The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1882-12-27
IMPORTANT EVENTS
Collatod and compiled from al
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Iron Manufacturers Association Of the
United States met. Proceedings were held
with closed doors, but it is understood the
meeting was to consider the advisibility of
advancing prices, which are not satisfac-
tory.
The Second National Bank of jefferson,
Ashtabula County, Ohio, suspended on
the 10Th by the reported defalcation in the
gum Of $50, 900 TO S75, 900 of the cashier and
assistant cashier, who, it is said, we're
specializing in stock
NINE prisoners recently escaped from
the Atascosa County (Texas) Jail, creating
q reign Of terror in that neighborhood.
On the night Of the 18th they captured
q Mr.. Lewis, took him to the woods and
Tiddled him with bullets.
BETTE LNDEIL, Fredrica Peterson and
Andrew johnson attempted to cross the
river on the ice from Lake City, Minneso
"a, to Stockholm, on the 18th, and have not
since been heard from. 1t is thought they
we're drowned.
WHEN the glass manufactures Of South
Baltimore started work in September last a
number of glass blowers refused to resume
work on account Of the reduction of wages,
and sought to prevent imported and non
Union glass-blOv ers from working. On
the 18th seventeen Union men we're ar
rested, charged with conspiracy.
THE Slate Exchange Of Lehigh and North
ampton Counties, Pennsylvania, has fixed
the price Of ribbon slate at twenty-five
cents per square to wholesale dealers, but
not to roofers. This will be the price for
the next six months.
NEAR Prescott, Arkansas, on the 18th,
The dead body of J. H. Kelley, a farmer,
was found with a knife wound penetrating
his heart. A neighbor is suspected, and
officers sent in search Of him.
BY a collision Of freight trains on the
Troy and Boston Railroad, on the 18th, a
brakeman was killed, others injured, and
a locomotive and thirty cars wrecked.
SEVERE shocks Of earthquake were felt
in several portions Of New Hampshire on
the 10th. At Concord the shock was like
a heavy explosion, and shook buildings,
from which people rushed to the streets.
IN one building the conclusion was suffi-
Cient to extinguish the gas. Inside the build
ings the shock was like that of some heavy
object falling, seeming to be above rather
than below. 1t evidently travelled east
and west, and was felt in Pittsfeld some
four minutes later. 1t was also felt at
Great Falls and Manchester, and other
places. The shock lasted about eight or
ten seconds.
POsrMAsTER DURR, Of Mahomet Texas,
was halted on the highway by two men on
the l9th and being slow TO obey the COM
n,ond 10 hold mn l,;g loD1- r-oe fo4o11,-
shot, and robbed of over SlOO
TUE rolling mill at South Chicago, one of
the largest in the country, which has
been partially closed for some time, shut
up all departments on the 18th.
The pension roll contains $40, ,7s4 names.
The total amount disbursed up TO the pres
'ent time under the act of payment of ar.
rears is $97, ,S9I, ,5O69s. The estimate fol
future payments of arrears under existing
laws is put at $2O4, 795, 900.
JAMES II. WILSON, Treasurer Of Dewitt
County, Illinois, committed suicide on the
10th by hanging himself in his barn. Nc
cause ASST gned.
On THE Goth, in a livery stable fire al
McPhersOn, Kansas, twenty-nine horse.
were burned. In a farm building fire al
Charlemont, Massachusetts,, $50 sheep anJ
fifty calves we're burned
FIFTEEN women, injured by the explosion
of the cartridge factory at Mt. Valerien,
France, on the lsth have died.
THE Copious rains have removed the ice.
and navigation has been resumed in the
Mississippi, between st. Louis and Cairo
The ice has nearly all disappeared in the
Chic River and navigation has been re-
BuGhed from Pittsburgh to Cairo
SUIT has been begun by the Union
Steamboat Company and other navigation
companies to test the liability of the city
Of Chicago for keeping the Chicago River
in the condition Of a nayigable stream fol
heavy vessels. The suit is to compel the
city TO dredge the stream at a certain point
where it is claimed to be of insufficient
depth. in another suit the Chicago and
Alton Road, which has a bridge across the
river at the point complained Of is made
Co-defendant with the city.
DURING a hailstorm at Huntsville, Texas
on the goth, Diam's milling house wa,
blown down, killing Albert Dryder and
four negro women who had sought shelter
Three or four others were slightly injured
In TIRE action Of the Government against
three packages of distilled spirits, which
had been originally properly stamped. bu
afterwards, when a part had been drawr
of and water added to the packages, wer,
seized by the Government as not of tn,
proof indicated by the stamp, Judge Brown
OF New York, on the goth, held that 9Th,
mere addition Of water is not a fraud
The suggestion that the stamp must cor
respond with the proof spirits as a means
Of Identification is argumentative only
and is not warranted by law" Judgmen
given for defendants.