The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1882-12-27
STATB NEWS ITEMS.

Henry Timkin, for S5O,0OO
MORT RYAN, q freight brakeman on the
Connotton Valley Railroad, fell between
two cars and was killed at Mogadore, Sum-
init County, on the 10th. Both legs and
an arm were severed from the body. Ryan
was unmarried, and lived at Minerva,
Stark County.
OVER three thousand tons Of sugar and
molasses have arrived at Cincinnati from
New Orleans during the week ending the
14th, by the steamers Guiding Star, q. p.
Schenck and win Kyle
HARRISON DUNLAP, alias spaulding.
claiming to be an attorney Of Columbus,
on the l4th obtained 500 from Hayward
& Hurd, Cincinnati commission mer-
chants, on a bogus bill of lading, purport-
ing to show a shipment of six thousand
pounds Of fine wool. He was arrested at
the Little Miami depot, and $6l5 recover.
ed.
LOUIS DAUBER, a prominent citizen Of
jackson, Jackson County, and a furniture
dealer, fell from a scaffold on the 10th,
killing him instantly by breaking his neck.
HENRY SUNDERLAND, a farmer living in
Jackson Township, Van Vert County, met
with a serious accident on the 18th. While
cutting timber in the woods a large limb
fell upon him, knocking him senseless.
His physicians say if he should get we'll he
will probably be insane.
DIR. J. II. SrUrsMAN, a prominent physi-
clan of Van Vert, while in attendance on
patient troubled with eryspelas, bruised
L. .Nsn.n a.a.a
from which blood-poisoning has set in.
The doctor was reported very low on the
10th and not expected TO recover.
GovERNoR Foster has appointed Hon.
J. Reinmund of Lancaster, member of the
Board Of State Farm Trustees, in place Of
Judge VIM. L. Rugby deceased.
JAMES TwoHG, a carpenter, OF Cincin-
natl, committed suicide on the 10Th. Ill
health and poverty was the cause. He
leaves a wife and two children.
The legislative bribery trials, at Colum-
bus, have collapsed. The case OF Wright
and Bloch have been dismissed
Mr. w. R. MCGILL has been elected Pres
ident of the Cincinnati and Eastern Rail
way Connection Company.
Mr.. JOSEPH SCAKLETT has been appointed
Exposition Commissioner by the Cincin-
natl Board of Trade, pice Mr.. Joseph L.
Hall resigned.
Gov. FOSTER has issued a proclamation
for a special election to fiji the vacancy by
the death of Senator O'Hagan in the Thir-
tieth Ohio District,
THE Directors of the Cincinnati Univer-
sity have appointed a committee to confer
with Mr.. Joseph Longworth regarding his
proposition for an Art School.
JOHN BRowN, a colored man employed in
the rolling mill Of Brown, Bronnel & Co.,
at Youngstown, had both eyes burned out
and was otherwise badly burned on the
| 10Th, by the explosion of a furnace Stag
that he was wheeling away.
NJ H. DIEFENDoRF, residing at Cuyahoga
Falls, Summit County on the 18th, blew
out his brains with a revolver while in bed
with his wife. He was drunk.
A sIx-YEAR-oLD son of Abner Wilkinson,
of Smith Township, Belmont County, met
with a horrible death on the 18th. The boy
was leading a colt to water with the strap
fastened around his wrist, when the colt
scared and ran of, dragging the boy to
death.
A SHOCKING accident occurred in the
Middleburg Coal Company mines in Sum-
nit County on the 18th John Jones,
George David Jones and Owen Davis were
at work taking out pillars, when a stone
weighing fifty tons caved in on them. John
Jones and Reese were instantly killed, the
latter being smashed to a jelly. David
Jones and Davis narrowly escaped with
slight bruises. Deceased were both forty
years old Jones leaves a wife and seven
children. Reese was single, and was tax
ing care of his mother.
CONSIDERABLE interest is felt at Cleve-
land at the continued disappearance Of C,
X. Sackett, a prominent broker, who has
been absent since the l4th. He had been
conducting a brokerage business for the
past seven years, and was a correspondent
of the Chicago house of Irwin, Orr & Co.
but it appears from letters received from
that firm by several parties that the firm
had severed their connection with Sackett.
Sackett was a member Of the Cleveland
and Chicago Boards of Trade. He had
been making $4,000 or $12, 900 a year, and
his Liabilities are not above $1,000 o.
4,OOO His friends believe he will return
all right If he is embarrassed only, they
will set him on his feet again.
For two years past family grudge ha'
been existing between Valentine Wagner
a wealthy farmer of Morrow County, anC
Daniel Shehan, his brother-in-law, hav
ing arisen on account Of Shehan's desirt
TO have his wife's property transferred il
his own name. Threats were interchangeC
until two weeks ago, when Mrs. Shelhan
who has been living very disagreeably
with her husband since their marriage, il
1880, petitioned for a divorce. ShehaI
persuaded her to withdraw this and agaiI
live with him. This inhamed Wagner
passion, and about eight O'Clock on tn
night of the 10Th, on returning from
spree at Gallon, Wagner stopped at She
hams house. After a quarrel between tn
two and several threats by Wagner She
han said: Il don't think you're wort
talking to, and I'll remember you" Upoi
hearing this remark Wagner drew a sell
cooking revolver and shot Shehan twice
once in the leg and once in the breast nea
the heart. Shehan expired in a few mc
ments Wagner went home, about mil
distant, after the shooting, where he wa
arrested and lodged in jail
A congress of medical men in Spaii
recommended for that country the oh
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