Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-03-12

During a windstorm at Shawnee, the
frame work Of the bunkers for the New
York and Perry Coal and Iron Company
coke ovens was blown down. Joe Has
kins, a young man about twenty-one,
who was working there, was fatally in
jured by falling timbers.
Jacob johnson, for whom the Co
lumbus police have been looking for
several weeks for his cowardly assassin
alton Of Stephen Joyce, has been cap
tured at Chattanooga. Johnson one
night, about two months ago, called
Joyce, who was drunk, out Of Mt
Vernon avenue saloon and stabbed him
to death. an old feud having existed be-
tween the two men.
The disgraceful feud between the
editors of Capital and World, Of Column
bus, resulted in street fight in which
many shots were exchanged. A. c. 0s-
borne, city editor of the World, and
Washington L. Hughes, by-stander,
were killed. Pat Elliott, brother of the
editor of the Capital, was wounded, also
Cone Sullivan, John Reese, and G. E.
Gardiner, passers-by. Pat and w. ].
Elliott are under arrest. The shooting
was done by the Elliotts and Osborn.
jay Sperry and Curt Diday, two
youths, aged about 16, and sons of Erie
Engineers Nell Sperry and John Diday,
respectively, Of Gallon, stole So and $12
from their homes recently and went
West on the bumpers of cars to grow
up with the country. A dispatch from
small town in Indiana summoned the
boys fathers thither, and upon arrival
they found that young Diday had fallen
under train, lost an arm, and is so
badly injured about the head that his
life is despaired of.
-Tiffin was thrown into terrible
state of excitement the other night by
what was supposed to be the shock of
an earthquake. Every house in the
town was shaken to its very foundation,
and the people rushed from their homes
in abject terror. Reports from Fostoria,
Findlay, North Baltimore, Toledo, Re-
public and Upper Sandusky indicate
that the shock was felt all over North
western Ohio. 1t is now supposed that
the cause was the explosion of a nitro
glycerine deposit
Edward Griffin, who is serving ten
year sentence in the peniteutiary for
burglary committed in Hamilton County,
assaulted colored fellow-convict, Julius
Thompson, who was sent from Licking
County on three years. sentence for
larceny. They work in Patton's grind
ing-room. At the command of a guard,
Thompson took wheel-barrow, which
Griffin had been using, when the latter
beat him on the head with a monkey
wrench. The hardness of Thompson's
head saved him from death, but he was
seriously injured.
There is much comment on the dis
coVery that more men relatively are en-
ployed in the Ohio schools than in those
of any other Northern State On the
contrary, Massachusetts leads in the
proportion of women teachers. Some
persons are disposed to think that the
situation in Ohio is not creditable to the
State. But there is one fact which can
not be disputed, and that is that the
Ohio schools in every worthy regard
compare favorably with those of Massa-
chusetts or any other State in the
Union.
While duck hunting at Mad River,
near Springfield, Matthew Garretty made
find which points to the commission
of horrible crime, either in Springfield,
or vicinity. He was walking along in
field owned by Harvery Hughes, when
he noticed sickening stencil. In mo-
ment he came upon the body of man
which had been cast up by the food in
Mad River The body was mass of sick
enirg corruption. The most horrible
feature, however, was the fact that the
body was headless. Examination of the
corpse showed it to be that of a colored
man. Identification will be almost i'm
possible, owing to the advanced state of
decomposition of the body.
While stealing ride on the west
bound New York Limited, on the Pitts
burgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway,
| Grant Pugh, a well-knowa character of
Upper Sandusky, lost his hold ON the
trucks, on which he is supposed to have
been riding, fell under the train and was
literally cut to pieces, the track being
strewn with parts OF his body. This oc-
Cured about mile and half east of
| town, and what could be found of his re-
mains were taken to town or handcar
He was a dissipated young man. and was
probably under the influence of liquor at
the time. His Larents reside near Ada,
on farm, and are in good circum-
stances.
james Rudisell, venerable and re-
spected citizen of Cleves, met an untimely
death while taking dinner to his son,
who works at Lyle & Crows Coke Works,
| just above North Bend. After deliver
ing the dinner he turned to recross the
railroad. Just as he reached the middle
of the track the Big -Four express dashed
round the curve and struck the old gen.