The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1885-01-14
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Two twin steers, owned by stocllmen of
Ashland County, are now on their way to
the Worlds Fair at New Orleans, which
beats the world, and the owners Of the
same offer $1,000 for their equals. One OF
these monster steers weighs 4,l5O pounds,
measures six feet four inches in height and
ten feet seven inches around the girth.
Mrs. KEoRNER, Of Mt. Adams, Cincinnati,
started down stairs with her nine-months-
old baby in her arms, when she tripped
and fell. Both mother and babe fell to the
bottom Of the stairs, and tho latter was in
jured to such an extent that it died soon
aftorward. Mrs. Keroner. was pretty badly
hurt, but will recover
TIE family Of John Furin, a mill laborsr
residing in the west Of Youngstown, con-
sisting of his wife and two children and
Mr.. and Mrs. Bradenteen, parents Of Mrs
Furin, were taken violently i'll some time
ago with what appeared to be an aggra-
waited attack of rheumatism. Domestic
remedies were used, but proved unayailing
4 few days ago DR.. F. V, Floor was called, 4,
and, after an examination, pronounced the
disease trichinosis. The family have been
eating pork cured 10y themselves. Pieces
of it placed under a microscope showed it
to be swarming with tho deadly parasite
All the parties are dangerously i'll, and It
is probably that the children win die.
PHILIP PROFIT, boot and shoe manu-
facturer Of Van Vert, committed suicide
by hanging. His estate is reported to be
worth $4,000.
A PECULIAR and painful accident oc-
CURED to Mr.. Walter II. Tarr, notion
dealer, of Cincinnati. The gentleman was
using chloride of potash lozenges for a
throat affection, and had taken two of
them from a box and placed them in his
pocket. He stopped down to button his
shoe when the friction caused the substance
to ignite. In the space of about two sec
Onds a hole about a half-foot square had
burned, and a part of his flesh had almost
baked In eXtinguishing the blaze Mr..
Tarr's hands We're also badly burned The
doctor who was called stated that it was
one of the most peculiar accidents that had
ever came under his notice.
Dr. j. D. PERKINS, Major j. B. McDon-
aid and seven other gentlemen Of BellefOn-
taiue, have entered suit against Colonel r.
S. Case, County Treasurer, to recover about
$500 paid under the Scott law.
ROBERT LIGGETT, carpenter, aged about
fifty years, while repairing the roof Of a
two-story building at Dennison, fell from
the roof, a distance of twenty feet, injuring
his spine and sustaining other injuries from
which it is feared he win die.
S. e. Curtis, the BIoomingburg saloon
keeper who was recently fined and impris-
Oned for violating thesix o'clock ordinance,
proposes to sue the authorities for false i'm
prisonment, claiming he did not violate the
ordinance.
FRED. PATTERSON, son of Captain Pat
terson, Of the Soldiers Home, while going
to Dayton the other night, was stopped by
a highwayman, who demanded and re-
ceived his money, fortunately not large
amount.
In shelby County, in the year 1884,, 280
marriage licenses were issued, T8O deeds re-
corded, $50 mortgages recorded, and 239 of
the latter cancelled. The number Of burials
in Graceland Cemetery, the one in general
use, was fifty -four.
TEE Briston Tunnel, on the Newark and
Shawnee Branch Of the b. and o. Railroad,
near New Lexington, was fired by in
cend aries, and all trains stopped The
fire communicated to a coal vein, which at
last accounts was burning hercely. The
tunnel caved Loss estimated at $4,000.
BENJAMIN SHERIDAN, in jail at Macarthur
on a charge of horse stealing, coufesses TO
the stealing Of six horses and two mules
during the past three years.
DAVID PARKER, one Of the early settlers
of Hancock County, is dead. He was oven
eighty years old.
THE young son Of Samuel Bhrakes was
drowned at Dresden, by breaking through
the ice on the canal.
RUTH GILL, the beautiful daughter of
John Gil prominent grocer of Cleve-
land, was incidentally shot and killed by
Walter Grosshart
MRS. LAMAR LOvELAED, Of Madison,
committed suicide at Pittsburgh, Pa, a
few days ago. She took strips Of cloth
and fastened them to the end of a short
stick, inserted the other end of the stick
over a closed door, locked the door TO pre-
veut intrusion, and inserted her head In
the moose at the loose ends of the cloth.
thus settling down into comfortable sli-
eide.
Smith pREssEY, of Paris, while engaged
in cutting timber, was terribly injured By
q falling limb