The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1880-12-30
OHIO STATE NEWS.

DIPHTHERIA and whOoping cough prevail to
an alarming extent at BellefOntaine.
BURGLERs are working effectually at Mans
field, three or four houses being entered per
night.
MICHAEL, the ten-year-old son Of Michael
Miller, of ChilicOthe, was drowned in the canal
while skating.
THE HaTof brothers, at Youngstown, con-
ylcted Of murder in the second degree, were
sented to the Penitentiary for life.
OVER seventy citizens Of De Graf we're sum-
moned to Bellefontaine last week as witnesses
in the Loffer-CaTl shooting case.
CHARLES Il. LINN, Of Warren, aged go years,
while walking on the railroad track, was struck
by passenger train and instantly killed.
SIMEON WRIGHT, an old and well known
farmer in the Welsh settlement near Bronson,
was fatally kicked by vicious horse last week.
CHARLES BAILEY, a citizen of Mt. Gilead,
has mysteriously disappeared, leaving wife
and children IN destitute circumstances.
TESTER JONES, of Bronson. while quail
hunting, accidentally discharged his gun, the
charge taking effect in his side, and it is
thought will prove fatal
THE residence Of Mrs. Governor Tod, at
Youngstown, was entered during the day, while
the family were at home, and ieWelry to the
amount Of $1,000 stolen.
The heart and stomach of Simon Kline, Of
Canton, who recently died, is to be analyzed,
and 1t Is thought his son, Joseph Kline, viii be
found guilty Of causing his death by poison.
GEORGE A. WHITE, an inmate Of the Sol
dlers Home Dayton, was struck by a switch
engine, knocked down and completely decapi-
tated at the drawbudge Of the c., c., o. and I.
Railroad.
TIE Changers Of Caldwell are in peck Of
trouble They have had to appoint a Receiver
for their Grange store which seems to be short
some how or other to the amount Of about
$1,000
GEORGE CREvEsTOE, a highly respected and
well-known farmer living near AIingo, Cham
paign County, committed suicide the past week
by hanging. He had been in feeble health for
some time.
CONDUCTOR VIM. HuTABDDLE, Of Gallon,
who was SO badly injured n the collision on the
New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad last
week, died after a week Of intense suffering.
He leave wife and two children.
Two merchant tailoring firms Of Marion.
Fogelson d Madison, and Addi Ibling, have
made assignment the liabilities Of each being
S4OOO. This looks very suspicious for the
young men Of Marion. They ought to pav
their tailOrs.
A FARMER named Cutler, near 1Iillersburg
employed trampto do chores about the house
The very first night the tramp collected q lot Of
clothing, including hIr. Cutters new suit Of
clothes, considerable sum of money and other
valuables, and vamoOsed.
P. D. Conn, editor Of the DaiTy Herald. Of
Steub6nylle, was arrested the past week on a
charge Of sending obscene mail matter through
the mails, the affidavit being filed bv John
Moore, ex-COunty Auditor, whom Conn had
attacked in his paper.
Cook HovEy, charged with falsifving the
records of the City Of Urbana, and forging and
oyerissuing city bonds, while holding the Office
Of City Clerk, on being brought into court,
pleaded guilty and was sentenced to two years
III the Penitentiary.
Mrs. LUCY ANTHONY, of Oxford, who was in
the act Of going out calling, set down in a chair
and requested her daughter to play a piece
on the piano for her. Her daughter complied,
and having finished, turned around to find her
mother sitting IN the chair dead.
JAS. w. kINCAID, aged eighteen, Of Westville.
eloped last week with girl Of sixteen. and was
married to her at Piqua. Shortly after the
ceremony had been performed telegram was
received rom the Old folks saying, ''We for
give you, and the children returned home.
AT Canton a tramp attempted to steal silver
spoons at the residence Of Mrs. Heingartner,
where he had just enjoyed a breakfast. but
hnally concluded to yield up his booty under
the persuasive influence Of q revolver in the
the hands Of a daughter Of Mrs. Heingartner.
A YOUNG girl residing near Tippecanoe saw a
fire issuing from the hay NOW Of William
SIMPSONS barn, and rushing in with bucket
Of water, threw the contents on the flames.
and then squatted over them with her dress to
smother them. She succeeded, but came near
being burned to death.
LINCOLN GUNTHER, Of Chillicothe, last week
attempted to elope with the step-daughter Of
Mr.. D. Kelley, Of that place, but the pair were
captured before they got away. Gunther got
so mad that he challenged Mr.. Kelley to a duel.
Mr.. Kelley laid the Correspondence before a
Justice which necessitated the father Of the
young man putting up $500 to keep his
chiyalrOus son out of the bastile.
AT Kent, while adjusting belt in the Kent
Alpaca Mills, Ed AtchisOn, a workman, was
caught IN the betting and drawn to the upper
shaft where he was Whirled several times be- |
fore falling. His arm was torn in two at the
elbow, the flesh on the shoulder and upper part
of the arm being stripped clean, leaving the |
EOne bare, and the flesh on the chest was ter !
Tlbly torn. Every particle Of clothing was torn !
from his body and his recovery is doubtful.
A TIN year old daughter of Mrs. James Ross.
Of East DeleWare found along the railroad /
what she took to be a money box Mrs. Ross |
attempted to open it with an Ak by placing the |
supposed box on the floor and striking it. A /
loud report followed the first blow, and the |
lady found herself badly injured in the left |
DIeasI' arms ana lace Dy Gle explosion OF a \
railroad torpedo. How the dangerous missile 1
came where found is a mystery as yet unex-
planned.
Mrs. BARBARA EwALD nee Schultz, living on
Washington Avenue, near Cincinnati, com
ltted suicide last week, it is thought, by shoot
ing. The act was committed in a stable and
-he fact that the stable burned, it was thought
.he hay was ignited from the flash Of the pis-
.ol. Her Charred trunk was taken out Of the
'uins the legs, head and arms being burned
)f. She had been married bet nine weeks, and
committed the act as a letter she left to her
husband attested, because her mother and the
mother Of her husband were at such great
lnmity.