st. Louis, in buggy,
and driving at furious rate, their vehicle
collided with the end OF the bridge and they
were thrown in the river-bed below. Eckard
was instantly killed, and Schenck was seri-
ously wounded.
W. c. Wall, Superintendent of the Money
Order Department of the Postofice in Pitts
burg, absconded recently, with the funds of
the department, amounting to twenty-five
hundred dollars, and it has been discovered
that he is defaulter in much larger sum.
Suspicion has been directed against Wall
for some time past, and an investigation
was commenced, when sufficient grounds
were found for his prompt discharge. Sub
sequently he obtained drafts on Philadel.
phia amounting to twenty-five hundred dol.
lars, and after having them cashed fed from
the city. The total amount of defalcation
viii probably reach eight thousand dollars.
.........Adam Diefenbach, q respected farmer
of st. Jacobs, Madison County, Illinois,
hauled hogs to st. Louis, and on returning
was killed. Two suspicious men have been
arrested.
The National Cotton Exchange report of
the overland movement: Net receipts at
United States ports from September to the |
30th of November, ,SS2, ,1O4 bales; stock at
United States ports, $50, $50; total overland, |
direct from producers, 1SS,7S9; shipments |
direct to mills, 81, ,0z9; in transit to delivery
ports, overland, 1902; foreign exports and |
Canada, 74S ,375; in transit between delivery |
ports, coastwise, 81, 300; takes by northern |
spinners from ports, 264, ,314.......A Harrods- /
burg, KY, special to lthe Courier.,Journal |
says that Robt. Gallagher and his son James |
were killed there lately by 2. B. Henry, who |
used a shotgun. An old grudge existed be- |
tween their two families.
Notes rrom Abroad.
A terrible colliery explosion occurred, on
the 18th, in the South Wales Company's pit,
near Newport. Seventeen bodies have been
and many of the miners taken
jured.....A Brussels dispatch says that a
collision took place, recently, on the rail-
way between AK and Chatillon. Eight
persons were killed and fifteen injured.
The Imperial decree appointing Midhat
Pasha Grand Vizier of Turkey declares that
the appointment is made because the Sultan
desires satisfactory solution of the pend
ing questions, while confirming, at the
same time, before the whole world, the |
legitimate rights and interests of the EN-
pire......The steamer City of Bristol, which
left Liverpool, recently, for Philadelphia,
has put back to Queenstown. She lost her |
foremast and bowsprit, and all attached,
during northwest gale. The second officer !
and four seamen were washed overheard and
drowned. Charles Brent, the Louisville |
forger, has been delivered into the custody
of an English detective designated by
United States Minister Pierrepont to receive
him, and has embarked for the United States.
The Berlin correspondent of:the London
Times reports that the banking firm of
in St. Petersburg, has failed,
with deficit of million roubles. The COM
mercial crisis continues, and is especially
severe in the south of Russia. Russian papers
report famine in Montenegro.