Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-08-02

field, in the western part OF this county,
have temporarily quit regular farm work,
and many of them are digging in held for
gold, all because William Wilkinson, resi-
dent there yesterday unearthed several
hundred dollars Of gold coin neatly put up
in can. 1t being the former stamping
ground of the once notorious JIM Brown,
OF historic fame, it is supposed that he
buried the money, as it is shown that it has
been in the earth for many years.
Dividend to Metropolitan Stakeholder.
CIscINSATI, August Agent McCon-
vile yesterday paid to the stockholders of
the Metropolitan Bank their FIRST dividend.
The amount in question is over $500. 900.
Each stockholder receives about twenty
per cent. of his investment. Not all the
stockholders will receive the dividend, as
Mr.. McConville holds that those who had
hypothecated their stock and were in
debted to the concern. have no claim on
the dividend. This is nice legal question
and will have to be decided by the courts.
Highway Robbery.
CIRcLEvILLk, August Ezra Hale. OF
Darbyville, was driving along the road,
when he was stopped and assaulted by
John Swank, who lives in the neighbor-
hood of Darbyyille, and who, it seems,
held personal grudge againt Hill for some
imaginary misdemeanor He threw sew
eral large stones at the buggy, one of
them striking Hill on the head, causing q
slight scalp wound. Swank was taken be-
fore Squire Radcliff, of Darbyville, and
afterwards brought TO this city and placed
in the county Jail. He is charged with
assault with intent to kill.
An Immense Pipe Line.
LIMA. August 2-The Standard Oil Com
pany started pumping oil through the g
inch pipe line from this city TO Chicago
yesterday. The line wss tested to-day with
water, four hundred pounds pressure be-
ing used. The test was satisfactory. 1t
will take seven days from the time oil is
started to reach Chicago. 1t will require
seventy-two thousand barrels Of oil to ill
the pipe, which will have capacity of ten
thousand barrels per hour. The work has
cost 81, 900 per mile. and is two hundred
and twenty miles long The large pump
here weighs one hundred tons. the largest
ever constructed for the purpose. II is
said that the Standard Company will begin
the construction of similar line from here
to Cleveland and Cincinnati this fall.
Railroad Accident Near Ravenna,
RAvENNA, August "A local freight,
south bound, was Just entering the switch
above Rootstown station. having three min
utes TO clear the same. Just as the switch
was about half cleared, a double header,
north bound, drawing twenty-eight cars.
having the main track, came down grade at
terrific speed. Both engineers and FIRE
men of the double header saw the newt
able results and after reversing both en-
gines jumped for their lives. The double
header plunged through the local freight at
almost full speed, demolishing about q
dozen coal and box cars and tearing up the
track for several hundred feet. The front
engine, No. 55, is total wreck, the entire
front being knocked in and the timber of
several cars is sticking in the same. The
wreck caught fire and burned fercsly.
6 Fireman Eskew. in jumping, sprained
his right ankle and was badly cut about the
face. The engineer of the front engine had
his back hurt but not seriously.
Ohio Flashes.
Charles Coreill was drown ed while bath
ing, near Portsmouth.
terrific wind storm visited Tifin, blow
ing down several houses.
Mrs. Elizabeth Tllerson, of New Bedford,
Mass. has bequsathed $500 to Wilber-
force Uniyersity, at Xenia.
Mrs. John A. Jones and her two sisters,
named ShafEer, were thrown from q buggy
at Newark, and seriously injured.
A ten-year-old boy at Bloomville, who
lighted IL, was seriously injured in the ex-
plosion which followed.
Mrs. Mennoni Eldridge. of Knoxville,
Tenn, has been taken to the Penitentiary
at Columbus, on . two-year sentence, for
conspiring to secure pension.
Mary Ann Donnelly, saloon keeper of
London, persuaded Timothy Linsky,
farmer, while he was in drunken condi-
ton, TO give her deed for his farm.
Cnthslie Total Abstinence Convention.
BosToH, August 2-The city is crowded
with delegates to the National Catholic
Total Abstinence Convention and their
frendA and the convention, which opened
) Ay2afardaY aftAruoon will be thu largest and