The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1884-10-15
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Ar Cleves, a colored man named Green
was shot and killed In selfdefense by a
white man named Brooks. The wife Of
Brooks is discroditably mixed up in the
murder
MRS, HENRY RICE sem, aged about sixty
Eve years, living few miles southeast Of
Fostoria, committed suicide, a few days
since, by hanging herself from the raiters
of her home. She was a confirmed invalid
for a number Of years, and the deed was
undoubtedly committed while temporarily
insane.
A BOLD thief went into the pasture field
Of Andrew Powell, Of Liberty Township,
Hancock County, the other evening, aud
shot one Of his COWS, skinned her and took
the skin to Findlay and sold it. No clew.
DAYTON baby show will be speckled black
and white.
FOLLOWING are the results Of actual
threshing for eight weeks by some twenty
FIVE hundred machines for wheat, oats and
barley, together with estimates on other
crops by township correspondents in all
the counties on the 9th:
Wheat Oats Barley
Acres threshed ... 692 5sl l78s53 s.43l
Bushels produced 1l,OO2g90 5,O5lTil 229,5O
/ Yield per acre.. l5.g 294 "a
Average quality. 102 50 90
Area sOwn for crop
Tot. estimated bu Al 1886 22,505639 ,Os2, ,233
Estimates Of other crops compared with
full average; Rye, SO per cent; corn, 7j;
buckwheat, 65 potatoes, So; sweet potatoes,
6S; tobacco, "a; sorghum, "a; clover seed,
5ii apples, 81; grapes, 54i pastures, AS
live stock, S4. Severe drought has oc.
CURED three times this season,
partially broken by general rains on tine
oath TO 10Th each Of July, August and Sep
tem0er. This has greatly retarded the
sowing Of wheat, which is not nearly
finished yet i'm the southern half Of the
State, eighty y-three per cent. representing
the area already sown. Wheat is already
up and looking finely i'm the northern half
Of the State, where the drought in Septem~
Der was less severe. Pastures are now
reviving, and the outlook for fall feed is
good.-W. L CHAMBERLAIN, Secretary.
JOHN Idle, aged eighteen, in the ems
ploy Of j. B. Simon, grocer, Of Youugs-
town, as driver, went TO the stable of his
employer a few days ago to take care of a
horse. An hour later he was found in a
stall unconscious and a terrible wound in
his head, where the animal had kicked him.
Surgeons were called, but Idle lived but
short time, not regaining consciousness.
Two colored tramps, while under the in
iuence Of liquor, attempted to
cross the l., B. and W.
Railroad Bridge at Tiffin the other even.
ing, when one of them fell, cutting a severe
cash in his forehead and dropping twenty
feet into the Sandusky River. His partner
heroically leaped down after him, and,
supporting him above water landed him
in safety on the bank. The injured man
regained consciousness after a physician
was called and the wound sewed up.
AT Higginsport, during a political dem,
onstration the other night, Robert Shaw
shot Keudell Overturf through the heart
The murderer escaped.
BRAKEMAN FRANK MOORE, Of B., u. &
c, construction train, was fatally injured
by falling between cars, near Bellaire. His
back was broken twice, one wheel of a
truck passed oyer his body leaving his
body between two wheels, and it was only
released by the Italians of the crew lifting
the car by main strength.
AARON DRAKE fell from the roof of the
st. James Hotel at Manchester, the other
afternoon, and sustained injuries which, it
is thought, will prove fatal.
PATENTS have be issued to Ohio inventors
recently, as follows: John A. Barnes, Ak
ron, pig-iron breaker; Henry S. Belden,
Canton, vapor burner for lighting pur.
poses; Otto c. Berchtold and E. l. Lauffer.
assigners Of one-half to H. j. Lehman,
Cleveland, safety attachment for elevators
John Birch, assignor of oue.half to W. E..
Sparks, Dayton, bench clamp; Frank j.
BorJh and j. Allen, Cleveland. water
column indicator; Charles G. Campbell,
Cincinnati, cotton compressor: James A.
Carpenter, MarionJ clothes drier; Edward
Clark, Tidin, paint compound for roofs. etc. ;
Henry j. Cordesman, Cincinnati, band saw
ing machine table; VIM. H. Doane. Cincin,
matt, planer pressure roll; Robert H. Dowl.
ing, assigner of one~half to C. H. Toilette.
Newark, car coupling; Jas. Darrouob
Hamilton, clay mill: Isaac NJ. Fink. Akron
shade hanger, Levi GalIaher, Businessburg.
pick; Martin V. Carver, Bryan, stove pipe
holder; Oscar Hanna and H. W. T. Earn,
shaw, assigners Of three-ffths to j. Earn,
shaw, Dover, KY: j. WomeldorR and c.
F. Corhen, Middleport, machine
for spinning and winding yarn, thread, etc.
Peter Harsh, Malvern, railway rail~ioint;
Edmund N. Hatcher, assgnor to himself
and H. @. Emmick, Columbus, paving