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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1886-02-10
RnooaNIzED BY FHR VOICE.
Wonderful Acuteness of Hearing Acquire d
by Telephone Operators.

Cincinnati Enquirerl
"Speaking of recognizing people," said a
telephone operator yesterday, Il can re-
member man longer and recognize him
further off by his voice than by any other
II ans. sit at an operating table all day
aud know all the regulars on my circuit
by their voices. Often in walking along
the street recognize the voice of a person
whom / never saw before and know
that he belongs to telephone No. -;
and as / know the names of the most
of my patrons thus become familiar with
the faces of many men to whom / was
never introduced. AS an illus ration Of
how have LEANED to remember voices l
will tell an incident that occurred last
week. was up in Chicago and happened
to use the telephone As soon as an answer
came recognized the voice as that of an
operator named Brown, with whom had
worked in Cincinnati three years before.
/ did not know he was in Chicago and was
glad to see or rather to hear him. He was
much surprised at my calling him by
name, and told me that he was in dis
trict station fully three miles from where
/ was standing. Yes, it is rather hard To
distinguish the voices at first, but with a
little attention to the business an opera
tor quickly acquires very acute ear"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1886-02-10

NEW YoRK, Feb 4.-The Commercial
Bulletin Of February estimates the Janu-
arv fire loss Of the United States and Can
ada at sl2. .OOOO 900, which is S2OOOOOO more
than the average January loss in the past
ten years. The Bulletin publishes a list Of
two hundred and eight fires where the re-
ported loss ranged from $4,000 to 100000
and the aggregates over $lO,OOO,OOO for
these fires alone. There were sixteen large
fires on which the loss aggregated $5,OOO,-
900, or more than forty per cent. Of the
entire fire waste of the month.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1886-02-10

BELLEvILLE, ONT, Feb lowing to the
cold weather of the past three days the
mouth of the Moira river has been almost
completely blocked with ice, and in conse-
quence the water is now eight feet above
the ordinary level Every cellar in the
principal business portion of the town has
been submerged, and the back yards and
premises in the rear of the stores on Front
street are also inundated. In another dis
trict half a mile square, every build
ing excepting half a dozen has its
lower floors covered with from six
inches to four feet of water, and most
of the houses have been vacated Many
manufactures and other business establish
ments have suspended operations. Mum
erous families are huddled together in the
upper stories of the houses, and are suffer-
ing intensity from the cold. The water is
steadily rising and it is feared that the
whole of Front street will become sub
merged, and the business of the city be
brought to a standstill, Nothing can pre-
vent this catastrophe but considerable
rise in the temperature. Over one hundred
families have already been rendered home
less, and sixty-nine of these are dependent
upon public charity.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1886-02-10
The Color Of the Eye.


Some curious researches have recently
been undertaken by Swiss and Swedish
physicians on the color of the eyes, but
without any apparent practical purpose.
For convenience all eyes were divided into
blue or brown, the various shades Of gray
ewes being classified according to the prom
i1euce Of blue or brown ia their color,
Some of the conclusions drawn from a
great many observations are these: That
women with brown eyes have better pros
pect of marriage than those with blue
that the average number Of children is
greater with parents whose eyes are dis
similar. In children both of whose parents
have blue eyes ninety-three per cent. In
herit blue eyes; but in children both OF
whose parents have brown eyes only eighty
pei cent have brown eyes. The above re
suits were reached in Switzerland. in
Sweden the discoveries were not quite the
same The women with brown eyes are
more numerous there than the men will
brown eyes, but brown eyes are apparently
increasing there, as in Switzerland.
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FRAR KILLED HIM.



Takes His Own Life.
NEW York, Feb. 5.-WiIliam j. Higgins
employed in the saloon of Thomas Eustace,
No 125 Water street. was bitten in the arm
by a dog six months ago The wound was
severe and caused him much incon
venience and good deal of fright. The
idea that he would 60 mad possessed him
He drowned the dog, but that did not allay
his fears. Last evening Higgins sat by the
stove talking with three men. As if fcasually
street. The men by the stove heard three
shots, fired in quick succession, and sup
posed that Higgins was shooting a dog out
side. 1t was found, however, that he had
shot himself twice in the breast, near the
heart, and in the back of the head with q
Colts 32-calber pistol He died almost
Immediately. The fear of hydrophobia
killed him.
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DENVER, Col, Feb. 5.--Si Minich, one
of the three men who murdered Samuel
Baldwin, near Leadville, on October is,
1884 for $1,TOO, was hanged in Leadville
this afternoon. Up to yesterday evening
Minich expected Governor Eaton to com
mute his sentence to life imprisonment.
He Rscended the scaffold with a cigar in
his mouth, a smile on his face, and was
launched into eternity denying his guilt to
the last
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KALAMAZOO. Mich, Feb. 2.-Orson K
Wmtlock, one Of the wealthicst and best
known farmers of Richland. in this county
committed suicide this morning by stabbing
himself through the heart with a dull
butcherknife. He rested poorly during
the night and arose between five and six,
going out to the carriage-house. From
the position in which the body was
found, it is supposed that he lay down,
pulled his shirt apart, and placing the
point of the knife to his breast struck the
end of the handle with his right hand driv-
ing the blade five and half inches into the
thoraoic cavity and entirely through the
heart. The knife was found by his side and
the blood that had spu ed from his mouth
four feet away. 1t was thought be was in
sane from poor health. His wife had be-
come so anxious she had hid all deadly
weapons. He was fifty-one, leaves q wife
and child-a boy eight years old.
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A Dollar Verdict in a civil R ghts Suit.

KEoKUK Ia, Feb. 5.-A suit brought un-
der the civil rights act by Rev, T. L. Smith,
a colored preacher, against restaurant
keeper in which $4,000 damages were
asked, for refusing to sell Smith refresh
ments on account of his color has been de-
cided in the Superior Court the jury
bringing in a verdict Of one dollar i'm favor
Of the reverend gentleman.
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CoHoEs, N. y, Feb. 2.-George Water
house, a boy fourteen years Of age, was
bitten by a dog in Lansingburg some six
years ago the past week the boy has
shown signs Of hydrophobia His condi-
tion became alarming, and a physician
was called and administered all the medi-
cines usually used in such cases, but to-
night it was deemed advisable to smother
him.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1886-02-10

TIE purified fat Of sleeps wool,
which has been introduced into the drug
market under the name of lanolin, is
said to possess remarkable susceptibility
to absorption by the skin. When one
thousand parts Of it are mixed with one
part of a soluble metallic substance and
applied to the scalp a metallic taste is
noticed in the mouth within few min
utes 1t is thought the substance viii
be of great value for oinments.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1886-02-10

WABASH, ISD, Feb. 4.--The daughter Of
Joseph Blossom, living near Keller's Sta
tion, five miles west of Wabash died to-
day from the effects ofa dose Of morphine
given TO her through mistake by her father.
Mr.. Blossom prepared the medicine for her
before daylight, and in the gloom admins.
tered morphine instead of magnesia. She
lived but a few hours after taking the
drHuglt
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intelligence continues to be received from
Gaspe regarding the starving condition of
the fishermen and their families, who have
been thrown out of employment by the sus-
pension Of Robin q Co, 70 make matters
worse, the other great fishing firm of Lee
boutillier Bros. has also suspended, so that
some five thousand souls are literally on
the verge of starvation
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CarrLed o.. IL No..

CHMsFIELD, ND, Feb. 4.-Tuesday night
a German, known only as George, was ar
rested for some slight offense. On the way
TO the lookup he declared that if confined
all night he would burn the house and him
self Yesterday morning the house, a
small frame structure was found 60 have
been destroyed by fire, and among the
ashes we're the remains Of the man. He
had evidently set fire to the place during
the night
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RURNFD IN THETR BEDS.
An Entire Family in Iowa Cremated in the
Ruins Of Their House.

McGREGoH IA, Feb. 5.-Albert Cooley,
a farmer residing three miles from here,
with his entire family, consisting Of his
wife, two boys and one little girl, we're all
burned to death in their house last night
Nothing definite is known of the horrible
affair, except that the children had been
sick and the parents had been up with
them during the night. About morning
Cooley took some Goals from the stove
placed them in a shed adjoining the house
and then retired. The shed took fire and
finally burned the house and family. The
house was one-story log, with an attic.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1886-02-10
A SAVAGE CONVICT
Assaults His Keepers, Two Being Seriously
and One Fatally Cut

and One Fatally Cut.
PITTsBURGH, Feb. "A serious affray
occurred in the Riverside Penitentiary
this morning, in which Deputies McKain,
Greaves and Edwards were injured, the
former dangerously. 1t appears that a
prisoner named James Clarke, who is serv-
ing a sentence Of seven years for burglary,
had been ordered to the dungeon for an in
fraction of therules McKain and Greaves
repaired TO his cell TO escort him to the
dungeon. He promised to go quietly,
but in an unguarded moment
turned upon them with a large knife,
which he had secreted i'm his coat He
first made a desperate lunge at McKain,
and plunged the knife into his neck, and
then stabbed him in the right temple.
Turning from McKain, he thrust the bloody
knife into Greaves' right shoulder blade
twice Deputy Edwards, hearing the noise,
came TO the aid of McKain and Greaves, but
before he could render them assistance,
Clarke felled him to the ground with ter
rible blow, and jumping on him, beat and
kicked him in a frightful manner. By this
time the guard had been alarmed, and
Clark was Overpowered and placed in the
dungeon. The injured men were removed
to the hospital. An examination of their
injuries showed McKain to have been per-
haps mortally wounded. Greaves and Ed
wards are seriously hurt, but will recover.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1886-02-10

VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass, Feb 2-The
schooner Fannie A. Mllikeu, of Bath from
New York for Key West Tampa Bay and
Pensacola with a general cargo, was struck
by lightning. January 2li in latitude 81,
degrees 2S minutes, longitude "a degrees 4
minutes, and dismasted The captain and
crew we're taken off by the Norwegian
bark Sgurd, from Trapani for Gloucester,
and brought TO this point. They saved
nothing but their personal effects.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1886-02-10

HALF of the hardware produced in
the United States, valued at S6O,O0O,OOO
a year, is made in Connecticut. This
does not include firearms, agricultural
implements, cut nails and ornamental
iron work.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1886-02-10

NEW York legislators are consider
ing bin to amend the Constitution so
that a verdict in all civil cases may be
rendered by three-fourths of the jurors
Why not tinclEde all criminal cases, tooP
Then people win have that protection
tFatis gradually-surely slipping away.
Notorious criminals, supported by friends
or money, are rarely convicted owing tn
the present jury system. Criminals and
lawyers have been more progressive than
the people. and as q consequence crimes
can be committed with almost assured
safety from any penalty.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1886-02-10
DefauItnu Revenue Collector Sentenced

JERSEY CITY, N j., Feb. 5.-John Nc
Mahon, the defaulting ex-Collector Of
Revenue, of Hoboken, who absconded two
years ago leaving a deficiency of over
S5T 900 in his accounts, was sentenced in
the Court of Special Sessions to-day to five
years in State PrisoE-the full extent Of the
law
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Turned Out Inro The Pubic Road

CONNELLsvULE, PA. Feb. 2-Seven fam
lilies were evicted from the company houses
tonight and their household goods are
now lying alongside of the public roads
The tenants we're taken by surprise and no
trouble followed the evictions TIE work
will be continued until all the houses are
KananL.
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The Business Failures Of the Week.

NEW YORK, Feb. 5.-The business failures
during the last seven days number: For
the United States 253, and for Canada a.
or a total of PSI, as against 2s9 last week
and 329 the week previous to the last
More than two-thTds Of the whole number
in the United States are furnished by the
Southern, Western and Pacific States.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1886-02-10

Nitro -glycerine has been especially
recognized by the Academic de Medic
cine in the award of a prize to DR..
William Muwell, who was the first TO
advocate it's wide employment in an'
gina pectoris and other spasmOdic af.
fections This drug has become ofii-
cial, though only in the form of choco-
late tabell@; the one per cent solution
would soon appear, however, says the
London Lancet, TO possess special adj
vantages. Niuo-glycerine has also been
employed in the treatment of nophritis
and several other affections.
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PITTsBURGH, Pa, Feb. 4-Miss Lizzie May
Ulmer, who is playing in Dads Girl, at
Library Hall, tainted last night after the
close Of the performance, and upon regain
ing consciousness was totally blind. She
was confined to her room in st, Paul for
six weeks with iritis and this relapse is
due to q severe cold and too early exertion.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1886-02-10

IT is noticeable that during the year
1885, H. B. ClaAin, the richest Ameri-
can merchant W. H. Vanderbilt the
richest American railroad man, and Ed
mond Richardson, the richest Amer
lean planter, died, and that neither Of
them died in bed. One dropped dead
at his desk, another in his hall and the
other In the street.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1886-02-10
CRAWEORD,s MURDERERs.
Report Of the Mexican Forces Whose Fire
Killed that Gallant Captain.

Killed that Gallant Captain
ELPAso, TEX, Feb. 8.-The report Of the
commanding officer Of thR MeXicans who
attacked CrawfOrd's command has been
published in the Est1d0 de chihuahua
newspaper, which reached here to-day,
1t states that on the llth of last month
the Mexicans combatted "a great number
of tame and wild Indians, PROBABLY over
200, led by United States officers and over
twenty soldiers. Four Mexicans are r
ported killed and four wounded, The repor
also states that they displayed no sign
legality, as was svinced as much by the
strategy as by the animals which they had,
and which are held to prove that they were
stolen. The report is dated from Dolores
mining camp, January 90, and is signed
Perez. 1t is believed the animals referred
TO in the report are those captured from
Indians which the latter had probably
stolen.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1886-02-10

THE Italian Queen, Margharita, now
employs a female physician. When
two women put their heads together
there is no knowing what mischief may
be in store. Perhaps this is a ruse Of
her Royal Highness to get her physician
TO prescribe her usual daily allowance
of Strawberries which was cut short
few days ago by her Royal spouse on
the plea of extravaganza.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1886-02-10

A school-teacher in the suburbs o.
Boston recently punished a pupil for
telling an unuuth by putting Cayenne
pepper on bis tongue. In the course
of about two weeks he died of diph-
liberia. The friends Of the boy mature
ally claimed it to be result of the pune
ishment. investigation satisfied the
school committee that IL was nothing
but a coincidence, but they passed a
vote disapproving of this mode Of pune
ishment.-B Boston Herald.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1886-02-10

WHAT strange things people win do
sometimes. For instance, the telegraph
related a few mornings ago that James
d. Fish "ate a hearty breakfast this
morning in a fine hotel in New York
City, read the morning papers and en-
joyed his Havana, laying back in a
luxurious rocking-chair in dressing
gown and slippers" James D. Fish is
a ten-year convict in the Auburn Peni-
tentiary, and was taken down to New
York as q witness in some bank crook
Bdness.
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DESTROYED BY TWO MEN.

The Terr Bile story of the Mutiny on
Board the Ship Frank n Thnyer.
LONDoN. Feb. 2.--Captan Clark of the
American ship Frank a. Thayer has ar
rived at Plymouth on the Cape steamer by
which be was picked up at sea. He re-
lates that the Thayer was bound for Eng
laud with mixed crew, including two
Manila scamen. These two men stole
urou the deck one night and, armed with
knives lashed to poles. attacked the two
officers. K ling them instantly. Three
sailors, the only ones on deck were quick
lv dispatched. Ca tain Clark, hearing the
shricks of the crew, rushed ON deck in his
nightshirt The Manilans slashed him ter
ribly and he barely escaped with his life.
After a desperate struggle be broke away
from his assailants. and rushing to his
cabin locked himself in The Manilans
batted d,wn the matches and kept the
crptain and crew below dock one day and
night The captain finally fired
through n szvlight at one of the mutineers
and wounded him i'm the thigh The man
rushed to the side Of the vessel and leaped
overheard The other mutineer then went
below, fired the cargo, and returning to
the deck jumped into the sea. Terrified to
madness the crew forced their way on deck,
lowered a boat and rowed away. The ship
was consumed. The crew wandered at sea
Tor week before they were picked up.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1886-02-10

A FRENCHMAE has ascertained that
the absorption Of atmospheric oxygen
by coal dust usually produces the rise
in temperature to which spontaneous
combustion is due. Ignite is ignited at
the low temperature Of 3OO0, anthracite
at 575o, and other varieties of coal, in "a
powdered state, at intermediate temper
aturpg
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Haunted Houses.

CHICAGO Feb at is stated that there
are over 15OO houses in Chicago which re-
main tenautless because of the belief that
they are haunted by ghosts
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These are 228 cities in this country
containing 10000 inhabitants or up-
ward, and all Of these except twenty
seven cities have adopted standard
time. IN y PgM
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JERSEY CITY, Feb 2-George III. Fange
and Joseph Clarke, the latter a boy of 10
years who we're bitten by 3d. Bernard
dog yesterday, viii be sent 70 Paris 10 be
treated by b. Pasteur
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Fatally Burned by Boiling Candy

:" "'"TIT I0WITI|W " WWTTIWN -WWWN1
DETROIT Feb. 3.-This morning at half
past a candy kettle in Flynn q Durfee's
establishment on Michigan avenue ex-
ploded, injuring three persons Carl Snick-
enbacker was covered with the boiling
candy and terribly burned, It is thought
his injuries will prove fatal. Ed. Fidler
and Nellie Calvin we're severely but not
dangerously scalded.
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RECENT statistics show that cacao is
used by 1O,OOO,OOO people, chicory by
4O,OOO,OOO, cocoa by 5OO,OOO,OOO, cof e
by lOO,OOO,OOO betal by 1OO,OOO,OOO,
hashish by 3OO 900, 900, opium by 4OO,-
OOO,O 900, Chinese tea by jOO,OOOOOO, and
tobacco by 8OO,OOO,OOO, or by two-thirds
the population of the globe.
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SINCE the advent of NJ. Pasteur's
method of inoculation for curing hydro
phobia, there is something suggestive
in the saying: "As mad as a March
hare 81
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THE military force of all Europe con-
sists of about nine million soldiers, If
this force was drawn up in line the dis
tance from right to left would be six
thousand miles. The reviewing officer
would require an express train for
several days to 90 from one end Of tho
line to the other.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1886-02-10

THE antj-Chirese movement seems to
be proceeding in California with less
violence, but more system. Firms who
refuse to dismiss their coolic employees
are boycottod, and i'm many parts of the
State the almond-eved Celestial has be-
come conspicuous by his absence.
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"A wonderful and little-known
flower has been on exhibition at the
Philadelphia HORTICULTURAL Society S
rooms, It is called the moon flower
and blooms i'm the evening. From q
small bud an inch and a quarter in di-
ameter comes a beautiful flower four
inches in diameter The development
requires less than an hour and the
buds can be seen opening -PhiladeL
ybid Press
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THERE is a possibility that diamonds
of the first water sparkIers that will
throw the average hotel clerk into the
shade, and equal the famous Koh-i-noor
in size and brilliancy, will soon become
an article of manufacture through q
newly invented electrical furnace.