Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-12-04
THE BUCKEYE STATE.
SUMMARY oFIMPoRTANT HAP
PENINoS THE PAST WEEK.

inal Reoord-Deaths.
-Shodrick Ford, aged Ill, Of Galiip-
oils, dropped dead.
The increase in dlphtheria in Colum-
bus is getting alarming.
"A drunken drummer at Dayton lost
$500. He claims he was robbed.
Edward Heiner has been arrested at
Findlay for forgery, aud is now in jail.
Rev. G. w. Farley, pastor Of the M.
E. Church at Harpster, has been sus.
Ipended.
Meredith Stanley, of Cincinnati, has
accepted an offer to swim the rapids OF
Niagara.
Lyman Dixon was fatally crushed
under a tree which he was Telling near
Londonderry.
The Dietrich FIGURING Mill, at Tippe.
canoe, was burned. Loss on mill and
grain, $4,000.
Prof Ward Baldwin has been elected
TO the Chair Of Engineering in the Uni
versity of Cincinnati.
The safe at the Shock Mill, two
miles south of Canton, was blown open
and $50 was secured.
Wilson Hines aad Henry Bice, liv.
ing near London, quarreled, and Bice
was stabbed and will die.
w. L. Powell, brakeman of the c.,
II. & D. freight, was crushed to death at
the Chicago and Erie Crossing in Lima
Edward Blair, for the murder OF
Anthony Henry, of Harrisburg, has been
sentenced to be hanged March II, 1891.
--Chas. Jacob, jr., q Cincinnati pork
ana beef packer, has assigned. The
assets are put at $50, 900; liabilities, $780,.
900.
AT Man. field, Charles Fisher tried
TO commit suicide by hanging himself
with an awning rope in front Of sar
loon.
An attempt was made to rob the
German Deposit Bank at Massillon, in
broad day light, but was frustrated by
the bravery of the President, P. G. AL.
bright.
William Haskell, brakeman in the
yards Of Fairport Harbor, near Paines
vile, was, caught between switching
engine and steam ore shovel and crushed
to death.
james Fl. Davis, union veteran,
S,ko ,o,unJ ,,,y+I, itsNEo.riII,s uorao - e., n
fit of dependency on account Of i'll.
health, committed suicide at his home in
Cincinnati.
"A collision occurred on the Cleve-
land, Canton and Southern Railway near
Brimfeld. Engineer Hardenstine, Fire.
men Ripple and Brakeman Mace were
badly injured.
Charles Langel and Samuel Diehl, Of
Bryan, Williams County, have been COM
missioned as First and Second Lieu
tenants, respectively, of Company "E,'
Sixteenth Regiment. NJ
Walter Campbell, negro convict
who was paroled from the penitentiary
few days ago, returned the other morn
ing and robbed the clerks desk of cash
and railroad tickets.
William Imhoff, freight conductor on
the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern,
Twas crushed to death between cars,
while coupling at Cummiusville Station.
His home Is Chillicothe.
Joseph Donovan, who killed John
McManness, In Findlay, over year ago,
Ireturned from Canada recently and sur.
|rendered himself. He is charged with
murder In the second degree.
~. N. Tracy, o train brakeman, at
tempted to board o fast freight at Mas
sillon, fell under the wheels, and had hii
left leg cut of at the knee. He is mar
ried, and lives at Alliance.
| Robert Hern, farmer of Montgom
Iery County, signed an order for five dol
lars to pay for new tips for his lightning
rods. 1t was turned into $500 note
and he paid $500 to compromise.
+ Miss Ellen Nealey, separated from
her parents while very young, her mother
dead and father lost trace Of, after fif
teen years of wandering and inquiry at
last finds her father near Portsmouth.
| Harry, the 14-year-old son Of Jacot
Edwards, o teamster, living at Sippo
suicided by hanging with hitchins
strap in the hay NOW of his father
barn. No cause is known for the deed
| Elmer Seidle, aged 2s years, wa
killed by Big Four train near La Rue
ISeidIe left Marion on the train for Ii
Rue, and attempted to walk to his home
two miles from that village, but was rul
down by q freight.
~. A. Fortney, brakeman on th'
Toledo and Ohio Central Railway, wa
killed by north-boand freight train Of
that road at MT. Gilead, His home is II
Caledonia, where the body, which wa
horrible mangled, was taken.
Jennie and Henry, the 3 and 7-year
old sons of Eben Merrihugh, Of Defiance
were playing hunters, when to make |
more realistic, Harry went into the hous
and got his fathers double-barrel shot
gun. Not knowing 1t was loaded, b
placed tho muzzle In his baby brother
face, when both barrels were discharged
blowing the little ones head literally II
Ipieces.
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