Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-01-15

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to Mt. Vernon, on the ground that it
would be unjust to the property owners.
Miss Taylor, Of Yellow Springs,
committed suicide by taking strychnine.
She has been crippled for many years.
This, with the fact that she has no
known relatives living, is believed to be
the cause.
Considerable excitement was Occa-
stoned at Chnlicothe, by the arrest for
violation of the Sunday law, of Sam
Strauss, the proprietor of a ''speak-
easy" saloon on High street. Strauss
was fined IS and cost. Mayor Cole has
warned all the saloon men that any ef-
fort to violate the law will be promptly
punished.
Misses Maggie and Mary Hopp and
Sadie Rowe, respectable daughters Of
farmers at Youngstown Hill, while re-
turning from an evening visit with
friend, were attacked by three young
men in secluded ravine and assaulted.
The girls recognized their assailants as
Tom and James Miller and John Reese,
young men of the neighborhood. War
rants have been issued and the parties
will be arrested.
Emanuel Richardson, aged 20,
brakeman in the Dayton, Fort Wayne
and Chicago Railroad yards at Dayton,
was standing on the draw-bar Of box
car as it was being thrown on side
track. Richardson's feet slipped off
the draw-bar and he fell in front of the
fast moving car. Both legs were cut off
above the knees, and he died. He leaves
young wife and three little children to
mourn his loss.s
Henry Whern, the man who murdered
Jas. Boothe at Post Boy, on Christmas
morning, had hearing before the Mayor
at New Philadelphia, the other day. He
entered a plea of not guilty, but aclnowl-
edged to one of his captors that he was
the man wanted. When coming through
Canal Dover, mob took after the officers,
and for short time it looked as though
he might be tried by Judge Lynch.
The west bound Panhandle train,
about one mile east of Coshocton, ran
into two hand cars containing twenty
two of their worxmen. John Curran
and Robert Davis, of Steubenville, were
instantly killed and terribly mutilated.
Another, Capt. Burgess, of Allegheny,
received injuries from which he can not
possibly recover, The other men saved
their lives by Jumping. All three of
those killed and injured were old men,
with families depending ON them.
The two men, Charles Barton and VIM.
Clew, who peached on Ezra Tompkins
for firing his building in Johnstown on
December 10, are now in Jail charged
with the same crime. VIM. O'Connor, of
Newark, filed affidavit against them be-
fore Justice Pigg, and they were taken
into custody by officers Fox, Sasser and
Wilson. In testifying against Tomp-
kins these men eliminated themselves.
1t is intimated that they were hired to
swear Tompkins did the firing.
"A horrible accident occurred at the
Union Depot, Cleveland, John Leberer,
young man employed in the baggage
room, being cut to pieces in the presence
of a hundred people. He jumped off one
truck to escape switch engine and was
knocked down and run over by another
| locomotive. His head, one arm and
leg were completely severed, and the
different parts of his remains lay scat
tered about the platform after the loco
motive had passed. The sight sickened
everybody who saw it. Leberer was rs
years old and single.
"A controlling interest in the Column
bus Evening Post Company, has been
purchased by Judge Joshua Seney, of
Toledo The stock transferred was part
of that owned by Messrs. S. G. McCol
Tough and Edmund and Frank Smith, all
the other local stockholders retaining
their interests. Judge Seney will direct
the political policy Of the paper. Mr..
David S. Tarbell, will remain as manag-
ing editor and Mr.. Mccullough will have
charge of the business department. 1t is
understood there will be no radical
change in the policy of the paper.
| AT Mansfield, Judge May rendered a
decision in the case against Peter Acker-
man, charged by other BARRIERS with
keeping his shop open on Sunday.
Numerous complaints were filed in the
Mayors court against Ackerman, the al
legged offense not being denied by de-
fendant. The Mayor declined to hold
the defendant guilty of violation OF law
and the case was carried to the Common
Pleas Court Judge May rendering the
decision that the defendant is guilty as
charged in the affidavit and that his
keeping his barbar shop open on Sunday
is a violation of the law.
4 Charles Craig, the Cincinnati colored
man received at the penitentiary last
week, under sentence Of death, shows
signs Of extreme piety, and on arising in
the morning offers prayer, reads chap
ter from the Bible before breakfast, and
asks blessing before each meal. When
he asked Isaac Smith, Stanley Jones and
Ed Blair to join him in his first prayer,
the last named laughed at him, when