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

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charged.
"A l4-year-old daughter Of Elbern
Reed, residing three miles from MSh-
chester, fell into the fire while in spAsm
and was fatally burned.
"A family Of three resides in Cham
paign County, whose ages aggregate 2l9
years. They are John Baker, aged-s4;
his wife, Eva Baker, aged 50, and his
sister, Miss Drummer, aged So years. =
Citizens Of Stonelick are greatly ey-
cited over the antics of mad dog be-
longing to George Davis, colored man.
The son of the owner of the dog was
badly bitten and was taken to Cleves to
have maidstone applied. A number Of
dogs and other animals were bitten be-
fore the rabid animal was killed.
Sheriff Keen, while taking the suppers
to the prisoners in the jail at Batavia, no.
ticed box leaning up against the wall,
and, suspecting something, kicked it
aside, and found hole fourteen inches
in circumference dug out of the wall. The
prisoners had made all preparations to
go, having their coats and hats in their
hands.
in the case of levi Lambright VS..
the New York, Chicago and st. Louis
Railroad Company, in the Coourt of Com
mon Pleas at Tifin, the jury returned a
verdict in favor of the plaintiff for S10,-
900. The plaintiff was an employe of the
railroad company, and lost leg while
in the discharge of his duty. His foot
was caught and held in an open space of
a frog which is required by law to be
filled.
Some days since Col. ]. Pocock, COM
manding the Seventeenth Regiment o.
N. g., telegraphed to President Harrison,
offering the services of his regiment in
case it was needed in the Indian war
then threatening. In answer to second
offer of the regiments services, made by
letter, the Presidents private Secretary
sent word to Col. Pocock that the offer
had been referred to the Secretary of
War.
Congress Lake, near Canton, claimed
as State property by the Board of Public
Works, and for number of years used
by private citizens for the cutting of ice
and as a summer resort, will be investi-
gated, and If the States claim is found
to be valid, proceedings will be COM
menced to reclaim the property and col
lect money for ice taken in the past.
The lake contains about one thousand
acres, and has been regarded as valu-
able.
-Four floors of the seed ware house of
Churchill & Shoemaker, Superior street,
Toledo, fell through to the cellar. There
were between forty and fifty thousand
bushels of clover seed in the building and
the weight was too much for the floor.
The damage will amount TO about $20,-
900. The walls Of the building are still
standing, and fortunately no one was in
jured, as the cracking timbers gave
warning in time for everybody to escape.
This building was burned last spring,
and it is supposed that the floors were
. not substantially replaced.
, There is CONSERVATION among Column
bus consumers of natural gas. For some
time the supply, which is obtained from
the wells at Thurston, owned by the Col
umbus Natural Gas Company, has been
failing, and in the fall the supply was
cut off from the manufacturing institu-
tions, and it was announced that the gas
would be furnished only for domestic
consumption. For some days. the pres
sure, despite the fact that only residences
and business houses were supplied, has
been very low, and the officers of the
company warned consumers that they
should, as a precaution, have supply Of
coal on hand.
State Veterinary Surgeon Howells,
of Dayton, is at Darrtown Investigating
a singular epidemic that has broken out
among the horses in that vicinity. Ell.
d. Kyger has been the principal sufferer.
A few days ago he lost his fine stallion,
John Henderson, a half br1ther of Kit
Curry, and has since lost three other
valuable horses by the disease. One of
these horses was full brother OF Ed.
Craig; another was fine young mare,
! which Mr.. Kyger valued at $1,000. The
malady seems to be the result Of poison.
The mouth swells up, the tongue be-
comes paralyzed, and after lingering q
few days the animal dies.
Baron Charles Won Winterfeld was
found at 80 Hamilton street, Cleveland,
by Infirmary investigators, lying Ill with
typhoid fever, alone, and without money.
He was sent to the Infirmary Hospital.
Winterfield belongs to rich and noble
family in Westphalia. Germany, and his
elder brother is now the head of the
house. Some ten years ago Charles, who
was an army officer, left Germany for
some cause, and came to America. He
married here, and for several years past
has lived in Cleveland, at one time being
! reporter on the Wdectter am Eric.
Things went wrong, family trouble arose,
his wife sued for divorce and at last, i'll
and alone, he was sent to the Infirmary.
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glycerine Company, located between