Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-03-24
CONDENSED NEWS.

A Collection of Interesting Items on vari-
GUS Subjects, Especially Prepared for
the HAsty Reader.
Governor Brown, of Kentucky, has
signed the lottery bill, which makes deal
ing in lottery tickets felony. One of the
leading agencies in Louisville closed Tues
day in anticipation and the others will
probably follow.
Corbett and Brady met Tuesday and
Corbett covered Sulliyan's $500 deposit,
and articles were signed for Sullivan and
Corbett to fight for $4,000 a side and a
purse of S25, 600 at the Olympic club, in
New Orleans, on Sept. z.
Miss Ladkia Manthey German girl of
Newark, n. j., has become the bride of
Fong Lee, a Chinese laundryman.
1t is estimated that cattle to the value
of 100000 perished in the blizzard that
swept over Indian Territory this week.
q Texas soil yields S45 worth of fax to the
acre, which pays better than cotton. The
flax is said to be equal to the best Irish
grown.
Great interest in the beet sugar industry
is being shown by farmers in the north
western part of Ohio. A factory is pro-
jected at som of the larger cities.
The nomination of Judge Woods, of In
diana, as United States circuit judge of
the court of appeals, was confirmed by the
senate, the vote being 25 for confirmation
to "A against.
The great Alta irrigation district sys-
TEN of canals in Colorado has been com
pleted. and l. running full of water, prac-
tically irrigating 10000 acres of land.
Five hundred miles of canals and dis
tributing bitches are in operation. The
bonds are owned by residents.
Fl. L. Nelson and S. G. jackson, of Kerr
vile, Tex, have made the following
wager on horse race: Three hundred
head of stock, twenty head of saddle
horses, III acre; of land and $500 in cash
each side.
At Akron, o., Clifton Wright, a travel.
ing salesman, suicided by taking poison
in a saloon " III number of people look
ing at him. They thought it was a bluff.
Two years ago he married a Miss Berth,
of Bowling Green, KY. They did not live
happily.
Yellow fevar continues to rage in Rio
Janeiro. Nearly 500 deaths in fort
night.
1u6 laU0 severe SHOW SUOFul mas uten
very hard on cattle in Colorado and Texas,
1t is estimated that at least $4,000 have
perished.
At Cincinnati the coroner will investi-
gate the death of an infant whose parents
called in Christian Scientist healer in
stead of giving medicine
The famous thirteen trees, planted by
Alexander Hamilton, as symbolic of the
thirteen original states, on the old
Hamilton Grange" now at about One
Hundred and Forty-second street, New
York, will fall, not from the woodman' s
AK, but from the auctioneer's hammer,
next Tuesday, and the place of pilgrim
age will be obliterated.
Gamblers propose a Monaco with 81 )
100000 capital at Minneapolis.
White Caps flogged three women near
Dublin, Ga, for loose conduct.
Mrs Malinda Crump was sent to Jail at
snGreenup, KY, to await the action of the
grand jury. She is charged with MUIR
dering her husband.
The Republicans claim to have some
hope of carrying North Carolina and Vir-
ginia owing to the Cleveland and Hill
factions and the Farmers Alliance.
Near Rockcastle, KY, Simon Thorton,
negro, found box on his gatcpost 1t
contained small coffin, a moose, a rope,
some bullets, and notice to leave the
country. He claims he is innocent
Near Springfield, MINI, John Laney,
four sons and a daughter perished in their
burning residence.