The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1885-07-29
STATE NEWS ITEMS

blAiyf ab ManaNalhi Wn9 suspended on Nna
2Oth, owing 90 q strike Of the worlmon.
JAMES CooLrY, while shootngo ot q tar-
get, at Akron. accidentally ahot win Hnw-
kins, tender Of the target, the ball entering
his abdomen and coming out at the back.
His wound is painful, but not serious.
TN Cincinnati the other night, Patrolman
Hanks shot and killed George Bonsrop,
who escaped from the officer and refused
30 stop when ordered 90 halt. Hanks Is
under arrest charged with murder.
STANDARD oil lubricating works, Cleve-
land, were damaged 5000 by FIRE.
WIN. MCFARLAND, Mahoning County,
slightly In debt on a large farIu suicided
with a shotgun he borrowed "to shoot a
woodchuck.N
ABRAHAM PARISH was terribly lncerated
and beaten with pitchforks, near Plain
City, by Abe Gof, and Henry Vaughn, who
have been arrested.
GEoRGE AND JAMES WALLACE, sons Of
Rev. r, s. Wallace, were drowned in the
Ohio River at Bellaire, while bathing.
james sank and George went TO his rescue
and sank, too, neither appearing again.
ARTHUR MITCHELL, colored, fell from a
very seriously hurt
A Mr.. PURNGToN, residing near Mount
Gilead, has in his possession a colt with
only two legs. Where les front legs should
be there are no signs Of extremeties.
LIGHTNING struck the dwelling of Ed
ward F. flanagan, near Caldwell, badly
damaging the building, and probably fa-
tally injuring his fve-year- old son.
Rev. r. I. swANEY, Of East Springfield,
declines the nomination for State Senator
on the Prohibition ticket.
JACOB SAvILLEY, a farmer, living In Svl-
vania, twenty miles west Of Toledo, was
instantly killed the other afternoon bv his
horses, attached to a reaper, running
away.
GEORGE Fox, sixteen, was drowned at
Hanging Rock, the other evening, while in
bathing, being drawn under a feet Of coal
barges by the current. The body has been
recovered.
VIM VESSEL, a saloon keeper Of
Youngstown, was badly whipped the other
night in a fight with his wife. For revenge
he united his bull-dog and set him at his
wife. The dog tore the woman's thighs
and hips in a frightful manner.
JAMES F. LEAHY, Of Tifin, has been ac-
quilted of the charge Of arson preferred
against him Dby the insurance companies
against which he held policies on the prop
erty destroyed.
PECULIAR verbiage of the game law, as
amended by the Legislature gives but
twelve days quail and grouse shooting
from November to ~.
ORA COVERT, arrested near Upper San
dusky for bastardy, begged so hard not to
go to Jail that the Prosecuting Attorney
took him home for a bed fellow. Covert
got up at daylight and made a successful
break for liberty.
WIN. DOssOd was run down aud drowned
by the tug Peter Henry, at Cleveland, and
the Captain will be arrested for man
slaughter as there is ample proof that he
might have saved the man.
JOHN BARNES, engineer, jumped to save
himself from a descending elevator, at
Cleveland, missed, and received fatal in
juries from the stone floor of the basement.
He was working in the shaft on the third
floor.
A YOUNG girl Of Akron named Ruter-
bach, despondent because her parents
would not feed her on ice cream, took YER
digris, supposing it to be Paris green. She
was pumped out and no doubt is now
ready to receive this summer delicacy.
JOHN GROVE, of Defiance left home
some time since with $500. Nothing being
heard from him, the sheriff investigated.
Grove was traced TO Big Rapids, Mich,
near which place his body has been found
in the underbrush with his skull fractured.
The sheriff claims to be on the murderers'
track.
CINCINNATI is flooded with counterfeit
half dollars and quarters,
SINCE the first oil we'll was sunk at Lima,
about three months ago, there have been
about 1000 acres Of land leased by differ
ent companies, Lima is liable at any time
TO strike oil in a way that will stir the oil
monopolies.
NEW CARLISLE brick factory turns out
$4,000 daily,
CLEVELAND sports collectively own 1000
bicycles, valued at from $50 to 500 each.
THE undertakers Of Huron, Ottawa,
Seneca, sandusky, and Erie Counties, have
formed an association.
A NORWEGIAN servant girl enclosed an
Akron family $3.50, overpaid hy mistake,
after conscience torture Of a year.
BELLAIRE furnaces, employing $500 per-
sons viii probably fire up at once, as the
Flint Glassworkers' National Association
at Philadelphia have adopted the None
system as universal.
DAN CAMPBELL; the white hunchback,
who turned black from melanosis, died at
the County Infrmary, London.
A BOLD sneak thief got $14O in cold cash
from the desk of j. P. Adams store,
Lima, while Adams stood in the front door.
JOHN P. MILLER, we'll known contractor,
of Dayton, is dead, of heart disease.
SUPREME Judge Okey, Columbus, con-
tinues to improve in health, and it is be-
lieved that he will soon recover from his
recent very serious illness.
= GILBERT H. BARGER Of Ohio, was ap-
pointed Pension Agent at Columbus.
MRS. GEORGE GUIrNER, Of Columbus,
who had been in poor health for a long
time, committed suicide by shooting her
self through the heart.
TIE wife Of Uric Knechtly, of Newport
Adams County, committed suicide by TAX
ing rat poison. -
JOHN KOON was crushed in a mine al
Nelsonville, under four tons Of slate.
FRANK YAHRUs, sent to the Ohio Peni-
tentiary from Pike County to serve two
years. for cutting with intent TO kin, has
been pardOned by the Governor.