Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-02-02
CONDENSED NEWS.
A Collection of Interesting Items on vari

A coIIest stion Of Interesting Items on vari.
ous Subjects. Especially Prepared for
the Hasty Reader.
Seven hundred men walked out Of the
Diamond plate-glass works, Kokomo. Ind,
because the employers wanted the grind
ers and polishers to do more work. A gem
eral shutdown resulted.
A Washington special says that DIR.
Calling, Of Calling gun fame, is attract
ing the attention OF army and navy officers
through the knowledge that he has per-
fected device for applying electricity to
! firearms. DIR. Calling claims to have a
new gun which will discount the Calling,
the Mitrailense and all other rapid-firing
| guns. The new gun will shoot z, 200 shots
| per minute.
Navajo Indians are said to be preparing
TO go on the warpath
A number % prominent citizens Of De
troit and Windsor, Can, are mixed up in
a smuggling sensation.
There is no war or danger Of war be-
tween Chill and Argentine.
The story that ex-President Hayes was
soon to marry his cousin, Mrs. Mary Ann
Bigelow, of Brattleboro, VT, Is not gen.
orally believed.
| St. Louis has band OF bad negroes,
regularly organized under the name Of
"The Order of the Avengers" The object
of the organization was to avenge insults
and injury inflicted on any member.
Indiana natural gas companies will fight
the Chicago and other pipe line companies.
Senator Wolcott wants the sale of Co
lumbian postage stamps restricted. The
| in
clined is that there is too much surface on
the new stamps to moisten and they will
drive men to "licker." Every time an al
teration has been made in the color or
the form of postage stamps criticism has
followed. 1t is hardly probable that Mr..
Wolcott's resolution will be taken seri-
ously.
Those in position to know, say that
| General Hayes was a very rich man, but
not millionaire. The most conservative
estimates place his wealth at $500,00o 1t
was well known at the time when he left
the White House he had saved over $780,
600 in cash from his salary. From you'll
he was rich man through his uncle
Sardis Birchard, and the property has
greatly increased in value in these years.
Two years ago he made will 1t is quite
certain that several large bequests will be
given to the Ohio State university and the
Delaware college. General Hayes was
president of the Ohio State university
board, and his chief desire in life was to
assist educational institutions and reform
atories.
Mexico's exports for 1899 amounted to
$15, ,467, 900.
A number of people have frozen to death
in South Carolina during the past few
days.
Combinations are being formed in the
Indiana gas belt to prevent gas from being
piped away.
A call has been made for meeting to be
held at Louisville ON Feb. g. of all the
whisky trade of the United States ''to
take such action in regard to the tax ques-
tion, and in regard to the future attitude
of the trade toward the high wine trust as
it may deem wise and best"
There may be an era of cheap telephones
inaugurated ere long Some of the most
important patents are already expiring
The patent on the Blake transmitter ex-
pired few days ago, and March will see
the end of the main patent on the tele-
phone, that was issued to Alexander
Blake, and which covered the fundamental
patent on the telephone-the transmission
of speech electrically over wire.
| Foreign.
Miss Sallie Moore, who went to New
York three months ago from Marion, KY,
Is missing. She came to take care of her
sister-in-law. She is only twenty, and had
never been in large city before. She was
sent out to a dressmaker's, and nothing
has been learned of her since. One hun
dred dollars reward is offered for trace
of her
1t has been learned that the Panama
scandal was first made public by the Dali
ziel news agency.
Dynamite bombs exploded almost sim
ultaneously in Rome Sunday before the
Hotel DeAngletere and in the garden of
the proprietor's house in the Via San
Claudio. The hotel was partially wrecked.
The proprietor says the residence is COM
pletely wrecked.
Allen & Ginter's cigarette factory, Rich
mond, burned. Loss, $175,0OO; insurance,
$168,0O0 The firm was branch of the
| y.
The Calumet club house., Chicago,
burned. Loss, 100000; insurance, $780,
000 Not one of the valuable paintings
was saved. The fire is supposed to have
been started by careless carpenters who
were doing some repairing. One of the
servant girls is supposed to have perished.
| Elevator G, Of the Carondolet Elevator
and Grain company, of st. Louis, burned
Sunday morning with 1,250,0OO bushels of
wheat, Loss about 81, 100000, of which
5000 was on building and machinery.
Personal.
S. S. Yoder, sergeant-at-arms of the
house Of representatives, is mentioned for
candidate for the governorship of Ohio.
1t is said Chief Justice Fuller and Asso-
ciate Justice Field may resign. Justice
Field Is old and has served several years
over the time emitting him to retirement.
| Chief Justice Fuller would find law prac-
tice in Washington far more renumerative
than his present position, and then besides
he is believed to have presidential hopes in
1896
Governor Altgeld, of Illinois, is very
sick. His physician advised him to go to
a warmer climate,
| Grimes and Casualties.
In Pittsburg Kate Rodler and little
boy perished in John Federlein's burning
residence.
Seven tons Of powder exploded at the
Kellogg powder works, near Huntington,
w. Va. The employees were at dinner and
no one was hurt.