Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-02-27

Worth Knowing Is Terse!y Told.
Tuesday.
The Illinois Medical college has decided not
TO establish hypnotic clinic.
+. @. Tomson & Company's soap and coffee
essence factory was burned in Philadelphia
The Houseman block in Grand Rapids,
Mich, was destroyed by fire with loss of
100000
The New York grand jury did not indict the
Fitzgerald boys. charged with numbering Pro
fessor Eglau
James Fultz was sentenced to IS years in
the penitentiary at Welch, w. Va, for muir
dering William Fatum.
motion has been made at Pittsburg to set
aside the 500 verdict Mark Baldwin secured
against Chris Won der Abe for malicious prose-
cution.
Joseph Crumpton and his daughter 6allie
were murdered in Rabun county, Ga, by
moonshiners, who suspected them Of being In
formers.
Wednesday.
Vice President Stevenson is to be free sill
yer candidate for the Democratic presidential
nomination.
Three hundred mining men and prospectors
have left Spokane, WASH, for the Colville In
dian reservation.
The president of Ecuador has appealed to
shoulders Of the Cubans.
Banker j. A. Strathey of Barrie Ont, was
called to the door of his home and fatally shot
| by an unknown assassin.
| James J. Corbett has notified Robert Fitz-
| simmons that he will "punch his head" when
he meets him for calling him a cur.
A Russian force in Korea killed the Korean
ministers and then appointed Russian puppets
| in their stead The affair was directed by the
czar.
The French newspapers predict an attempt
20 overthrow the alleged French republic in
| the near future by those who have always OPP
posed it.
Three masked robbers forced the cashier
and bookkeeper of the Market Street bank of
| San Francisco into the vault and then stole
| everything in sight.
Charles Gildermeister's house burned at
| Riverton, Conn. Mrs. Gildermeister rushed in
to get $3.50 she had concealed in an old stock
ing in closet and was burned to death.
| Thursday.
Several persons perished while fishing on
| the ice at Buffalo.
ExConsul Waller has been ordered released
from the French prison.
Mr.. Cody of Tacoma has offered $500 for the
restoration to him of his wife before Feb 28
Charles Rodman, farmer of Harper county,
| Kan, was killed in his own dooryard by some
unknown assassin.
The resignation Of President Brayton Ives
Of the Western National bank of New York
has been accepted.
| The royal family of Madrid is kept very busy
lodging dynamite bombs and revolution is
confidently predicted.
| Professor Lenschner Of California State uni
| versity says the Perrine comet will not come
in contact with the earth.
| Mathew Gogovitch, waiter in a restaurant
in Sacramento, has fallen heir to vast for
tune in Austria by the death of his father.
William Walters, who killed Paul Maddox
| In Tuscaloosa county, Ala, six years ago, has
surrendered to the sheriff at Los Angeles.
A passenger engine crashed into freight
caboose at Sturgeon River, Mich, killing a
brakeman and fatally injuring the conductor.
Isaiah ClenDenin, IA, filled an old gun barrel
| with water, plugged it up and placed it in the
fire and awaited developments. The plug few
out. killing the boy instantly.
When James Fitzgerald was hanged at st.
Louis for numbering his sweetheart the rope
broke and he fell sprawling to the ground
The second attempt finished him.
Friday.
y The safe in bank at MeLouth, Kan, was
blown by burglars, who stole $780,
August D. Gilbert was hanged at Boston for
the murder of Alice Sterling, child.
The gold reserve has reached the s1O0,O0O, 600
point for the first time since Sept z, 1895.
Incendiaries burned the barn of s. B. White
at Pulaski, Tenn, and 55 fine cattle persisted.
Almus Butterfeld, wealthy commission
merchant Of Chicago, suicided by cutting his
throat.
A buggy containing two men was struck by
| a train at Winchester, KY, and both men
| were killed.
A cablegram from Paris says ex-Consul
Waller has been released from the French
prison in which he was confined.
q. v. Debs says he has no taste for politics,
but intimates that he is receptive candidate
for the nomination for governor of Indiana on
| the Populist ticket.
Professor S. H. Burnham, Chicago astron-
omer, says he wonld like to see the Perrine
| comet strike the earth for the scientific knoWl-
edge it would impart.
Saturday.
Pittsburg sports lost about $4,000 on Peter
Maher and are very sore.
Prussian insurance companies in New York
have been ordered to cease.
4 Bob Mtzsimmons positively declines to con-
slider any challange from Corbett.
Washington's birthday was celebrated in
London by the Americans there.
The Standard Oil company is leasing vast
tracts Of land in Indiana.
The French senate has concluded not to
drive the cabinet out of business
Theodore Durrant, who was to be executed
on Friday, has been granted a respite of *
days
The only spot in Cuba of which the insur.
gents have not complete control is Havana
Commander Ballington Booth was removed
heAn ha 10
army.
Chief De Root, medicine man of the Usage
Indians, has ordered the death dance discon.
tinued.
Governor Bradley of Kentucky is an avowed
candidate for the presidential nomination on
the Republican ticket.
While Robert Edwards, so, was trying tc
draw bucket of water he fell head long into
the well and was,drowned at Pomeroy, o.
Monday.
A small blaze occurred in White dormitory
at Yale college yesterday
A new morning paper, called the journal
has been started at Mobile, Ala.
Ira McNett, 15, who recently died near Nun.
Gle, Ind, was feet 8inches tall.
Judge James H. Mulligan of Kentucky has
resigned as consul general to Samoa.
Bob Green, son ef ex-Judge Green. was killed
in q dive at Pineville. KY. by John Hayes.
By the explosion Of an oil heater Lillian
Lyons, IA, Of Brooklyn, was burned to death
Romulus Gay, the recluse son of q French
count, died Of paralysis at New Haven, Conn
Near Lebanon, Ind, while assisting his
father In Telling tree, Charles Grimes was
pinioned against the stump and killed
William FL. Luckembach, D. D., 81, president
of the New York and New Jersey synod Of the
Lutheran church. died of paralysis at Hudson,
NY.
The Condition Is Terrible.
| CoNsTANTNoPLE, Feb. 25.-The con.
suls Of the powers who negotiated the
peace at zeitoun report the most terrible
| distress and illness there There are