Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-08-24

county, lad, was brutally Whlte capped
because she left her husband, returned to
her old home, and refused to leave when
ordered to do So
Druggist Schoppe of Denver was fatally
shot by a burglar.
Utes are leaving their reservation in Col
orado and committing depredations. The
military. may be called out
Because Jeanette Neil rejected his adj
vances, Charles Mccormick Of jackson,
Mich, shot her then killed himself
William Ploughman, a farmer, was
stabbed to death and his brother John
wounded by two tramps at Birdsboro, Pa.
A gang of boy burglars has been un-
earthed at Galena, Ills They are 20 in
number
A. p. Singleton and Jack Peters were
terribly injured by the explosion of q soda
fountain at Kalamazoo, Mich.
w. G. Keene, well known shoe manufac-
turer Of Lynn, Mass, suicided by drown
ing Heat affected his brain. He was
worth 100000.
1t is claimed that SIS, 600 worth of tickets
for the West Chicago Street Railway com
pany were stolen between New York and
Chicago while being shipped
There seems to be no doubt now that the
sealing schooner Helen Blum has been lost
in the North Pacific and that all hands
were drowned. The schooners Alexander
and Helen Blum parted in raging snow.
storm off the Ziminosh group and the lat
ter has not been seensince There were in
all 25 hands ON board the Blum and most
of the white portion of the crew were from
San Francisco.
Seven men were injured, two probably
fatally, by the fall of scaffold at the ole
gas works in Cincinnati.
Abe Alexander terribly slashed three
men at d revival near Oakland, Ills.
Rose Bailey, II, of Indianapolis, suicideG
by poison because her lover was out o.
work.
On Bangs lake, near Wauconda, Ills.
sailboat capsized, resulting in loss Of
four lives.
One hundred and eighty-two lives wert
lost by the burning of the San Juan off thu
Chinese coast.
Tennessee military officials fear the soa
diers stationed at Coal Greek will be assas
sinatea by the enraged miners.
At Pensacola, Fla, "Dad" Dunham, ,
shipsmith cut his wife's throat and theI
his own. They did not live together.
Foreign.
The grain crop of Hungary is said to b.
very short.
Cholera in southern Russia is rapid.
disappearing.
A cloudburst in the vicinity Of Gratz
capital of Styria, did great damage.
The British wheat crop is now estimated
at 1000, 900 quarters. This leaves 81, 900, 90
quarters to be imported Deducting tn
stock left over from 1892, there will be nee'
Of 100000 quarters.
Dispatches from Berlin say that Eng
| land, the United States and Germany hav
| resolved upon decisive and combined actiol
| to end the Samoan trouble. 1t Is reported
| that the solution will be the exile of Ma
| taafa
Severe earthquakes along the Italial
| Adriatic. A number of lives are reporte
| lost.
The home rule bill is expected to reac
| the house Of lords Aug. a.
The proposed German bill, increasin
| the tax on wine and tobacco, Is very unpoI
ular.
Several deaths have occurred at Bonn :,
as result OF the religious riots betw e
Hindoos and Mohammedaas
I! A cloudburst made havoc in the Eperit
| district in Hungary Sunday. Fifty person
and many head Of cattle were drowned. y
houses and several railway and otht
bridges wers demolished and much of tt
harvest crops was destroyed.
| Fires.
The Fort Pitt tannery and the war
house of the Consolidated Wire compan.
\ Pittsburg, burned. Loss, $125,000.
Fire destroyed the Terre Haute car worl
Thursday. Loss, 1900; insurance, $i5C
600. The plant was idle.
/ Minneapolis had disastrous fire Sunda
In the lumber district. 1t spread, destro
ing over 40 blocks Over 200 families an
4 1900 people are homeless. Several tho
sand men will have no work. Loss abo,
/ $l,5Oo, 600, with about one-third thi
amount insDrancA