Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1895-04-18
CONDENSED NEWS.
a Collection of Interesting Items on vari-
GUS Subjects, Especially Prepared For
the Hasty Reader.

A Collection of Interesting Items on vnri-
Gus Subjects, Especially Prepared For
the Hastv Reader.
Miss Faithful Higgins, an eccentric old
maid who died at Maysville last week, be
queathed about $4,000, most of her es-
tate, to the Christian Missionary Society
of Kentucky.
The British museum has withdrawn
from public use in the library, the books in
its collection of which Oscar Wilde is the
author.
Over 5000 coatmnkers are now on strike
in Cincinnati
Girls are on strike at the Hemingway
glass works at Muncie, Ind
There is now little doubt that Bicyclist
LEM was killed by Kurds in Armenia.
The present advance in oil is considered
an indication of the promised better times.
The Woonsocket bobbin works, David
Davis and William Newton, has made an
assignment. No statement is made ex-
cept that the assets greatly exceed iabili-
ties.
Comptroller Eckels appointed S. B.
Thompson of Broken Bow, Neb., receiver
of the First National bank of Ravenna,
Nebraska.
The Aurora (Mo) State bank has closed
its doors, Assets are claimed to be $780,
000 with liabilities of $11,000 Depositors
feel secure of getting their money.
The faith of the soft coal operators
voiced by w. P. Rend of Chicago that the
Ohio miners will consent to take 81 cents
If the Pittsburg operators force rate of
f0 paIotc tbp1sa n Of ptot ,iY,oe
the ditferential, is without good founda-
tion. Michael Rachford, the Ohio miners
president, says that if reduction is in
sisted upon it will not be accepted.
The 26th annual reunion of the Society
of the Army of the Potomac will be held
in New London, Conn, on June IS and 49,
Major General Gibbson, u. S. A., will be
the orator, and Mr.. II. G. Bunner, editor
OF Puck, the poet.
Judge Kirkpatrick held that foreign
building and loan associations cannot be
legally barred from doing business in In
diana SO long as they comply with the
laws of the state.
Iowa state Republican convention will
be held July 10 at Des Moines.
A Cuban insurgent agent induced 60
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Reports to the internal revenue office at
Washington show that income tax returns
are coming in very rapidly.
Fires.
lumbia, Pa, was destroyed by fire
Wednesday. The loss was $4,000; par
TALLY covered by insurance,
The Missouri Grain and Commission
company's ELEVATOR in st. Louis was de-
stroyed by fire. Loss, SO, 800; little in
surance.
The cigar factory of Henry L. Stehman,
at Lancaster, Pa, was destroyed by fire.
! Later Stehman surrendered himself to the
authorities and acknowledged that he had
set fire to the place and wanted to be
locked up. The man is undoubtedly in
sane. The loss is about 81, 500.
Fire broke out in the shingle mill at
Maxine, o. The flames spread to dwell
ing house and barn owned by Peter Cans
lin and totally destroyed them -Four
other buildings, Mrs. Rau, Mrs. Haidet
and Frank Gero, then caught fire, and
were destroyed. Loss about $12, 900, with
little insurance.
The Savannah (Ga.), steam rice mill
burned Thursday, The mill was worth
about $72, 000 The loss on rice is estimated
at $4,000.
The Baltimore and Ohio freight depot
at Uniontown, Pa, burned The passen-,
ger depot was slightly damaged Loss
about $4,000
Fire started in the oilhouse of the At
lantic Refining company, Wilkesbarre,
Pa Two Of the large tanks containing
several thousand gallons Of oil exploded.
Some Of the firemen had narrow escape.
The entire plant will be total loss. Val
ued at $4,000.
The farmhouse of J. Gilmore, two miles
north Of Howard City, Mich, was de-
stroyed by fire, A l4-year-old son was
buaned to death, another, aged 15, will
probably die, and Mrs. Gilmore was badly
burned.
Deaths.
Mrs. Emily Freburn James, wife of ex-
Postmaster General Thomas L. James,
died Wednesday night in her apartments
in the Murray Hill hotel, from pneu-
monia. ~
Hon. James H. Campbell, who was min
lster 10 Norway ana Sweden under Presl-
dent Lincoln, died at his home in Wayne,
Pennsylvania.
DR.. Charles B. Hill died at Arcadia,
Ella. Hewas a first cousin of Senator Dars
yid B. Hill of New York, and while resi-
dent Of Connecticut, was twice elected to-
the legislature Ga
Thomas McKane, los, Oldest inhabitant
of West Virginia, died at Huntington
Sunday night,
James w. Scott, proprietor and editor Of
the Chicago Times Herald, died suddenly
of apoplexy in his room at the Holland
House, New York, at 2:S0 Sunday after
noon.
Grimes and Casualties.
Samuel f. Kan, a farmer Of Maytown,
Pa. climbed tree to cut a switch and fell