Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-02-19
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denies that II Is party to any trust, but
sdmits the conversion Of certain pafthef.
ship into corporate interests. and pleads
the statute Of Limitation. b
Miss Sarah Faeklel. aged about
seventeen, living with DR. w. Il. VIII
lette, at Harrison, while emptylng some
liye Goals from bucket in some way FER
apron caught fire, then her dress, and Il
being calico was soon in a blaze. Her
cries brought DIR. Willette to her assist
ence, and throwing his oyercoat around
her succeeded in smotheriDg the flames,
but not until she was seriously burned
about the hips and back, besides inhal.
ing the flames. She is In a dangerous
condition.
The Ohio Valley Fair Circuit repre-
sentatiyes have decided to hold fairs In
the following order: Macarthur, O., be-
ginning July 2s; Hillsboro, Portsmouth,
Chillicothe, Carthage, Washington G. e.,
London, Dayton. and closing with the
Ohio State Fair at Columbus, September
10. The present officers of the Ohio
Valley Fair Circuit are as follows:
President II. s. Grimes, Portsmouth;
Vice-President, Albert French, Madison
vile; Treasurer, s. d. HamH,el, Garth
age; Secretary, D. Q. Morrow
-Wm. Wolpert, an old emrloye Of the
Lockland Lumber Company, was terri
bly,, If not fatally, injured, while operat-
ing a cutoff saw in the mill. He was
engaged in cutting of board when the
rope broke, letting the saw slip forward,
striking him in the lower part Of the
abdomen, cutting cash about six
ineaes long, allowing the intestines to
protrude. He was taken to his home in
Reading, where his injuries were
dressed. His condition is very critical.
Mr.. Wolpert has been an employe Of the
lumber company for twenty years.
Three Important prisoners, George
Burke, indicted for burglary, larceny
and arson; Mike Kelly, indicted for bur-
glary, and VIM. Briggs, indicted for
rape, escaped from jail at Steubenville.
Sheriff Opperman let the prisoners out Of
their cells into the corridors, and then
went to get them their breakfasts. When
he returned ten minutes later he found
the three men had escaped through
window, from which the bars had pre-
viously been sawed. The alarm was Inn
mediately given, and Burke was recap
tured, but Briggs and Kelly are still at
large.
For weeks East Liverpool has been
having the most remarkable revival in
it's history. Thus far there have been
over eleven hundred converts. Twenty
women and twenty men formed twenty
committees of two each and visited
every saloon in the city, about forty.
five in number, insisting ON the keepers
closing up and embarking in more
honorable business. The committees re.
port being treated very politely in most
cases. A few saloon-keepers ordered
them out and others threatened tc Call
the police. At several places the COM
mittees kneh down and prayed in the
saloons and at others on the pavement
outside.
The smeke-house Of Mr.. John Kin
dig, who resides three miles from Dayton,
took fire and burned to the ground.
While the fire was raging the fiercest,
and Mr.. and Mrs. Kindig were trying to
prevent 10 from spreading to the other
property, Mrs. Kindig's aged mother
went to assist in putting out the fire.
Mrs. Kindig saw her mother tottering
hither and thither, and went to her, led
her to the house, and assisted her to sit
down in an easy chair in the sitting
room, and told her to remain quiet. The
old lady grew quite nervous at the idea
OF the fire consuming the house, and evi-
IDENTIFY took a sinking SPELL for when
Mrs. Kindig returned to the house she
found her mother dead in the chair.
Mrs. J. L.. McClinton, nee Monnett,
committed suicide by taking aconite, at
the residence Of her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Oliver Monnett, eight miles north
of Marion. Miss Dimmie Monnett--the
lady's maiden name--was married re-
Gently, very much against the will Of her
parents, to J.. L. McCunton, and in order
to effect the marriage ceremony, accom-,
panied McClinton to Kentucky, where they
were married. Before death the young
lady informed her parents of her rash
act and asked their pardon; also, ex-
pressed her regrets. Her parents are
wealthy, and her father is a prosperous
farmer and well flxed in life. They are
overwhelmed with grief and have the
sympathy of the community.
The town Of Fredericksburg was
badly shaken up at an early hour the
other morning by violent explosion,
causing everybody to rush out on the
streets, expecting To hear Of another safe
being blown, but insteadit was the blow
ing up Of the part of an old building near
the depot, in which saloon had taken
|up quarters. That part Of the building
was literally torn to pieces, and strange
to say the part in which two families
were living, was not harmed to the ex-
bent of causing any injury to the in
mates, who were asleep The town has
been dry ever since the Dow law was
passed, until this man set up and
claimed to sellonly stomach bitters, but