Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-07-28


OF the United States next year.
A car containing seventeen German en-
igants is quarantined in the Chicago and
northwestern yards at Milwaukee because
one of them, boy, has smallpox.
Crimes and Casualties.
During the prevalence of severe storm
in Richmond, Va, the lightning struck
house on Nicholson street, Just outside the
corporation limits, killing a man named
Dan Emmett, his wife and three children.
At Burton, Ark, Matte Ellis stabbed
Alex McCann to death because he refused
to help her wash dishes. Both aged eleven.
Near Newark, N. Y, a buggy containing
James Burns and two small sons was
struck at crossing. All were instantly
killed
Every house in Hiteman, Ia, was
wrecked by cyclone. Several people were
injured, but none fatally.
Simon Jacobs attended picnic at Grand
Island, near Buffalo, and allowed men TO
throw base balls at his head for five cents
a throw. One of the balls struck him on
the forehead and killed him instantly
A man named James Cockburn died at
Saginaw, Mich, Tuesday, from Asiatic
purple. The report of the mans death
created considerable alarm in the neighbor-
hood, the impression being that the case
had been one of Asatic cholera, as Cock
burn had come from Scotland about five
weeks ago.
-Four men were asphyxiated in ''junk"
at Louis Huch e. Sons tannery, Chicago,
Thursday Three of them are dead, and
the other one is in such precarious condi-
ton that the physicians in charge say he
can not recover. The dead are: Charles
Stelnert, twenty-three years of age; John
Rebachek, twenty-nine years of age mar
ried; Frank Speckowski, twenty-seven
years of age, married. The injured: Al
bert Schleger, twenty-six years of age,
married. All were overcome by the foul
atmosphere of the vat.
Collector H. II. McLane, of the Chicka-
saw nation, is defaulter for $1,000 and
has been removed by Governor Byrd
In an accident on the Norfolk and West
ern railroad near Rileyville, Friday, John
Stotfer freight conductor, and Austin
Funk, flagman, were killed.
AT the farm of Enoch Little in Daywood
county, Tenn, a steam thresher boiler eN.
ploded Friday, Peter Mason, colored, and
Lloyd Anderson being instantly killed,
and several Others badly wounded.
At Polish wedding at Mahoney City,
Pa, too much beer was indulged in and
fight resulted in which Mike Zelinski and
Mrs. Lepski, the bride, were fatally in
jured.
At Burns, near Nashville, Major J. III.
Wynn, a farmer, murdered his wife and
stepdaughter with an AK. He then went
to the house of son, two miles away, and
attempted to suicide with dirk, but was
unsuccessful.
A strange drowning occurred Sunday at
Detroit. A. B. Morris, proprietor of the
Hurd House, in Jackson, Mich, went to
Belle Isle park, in the Detroit river. He
says that he made the acquaintance there
of young man and young woman whose
names he can not now recall. They went
out rowing and crossed to the Canadian
side. On the return, in the Canadian chan
mel, they passed between two large vessels
that were in tow, and foolishly caught hold
of the towline. The rowboat was over
turned and his two companions were
drowned, while he was picked up by sailors
from the vessels.