Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-01-19
GENERAL NEWS CONDENSED.
HOME AND FoRHI0N

AfsnStical outbreak hiss occurred In the
province of Tukien- Twenty Christian
churches havebeen burned aad the converts
massacre1.
DR.. schweinturth, African explorer, writes
from Cairo under date of December 80 that
news that Stanley has reached Emin Bay had
arrived at Cairo December 90
Samuel Ballist, Of HaEelton, Pa, quarreled
with his wife and committed suicide.
The Glendon Iron Company, at Easton,
Pa. has reduced wages to the lowest point
paid in 20 years.
Agents Of the French government have
bought up nearly the entire output of Amer
ican zinc and lead.
Sheep growers in the Albany, n Y, dis
trict are unit against the proposition t.
place wool on the free list; also the Utah wool
growers,
A party of prospectors in Northern Mexico
were attacked by Apaches few days ago,
and two of them, named Jacobs and Offer.
were killed..
The boiler in Miller's -four mill, at Grand
vile. Ala, exploded, killing Harry Miller
James Smith snd Thomas Myers. Two 9th
ers were badly hurt.
William q. De Forest, Wholesale dealer
in silk, doing business on Broome street,N. Y,
assigned to George B. Sheldon, giving pref
erences Of more than 100000.
The Utah Legislature contains in the Lower
House three Gentiles and twenty-one Nor
mons, and in the Upper two Gentilts and ten
Mormons.
The protectionists in Spain Have met with
a reverse in the defeat Of the proposal TO in
crease the duties ON cereals and floor. The
Government has declared emphatical!y
against any revival of protective measures.
| Among those arrested for being concerned
In a new plot against the life of the Car is
railway employe He kept the Nihilists in
formed regarding the Cars journey to and
from Gatschina On his person were found
letters which showed that the plot was, ripe
and ready to be put in operation on the night
before the arrest.
A telegram from San Reno reports the
discovery of plot against the life OF the
German crown prince 1t is said that one OF
the piotters, Socialist, turned informer.
The police have forbidden access to prone
nades in the vicinity of the Villa ziero, where
the prince resides.
In Michigan they are voting now by coun-
ties, under the law passed last winter by the
Republican Legislature, giving the people
local option. Every county that has voted
up to date has declared in favor Of Prohibi-
bition, and it is only matter of a very short
time, Senator Palmer thinks, when the sa-
looms will bewiped out altogether.
Pardee g. Co., Of Hazleton, Pa, whose mi
ners are on strike, have begun evicting ten
ants from their houses. A score Of the men
have combi aed to test tae firms right to do
so,
The President sent to the Senate the nomi-
nation of Edward s. Bragg, of Wisconsin, to
be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni-
potentiary of the United States to Mexico.
The schooner Luis G.. Rabel, of Boston, has
rescued the mate and part of the crew of the
bark D. Chaplin, which was abandoned on hei
voyage from Turks Island to Boston, part o.
her crew, including Capt Hall, being lost.
The schooner William Parsons, with crew
of 10 men, which left Gloucester, Mass, No
vember % for Georges Banks and the Pete
d. Smith, another schooner with IL men
which departed about the same time, are sup
posed to have been wrecked in the late severt
storms in that section.
The Supreme Court of Wisconsin has affirm
ed the sentence of the Municipal Court, in tn
case Of Paul Grottkau, convicted Of rioting
and sentenced to one year in the House o
Correction. Anarchy is not popular in Wis
consin.
The official figures for the manufactur
of steel rails in this country last year ar
2,O49,63S gross tons, 4S7,22S greater thai
in the previous year. Assuming tn
average freight car to carry twenty tons i
would take about q, 900 cars to carry in on
trip merely the excess of manufacture in 1888
over that of 1886, which is as good way a
any to indicate what an enormous thing tina
manufacture was.
DIR. Abbot, Henry Ward Beecher's succes
sor in the pulpit of Plymouth Church, get
only one-third the amount of salary given hi
ulustrious predecessor.
A regiment Of soldiers has turned up il
Kentucky that has never been mustered Out
Of service. They propose to ask the Govern
ment for pay for service since their enlist
ment in the early days of the war.
The wife of James Cochran, of San Anto
mia, Tex, became the mother oftwo boy SAINT
a girl The extraordinary feature of tn
event is the fact that the boys are exact du
plicates of the famous Simese twins, being
joined at the same vital spot by a strong liga
ment, which allows each child the free use o
its limbs All three children are otherwis
perfectly formed, and their total weight a
birth was fraction over fourteen pounds
They appear hale and hearty, and the attend
ing physicians see no reasonwhy they canno
be reared.
In the Utah House Of Representatives tw
bills have been introduced to abolish polyga
my. 1t is thought this will benefit the MOI
mons in their application for Statehood.
M. w. Rosbach, the absconding cashier Q
Herlximer Bank, at Herkimer, N. Y,
known to have taken $40, 900 with him and
is said his steahngs will reach 100000