Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1895-07-04
NEWS in A FEW WORDS.

Country In Brief shape
Charles Meyer, IA, was drowned while
bathing at Akron, o.
At Detroit the Seaman jury disagreed.
A second trial will be given at once.
A. g. Jenney was found in the Ohio
at Cincinnati. Everything points to
foul play.
The Georgia State Editorial associa-
ton is now seeing the sights in the
Empire state tg
The funeral of General Green Clay
Smith took place il Washington Mon
day afternoon
A negress named Lewis slept off a jag
in Columbus, o., and awoke with her
tongue paralyzed
Three drunken Huns walked on the
tracks near Phillipsburg N. j., and
were killed by a passing train.
Fire in Godillot's military outfitting
establishment, Paris, did $500, 900 dam
ages. One fireman was killed and Is
injured
johnson first by six inches, Sanger
second by half wheel. Tyler third is
the way the crack cyclists finished in
Toronto.
Another attempt will be made to col
lect the Objectionable railroad taxes in
Carter county, KY, and trouble is
looked for.
At Tacoma the members of the A. P.
A. refuse to participate in a parade on
the Fourth in which Hibernian orders
are to march. :
Jacob Marsch, while assisting in tear
ing down an old building III Columbus,
O., was caught under falling wall and
crushed to death.
At the Oakley racetrack, Cincinnati,
Jockey Henry Weber was fatally
stabbed by q negro stable boy known as
Glib during quarrel.
AT Salem, w. Va, an unknown man
crawled under a freightcar to get out of
the rain, fell asleep and was killed by
the car being moved.
Senator elect Elkins says the Repub-
icans should nominate a southern man
for vice president, and suggests Judge
Gof Of West Virginia for the place.
In Chicago Harry A. Harmon leaped
from the top Of building 10 feet into
the Chicago river, turning back SOM
ersault in the air. He did it on a wager.
At Cadillac, Mich, the wife of the
chief of police wears bloomers, and the
women now believe they will have pro-
lection from the hoodlums of the town.
In the United States district court at
San Francisco the 112 cases against rail-
readers for interfering with the mails
during the big strike year ago were
dismissed.
Ca1npos' scheme now is to fit an ex-
pedition with poisoned supplies and car
tridges without powder and allow the
insurgents to capture the food and
dummy cartridges.
Wages have been increased 10 per
cent in the nail mill of the Norton iron
works at Ashland, KY, and another
like advance will follow i'll go days.
Both are voluntary.
In Chicago Mrs. Frese pointed gun
at crowd of boys to scare them away
from her front yard. The weapon was
discharged and Arthur Grim, 8, killed.
The woman was arrested.
At Gainesville, Fla, Frank Anderfer
has convinced the people that the letters
he has been receiving from Lieutenant
Ham in the Cuban insurgent army are
not fakes, and new developments are
expected.
The Rex mine at Leadville, Colo, has
been flooded with over. $50 feet of water,
although the pumping plant is discharg-
ing 100000 gallons of water per hour.
The flow came sudden but all the work
men escaped.
AT Boulder, Mon, Clay Pugh was
hanged for the murder of Chauncey w.
West, a Montana Union railway con-
ductcr, Oct. 5, 1894. West had put
Pugh, who was stealing a ride, off a
train, and Pugh shot him.
In Columbus, o., Charles Mcfarland,
a ineman, while repairing break in u
trolley wire, received current of $50
volts. His assistant jerked the ladder
away and allowed Mcfarland to fall Is
feet. He was bruised considerably, but
will recover.