Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-05-19
CONDENSED NEWS

a Collection of Interesting Ite.as On vari-
Gus Subjects. Especially Prepared foe
the Hasty Reader.
The Ohio supreme court has affirmed the
decision OF the lower courts sentencing to
death by hanging Edward Mccarthy and
Charles Craig, Cincinnati murderers Craig
killed his mistress, and Mccarthy Charles
Nederman without cause. Craig Is a negro.
Big rains In Kansas and corresponding
damages to crops
1t Is claimed by Harrison's friends that
he will have 442 votes on the first ballot
or more than enough to elect
Archbishop Cor1tgan now states that the
papal decision regarding the Faribault
school question was in favor of himself and
bis adherents and against Archbishop Ire
land.
New York capitalists will build an irri-
eating reservoir in Box Canon, A. T.,
which will hold over 10O,OO0, ,OOO, 900 cubic
feet of water. The dam will be 200 feet
high. Owing to the close proximity of
building material the cost is estimated at
but 8, 10000
ARA won the Kentucky derby by short
nose.
A hailstorm did much damage in the
District of Columbia.
Speaker Crisp is of the opinion that the
house will complete all the work before it
and get home by the middle of July. Other
members of the house say Aug. l.
The sum of $3.50 was realized by Mrs
Slaughter, of Little Rock, who charged an
admission fee of ten cents for view of her
son, who had been hanged All the while
an effort was being made to bring him to
life.
Nothing is now supposed to be left of the
Standard oil trust, The last visible sign
of it was removed Wednesday, when the
trustees met in New York and declared a
dividend on the S95, 100000 of outstanding
certificates, payableJune 10. The dividend
disposed of the assets, which consisted
wholly of cash. with the exception of some
bonds, amounting to only few thousand
! dollars
1t is believed that Indianapolis will Sc
cure the next Grand Army encampment.
Negroes in Texas have formed an organi-
Zation to avenge the wrongs on their race.
Englishmen are disguised because the
Inman line of steamers will fly the Ameri-
can flag.
The St. Croix river in Wisconsin has a
log jam at Eagle island five miles long. 1t
contains $50 600, 900 feet of lumber.
At Nashville, Ills, Henry Dickerson and
Tom Davis negroes, were hanged for the
murder of a Jew peddler in December, 1891.
The Indiana weather crop bulletin says
while wheat. oats, grass and fruit are in
good condition, corn is very far behind,
owing to rains
The statistics show that in the whole or.
ganization of the Knights of Labor, there
is not one Chinaman. Nearly every other
foreign nation is represented.
At Cleveland John Anderson, who mar
ried twenty-six women in the last few
years. and who robbed his last victim oi
l,200, was given seven years.
The mines and mining buildings at the
worlds fair grounds, Chicago, are finished
1t is the first of the big white palaces by
the lake to be completed, but there are sev
eral others closely following it, and which
will be finished in few days These arr
the women's building, the horticultural
building and the transportation buildings
A letter addressed by DR.. D. j. MCGOWAN
for many years an American missionary il
China, to Secretary Blaine through The
United States consul general at Shanghai
and the United legation at Pekin dated
March 81, says China is not anxious to have
her citizens come to this country; that she
has plenty of room for them at home; that
they are at the bottom of revolutions, ant
that as a nation she has a right to demand
to be treated as other nations DR.. Nc
Gowan has lived in China longer than any
other American.