Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-03-17
CONDENSED NEWS

A Collection Of Interesting Items on vari-
ons Subjects, Especially Prepared for
the Hasty Reader.
Mills, Hoar and Springer are sick in
Washington.
Work on the Tehuantepec railroad will
be begun Immediately.
The decrease Of the public debt during
February was g., ,4g7, 149
The Prohibitionists are squabbling
among themselves about holding their
national convention in St. Louis, and the
chances are Cincinnati will get it.
There is an exodus of negroes from Ar
kansas into the Cherokee strip.
The state department fails to confirm
the report that Mr.. Egan, our minister
to Chilli, is about TO return home.
Only eleven of the 200 fishermen blown
out to sea off the coast of Newfoundland
recently, have not been accounted for.
The Democratic convention Of jackson
county, Ills, is the first to instruct its
delegates to the national convention to
vote for Senator Palmer for president
Lillian Weeks, aged ten years, attend
ing school at Forty Fort, near Wilkes
barre, Pa, entered into a ejumping
contest with three other little girls. Lii
liam won the contest, jumping $40 times
without stopping, but she is now dead.
The two other girls are in a precarious
condition.
Rhode Island instructed her delegates
for Cleveland
The New York senate passed the anti
Pinkerton bill.
The Pan-American medical congress
will meet in Washington in September,
1893
the cities and towns in New York state
Tuesday. The returns show large Repub-
hcan gains.
A number of GAINESVILLE (O) capitalists
are out so, 900 on Knoxville CTenn.) real
estate boom which failed to pan out as
described on paper.
Within year it is expected Chicago
and New York will be connected by
long-distance telephone line.
1t is now claimed that the United States
and Great Britain may go to war over
the settlement of the Behring sea sealing
troubles.
A new association of iron and steel
manufacturers, representing thirty firms
in Pittsburg and the Ohio valley, and en-
ploying nearly 10000 men, has been or
ganized. 1t is stated that this organiza-
ton, which is entirely independent of the
Bar Iron Manufacturers association and
the Tin Plate association, will make a de-
termined effort for an early adjustment
of the wage scale. The association, it is
said, will demand from the Amalgamated
association a change in the base of the
scale which has heretofore been dictated
by the bar iron men.
It is said that James G.. Blaine, Jr., is
courting one of ''the Patten girls"
wealthy orphans well known in New
York, Washington and ST. Louis
Near Charlotte, N c., Peter Maher, the
defeated Irish pugilist, attempted suicide
by jumping from car window. He was
caught by the passengers. He was drunk.
At Owingsville, KY, Oscar Jones, the
negro murderer of Marshal Vice, Of
Sharpsburg, was convicted of murder and
sentenced to death. 1t was his second
murder.
A Cincinnati physician has discovered
remedy for consumption, which he claims
will cure without danger. 1t is founded,
he says, on Koch's treatment, but goes
further back.
John L. Sullivan has issued a challenge
to fight anybody in the world for a $25, 900
purse and side bet of $4,000. He is anx-
ious to have the challenge accepted by
either Frank P. Slavin, the Australian;
Charles Mitchell, of England, or James
Corbett, of San Francisco, or all of them.
The negro quarter of Memphis was the
scene Saturday night of another riot
Officers, in seeking to arrest gang Of
colored desperadoes, were attacked and
| fired at by the negroes, with the result
that Policemen G. Cole and E. Yerger
were fatally shot, and Officer Bob Har-
rold was seriously wounded.
Chicago has what is called Manasseh
society, the members being colored men
who have mareied white wives. The
society was organized Jan. 5, 1892, and
now has 120 members. The object Of this
association of miscegenationists is to es-
tablish society for class which is So
cially ostracised by both races. 1t is said
that there are 4s0 colored men living in
| Chicago with white wives.