Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-01-16
NEWS m BRIEF
Many Items Of Interest Gathered From
All Over the Country.


All Over the Country.
Major James Clarence Post of Washington
Is dead.
The United States steamship Baltimore is
overdue at San Francisco
Louisville and Nashville train plunged into
the river near Bay St Louis, Miss, and "a
lives were lost.
At meeting at DubE kase Irish National
lists cheerei FOR the Beers when the Transvaal
outrage was referred to.
AT Rockford. Wash. Frank Denison caught
his wife and Patrick Hickey together. He
killed his wife, but Hickey escaped.
At Little Rock G. L Lewis disemboweied
Samuel Delone moriAlly stabbed Colonel
Henry T. Thompson aud then attempted sui
eide. He will be lynched.
Judge Lawrence of Bellefontaine, O., is scri-
ously ILL.,
1t is rumored that Senator Quay and David
Martin will bury the hatchet.
| Mayor Strong Of New York City, in his an
nual message, favors local option.
The American Purity alliance will hold
conference in New York city Jan IA and Is.
The bituminous coal miners of Indiana are
in session considering the wage scale for 1896.
Lin Kee Sing, one of the survivors Of the
Jeanette expedition, was arrested in New
York on charge of robbery.
Sanders Cole, 70, . well-to-do farmer Of Dou.
bic Springs, Ala, while clearing field was
pinioned to the ground by falling tree and
froze to death.
Eastern capitalists are interested in promot
ing new railroad scheme through the north
western tier Of counties from North Platte,
Neb, to South Dakota.
Nearly all the railroads in Cuba have now
been destroyed by insurgents.
Thomas Prosser American represen tative
Of the Krupp gun works, is dead.
II is thought England will use the Transvaal
incident as an excuse for an increase in the
navy.
The Abbey, Schoeffel & Grau Grand Opera
company OF New York is to play two weeks at
San Francisco.
John III. Fenlin, an extensive glazed kid
manufacturer of Philadelphia, has assigned.
Liabilities, $4,000
The estate of the late John Hoey, ex-presi-
ldent of the Adams Express company, will
more than pay his debts.
Judge Robert 8. Woodruff says Mrs. Frank
A. Mcgowan of Trenton, N. j., will resist her
husbands effort to get an Oklahoma divorce.
The story that McGouch had confessed and
lexonerated Bat Shea Of the killing of Ross at
Troy, N. Y, is not sustained by facts, and
Shea will be electrocuted
The annual returns show that notwith-
lstanding the export of coal from Nova Scotia
to the United States trebled during 1895, the
total of output for the year shows a large de-
crease.
At Evansville, Ind, the steamboat Royal was
burned to the waters edge.
Charles F. Goodwin of Brookville, Ind, fell
to the floor and died instantly.
1t is reported that Ex-Governor Shepherd
: will again become a resident of Washington
Thomas B. Allen, bachelor, of Flemingsburg
w. Va, celebrated his one hundred and fifth
birthday Saturday.
Mrs. Ira wadleigh Of Minneapolis was very
angry when she discovered that her husband
had given herijewels to pretty stenographer
Joe Mix, ,Sr. known throughout Indiana, Ken
lucky, eastern Illinois and Western Ohio as
the Seer of White River" has been declared
liusane