Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-12-18

been taken TO Longyiew Asylum
-Kuhns, the Fostoria murderer, was
captured by Fort Wayne Qnd.) officers
near that city after he had shot one Off
Ger, and himself being badly wounded.
Equine la grippe is prevailing to an
alarming extent among the horses Of
Noble County. Many valuable animals
have died, and the contagion is rapidly
spreading.
"A frame building owned by Andrew
Wild, at Gallon, containing valuable car
penter tools and cigar mouIds, was de-
stroyed by an incendiary fire.
Mary Thompson, living near Chilli
cothe, on her way to st. Joseph's Found
ling Asylum, gave birth to boy baby in
the cab of the elevator at the Grand
Hotel, Cincinnati.
by the explosion Of a potash tank in
the A. L. McReynolds Chemical Works,
Cincinnati, Louis Schloss, John Printy
and John Eehl were so badly burned they
may die. The building was wrecked.
The manufacturers of Springfield,
Dayton, Troy, Sidney, Piqua, and Column
bus have been notified to put in other
fuel, as natural gas can no longer be
supplied except to private consumers.
~. Calvin Bushey, the singing-school
teacher who eloped with Miss Scott from
Plain City, is said to have wife and
daughter at Brookville, Ind, and an
other wife and three daughters at
Holmesville.
WIN. Hollingsworth, young mar
ried man with family, was struck by 9
G. g M. v. switch engine at the Fourth
Street crossing, GAINESVILLE. Both legs
were cut off, and he died as they were
taking him home. ......
AT GAINESVILLE the jury gave ex-
Policeman Henry Jeffries q verdict Of
1900 against the city for damages sus-
tained through falling over a pile Of mud
| In the street while in pursuit OF q thief
February %, 1889.
Robert M. Broaden, of Youngstown,
aged 2s, while hunting, was accidentally
shot by the discharge of his own gun,
and he died. He was one Of the leading
men of the city, and was elected City
Civil Engineer recently,
| Mrs. j. G. Reeve, wife of DIR. Reeve,
Sr., distinguished physician of Dayton,
slipped on the icy sidewalk and broke
the bone in her right hip. The bone was
set, but as Mrs. Reeve is getting old,
her final recovery is doubtful. loe
"A large frame barn belonging to
Elias Reigel, living near Findlay, to.
| gether with a valuable horse, 1,20C
bushels of wheat and twenty tons of hay,
and many farm Implements, was de-
stroyed by fire. Loss, $1,5O0; insured
5000.
WIN. L. Morton, of London, ha.
brought suit against the Western Unior
Telegraph Company for 5000 damages
on account of the alleged failure of de
fendant's agent to deliver a message sen
from Henley, Scioto County, apprisint
plaintiff Of the dying condition Of bill
mother.
Chief, the big elephant at the Cincin
natl Zoo, was shct the other day. He
had become so vicious that he was killed
| as measure of safety to those In
charge. He was 2s years old, nine feet
eleven inches high and weighed about
five tons. Since the death of Barnum'.
Jumbo he was the largest elephant In
captivity, and the most vicious.
"A petition has been filed at Upper
Sandusky, by Leander Straw and Eugene
Straw VS.. Caroline Straw, Katie Straw
and Thos. E. Grisell, executor, to sci
aside the will of Lewis Straw, wealthy
and prominent farmer, deceased. The
plaintiffs claim deceased to have been o.
unsound mind when the will was made
mentally incapable; that he was falsel!
and wrongfully influenced; that he wa
acting under an insane hallucination
and that the will is conflicting and con
Trajectory,
In 1884 the private banking house o
Everett & Weddell closed its doors. Th'
failure was the sensation of the year II
Cleveland. as Mr.. Weddell was mil
lionaire. s. T. Everett had been con
nected with the bank, but DIR. A. Ever
ett was the senior member of the firm
Mr.. Weddell now sues Everett fo
81, ,2O0, 900, claiming that when he en-
tered the bank It's real condition wa
misrepresented to him by both th
Everetts The suit has caused almos
as much of sensation as the failur
did six years ago.
| A dispatch from New York say
that convict in the Ohio Penitentiar,
has confessed committing burglar,
for which Charles RoheI is now unde
arrest in that city. Rohen was .arreste'
by detective just as he stepped out o
the gates Of the Ohio penitentiary afte
serving term, and was taken to Ney
York to answer to charge of havinl
burgiarized house and shot youn
lady as he was escaping. The name O
the man now in the Ohio penitentiar
who confesses to that crime is G. I
Shaw. sent from Geauga County TO
grand larceny. He declares that Robe
is perfectly innocent Of the New Yor
charge.