Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1895-01-03
CONDENSED NEWS.
A Collection Of Interesting Items on vsri-
Gus Subjects, Especially Prepared For
the Hasty Reader.

the Hastv Reader.
Five hundred knights of the Grip are in
attendance at the meeting at Grand Rap
Ids.
-Four new cases Of smallpox are reported
from Washington. All the victims col
Ored.
Vandalism and thievery has been carried
on extensively of late around the senate
wing of the Capitol at Washington and
many senators have been robbed.
The party invading Mount Rainer, find
that while the mountain has been both
smoking and steaming. the change is due
principally to tremendous avalanches and
not TO an eruption.
Patrick Dennison, a centenarian, died at
Parkersburg.
Phallas, the celebrated stallion owned
by j. l. Case, at Racine, is dead. He had
a record of 2:13A.
Before the Lexow committee Thursday
evening Anthony Comstock, famous re-
former, was accused by "greengoods"
operator of accepting bride on two
occasions of 81 900 each. Mr.. Comstock in
an interview denies it.
The steamboat George W. Sentell was
burned to the waters edge at her wharf in
New Orleans. Loss, $500.
The cold snap in Florida means the loss
of thousands-of dollars in oranges.
Buffalo Bills Wild West show and Fore
paugh's circus will combine. Capitalized
at 81 100000
The French paper called La Practcian
says that ASH, 100000 people die during
each century.
The bark Sea King, another of the over
due vessels, arrived at San Francisco, coal
laden, "a days from Nanaimo. She was
badly used up in the gales along the coast.
Reports come from Florida that 1,S00,-
COO oranges are frozen solid on the trees.
Superintendent Byrnes of the New York
police has rendered his resignation as
result of the investigation.
There were 81 suicides in Cincinnati dur
ing the past year. steam railroads killed
&c, local transit 16, accidentally drowned
4S, and deaths resulting from falls 50, four
were scalded to death, and 81 died from
accidental burns.
Expert accountants at work on the city
books have discovered a shortage of about
$l4,0O0 in the city collectors office at Lex
ington, KY.
! The Chattanooga Storage and Banking
company, small private bank, assigned
Monday. Losses and deposits small,
The government will not permit here
after the printing of imitation stamps to
be sold in albums
Crimes and, Casualties.
Burglars robbed Conant's jewelry store
at Council Bluffs, Ia, of 80 watches and
100 solid gold rings.
Jake Whitker fatally chopped Tyree and
Cole with an aX when he found them at
his home, nea" Morehead KY.
AT Washington city, Christmas night,
George Roth tried to kill his wife by
forcing her to drink half bottle of house
hold ammonia.
AT Harris sawmill, Robertson county,
! KY, Charles Reed fell on the saw and was
in great agony.
The discovery that conyalescent diph
liberia patient from Ashtabula had visited
Warren, o., for Christmas, has caused the
Warren board of health to establish an
absolute quarantine against any person or
parcels other than mail sacks from the in
fected city. -
The British steamer Abydos has been
given nup for lost
Frank Davis of Fort jackson, N. Y, was
kicked to death by apet DEER p
Rolla Cramp stabbed his playmate Jesse
Neff to death at Nevada, Mo-, accident
ally.
One negro and halfbreed Indian were
lynched in Mississippi for numbering and
robbing Jake Copp and his wife at Per
kinsville. Copp was aged Is and kept a
conntry mercantile store.
AT Fort Smith, Ark, John NJ Taylor, 81
years old and blind, pleaded guilty to de
frauding the government of S1S,O00, anG
was sentenced to five years imprisonment
His blindness vas caused by sickness two
years after the war, and the alleged gun
shot wounds on his breast were the result
of the application of blister plasters
Peter Murdcck, motorman, killed his
wife and himself at New Orleans. Jeal
ousy.
Hattie Clay, aged II, was burned tc
death at Hot Springs, Ark, by her dress
catching fire from CRATE.
Charles White and his 6-year-old sor
were cremated by the burning of theil
dwelling at Newaygo, Mich.
| lSu SoSli6uHh. q DU. WlcueFW
peddler, shot Frank Mcdonald and Pal
Sullivan, who tried to rob him. i@'
! Fires.
Fire destroyed the Cliff House, neal
San Francisco, Wednesday morning
Sutro's baths, adjoining, the finest in the
world, were saved tr
The old statehouse at Atlanta burned
Thursday; fire supposed to he incendiary
/ The building of the Pioneer Paper
Stock company, Chicago, was destroyed
by fire. 1t
Fire destroyed the Cincinnati Southern
railway depot at Hartman, Tenn. 24r
The city buildings ut Biddeford, Me-
were destroyed by fire Sunday. Los.
100000
| The great petroleum refinery at Batoum
burned Monday with enormous loss.
Fire destroyed the cigar factory OF Loza
no, Pendos & Company at Tampa, Fla
Loss, $4,000.
Deaths.
Banker Nunnemacher of Milwaukee dice
: Tuesday in Tyrol Austria q
Home Run" Duffee, well known bas,
ball player, died of consumption at Mobil,