Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-03-12
OUR SHORT STORIES.
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AND THUNDER VARIETY.
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tant Features Observed In the Prepara-
tlon Of This Column Of Live, UP-to-
Date News For Busy People.


living near East Hickman, KY, was burned to
death.
Al. Mains was arrested at Maysville, KY, |
on a charge Of killing q man in Greenup |
county.
The first lord of the British admiralty has
asked for S1l0,000O00 for the construction OF |
warships
Near Irwin, Pa, Misses Pauline Clarke and |
Mary Greeves and Richard Garland were |
killed by train.
The Minneapolis Terminal elevator at Min. |
neapolis was burned with I,0T5 go bushels of |
wheat. Loss, 100000.
The Nicaraguan government troops have
captured Matearis and Nagarote and large
portion Of rebel artillery.
Gales and floods have caused great deal Of
damage in Queensland Four steamers foun-
dered, causing loss of s2,5O0,0O0.
Wednesday.
Arizona wants the presidents veto sus-
tanned on the lease bill
Nebraska selected Mckinley delegates to
the st. Louis convention.
The ladies of Indiana have presented the
battleship Indiana silver loving cup.
Belva Lockwood's claim of SIS for pension
service has been allowed her by Commissioner
Lochren.
The Genessee flats at Utica, N. Y, were de-
stroyed by fire and one woman was killed by
falling from fire escape.
It has been discovered that the Northern
Pacific had no right to mortgage the road
which it did for $50, 100000.
1t is reported that the italian General Bara-
tierre WAS wounded in the battle with the
Shoans. Two or three generals were killed.
The aperture in the monitor Ajax for hoist
ing ammunition is found to be smaller than
the projectiles 1t will cost $4,000 to rem
edy it.
| Efforts are being made to have the British
| and Venezuelan minist9Ss at Washington set
| tie the Yuruan incident without regard to
| territory.
Clint Todd of Wilde, KY, stabbed his son
| George to death.
Spain is negotiating with France for support
| in the Cuban affair.
| Fifty county conventions in Iowa have de-
clared for Allison for president.
The Mississippi Republican convention in
| structed its delegates for Mckinley.
1t is reported that two cases sof smallpox
| have been discovered at GAINESVILLE, o.
Frank D. Black (Rep) was elected mayor Of
| Seattle Wash, by over 1 400 majority.
| The next annual encampment of the Ken
lucky Grand Army will be held at Somer-
set, KY
The remains of William Peterson and Rachel
George were stolen from the potters field
| Circleville, o.
Asmadillon Fero, an insanely Jealous Italt
ian. shot woman whom he claimed es his
wife and two men at Jersey City, N. ].
In the Virginia legislature Senator Flood
struck Senator Flanagan over the head with q
cane, and concussion of the brain is feared
George Weld, music teacher, wanted at
Glen Hope, Pa, for q crime, jumped from a
train at Indianapolis and was crushed to
death.
Friday.
Vice President Miller of the First National
bank of Ripon, Wis. is dead.
Death has ended the long fast of Mrs. Valen-
tine Kurtz of Danville, N. Y.
The Big Four has declared dividend of "a
per cent on the preferred stock.
John A. Sturgeon, Baptist minister, of Wise
county, Va, has been adjudged insane,
At Mount Vernon, KY, Officer Peke shot
Dave Harrison, inficting painful wounds.
Germany is supporting Italy's overtures to
England for assistance in the present crisis.
The steamer John L. Hasbroucz on the New
York and Poughkeepsie line, ran on reef and
sank.
| 1t is believed in Madrid that France and
England will support Spain against the United
States.
Ninety bodies have been recovered from the
burning Cleophas mine at Kotowitz, Prussian
|, Silesia.
The entire family Of G.. Dollhouse were
burned in the destruction Of their home at
Alma, Wis.
The King of Korea ordered the heads of the
five murdered ministers to be placed on poles
and exposed.
s.The Republicans of the Twenty first Ohio
| NJ boxr tfad
for congress.
Spanish Minister DeLome telegraphs his gov
ernment that President Cleveland will refuse
to recognize the Cubans.
Butcher Weyler in Cuba has issued 8
proclamation against arrests merely on sus
picion and without proof.
Saturday.
Compressed air is being used for running
machinery at the Pullman carworks instead oi
steam.
, Mary McMahon, sister of the Immaculate
Concessrtion at Marysville, Mo-, suicided by
hanging.
Leslie Pigg put morphine in his whisky an6
died at Winchester, Ky, because he had beer
indicted for several crimes.
A streetcar at Memphis tumbled into th,
bayou, distance Of Is feet. Two persons
were killed and others injured.
At West Palm Beach, Fla, the body Of 10
! seph McGowan, half eaten by buzzards, wa
! found in the woods. His wife had left him ant
gone to Ohio, and he blew his head off.
W. R. Etlinger, who suicided at Bellefonte
Pa, to escape arrest, was buried in pauper'
grave, his wife and relatives refusing to CLAIM
the body. Ills wife says he was demon.
Tone Parks, at Bowling Green, KY, crazet
over religion, was in the act Of killing his bo,
as a sacrifice to the Lord, when he noticed
chicken his wife had killed and concluded
that had been substituted for Isaac.
Monday.
The Omaha branch of the Salvation Arm.
has decided to remain loyal to the old organ
ization.
The steamship City of Rio de Janeiro, iron
San Francisco for the orient, is now tw
| weeks overdue.
Awholesale robbery of penitentiary con
tract firm has been discovered in the Wiscou
sin State prison.
Undertakers met at Pittsburg and formed
national organization, electing J. f. Fitzhugl
Of Springfield, o., president.
Thelimited train on the Southern Pacif
struck horse near Puente, Cal, and the en-
gine and five coaches were derailed.
James Wood, a carpenter Of Springfield, O
who fell heir to $685. 900 in England, has re
ceived the last installment of $4,000
From Jan. to Feb. 20 General Maceo car
tured from the Spaniards 2,SG0 Mauser rifles
100000 rounds Of ammunition and four fieI
pieces.
The mutilated bodies Of en- old man and
newborn babe were found in an alley in Hyd
} Park, Chicago, covered with mass of old rag
! and cotton.
General Weyler has issued an order pardon
doning teachers Of divinity who have side
with the insurgents upon their surrender
| the Spanish anthoT1aAes.
SHOT His DIVORCED WIFE