Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-02-20
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Tuesday.
William II. Grain, congressman from the
Eleventh district Of Texas, is dead
W. H. English Of Indiana left an estate
worth $5,0OO,000 to his two children. ~
The Newburg orrel Coke and Coal company
Of Morgantown, W. Va, has failed
All the pending indictments against Erastus
Wiman Of New York have been dismissed.
At Fawtucltet, R. l., one man was killed and
hve injured, one fatally, by a boiler explosion.
John McCafferty died in Chicago leaving an
estate worth $4,000, and il now develops he
had three wives living. 4
Hon. Dudley Churchill Mariorbanlzs has
compromised the breach Of promise suit fled
by Birdie Southerland, ballet girl, for $4,000
Benjamin Ratcliff, who was recently hanged
in Colorado for killing three members of
school board, formerly lived at Kokomo, Ind.
Frederick Schlechter, 40, was killed in n
prizefight in Philadelphia, and ex-Policeman
Henry Pluckfelder, 30, is charged with muir
der.
Steve Brodie bridge Jumper has purchased
block of brownstone houses in New York
which he will rent at low rates to worthy
poor.
The Hawaiian government threatens to give
United States Minister Willis his passport for
his action in refusing to recognize Independ-
ence day.
Henry Blake and family of Limpkin county,
Georgia, suspected of giving information to
revenue officers, were beaten by moonshiners
and Blake will die
Cam Harper, while riding along the road
near Ashland, Ky, shot at dog which barked
at him, but missed the dog and hit Lucy
BiniOn. Ia owner of the panina
Mrs. Kate M. Nellis and Edgar c. Gardner Of
Girard. Pa, and Joseph O. Stowell, spiritual
ist, of Cincinnati have been indicted for poi
| soning Mr.. Peter H. Nellis, Kate's husband.
Wednesday.
A water main burst in Cleveland, inundat-
| ing many houses.
Two railroads have purchased 11O0O acres of
| coal land in Illinois.
| M. A. Smalley has been appointed marshal
| for the northern district of Ohio.
Francis Schlatter the healer, is believed to
be in Jail at San Bernardino, Cal, for va
grancy.
| Four hundred Hovas attacked the French
| troops in Madagascar, but were repulsed with
a loss of 3,0C0
| The sublime porte has agreed to grant am
nesty to the Zeitounlies and permit them to
retain their old hunting rifles.
1t is believed H. Cranston Potter of Tacoma
was murdered and his body thrown on the
beach near San Francisco His skull was trac
| tured.
John Minnis, ex-slave, of Oglethorpe, Ga, a
few months ago married Lizzie Harmon, a
lady he met a short time before. He has just
discovered she is his daughter born in slavery.
| He has become insane.
| Thursday.
Mollie Cooper of Franklin, Ind, was whipped
almost to death by her father, and lynching is
threatened.
Cuban insurgents and Spaniards fought a
desperate battle, in which the Spaniards were
badly worsted.
| Grant Atterbury was lynched at Sullivan,
Ills, for outraging his sister r-in.law, Mrs.
Roxey Atterbury
At 7riddletown, N. Y, Maggie Callard, IA,
and bel Winters 49, broke through the ice
and ~4e drowned
| L. Vernard Of Watervleit Mich, who had
been blind for years, regained his eyesight
during religious excitement.
Friday.
| A needle factory, first in the United States,
is soon to be started in Chicago.
4 Dr. C NJ. TorUune, pIGsUur r1TsU BapUlsJ
church of Paris, Tex, has been convicted of
heresy.
1t is reported that DR.. Nansen of Norway
has discovered the north pole on a chain of
mountains.
Miss Emma Cruise of Bloomington, Ind, has
sued Rev. Sears of the Christian church for
| breach of promise
Lewis Lawson, so, has been sued for $1,000
damages for forcibly OBTAINING Mrs. Maggie
Brown, "a, and making love to her.
| Daniel Webster and John Williamson are
| I1Y,G of n,n,. n,
poisoning John Garner, who was found dead.
Pietro Gori, the italian anarchist, is follow
ing Prince Luigi nephew Of King Humbert,
| who is now i'll San Francisco. Gori has been
spotted and is watched
| John P. Harmens, 90, professional tramp,
| discovered $4,000 which Jack Brady and
Browning, tranrobbers, buried, and has lived
inluxury ever since in San Francisco.
Saturday.
The United States man Of war Marion broke
| her valve gear at Panama.
John Harris, negro murderer, was hanged in
the District Of Columbia Jail.
John Klipp attempted suicide at Maysville,
KY, by drinking oxalic acid.
| George Graves shot and killed Len Hartsoclk
and wounded Emma Canaday at Pocahan.
| tas Va.
| General Campos has declined the presidency
OF the war office of Spain and declares he will
| leave the country.
| Students at the Missouri State university re-
belled at the suspension of some of their num-
ber, praraded the streets and detied the. fac
| ulty.
DR.. Eugene Grissom, leading specialist in
mental diseases and one of the three leading
Masons of the country, attempted suicide at
Denver.
Judge Alexander Davis, the jurist whose
name was immortalzed by Mark Twain in
"Roughing 1t" died in st. Louis at the Bap.
tist sanitarium.
Eleven fishermen were wrecked on Dog
island. Five were dead when discovered and
the balance, who had eaten of the corpses,
were unconscious.
George Tomasian, Armenian, Of Milwaukee
has received the sad news that his little boy
was killed, that his wife and mother jumped
into the Euphrates and that his sister was car
ried. away by the Kurds.
Monday.
Rev. Henry David Hearn was arrested at
Mobile for poisoning his wife,
Mrs Eliza j. Nicholson, proprietress of the
New Orleans Picayune is dead.
At Papeete, Tahiti, the natives raised British
| naps and n French pIlnhoat; shot Them down,