Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-04-02
Tuesday.

gan county, O., has been ordered.
Secretary Carlisle is announced as the ad.
ministration candidate for president.
William Boucher of Needham, Ind, COM
mitted suicide on account of domestic trouble
General Weylers unsuccessful Cuban cam
paign is causing much dissatisfaction in Spain
Mrs. Luke Fish of Anderson, Ind, has given
birth to four pairs Of twins during the last
five years.
James Pell of Fairfield, Ind, died of hem
orrhage Cf the lungs while celebrating his
marriage with his friends.
A call has been issued for the seventh annual
convention Of District IL, Mineworkers Of
America, to be held in Terre Haute April Fl.
The United States supreme court has de.
cided that Greer county, Tex, belongs to the
government and not to the Choctaw Indians.
The 4year-old son Of Henry Sitter of Indian
apoIs set fire to the hay in his fathers barn,
and by the time the iremen arrived the stable
was in ruins and the boys was burned to a
shapeless mass.
Wednesday.
During a snowstorm at Orel, Russia, l9O per-
sons were frozen to death.
Edwin F. Uhl, United States ambassador to
Germany, has sailed for Berlin.
The socialists turned out in Rome to greet
their brethren who had been liberated from
prison.
The house committee on naval affairs has
decided to provide for four new battleships
and Is torpedo boats.
At Philadelphia, Captain Wiborg of the
Danish steamer Horsa was sentenced to l8
months in the penitentiary and fined $500 for
carrying an expedition to Cuba.
A freight ran into passenger train on the
Pennsylvania road near Steelton, Pa, and
Engineer Samuel Welsh and Firoman Lee
Strouse, both Of Philadelphia, were killed.
Mrs. Eliza May of st. Paul deposited 81 500
in New Haven bank and then went to st.
Louis to live. Another Mrs. May, who learned
all the circumstances, drew the money from
the New Haven bank and disappeared.
The United States supreme court held that
the state of California has a right to tax the
franchises of the Pacific railways in that
state
Thursday.
1t is rumored that rebellion has broken out
in Bolivia.
The tailors' strike in Chicago is said to be
steadily growing.
The outrageous conduct of DR.. Peters in
Africa is to be investigated by Germany.
Madigan, Welsh & Company's cooper shop
was burned at Peoria, Ills, by incendiaries.
1t is said Venezuela will recognize Uruan
incident as separate from the boundary dis
pute.
Fifteen hundred Christians paraded the
streets of Beirut warning Moslems to be ready
for an attack.
The American Protective association has
sent petition to congress declaring the his
tory of Father Marquette to be myth.
Captain Wiborg of the steamer Horsa, at
Philadelphia, has been admitted to bail pend
ing an appeal to the United States supreme
court
Sheriff Plummer of Kentucky had to leave a
deposit of 10 cents with the court at Cincin-
natl as an evidence of good faith that he would
return Jackson and Walling safely to Ohio in
case they are acquitted.
Friday.
Grover Cleveland celebrated his fifty-ninth
birthday Wednesday.
Near Packertown, Ind, George Seal, farm
er, suicided by hanging.
A little child of q. W. Nutter and wife OF
Cisco, W. Va, was burned to death.
A wealthy Englishman barely escaped losing
$l7 900 by the gold brick swindle in New York.
At Mount Zion, KY, William Points called
Hall Alexander out and instantly began shoot
ing, mortally wounding him.
James Clifford, an insane convict in the Ohio
peulteutldTy, dtueHlpUeu SUICIDE Dy nunRlnS
but was cut down in time to save his life
A late expedition to Cuba safely landed 3,2O(
rifles, 100000 cartridges, $500 machettes, 3,00(
revolvers two Gatling and two Hotchkiss guns
and quantity Of dynamite.
When the case of Steve Pratt, the gold bricl,
swindler, was called at Birmingham, Ala he
failed to put in an appearance and his cash
bond of $1,000 was declared forfeited
A monster tree was felled by lumbermen
near Seven Pines, Va, and in the hollow of the
stump was found the skeleton of a soldier sup
posed to have been q member of the Sixty
ninth New York.
At Clifton, KY, Willie Harris, 6, and Harry
Smith, 4, colored, Quarreled over the possession
of revolver, when the weapon was accident
ally discharged, the ball piercing the Smith
child s brain and resulting in his death.
Saturday.
The khalifi is said to have proclaimed re
ligious war in Egypt.
Alexander McLachlan, 7S, the well kno WI
Canadian poet. died Friday at Orangeville
Ont.
At Fort Sheridan, Ills, two soldiers fought
with gloves and wound up with pistols Boil
will die.
Frank Kreagel, Pole, 80, of Scranton, Pa
shot his wife four times and then committed
suicide.
Miners Of Pennsylvania have called meet
ing to demand an increase of 10 cents per tor
in wages.
o. M. Morton, who was arrested in New
York while trying to work the gold bricl
racket, pleaded guilty.
The dry goods store of Stiers g Company a.
Logan, o., has been closed by the sheriff on
Judgment held by Columbus parties.
Pine uutain on Grnasy forlf of tho Kep
lucky river, has developed into an active vol
cano. Several persons have perished.
Editor Rosewater Of the Omaha Bee ha!
been dismissed by the circuit court from tn,
charge Of contempt Of Judge Scotts's court
The 15-year.old son of Joe Benson of Jack
son, Tenn, put rough on rats in the family
coffeepot, and as a result his father and mother
and DR.. j. G. Stinson will die.
Monday.
A wildcat is making things lively for cool
hunters near Oxford, o.
James J. Corbett has asked Jim Hall to be
| come his sparring partner.
John Hayes Hammond, American engineer
| is on trial at johannesburg
Jack Bio at Buffalo shot at Louisa Gouggin
and killed Mrs Rosalind Vida.
Indiana miners will demand an increase un
| less company stores are abolished.
The detectives who shot Frank White il
| Chicago have been granted a new trial
| Dr. J. H. Lyons of Roslyn, Wash, was foun
| on the sidewalk with his skull crushed.
Collector John G. Claggett of Howard coun
| ty, Md, was killed by an explosion Of dyna
mite.
Consul Meeker at Bradford, England, say
American made clothing can not compete wit
English made goods there.
Benjamin Milliken, charged with breakin
into the house Of ex-Solicitor General Phillip
at Washington, was acquitted.
The senate committee on Indian affairs ha
asked the president to permanently station
company Of troops in Indian Territory.
Crowds Of people are focking to Anderson
Ind, to have Schrader, the "divine healer
and only rival of Schlatter, lay his hands upo
them and cure them.
That man lives twice who lives tht
first life we'll. ll.-Herrick.