Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-01-31
NEWS IN A NUTSHELL.
A CONDENSATION OF THE TOPICS OF
THE TIMES.

A Collection Of Interesting News Items
ON Many Subjects, Gathered From Va
riOus Sources, aud Especially Prepared
for the Hasty Reader.
Out Of l25 mechanics employed by the
Clevelc1d, o., Ship-building company II3
favor woman suffrage The thirteen who
oppose it are foreigners, unable to speak
English.
1t is said that over 81, ,OOO, 900 has been con-
tributed by English tin-plate manufacturers
and merchants to defeat the clause in the
senate tariff bill imposing a duty on tin
plate, the sum having been placed in the
hands of lobbyists for that purpose.
The amendment to place all wool on the
free list was defeated in the senate by a viva
voce vote
Engineer Weimer, of the Philadelphia &,
Reading railroad, was fatally injured in a
collision near Locust Gap, Pa.
The colored people of the south will send n
delegation to visit Gen. Harrison, to present
their views on the southern question.
The years cotton crop will be more than
OOO,OOO-the largest ever raised
The Ossipee will 80 to Aspinwall to pro-
tect American interests at the is.hmus.
A Catholic colonization society, with a
capital stock of 100000, divided into four
thousand shares has been formed at Pitts
burg, the objects of the order being to estab-
lish Catholic colonies in the south
President Cleveland and Secretary Whit.
ney have each given $25 and Col. Lamont
$40 to the fund being raised by the Savannah
newspaper men for the family of the late
Edwin Martin, who died during the Jack
CnOvilIa ua1loyu fauay, ay1;Ior,ia
A new steamboat company has been formed
at st. Louis
Robbers entered a church at Nicholasville,
KY, and stole the communion service.
Vice President-elect Norton has leased
the fine residence of A. Graham Bell, the
telephone inventor, in Washington.
Russell Harrison is to start a daily paper a
Helena, Mont
Three breweries were seized at Burlington,
Iowa, under the prohibitory law.
Crimes and Casualties.
While walking on the track near Bridge
port, W. Va, Bailey Murphy, sixty years.
old, was struck by train and instantly
killed.
Charles Lockwood, a Reformed minister Of
Fairfield, N. j., attempted to cremate his
wife and children Sunday night He is now
in custody.
At Burlington, Iowa, Sunday, some
young men were shooting at target. One
of the bullets went wide of the mark and
killed Frank Allen, a well known citizen.
Thomas Preston, aged twenty-four, of
Germantown, Pa, shot his nineteen year old
wife, Sable, three times while she was nurs-
ing their year-old babe. The woman will
die
Millburn Ham and Joe Walker, two
youths, snapped their guns at each other at
Rogersville Junction, Tenn, while out hunt
ing. Walkers gun went off, killing Ham in
stantly.
A mob is searching for W. R. Kennedy, of
Shelby county, Alabama, who last Friday
night, brutally assaulted and outraged Ellen
Gray, a young lady who had volunteered to
await on Kennedy's sick wife
At Lacrosse, Wis, a family consisting of
seven persons became sick from eating
smoked sausages.
Many Of the people in Seward county,
Kansas, are on the verge of starvation. The
county is in that part of Kansas which suf.
fered from crop failures.
Thomas Swening was killed during quar-
rel at Memphis, Tenn, ty Harry Overton,
the son of prominent ST TouiS citizan