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

-LeonidAs L. AmsY. Of Canton. CO.
victed Of . criminal assault on 7-yeaf-
old girl, has bean sentenced 10 the peui-
tentiarY for lIfe. W "a
The wife Of Amos Fox, afarmer near
Canton, has gone crazy on account Of thD
conviction Of her husband on charge q
assault and battery.
"A passenger train on the Wheeiing
and Lake Erie Railroad went through
trestIe near Bolivar. Four persons were
killed and eight injured.
The Daily Democrat Of Springfield
has been sued by Lizzie A. Bowman for
$4,000 damages on the ground Of al
legged libel and defamation Of character.
John Stanley, q fireman ON the Hook
ing Valley road, was knocked from his
engine at Columbus and rnn over and
killed. He leaves wife aad four chill
dren.
Photographer Richard Gano, OF
Springfield, was walking on trail plat
form on the rear Of his gallery, when the
scantling gave way and he fell thirty
four feet to an iron roof below, with
his neck squarely across an iron railing.
He remained unconscious for q long
time, and it was thought his neck was
broken. He was badly cut and bruised,
but is still alive, with prospects Of recov-
erV. M
| The Captain Of the North Side en-
CINE house, at Findlay, Samuel Burke,
has left the city, taking with him tho
December salaries of the men under him.
which he drew from the city treasury.
1t is said he was accompanied In MS
fight by woman of the town, with
whom he has long been infatuated Burke
is about As years old and leaves vile
and Eve children In Strengthened circum-
stances. Officers are in pursuit.
--Boutware's large chair factory Of
Mlllsboro, employing 125 hands, burned
to the ground The fire Is reported to
have caught in the third story from
light dropped into q varnish tank BY one
of the hands. Nearly all the fine ma
chinery and large portion of the manu-
factured goods was saved by removal
The loss will be $4,000 G. $4,000; no In
surance. The factory has only been Ia
operation about one year.
There is good deal OF excitement
ON Southern avenue, Springfield, from
the mysterious outbreak Of fires In the
residence Of Mrs. Jane McGowen. Dur
ing the paat few days clothing, papers,
tablecloths, and on one occasion the
kitchen shutters have caught fire from
inexplicable causes. The case Is deeply
mysterious, and the entire neighborhoPd
I is alarmed. These mysterious outbreaks
s Of fire have been eight or nine In num-
Der.
! Allen Green, 70 years Of age, was
standing on the railroad track at New
ark, waiting for train to pass, when an
. east-bound Panhandle freight engine
+ struck him, knocking him under the
wheels. His left leg was crushed to the
hip, left arm and hand mangled, and
Q great hole cut in his forehead over tne
left eye. He begged not to have his 4
;. crushed limbs taken of, but the doctors
q had to amputate them. Green died from
" hds injuries.
Last March Rudolph Craig, o glass
u worker, of Wellsburg, w. Va, gave hi'
D. 4-year-old child to Mrs. Wilsor
'e Hymes, of Martinsberry, to keep. III
was married again, and Mrs. Hymes 70
d fused to surrender the child. The othel
III night he went to her residence, accom-
panied by his two sisters, knocked Mrs
Hymes down, and held her while the tw'
q, sisters kidnapped the child, and tn
20 three 1ed. A warrant has been issues
AZ for his arrest
Fritz f. Russman, farm laborer
9 was killed at Bucyrus by being throw
70 from his wagon In the Toledo and Cen
~ tral Ohio yards. His horse becam
frightened, and tsfore 1t could be con
y trolled o wheel of the wagon struc
., against o switch-target, and he wa
- thrown out in front of yard engin
that was making running switch. II
ns man was horribly mangled, and was dea
60 before his friends got to him. Russma
OF was about 65 years Of age.
's Martins Ferry has an Irish woma
who has accomplished something Signc
: succi, the great Italian faster, canne
= do Her name is Mrs. Timothy Cali
'e' han, aged 70, and she has lived fou
~ months on milk and tea. Her SON, Del
mis-, says that for seven years prior
2, his marriage he never saw his moth'
~. ~ eat q bite of bread, and she would nj
l.l eat two slices OF bread In two week
7" This is not on account of poverty, b.
4, because of stomach trouble. Mrs ca
~ lahan has reared seven children.
.e John Brennan, agent Of the G. Il.
'y' D. at Bay City, on the Bowling Gre'
'" Branch, was murdered for his none
He was enticed into small frame bull
'hs ing near the station. where he was mu
A0' dered in On unknown manner, al
ne, robbed Of s24O. The murderers th'
Sf' set fire to the building. and the renal
were charred beyond recognition befo
eh being recovered. Brennan was only
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