Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-10-13
CONDENSED NEWS.

Gus subjects, Especially Prepared Tor
the Hasty Reader.
Legal steps are being taken to break up
the coal trust
The production of wines from Indiana
vineyards will be very large this year.
Numerous quarrels occur daily between
the union and non-union men employed by
the Carnegie interests in Pittsburg.
1t is thought that ex-Chief of Police
Anderson, of Somerset, KY, who assas-
sinated Editor Rucker, has skipped to
Mexico.
A number of colored persons of both
sexes have applied for matriculation at the
Chicago university. There is to be no color
regulation.
The work of construction will soon be
commenced on the proposed electric rail
way up Mount Popocatepetl.
At Terre Haute Ind, on a regulation
track, Nancy Hanks trotted a mile in 2;04,
breaking her own record made at Inde'
pendence, Ia, on a kite-shaped track.
Over 10000 people were presen.
The transmission of mails by pneumatic
tubes is to be tested in Philadelphia
shortly.
Major Handy has received notices from
nearly every great newspaper in the world
that special representatives will be in Chi
cago to attend the ceremonies Oct 81.
The remains of Jonathan Bass, the ossi-
fled man, have been placed in a vault at
the cemetery at Lockport, N. Y, which ia
simply great burglar-proof safe. 1t was
feared the doctors or the museums might
be after him.
The heaviest eight-wheel passenger en-
gine in America was sent out of the Union
Pacific shops, Omaha, Friday, to pull the
fast mail. With tender coaled up the en-
gine weighs 21S,OO0 pounds. 1t will run
between Cheyenne and Laramie over the
continental divide where grade of ninety
| five feet to the mile has to be surmounted.
Bermuda is endeavoring to make a
reciprocity treaty with our government.
Smallpox has broken out in the general
hospital in Toronto Where it came from
is not known.
President Young of the National League,
says base ball players must accept reduc-
tion of salaries or the game will be forced
to the wall
Patrick Egan, our Chilian minister now
| en- route home, is the bearer of the claims
treaty to settle differences between the
United States and Chilli. The president OF
each country is to appoint commissioner
and they third. The decisions are to be
final.
A unique club of New York capitalists
proposes to charter an ocean liner for a
seven months cruise, beginning in Janu.
ary. The vessel will afford all conve,
niences to the 200 passengers, who will pay
about 50, 900 apiece. All the worlds sea.
coast points of interest are to be visited.
Crimes and Casualties.
William Scanlan, of Oneonta, N. Y, cut
his wife's throat in fit of jealousy.
Near Bordentown, n. j., Mrs. Brown
strangled her own child end two of Will
lam Bowkers's. She is insane
Near Westbury, L. l., Mrs. Toner ant
her baby perished in their residence Goa
oil lamp exploded.
Near Huntington, w. Va, Mrs. JAM
Pike shot her nieces, the two eight ant
ten-year-old daughters of Charles Billups
The oldest may die. Old feud between tht
families Mrs. Pike was arrested.
Boilers in the Carbon Iron works, Pitts
burg, exploded, wrecking the buildings
The accident occurred during the change o.
crews and the mill was deserted. Other
wise the loss of life would undoubtedly
have been heavy, as 300 men were employed
near by.
A race war may result in Oklahoma be
cause the negroes object to separate school
for their children.
After the smoke of many revolvers hat
cleared away at fandango at Kyle, Tex.
Saturday night, Tom Ports, an American
and three Mexicans were found dead.
Mexican coffee planters at San BENT,
are short of labor. and are importing Gil
bert islanders, who they have under con
tract for three years at 81 per month.
Frank Cooley, the leader of the Coole.
gang of desperadoes in Pennsylvania, wa
shot and killed by Sheriff Mccormick a
his fathers home between Fairchance ant
Smithfield, Pa, Sunday. He and Jacl
Ramsey, another leader, were discovered il
a field full of stumps. After ten shots hat
been fired at the sheriff he shot Coole.
through the heart. Ramsey escaped bu
later was captured.
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