Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-10-19
CONDENSED NEWS.

A Collection Of Intr:e-siDE Items on vAri
GUS Subjects. Especially Prepared 70
the Hastv Readers.
Providence wooden manufacturers hav
decided that a reduction Of wages Is neces
yary.
Senator Platt has introduced q bill per
mitting railroads 10 pool traffic under n
strictions.
The Chesapeake and Ohio railroad re
fuses TO place separate coaches for negroe
on trains in Kentucky as requested by
recent law.
President Cleveland has adopted tn
policy OF accepting the RECOMMENDATION
Of cabinet officers for appointments com
ing under their departments, instead o
undertaking to pass personally on tn
merits Of the applicants in each individual
case.
William w. Windle of MilIbury rode ,
mile, with a flying start, in 1:5S is, Al
Hampden park, in the presence of officiali
Of the Springfield (Mass) Bicycle club
This Is worlds record, the best previous
time being 2:02 3-5, made also by Windls
at Hampden park, Oct. z, 1892.
The mining troubles In Tennessee have
cost the state over 500, 1000. The troops
have been disbanded.
1t has been discovered that the act Of
June q, 1890, reaches the case of great
many persons who seek pensions through
legislative action, which relieves the com.
mittee on pensions from vast amount oi
unnecessary work.
The celebrated palmetto" trademark
case, or, as it is known in legal phraseology,
the United States ex rel, the state of South
Carolina, petitioner, vs.. John S. Seymour,
commissioner Of patents, was decided by
Justice Bradley of the district supreme
court in favor of the petitioner, who is
really Governor Tillman.
At Faulkenors Station, KY, 5-year-old
Sallie Rogers played with matches and
was burned to death
An uprising of natives is reported In
Alaska against the whites. Several mis-
sionaries are said to have been killed.
The Pail Mall Gazette says there is
movement to reorganize the Clan-na-G Gael
In the United States under the leadership
of Patrick Egan and Patrick Ford.
Advices from Honolulu state that the
deposed queen is incensed because the ex.
ecutive building was used In rendering a
reception to the officers and men of the
United States steamship Boston She de-
clares she will have another palace built
when she is restored to power.
A Washington paper says the nature OF
Mr. Blount's recommendations regarding
the annexation question is to the effect
that no action should be taken by the
United States to annex the island, or es-
tablish protectorate over it, without the
full consent of the natives. If Mr.. Cleve-
land adopts the recommendations sub
mitted it practically means that the queen
will be restored to power, as she is said tc
be popular among the natives
At the Springfield (Mass) bicycle races
Tyler made mile in 2:01 3-5, standing
start, lowering Windle's record 8 As sec.
onds. McDuffee and Clark reduced the
tandem record, flying start, from 2O5 3-5
to 2:01 1-5.
DR.. John S. Young of the Brooklyn
bureau of vital statitics has completed his
estimate of the population of the city 1t
is within 1000 of 1,00O0 900 inhabitants.
Miss Clara Barton of the Red Cross now
in charge of the sufferers from the recent
South Carolina storm says the people are
homeless, without work or tools to work
with and on the verge Of starvation. She
says there will be great suffering during
the coming winter.
1t is now claimed the Louisville and
Nashville's loss by the recent storm will
not amount to over 100000.
The Lucania broke the western record.
Her time was days, 13 hours and 45 min
utes, or 80 minutes less than that of the
Paris.
Illinois and Iowa are quarreling about
the boundary line. One says it is the mid
die of the river; the other the middle of the
main channel.
The first race for the America cup
sailed Saturday by the yachts Vigilant
(American) and the Valkyrie British) off
New York, was won by the Vigilant.
Railway labor organizations are said to
be more seriously threatened with disin-
tegration than ever before.
Fully 10000 workmen will resume work
this week in the upper Ohio valley, all,
however, at reductions varying from 10 to
30 per cent.
On July 10, 1886, Almon B. Thomson,
cashier of the Provident Savings bank OF
st. Louis after embezzling $65, 5,0C0, for
which he was to account the following day,
robbed the safe of $4,000 and fed to Can
ada. Recently he was found living in
poverty in New York.
Grimes and Casualties.