The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1882-10-04
STATE NEWS ITEMS.


LorrIE ST.. CLAIR made a balloon ascen-
sion from the fair grounds at Uhrichsville,
and in descending, landed in the Big Still
water Creek, but pluchly swan ashore.
A FARMER named Burge, living three
miles west of Piqua, accidentally shot him
self while handling a large revolver, the
ball penetrating his side and producing
what is thought to be a fatal wound.
IN quarrel at Sandusky between
Henry Woolwaber and William Zeicker,
the latter stabbed the former six times,
from the effects of which the wounded
man died
MICHAEL Moore, of Akron, aged fifty
years, fell in the canal and was drowned.
STEPHEN DAY, an old citizen of Mount
Vernon, about seventy years Of age, sold
his store to bis son and another young
man. intending to retire from business, re-
ceiving cash payment Of $500 On going
home at night he placed the money in
tin box, in which were stored bonds,
drafts, notes and other valuables to the
amount of $4,000 He resides near the
depot of the c.. Mt. V. and c.. Railroad,
and at about 10 O'Clock at night an eXcur-
sion train passing through he, with his
WIFE went to the depot out Of curiosity,
leaving the house vacant. Upon his re-
turn, fifteen minutes later, the box con-
tanning his valuables was missing. He at
once made known his loss to his neigh
bors, and the entire village was aroused
and search made for the thieves, but could
obtain no clew. Mr. Day is confined to
his bed, and is bewailing his loss to that
extent that it is feared his reason will be-
come dethroned The sum total was the
savings of a lifetime.
THE pad factory of ]. w. Emerich & Co.,
at Wooster, was destroyed by fire the past
week, including all the contents Loss,
$4,000; insurance, $11, 100.
The various classes of the Southern Ohio
! races set down for October and having
failed to fill, the Board of Directors de-
clared the races off. There will be no fair
in Montgomery County this fall.
THE Home Insurance Company, after a
meeting of Directors last week made an as
signment to Joseph w. King, of Green
Caunty, the assets being S6O,OOO A bond
| of $4,000 was given.
WILLIAM T. Brown, from Ashtabula
County, the first prisoner convicted under
/ the new law for seduction of pupil by a
teacher, died suddenly a few days ago in
the Penitentiary of heart disease. His case
caused considerable comment, and was
tested in the Supreme Court.
IRA KIMBERLY, young man in the em-
employ of Adam Schatz, near Defiance,
was instantly killed by lightning while at
work in the field.
EDWARD SEDDENs, an inmate of the
Hamilton County Jail fell asleep, while
reading a paper by the light of a small
lamp, and in the night overturned the
lamp allowing the Oil to escape and satur-
ate his bedclothing. In a moment him
self and all the bedding was on fire, and
the helpless man yelled frantically for
help. By the time he was released from
his fiery furnace he was horribly burned
and unable to stand The flesh fell from
his left side and the abdomen. He suf.
fered the greatest agony, and after twenty.
eight hours suffering, died. His crime
was that of Outraging two little eight-year-
old girls last July, to whom he communi.
Gated loathsome disease, and one of the
girls lost her eyesight in consequence.
He was an ice cream peddler, and had
taken the little girls in the wagon with
him and drove to a secluded spot in the
suburbs where the horrible crime was
committed.
CHARLES F. COLLINS, of Kent, one day
last week swan to Congress Lake on a
wager of $50, making a mile in thirty-two
minutes Miller, the famous diver OF
Cleveland, also swan, making a mile in
thirty-four minutes.
JOHN WINKLER, a Swiss, livingnear Stone
Creek, in Tuscarawas County is said to be
the stoutest man in that section of the
State. On a wager of 500 he carried a
full barrel of -four from New Philadelphia
to Canal Dover, a distance of three miles.
resting but four minutes on the way. He
made the distance in ffty-fve minutes
time, and reached the home-stretch in re.
markably good condition.
E. W. CLARKE, of Painesville, aged forty
one, died of consumption on the oath
Deceased was once publisher of the Lorain
County NeUs and Belleyille Gazette and
for twelve years past editor and proprie-
tor Of the Painesville Advertiser, which, on
account of ill-health, he abandoned the
first of July last He graduated at Yale
in the class of 81 with honors, at the age
of twenty-six. He was a man of ability
and integrity, and we'll and favorably
known on the Reserve.
CHARLES Bowers, farm hand living one
mile west Of Canton, attempted to iumI
from a moving freight train in the night a.
a crossing, but miscalculated and landed
i'm a cattle guard and was instantly killed
Hewas aged twenty-five years, and from
Edenburg, Virginia.
MRs. ELIZA Mills, the wife of a prom
inent farmer near Gallipolis, was instantly
killed in a runaway accident.
WIN. MCGREAN, aged sixteen years, and
an orphan, living near Painsville, wai
killed while coon hunting bya tree falling
upon him.
WIN. EDWARDS, of Youngstown, fell from
a building upon which he climbed to tax,
down a flag and was killed.
WM. ZEIcHER, who stabbed and killed
Henry Wellingorhoff, at sandusky, ha
been held for murder in the sum of $4,000
THE last rail on the @. and A. Railroad
connecting Marion and Lima, has beer
laid.
1t is ordinarily supposed that
wound in the heart is Immediately ia
tai; but after Tom Adams, a prominen
mining operator Of Wood River, Utah
had received "a large-sized bullet through
that organ from pistol in the hands o
Frank Brown, he Knocked his adyersar,