Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-02-26
Minor State Items.

Joseph l.. Rearick, OF Trio, was
found dead in bed at the Grand Central
Hotel, Mansfield. He blew out the gas.
-Adolph Bannholzer, of Springfield,
respondent over the death of his wife,
committed suicide.
Fire destroyed the Enterprise Man
ufacturing Company's factory, Akron.
Loss $40,0 Miss Nettie Cruise was fa-
tally burned.
"A 1-year-old child of Mr.. John Her.
ring, of Upper Sandusky, was perhaps
fatally scalded by the overturning of a
CUP of coffee.
Miss Ida Benke, aged IS, of Dayton,
fell dead at the dinner table. The Cor
oner was called and thinks the young
lady's death resulted from apoplexy.
James Herman Wenner, Cincin-
natl photographer, has been arrested on
the charge of obtaining money by false
pretenses. His victim is John Frey.
James Ward, aged 16, was arrested
at London, for burglarizing store of
j. E. Gaib, at Newport Some of the
stolen goods were found in his pos
session.
The Governor has granted a respite
to Stanley c. Jones, the Lake County
murderer, now confined in the peniten-
tiary annex, until May 8. Jones was to
be executed on March G.
Mrs. Eva Keys has been arrested in
Cincinnati, at the instance of the au-
thorities of Boone County, KY, who
want her to answer the charge of par
ticipation in the shanty boat murder.
Ladies in Springfield and other Ohio
cities have commenced crusade against
obscene theatrical posters. White paper
was pasted over the legs. of the Folly
Burlesque Company's pictures on the bill
boards.
John Rowe, young man employed
at the Chicago Lumber Company's saw
mill, at Ironton, met with q peculiarly
horrible accident He was working at
the lath-mill, and the machinery hurled
lath at him, the end penetrating the
eye socket, taking the combined strength
of two men to pull the lath out of the
wound. He will lose his eye.
DIR. L. E. Russell, surgeon of the
Big Four Railroad, reports that the
Southwestern Limited train from Gin
cinnati, was fired into by some mis-
creant, about one mile west of Dayton.
The physician was sitting in the seat
next to the window which was shattered
by the bullet, and his face was cut by
the flying glass. Searching parties are
out trying to find the guilty party.
Lewis Ballion, section-band on the
Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago
Railroad, was killed while helping to un-
load car of lumber at the round house
at Alliance. While at work on top he
lost his balance and fell to the ground,
the lumber also falling he was struck on
the head by sharp corner of one of the
pieces, crushing in his skull, killing him
instantly.
"A wonderful surgical operation was
performed, at Springfield, in the case of
Mrs. Flora, of Kansas, daughter of Rev.
w. A. Gross. 1t was nephrectomy, or
removal of floating kidney, and is one
of the few operations of the kind ON
record. The kidney had been loose four
years, and had developed several poison
oh xubioh Ino1 III
ing the patient. The operation lasted an
hour and a quarter. 1t is not known
whether the lady will recover.
Susan Machamer of Hartville, a
weak-minded girl, was burned in hor-
rible manner by her clothing igniting
from fire in the kitchen stove. She ran
out of the house and her father and
mother succeeded in smothering the
flames, but the girl was so badly burned
that recovery is thought impossible. Mr..
and Mrs. Machamer were badly burned
about the hands while trying to extin-
guish the fire.
A treacherous-looking man nearly
six feet tall, giving his name as Fred
Sanders, of Dayton, was arrested at
Mansfield, and identified as the party
offering little girls pennies and candy
for revolving deed.
Samuel Lowder, Of GAINESVILLE,
drummer. attempted to board moving
train on the B. 6 0. bridge at Bellaire,
slipped and fell beneath the wheels, and
was ground to pieces. Being promi-
nent X. of p, the Order took charge and
sent his remains home.