Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1894-09-27
CONDENSED NEWS.

CONDENSED AENos
A Collection of Interesting Items on vari-
Gus Subjects. Especially Prepared For
the Hasty Reader.
Moses Christopher, colored, assaulted a
white girl near Bowling Green, Va He
was arrested, tried and sentenced to death
within "a hours.
jackson has taken down his deposit
Of $4,000. "Parson" Davies says jackson
has given up all hope of ever meeting Cor
bett in the ring
Seven new cases of smallpox reported at
Walkersburg, Ind.
The Chicago fireboat Yosemite was
wrecked on Hyde Park reef during gale
and sunk. The crew Of 10 were rescued by
the jackson park lifesaving crew after the
lfeboat had been capsized three times
Cut-throat robbers are sacking whole
towns along the Guatemalan der
1t is reported in Canadian Political cir
cles that important changes are to be
made in the ministry.
lncendiaries created panic at Merced,
Cal. All persons without business in the
town notified by the mayor to leave.
Bathtubs will be put in the Easements OF
several schools in Chicago and dirty chill
dren will be taught the value of soap and
water.
Discoveries by American scientists near
ancient Babylon reveal an antiquity OF the
human race nearly 10 centuries older than
was known before
The letters received from Chicago, say
ing DR.. Conklin of Cassopolis, Mich, is
held for ransom, are pronounced fraudu-
lent. Belief is growing that Conklin vol
UNFAIRLY disappeared.
The custom of publishing in the news
papers throughout the country the list of
unclaimed letters at postoffices will be
abandoned, and the list will be bulletined
in the postoffice buildings hereafter.
Breckirr ridge will contest.
A baby named From, born in New Or
leans, weighs nine ounces.
George Riddle and Kate Field will con-
test the will of Cordelia Sanford.
Sovereign grand lodge Of the Independ-
ent Order of Odd Fellows meets in Chatta-
nooga.
Three-fourths of the Democrats of Ne
braska have declared for free silver and
for Bryan for senator.
Grimes aud Casualties.
Boil worms are doing great damage In
Arkansas.
c. L. Brock, aged 20, shot and. killed an
aged negress who threatsned to tell on him
taking liberties with little colored girl at
Surry, Va.
Two men were killed and score of peo-
| pie injured, half of them fatally, in cy-
| ho II WoIp 6uu
during which a train wa. blown from the
| track.
At Lebanon, Pa, Charles Garrett, a re-
leased convict, cut his wifes throat.
AS a result of a quarrel in Wayne
county, w. Va, John Murphy fatally shot
Hiram Stephens and his 16-year-old son.
| Murphy was arrested.
| Bob Williams, negro employed in Con-
cordia parish, Miss, Quarreled with two
other negroes whom he accused of alb
scoriing He drew revolver and shot
one whose name is unknown. Williams
| was arrested and while In the custody of
officers he was taken by a mob and
hanged, after being brutally maltreated.
| John H. Fisher was shot and killed at
Hallwood, Va, by William and Arthur
Wright, brothers.
William North shot and killed Deputy
Sheriff George Wilson on Beech fork Of
Cumberland river.
After mortally wounding his wife, the
poor victim prevented Thomas Taylor
from killing himself, at Washington.
At Gatesville, Tex, J. L. Goodman, ed
itor of The Peoples Voice, and B. e.
Armstrong, editor of The Star, fought 6
duel on the street and both were killed
The fight was the result of newspaper
controversy.
The Indiana state fair opened Monday.
Diphtheria causing much alarm in sew
eral Indiana towns.
Samuel Kirkpatrick, temporary insane
shot his wife to death in Philadelphia.
j. H. Stanegels shot and killed Mrs
Mabel Calvin and committed suicide al
Portland, Or.
The Doolin gang shot and killed an OLE
Indian, whose son had acted as an Indian
police scout near Mingo, l. T.
In Logan county, w. Va, George Tip
ton got 10 years for brutally assaulting al
old lady and robbing her of 20 cents.
Mrs. Alice Hartly was found guilty O
murder in the second degree at Reno, New
She killed State Senator M. D. Foley.
Twenty persons were badly hurt by tn
, fall of platform at a Catholic churcl
cornerstone laying in Harlem Sunday.