The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1883-03-28
IMPORTANT EVENTS
ponated ana Compiled from all
Quarters.



months ending with February, indicate
an increase Of 8l4OOO,OOO over the same
months of last year.
w. e. MOORE and bride, of Petersburg
Va. started on the day Of their marriage
in January to visit the West, and have not
been heard Of since. Their friends are
much concerned.
ABoUr fifty thousand gallons of whisky
in bond subject 10 tax during March has
thus far been withdrawn for export. Ar
rangements are making for warehouse
privileges at Windsor, Canada, for spirits
upon which the tax soon falls due. The
Government makes no allowance for leak
age when exported spirits are returned.
A YOUNG half-breed woman killed her
husband, Charles Barnes, at Shasta Cali
iornia, few days ago by shooting him
while in bed with a rifle. She surrendered
herself but refused to assign cause.
A BALTIMORE dispatch of the Goth, says;
Last Thursday night the oyster ponges
Jasper and Industry, Collided, and the Jas
per sank. The night was so dark that no
assistance could be given. In the morning
the Captain and two men we're found lash
ed in the rigging, one frozen to death.
-Four others who were not lashed we're
drowned"
For some months a series Of cunningly
devised thieveries have been executed at
Braidwood, Ill. In that time over 5000
worth of miners and carpenters tools
have been stolen. Watches have been set,
but the thief was not discovered. Suspi-
oion, however pointed strongly TO
-,
ond-hand tools. A descent on his place
the other day revealed $4,000 worth Of
stolen tools, and IN the cellar S17OO in
gold was found, which he confessed was
gealized from the sale of stolen tools. A
large number Of miners identified prop
orty, and entered complaint against him.
MRS. MILE F. WALKINsHAw, Of New
York, a lady guest at the Arlington Hotel
At Santa Barbara, Cal, was fonnd dead in
bed few mornings since from morphine.
Whether suicide or accident is uncertain.
Circumstances favor the theory of suicide.
The nOn-uniOn menin the Lingan Mines,
New Brunswick, were attacked by eight
hundred strikers on the 2Oth, and several
Of them badly hurt. They were followed
70 their houses Doors were broken open,
aAA AAAG AAlAAAhtGo DECENTRALIZATION Inc man
ager Of the mines was beaten.
THE dwelling of jeremiah Snyder, near
Findlay, o., was burned on the 2Oth en-
failing loss of $15, 600; also the residence
of Hamilton Roberts, Roseville, o., 81, 500 4;
residence of Jacob Boltz, Newcomerstown,
o., $1,000.
THE New York Herald Commissioner, ap-
pointed to distribute the fund collected for
the flood sufferers, gave the citizens of
Portsmouth $500, and those of Ripley
$500. Smaller amounts were distributed
in other towns above Cincinnati.
AT Peoria, ILL.,, on the 2lst a rope sus-
taining swinging scaffold, on which three
men were engaged painting the side Of a
large elevator broke. Jacob Watten-
schwuler was killed, Joseph Vail was
fatally hurt, and R. o. Shupp caught a
rope and escaped injury.
JUDGE ACHIsoN Of the United States
Court, sitting in Pittsburg, has ruled that
the Government has no right TO inquire
whether or not tobacco which is sold from
broken package is to be sold again. The
opinion is contrary to the rulings of the
Internal Revenue Department.
AT THE Bessemer Steel Works, in Cleve-
land, on the 2lst, ton of melted iron was
accideRtly poured into a pit where several
men were at work. They were all severely
and two of them fatally burned
THE new Western Union Telegraph Com
pany of Illinois, has begun quo VarTanto
proceedings against the old Western Union
Telegraph Company to show by what
right it undertakes to transact telegraph
business within the limits of the State Of
Illinois.
The house owned by Mrs. Hannah Ran
dolph, in Newport, r. L, burned on the
2lst and Mary Barry persisted in the
flames. The loss amounts to S15, 900. Other
fires were the residence Of Jacob Schlessel-
man, New Brennan, O., 81, 900; residence of
J. NJ. Edwards, Youngstown, o., $1,000;
Joseph Lowry & Co.'s hair factory, Brook
lyn, R. l., $25 900; West Hamilton Flour
Mills, Hamilton, o., $4,000; Ketcham,
Rothschild q Co., furniture makers, and
others, Chicago, $4,000.
An outbreak is feared Of the miners who
are on a strike at UniontoWn, Pa. A Molly
Mcguire was shot and killed by the Super
intendent Of the Youngstown Coke Com
pany on the 2lst
An explosion of gas occurred at Packer
Colliery, No, 2, of the Lehigh Valley Coal
Company, at Lost Creek, Pa, on the 22d,
by which Martin Toohey, John Murray,
VIM. McAndreW, James Litchman, VIM.
Litchman and Polander, name unknown,
were severely and perhaps fatally burned
The two LitchmaDs, father and son, are
most seriously injured.
A STATEMENT has been prepared by the
Commissioner Of Internal Revenue which
shows the receipts Of the office for the last
fiscal year were Q146 100000 Receipts
from July ], 1882, TO March q, 1888, ex-
ceed the receipts for corresponding period
last year by 50, 100000 1t is estimated the
receipts Of the current fiscal year, II there
had been no reduction In taxation would
amount 10 $l4s, ,625, 600. Deduction on &C
count Of changes In revenue laws
5000 900. Total estimated receipts
Of the current fiscal year, Sl43,.
625 900. The estimated increases or de
creases in revenue the remainder Of the
current fiscal year, compared with las
year, are as follows: Increase on spirits
81 500, 900; decrease from banks and bank
ers, 82,4OO, 900; decrease from special taxes
81 600, 900; decrease from adhesive stamps
$500 900; deoreaa' from tobacco, $4,000, 900
total increase, 81, 500, 600; total decrease
Sc 900, ,OOOj net estimated decrease, So, ,OOO, =.
600.
The second annual encampment Of the