Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-05-21
Tuesday.

Importance Which Secures 1t q Place
In This Column of Terse Sayings Eos
Busy Readers.
Tuesday.
The Investment Trust Company Of Araerica
Of Topeka, Kan, has failed
The rush this spring TO the gold fields oi
Alaska has been unprecedented
A dispatch from London announces the
death Of Alfred Hunt, the artist.
Four Warren (O.) saloon keepers were fined
SIS each for selling contrary to law.
The internal revenue receipts for the Eighth
kentucky district for the month Of April
were S1,006,67s93
Jack MoAuliffe is said to have cleaned up
$1,000 by his trip to Hot Springs, Ark, besides
benefting his health
| At huntington, W. Va, Robert Anderson.
negro, criminally assaulted the 5year-old
daughter of R. G. Lindsay.
The conviction and sentence Of F. A. Coffin,
bank wrecker Of indianapolis, has been con
hrmed by the supreme court
While fishing in a stone quarry near Find.
lay. o., the 10 year-old son of Simon Crider fell
into the water and was drowned.
Francis Show shot and killed William
Worth, huoksteF, q Six Mile Crossing, W.
Va, in Aght over a 20 cent debt for a chicken.
| At New Haven, Captain George Beleher
while fishing, caught q sea monster feet
long, 81 feet wide and inches thick. 1t is
| covered with hair and has two wings.
Two boys, aged 9 and IL, respectively at.
| tempted to wreck a passenger train on the
| Cincinnati Southern, near Nicholasville, KY
''just for the fun of the thing" as they ex
pressed it.
| Wednesday.
A new coal field will be opened at Leesville
Ohio.
| George Lenox, %, drowned in the Kentucky
| river near Frankfort.
| Vast beds of anthracite have been discov
| cred in northern Minnesota.
The Denver chamber of commerce says no
| outside aid is needed for Cripple Crees.
Colonel North. the nitrate king" died
while presiding at meeting in London.
Consul Mason of Frankfort says there Is a
market in Germany for American bicycles.
Mrs Langtry has been allowed $4,000 by the
Union bank of London for her stolen Jewels.
At Mansfield, O., tramp was sentenced tc
| the penitentiary for one year for menacing
conduct.
The Duke and Duchess Of Sake Meinengen
| were robbed near Rome Of all their money, 81
hres (about sllh
Adah Richmond claiming to be John Stet-
sons commonlaw wife, will make q fight for
part of the estate.
In an election row at Blueheld. W. Va, q
man named Pennebaker was shot and his son
William cut with knife.
The volksraad congress Of the Transvaal)
| is in session and in his message President Kru-
| ger intimated that an offensive and defensive
| alliance was about to be formed with the
Orange Free State.
Thursday.
The Kentucky Derby one mile and quar-
ter, was won by Ben Brush in 2:o79E
With the school enumeration as q basis,
Muncie, Ind, claims a population Of 26,5O0
o. J. Coleman of st. Louis was robbed al
Middletown, o., of jewelry to the amount OF
| S2,500.
Charles Hale was run over and killed by 6
Norfolk and Western train near Graham
WA
At Hebron, Ind, Harry Hamilton of Xenia
o., was struck by Panhandle train and fatal
ly injured.
Bolt and nut manufacturers are organizing
trust and will advance prices about 80 per
cent on June l.
Silas Adams, colonel Of the First Kentucky
cavalry and ex-congressman, died at his home
Liberty, KY, Of pneumonia
The polishers and toolmakers in the Miami
Cycle works at Middletown, O., quit worl
| and Joined the filers, who went out a few day.
ago.
At Athens, KY. Miss May johnson was
called to the door by an unknown party
struck with club and terribly bruised about
the face and head.
Friday.
A Chicago robber shot three persons while
escaping from his pursuers.
Fire at Seymour, Ind, destroyed the second
story Of the Seymour manufacturing plant.
Harry Saylor Of Antwerp, O., suffering from
| brain trouble, committed suicide at Fort
Wayne.
The coldroll boys at the La1ghlin tin plant
Martins Ferry, o., have struck forfewer hours
or more pay.
The Indiana Republican convention noanf
mated James A. Mount of Montgomery county
for governor.
The bodies of three more victims Of the re
cent gasoline explosion at Cincinnati have
been recovered.
Irwin Ford, charged with the murder o
| Elsie Greglo in Washington City, was ARRESTED
| at Harper's Ferry.
The city treasury of Delphos, O., is depleted
and the city council has ordered the electri,
| light service cut of.
Miss Mary Burris Of Shinkle's Ridge, Brown
| county, O.. is in dangerous condition from
genuine case of hydrophobia.
In the case of Paul Gense, on trial in Jersey
| City for the murder of Clara Arnim, the jury
| brought in a verdict of murder in the second
| degree.
Saturday.
Mrs. Margaret Bowen, l21, is dying at Shico
| pee. Mass. She married at the age of SO.
Two men and boy were killed by falling
from q scatfold on bUilding in Brooklyn.
| Taylor Delk who murdered the sheriff d
| Pike county, Ga, has been arrested at At
lsnta.
Several directors of the British South Afri
can company will resign if Cecil Rhodes re
mains in the company.
| In Shanghai 10 of the tars Of the American
cruiser Petrol whipped the entire outfit O.
the British cruiser Spartan.
| j. Watson Hildreth, train wrecker at Rome
| N. Y, was sentenced to life Imprisonment
and his two companions got 40 years each.
| Bishop johnson, colored, Of the Kansas dis
trict Of Mount Zion Baptist church, was ar
rested at Fort Scott charged with makinl
false pension affdavits.
| Monday.
| General Grosvenor claims 54s votes for Ma
ior Mckinley.
| Eugene Debs is in the south in the interest O
the American Railway union.
| Rudysrd Kipling has sworn out peace war
rant against his brotherin-law, Beatty Bales
| tier.
Kid Mccoy was committed by Q New Yorl
magistrate for prizefghting in default Of $50
| bail
With NO provocation Saloonist George Kirk
patrick shot George Davis fatally at Spring
| field, O.
Marion French. son of the noted leader tn th
French -Evsrsole war, was killed on the stree
OF Hindmap, Ky.