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

A CoElccttoa of Interesting Items on vRri-
Gus Subjects, Especially Prepared for
the HsstJ Reader. ''o,-
Miss Lille johnson, who was with Alice
Mitchell when she cut the throat of Freda
Ward, was limited to bail.
Two of the soldiers sent to Coal Creek,
Tenn.,, to guard convict miners are on
trial for desertion and another has been
convicted.
Chill says she can not afford to make q
display at the worlds fair.
| There is movement on foot among the
negroes of Nashville to start migration
to. Oklahoma next fall. About 1000
names are al aady on the list and the in
dications are that many more will be-
added.
The Peoples party will meet in Omaha.
| July to nominate national ticket.
| 1t is clafmrl that another movement is
on foot in Cuba to throw off the Spanish
yoke. Thou ands of Cubans in the United
States are said to be ready to assist their
oppressed fellow countrymen at home
General j. V. Meserole, of New York,
has given Mrs. Theodore Larbig, tf"
widow of the man killed in Brooklyn by
his son, who was afterward acquitted,
81, 900. The widow was in poor circnnn-
stances.
| The jury in the trial at San Francisco
of Actor Curtis, charged with killing a
policeman several months ago, after be-
ing out one hight and one day, failed to
agree and IS discharged. 1t stood ten
for conviction and twelve for acquittal.
The largest illicit distillery ever known
in Alabama--or even in the south-was
captured by evenue officers in Cleburne
county Tuesday. The distillery was op-
Grated by acknowledgements engine,
and had a capacity of 700 gallons of
whisky daily Ten feet from it was a
small brick house, containing thirty
stacks of f. earns. Five moonshiners
were caught and the stills blown up with
dynamite,
The officers of the whisky trust have
been indicted.
1t is proposed by the house to utilize
army officers as Indian agents.
Father L. w. Mulhane, of Mount Yer
non, O., denies that he got drunk and
spent his time in revelry while in Chatta-
nooga.
At Shoals, Ind, William Fitch was SEN
fenced to two years. He married his
sweetheart in the Jail befdtes leaving for
the penitentiary.
i The story comes from Benson, MINI,
that Bertha Carnahan, of that place, is to
marry Samuel Kahn, better known as
major Atom" Bertha is twenty years
old and twenty eight inches in height and
weighs forty pounds. The "Major" is
nineteen years old, thirty two inches high,
and weighs sixty-fve pounds
Secretary Blaine has written letter in
regard to the separation of his son James
G., .Jr., from his wife. He declares th, t
the separation was not caused by his (the
secretarys) wife, as was alleged by thu
South Dakota judge, and criticizes the
priest who married the young couple.
When they were married young Blaine
was not eighteen, while his wife was
twenty-one.
The United States supreme court has
declared the Mckinley bill constitutional;
Chief Justice Fuller and Justice Lamar
dissenting. It also decided that the
United States had jurisdiction over the
Behring sea; that Fielden and Schwab,
the Chicago anarchists, must remain in
Illinois penitentiary; that the speaker of
the national house of representatives had
the power to count q quorum.
Crimes and Casualties.
On board the steamer John K Speed,
on the Ohio, near Aurora, Ind, Second
Mate Daugherty attempted to shoot q
mutinous negro roustabout, missed him,
hit and probably fatally wounded Charles
Pikey, a wealthy Missouri stock raiser,
who was on board.
AT Beaver Falls, Pa, a desperate fight
/ between police officers and three toughs,
: supposed to be burglars, took place when
the former attempted to arrest the latter.
As result two men are dying and two
others are badly wounded, one of the lat
! ter being an officer. The wounded men
refused to reveal their identify They
: are supposed to hail from Pittsburg.
At New Orleans Mike Walsh killed Pat
!. Handley and John Cople by cutting their
throats with razor Old quarrel Self
defense.
At Lexington, KY, William Shields,
J. agent for the w Weideman Brewing company
at Lexington, fired charge Of shot into
the neck of Patrick Hanna while in the
2 formers saloon Shields claims self-de-
fense and surrendered himself to the po-
lice. Shield and Hanna are both saloon
. keepers.
Near Cincinnati two trains on the Gin
cinnati Northern collided, killing En-
lcineer Collins and probably fatally
/ wounding Catha rine Flynn, passenger.
Foreign.
The Russian government will transport
from and return to St. Petersburg, free of
charge, all exhibits for the worlds fair.
] This insures a large display.
At Menin, Austria, young woman
! suspected of having murdered her hus-
| band was burned to death by lynchers.
They poured coal oil onyher clothes and
set it on fire.
L Another plot to kill the czar is said to
have been nipped in the bud.
Three hundred thousand Germans,
whose ancestors settled in the Volga prov
inces of Russia during the reign of the
! Empress Catherine the Second aIui by her
! invitation, are preparing to emigrate to
, the United States
! Deaths.
e. NJ Chamberlain, the noted labor re-
former, woman suffragist, temperance adj
vocate, aboliuionist and greenbacker, in
Boston, of grip.
= General George Cullum, U. S. A., corps
I. of engineers, retired, at his home in
Scranton, Pa, aged eighty-three years.
Fires.
The Abel building, Baltimore, was
, overcome by smoke aud perished in ths
building.
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