Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-01-26
CONDENSED NEWS.
0 Collection of Interesting Items on vari-
Gus Subjects, Especially Prepared for
the Hasty Reader.

The worlds fairappropriation bill passed
the Kentucky house by vote.
For the first time in forty years Illinois
has a Democrat for governor Altgeld
was inaugurated Tuesday
The Nanderbilts will extend the Big
Four TO Louisville ir order to compete for
the worlds fair patronage.
The name of Turpie was the only one
presented TO the Indiana Democratic eau
Gus for United States senator.
As result Of the loss of over !, ,0O0, 900
bushels of coal by the ice gorges at Cincin-
matt the price Of coal has gone up faster
than the mercury has gone down. From
( $3.50 per ton it has gone to So, and may
reach S. There is great suffering among
the poorer classes. Great Indignation is
felt at the dealers action.
The Ohio is closed at Ironton, o.
The Ohio and Big Sandy are solid at
Catlettsburg, Ky.
The Illinois legislature favors keeping
the worlds fair open on Sunday.
The commerce committee of the house
reported fayorably ON the new Cincinnati
bridge bill
The Patton tunnel on the Louisville,
Evansville and St. Louis railroad is again
The impending trouble between the Big
Four and its operators has been amicably
settled. Both sides made concessions.
The Cumberland is frozen over at Nash.
vile for the first time in fifteen years.
Zero weather Thursday night-the coolest
in twenty years.
Snow is twenty-one inches deep at Pick
ens w. Va.
Some New Orleans citizens want Mayor
Fitzpatrick impeached because he is so
easy toward Sunday law violators.
Pierre Is. d. druggists favor the contin.
uance Of the prohibitory law, under which
they are permitted to sell all sorts of liq-
uor by the glass provided the purchaser
signs an affidavit that he is afflicted with
some complaint. Stomach trouble seems
TO be chronic.
Logan county, w. Va, has an area of
900 square miles, and the only town in the
county is Logan c. II. One church build
ing is all the house of worship the county
contains, and that was built by u private
individual. The nearest railroad station
to the county seat is twenty-five miles.
According to Dun's revisw, the pause in
business incident to the holidays seems to
last longer than usual.
River men at Pittsburg fear repetition
OF the great flood of 1884 when the deep
snow on the mountains meltS
1t has been shown that Herman
Schrader, the missing Cincinnati lawyer,
forged three mortgages on building asso-
Citations, in all about $40, 800.
The intense cold weather seems to have
cut off the supply of natural gas in many
of the fields. There is considerable suf.
fering, as the people are not prepared to
use ordinary fuel.
Pope Leo is said to be greatly interested
In the situation in America, and desirous
OF putting an end to the ecclesiastical diff
ferences existing there. With this purpose
the pope is preparing an encyclical to the
American episcopate, advising harmony
and union.
A Populist state government has been
recognized in Kansas.
1t is now denied that Senator Stanford 1
will resign his seat in the United States
senate
Hogs are dying of cholera in Marshal
county, Ia, and in the vicinity of Fairbury
and Hillsboro, Ills.
Catholics in the United States profess to
be highly pleased over the action of the
pope in appointing Mgr Satolli as perma-
nent apostolic delegate, and especially so
Is Archbishop Ireland, who believes great
benefits will accrue to the church because
of it.
The committee on judiciary has decided !
to make favorable report to the North
Carolina legislature on a bill intended
to put stop to lynching 1t is important
as the first ever introduced in the state
1t imposes a penalty of $500 and imprison-
ment of any person engaged in lynching. |
1t also holds the authorities of q county
responsible If lynchings occur.
John Lloyd Thomas, at the Church of |
the Disciples, New York, Sunday night,
advocated a resolution on the liquor prob |
lem-the adoption of the scheme of the |
National Anti-Nuisance league which is
being formed, and of which w. Jennings
Demorest is president. The league he |
said, is about to institute proceedings to
determine the consttutionality of all laws
licensing the traffic of alcoholic beverages. |
1t also proposes to close all saloons under |
injunction proceedings as public nuisances
on the ground that alcohol when sold as a |
beverage is a poison and hurtful to the |
general health of those who use it.
Foreign.
Italy's minister of marine is of the |
opinion that Italy's naval power is such |
that she need fear no nation.
An effort will be made to have President |
Carnot, of France, removed. He is ac-
cused of having accepted bribes from the
Panama canal people.
A spinning mill at Ozaka, Japan, was
burned Dec. 20 with loss of 195 lives. |
Most of the victims were young girls. Two
hundred and seventy houses in the vicinity
of the mill caught fire from sparks and |
were destroyed. The fire was caused by
the breaking of one of the belts.
Personal.
H. Clay Evans, of Tennessee, recently
appointed first assistant postmaster gen
eral, arrived in Washington Thursday
morning and Immediately entered upon
his duties.
Senator Stanford, of California, is seri-
ously ill.,
William r. Morrison is now spoken of
for secretary of the interior.
Breckenridge is not a candidate for the |
senate to succeed Carlisle from Kentucky. |
Mr. Willard denies that he will become
member of Mr.. Clevelands cabinet
Crimes and Casualties.
Won Kousky, until recently the superin-
tendent of the Weekly Cincinnati Volks-
freund, has mysteriously disappeared. His
accounts are muddled and said. to be short
about $25,000.
In Pittsburg and Allegheny twenty-five
people narrowly escaped death from as
phyXiation, due to escaping natural gas.
Fires.
The Harvey Worlds Fair hotel, Chicago
burned. Loss, $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
hcendiary.
The Hotel St. Louis, Duluth, burned