Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-07-16

Current Ahairs-Paragraphs Both Per-
tinent and Pleasant.
Tuesday.
At Platform, o., William E 5windler COM
nitted suicide by hanging.
Martin schouder, 65, Of Tsfln, @, fell down
stairs and broke his neck.
Walter Jordan, g. Of Eiwood, Ind, was kid.
naped by two strangers, who placed him in
buggy and drove off.
The Cretans have elected provisional gov.
ernment and decided to proclaim the union Of
the island with Greece.
Charles W. Alexander, the printer who
stabbed himself at Ashland, Ky, was former
resident Of Pomeroy, o.
Anton Ruple, tailor, Of Hartford Conn,
was instantly killed by streetcar running
over him at Evansville, Ind
"A young woman who says her name is Lizzie
Seymour and her home indianapolis. was ar
rested in Cincinnati for shoplifting.
Charles W. Greene, the absconding money
order clerk Of the United States Express com
pany at Indianapolis, has been arrested
J. W. Cooper, an insurance agent of Elm
wood, Ills, and a first cousin OF Vice Prcsi-
dent Stevenson, was killed in a runaway acci-
dent near Norris, Ills.
wednesday.
BY order Of the mayor every gambling
house in Columbus, o., has been closed up.
George .Burge, miner, was buried under
falling slate and instantly killed in a mine at
Digger, Ind.
Albert Miller of DSrkesville w. Va, SUP.
posed to have been insane, comm tilted suicide
by cutting his throat.
J. A. Mount, 6S, Of Lima, O., member Of the
carpenter crew on the Fort Wayne road, was
killed near Valparaiso, Ind, by train.
John J. Rick, 81, Big Four car inspector for
so years at Gallon, o., fell under a train and
was terribly mangled, dying within an hour.
Governor Bradley of Kentucky has declined
to grant a pardon to DR.. J. L. Massie, the
Owen county murderer, and he will have to
60 to the penitentiary for life.
In a fight at Reams' Station Va, John Per.
kins was shot and killed, his brother Fred
fatally wounded, and Plummer Ramey shot in
the head and will probably die
Mrs. Anna Thorpe of Waynesvile O., while |
on shopping tour in Dayton, o. discovered
in secondhand store number of articles !
stolen from her residence in March last.
Harry Stonehill, Is, of Spenoervile, O., acci !
dentally discharged shotgun, the entire load
striking the right foot and SCATTERING it so !
badly that amputatjQn viii be necessary,
% Thursday,
Rev. isaao F. Cook, D. D, has been elected !
president Of OHIO university at Athens
The German Schuetzen Sonderbuud u Ohio |
will hold its next tournament at Toled.
New York smugglers are training homing !
pigeons to bring diamonds into this country,
The Ohio board of medical registration is !
with the Chinese diploma OF Cleve ,
land physician.
John AumaD, apopuIar young man Of Brazil, !
Ind, is under heavy bond for robbing Rev. !
Alexander Of Turner, Ind.
A German submarine cable company has !
been formed to lay cable from Germany to !
spain, and thence to the United States.
At Ashtabua, O., the steamer Sacramento |
ran into the schooner Edward Kelly, which |
was damaged to the amount of about $400
Joseph NJ. Frazey, son OF Rev Guy Frazey |
Of Brooklyn, N. Y, attempted to jump off o ,
moving train ut Coshocton, O., and was ground |
to death under the wheels.
The saloon of Philip Justus at Shelbyville, |
Ind, was robbed, and bIoodhounds put on the !
track Of the burglars went direct to the home
Of respected citizen three times, I
Friday.
At Tlffin O., J. Il. Riehart was fined s25 for
having redbird Gagged.
The store of Gran Afford at Old Goshen, Ky,
was struck by lightning and torn to pieces.
Joseph Wallace, q prominent farmer, aged |
30, was found dead in the road near Kokomo,
Ind.
jim Burns, notorious and desperate burg
Iar, was arrested in Columbus, o., by detect
ives,
The Music Teachers National association
will hold their next convention in New York |
city in July 1897
Saturday.
The Trades and Labor Assembly of Spring.
field, o :, has decided to give mard gras card |
nival no Labor day.
Rev. G. o. Brown of San Francisco has left |
the scene of his troubles and will probably |
locate in Dubuque, la.
Cash Cameron, o demented person of Hamil |
ton, o., attempted to butt his brains out and !
was locked up at the police station. |
The Chesapeake and Ohio railroad will ex- !
pend large sum of money at Richmond, Va, !
ip making terminal improvements
Monday.
The Virginia Peanut trust has been dis
solved.
The Sycamore mills at Circleville, O., were
entirely destroyed by an incendiary fire.
G. B. Maigue, one of the oldest printers in
the United States, died suddenly in Chicago
Charles Starke, who killed Louis Lieterman
and fatally shot his own wife at Springfield,
O., is still at large.
The Wright Shovel company Of Anderson,
Ind. has advanced the wages of grinders and
polishers cents q dozen
At picnic near Vanceburs, Ky. William
Beling, in fit of jealous rage, shot and NOR
tally wounded Tom Perry.
Rev Thomas Joseph Boulger, neof the old.
est priests in Cincinnati, was struck by a
switch engine, dying in short time there
after.
Julius Freudenthal, former president of the
Columbia Typewriter company, has disap-
peared from New York, leaving debts to the
amount of $5QQ.00Q.