Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-04-09
Tuesday.

st Louis.
In battle with troops near HermosiIa,
Mex, 20 faqui Indians were killed.
The first Democratic convehtion in Iowa in
dorsed Horace Boies for president.
The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough have
settled down to housekeeping at Blenheim.
Several attempts have been made to poison
Mrs Hiram Smith and family at Coburg, Or.
Last Sunday was Easter on the Pacific coast
brought about by peculiar caper of fair luna.
John Martin, driver Of a patrol wagon in
San Francisco, was shot and fatally wounded
by his wife.
The Big Four has sent check for $500 to
Anderson, Ind, to pay the claim Of Joseph
Conoway for damages.
1t has been discovered that the Chinese were
familiar with the cathode rays centuries ago,
but it had become lost art with them.
Captain J. Norman, shipmaster of Portland,
Me-, was killed at TampicO, Mex, by Harry
Boston, an American clearinghouse keeper.
The British steamer Bermuda which landed
arms an ammunition in Cuba for the insur-
gents has arrived at Puerto Cortez, Honduras
Wednesday.
At Inez, KY. James Garland, 70, was mar
ried to Amantha Chains, 25
Mrs. Olga Deuss of San Francisco killed her
self and three children by asphyxiation.
The postofices at Fayette and Weston, O.,
have been raised to the presidential class.
Plans for suspension bridge to connect San
Francisco and Oakland are in course of prepa-
ration.
1t is persistently rumored in Delaware that
Ambassador Bayard will resign and come
home.
DIR. Philip Mills Jones of San Francisco says
| the Xrays emanate from the anode instead of
the cathode.
The United States and England have pro-
tested against the highhandedness of France
| In Madagascar.
| Near Shelbyville, Ind, Harlin Thurston and
sons, Claude and Otto, were caught by fall.
ing tree and will die of their injuries.
Senator Charles Fleischman forgot to patent
his labels, and in consequence lost his suit
| against rival manufacturers of compressed
| yeast.
Mrs. NJ. A. Stockton of San Francisco, who
| testified that she had enjoyed intimate rela
tions with DR.. Brown, was unceremoniously
| expelled from her church
Thursday.
| Pierson Salters of Seymour, Ind, fell from a
| train and was killed.
| Snowbanks 10 feet high are among the April
attractions of northern Wisconsin.
Jesse NJ. Abbott, a prominent farmer of
Champaign county, o., has disappeared.
Jackson Wilson, postmaster at Sidney, W.
| Va, charged with opening letters, has been ac-
| quilted
Assyrians IN Chicago are becoming natural
lied to keep from going back to Turkey to join
| the army.
Joshua Sims, living near Harrodsburg, Ky.
was severely beaten by whitecaps because he
neglected his two little girls.
Charley Holt and child and John jenkins
| and two children were drowned in a swollen
stream in Russell county, Va.
George Hamm of Richmond, Ind who de-
serted his wife and eloped with Mrs. Benjamin
Miles, has been captured in ST. Louis
The Butler express on the West Pennsyl-
vania railroad was wrecked near Freeport,
Pa, and five persons seriously injured.
L. G. Dillman of Spokane, Wash, married
Mrs. Rebecca Staley in Kansas eight years
ago, her former husband having been Judi
cially declared drowned Mr.. Staley is living
in Boston under an assumed name. Dillman
is seeking to have the marriage annulled.
Friday.
An oil well that flows over the derrick has
been struck in the Mercer county (O.) oil field.
The Christian churches Of the Tenth Indiana
district are holding a convention at Vevay,
Ind. ., ...s...
| Captain J. J. G. Bull, instructor in military
| tactics at Jackson, Ky, was drowned in the
Kentucky river.
Charles g. Aalberg, leader of the striking
clothing cutters of Chicago, has deserted the
ranks and returned to work.
| Mrs. Shorten, wife OF the Mason o. preach
er who is living with Miss Geyer in Philadel-
phia, refuses to prosecute her recreant hus.
| band. saap.
The prisoners confined in the county Jail at
West Union, o., made their escape by saving
off bar in the window and dropping to the
| ground.
| At Evansville, Ind, Jeff Beard was caught
on a belt, swung up to the ceiling, his left arm
| pulled out at the shoulder, and four ribs were
broken.
| At Cunningham Station, Ky, pet sheep
| knocked the 2year-old child CT Mr.. Nelson
into the fire, and the little one was fatally
| burned.
Governor Hughes of Arizona says he was re-
moved because he favored the land lease bill
which was passed by congress over the presi-
| dents veto.
| Saturday.
| George johnson, letter box robber, has been
arrested in New York.
| A rubber trust is being formed on the Pacific
| coast for the manufacture of footwear.
Samuel P. Langdon was bound over for the
murder of Annie McGrath in Philadelphia.
At Topeka Mrs Florence Fenton sued her
husband for divorce and then eloped with him.
| The French senate by vote Of l55 to So de-
clared its lack of confidence in the govern
ment.
| A young negro who had assaulted white
| woman was taken from Jail at Tupelo, Miss,
| and lynched
| A ca blegram has been received from ex-Con-
sui Waller saying he will be in the United
States within two weeks.
At Friend, Neb, Richard Ringer was bitten
| by dog, and when informed that he had hy-
drophobia he cut his throat.
Miss Chloe Ruehlen, the Ohio lady who dis
appeared from Denver recently, has returned
and said she had been visiting at Leadville.
Robert K. Mccoy of Merritts Creek W. Va.
| left home horseback, and the horse, Gov
| cred with blood, returned home without its
| rider.
Monday.
John Elliott, 13, of Benwood, W. Va, was
instantly killed by train on the Ohio River
road.
| Russell Harrison and Mrs. Mckee did not at.
tend the Harrison Dimmick nuptials in New
York. ...,.,', 8, --.
The steamer City of Louisville made the run
from Cincinnati to Louisville in hours and SO
minutes.
At st. Augustine, Fla, sneak thieves re-
lieved the guests of the Flagler hotels Of $780, 900
worth of jewelry.
The American tinplate factory at Ewood
Ind, already the largest in the world, will add
two more mills soon.
The trouble between the Metropolitan
Street Railway company of New York and its
5000 employees is not yet settled.
1t is estimated it will take 800 men 90 days to
repair the damage done by the flood to the
Norfolk and Western railroad in West Vir-
ginia
During a fire in dime museum at Chicago
the boa constructors escaped and made matters
lively for the employees until they were finally
secured.
John Selman of ri Paso, Tex, the victor in 6
score of fatal shooting affrays in Texas, was
shot by United States Deputy Marshal George