Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-01-26
NEWS IN BRIEF.
HOME AND FOREIGN BUDGET
important Facts Recorded in Cor
else Style.

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Trues lale, the cashier Of the New York,
Pennsylvania snd Ohio Railroad at Cory,
Pa, has disappeared and is believed to have
gone 10 Canada. His defalcstion amounts to
$4,000 and is due to oil speculation. He is a
son of Albert Truesdale, an attorney Of Cory.
Both branches of the Legislature of Wash
ington Territory have rs>enacted the Wo-
mans Suffrage law, but exempted women
from jury duty.
have a new trial or be sentenced to be hung
is not expected until the fourth Monday in
March.
Thirty-five Arabs landed at Castle Garden
one day last week, to hear the next day that
under our laws they will be returned to their
own country, or the port they sailed from.
A St Paul paper figures out list Of 2l7
deaths by the blizzard, and adds that the re
mains of many people who are reported miss
ing, may not be found until the snow thaws
in the spring, the bodies being covered by
deep drifts that formed over them.
Seven persons were drowned in Sand Lake,
about ten miles east of Ennis, Texas. Two
young women, daughters of VIM. Williams,
farmer, and young man named Babbitt,
were skating on the lake, when the ice gave
way, and they sank in four and a half feet
of water. Miss Bibbitt and two little girls,
aged and IA years, also daughters of VIM.
Williams, who were on shore watching the
sport, were drowned in attempting to rescue
their friends
The Cambria Iron Company, at Johns
town has issued notice to its II 900 EN-
ployes Of 10 per cent; reduction in wages.
Robert Hoskins, q mail-carrier at Colum-
bus, was struck by train on Tuesday eve
ming and killed. Hoskins was SO years of
age.
The Southern. States last year built 2,970
miles of railroad, as compared with !, 1926 in
1886, an increase of 1,150 miles, or SO pre-
cent, whereas the whole country gained less
than "A per cent. The largest relative in
crease in construction has bsen in Alabama,
which for every mile of road it built in 1886
has built nine in 1887, an increase due to the
rapid development of the mineral interests Of
that State In actual miles built Texas leads
with 1,055.
| The long strike of the shoemakers in Ro-
chester, N. Y, which has continued since
| November /, collapsed, the men returning to
work at the manufacturers terms.
The governor of Nebraska has issued pro-
clamation forbidding the introduction into
the State of cattle from numerous eastern
stations, including Philadelphia county, Penn
| sylvania.
An immense bob-sled, contaiBg So persons,
collided with another sled, descending hill
at Kansas city, and overturned. Seventeen
Of the occupants sustained injuries, three of
them being seriously hurt. They were Maud
Mcdonald, Maud Wolsley and Jennie Tracey.
| The South Carolina negroes are raising
funds to defend the negroes charged with
lynching the white man, Waldrop, in Pickens
county, recently.
A broken rail threw passenger train from
the track near Oketo, Kan, Saturday. -Four
cars went over 10 foot embankment, turn
ing over twice and Ian ling bottom upward.
All the passengers were injured, only four
of them seriously.
Ira Case, sixteen years old, was arraigned
at Sidney, N. Y, on charge of attempting,
on two occasions, to wreck trains on the Del
aware and H ldson Railroad, near that vii
lage ald held for trial, confessing his guilt
AMI declaring that he wanted to pile up the
cars.
Barnum says as soon as possible he will
ship his greatest show on earth to England
He gives as his reason the determination oi
the railroads to advance freight rates on cir
cuses
The City Council of Cleveland, O., has
been sustained in reducing the price OF gas
from 81 25 to 81 per 1,OOJ feet. The gas com
pany had denied the valility of tie ordi
Lance.
Farmers in the Western part of Kansas,
where fuel is scarce, have beel taking forti
BILE means to supply their wants, siezing load
ed coal-cars and app ropriating their contents
It is now proposed to amend the Dow liquo
law of Ohio SO as to make a uniform rate o
three hundred dollars license for all CLASSES O.
liquor dealers, whether they sell wine ant
beer only, or the more ardent spirits.