Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-01-22
Minor state Items.

Minor State Items.
Three convicts escaped from the
penitentiary by scaling the walls.
William Rye, q miner, was struck
and killed by train, near Alliance.
Robert McCreary, B. &c o. brake
man, fell off train near Newark, and
received fatal injuries.
Armstrong Bros, boiler manufac-
turers, Springfield, assigned. Liabili-
ties, 100000; assets, 100000.
In wreck on the Panhandle at
Woodstock, twenty cars were demol-
ished, causing loss of$3o,o00.
The Tippecanoe Club, of Cleveland,
has rendered banquet to Major Nc
Kinley, March 23 being the date.
Miss Grace Hathaway, of Kent, aged
20, deranged from over-study, committed
suicide by drinking carbolic acid.
Hon. L. B. Gunckel has written a
letter declining the appointment of Man
ager of the Soldiers Home, Dayton.
Michael Kurila, a Hungarian laborer,
was killed by the Cleveland and Pitts
burgh work train at Mingo Junction.
The next convention of the Repub-
lican League of the United States will
be held in Cincinnati April 81 and %.
Patrick Birmingham, veteran of
of Fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, was
found near Sandusky, frozen to death.
"A. w. Smith, of Newark, took dose
arsenic, by mistake, he claims. Prompt
use of the stomach pump saved his life.
Thomas Davidson, well-known
farmer of Franklin Township, Adams
County, was sent to the Athens Insane
Asylum.
Six cars loaded with merchandise
were wrecked on the Panhandle Rail-
road, near Newark, by two sections Of
the train coming together.
Henry w. Mumford has been ar,
rested and is in jail at Urbana, charged
with completely in the Adams Express
robbery.
"A shortage of $1,000 has been dis
covered in the accounts of the Teutonic
Building Association, Of Cincinnati,
caused by a payment of excessive divi-
dends.
AT Findlay Levi People has brought
suit against the Nickel Plate Railway
for $1,000 damages for the death of his
brother, who was killed by train a
month ago.
The suit Of Stanley, against the Gins
cinnati Street Railroad Company, tried
at Lebanon, resulted in verdict for
$4,000 for the plaintiff as damages for
the loss of a leg.
,sssa Rev. Hugh Reed, of Youngstown,
III who was suspended by the Reformed
Presbyterian Synod, it isstated, will join
the United Presbyterian Church, and
take charge of a congregation at Xenia.
John Hall, IS years of age, attempting
to jump on moving Cleveland ana
Pittsburgh freight train, near his htm
In Toronto, Jefferson County, fell oe-
meath the wheels, and was instantly
killed
Gov. Campbell has pardoned William
D. Smith, OF Putnam County, who was
serving a sentence Of one year for for
gerry. Smith had only fourteen days to
serve, and his pardon was granted that
be might be able to see his mother, who
is dying.
Robert Poultney, a furnace man at
Youngstown, had verdict for $4,000
rendered against him by Judge john
ston In suit for breach ~0f promise by
Miss Jeanette Burns. Poultney is we'll
of, and the plaintiff young and hand
some.
Walter Sefert, Of Alliance, aged 25,
unmarried, railroad fireman, in jump
ing from his engine whileit was in mo-
tion, at Toledo Junction, got his left
arm entangled in some way in the ma
chinery, and had it torn off at the elbow.
( He will probably die.
Post and Harding, two of the con-
yicts who escaped from the penltentiary
recently, were captured at Bucyrus.
Justice Mat Martin, of Columbus,
delivered an opinion on q point OF law
which has never before been iudicially
construed, and which is Of prime i'm
j portancc to business men. The opinion
covered the point as to whether car
service or demurrage can be collected.
twas held, in a very able opinion BY
Magistrate Martin, that car service can
be collected