Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-01-23
NEWS sRIEEs.
Many Items of Interest Gathered From
All Parts Of the World.

Many Items of Interest Gathered From /
All Parts Of the World.
"Wednesday.
TethAm q Company, brokers of London,
have failed.
An telegraph lines in Cuba have again been
cut by the insurgents.
Mrs Mary Thompson Of Lawrence county, |
o.. died Monday at the age Of lO6.
Walter P. Fry of MiIlersburg. o., wasstruck
by falling limb and instantly killed.
A gas well has been struck at Upton, Ind,
with pressure Of SO pounds to the square
inch.
All the bolting ministers Of the Dominion |
government except Charles Tupper, Jr., have |
been reinstated
Cope Clement, collector OF customs at Otta- |
wa, Ont, is missing with over $4,000 of the |
governments funds
The employees of the Lapee flint bottle
works. 70 in all, struck rather than to submit |
to a reduction of wages.
b. J. King, Captain Mein, Charles Butler and |
Engineer Hammond are among the Americans |
arrested by the Beers at johannesburg.
Judge Cornish of Omaha, master in chan. |
Gerry of the Union Pacific receivership, has |
recommended the payment of the interest of
the first mortgage bonds.
DIR. Adams, 81, one of the founders of Nasho. |
tab institute, and one of the most prominent
men in the Episcopal church in the west, is |
dangerously i'll at his residence in Nashotah, |
Wis
Thursday.
uanrv r1rIav ,,,ax1v. ~ T o,,la,,;iIo J,ol ,t
his home in that city.
The American Purity Alliance conference is
in session at New York.
She senate naval committee will take I'D the
armor contracts investigation
Four Omaha national banks have made bid
for 100000 of the new bond issue.
A special from Washington says Cleveland is
not a candidate for third term.
John School, a farmer living near South
Whitney, Ind, committed suicide.
Mrs. Charles Hube, who eloped with Samuel
Yockey from Delphos, o., has returned.
At Grand Rapids Albert johnson was shot
to death by q. 8. II. Holmes, civil engineer.
Greenbacks were repudiated by the Chicago
board of trade at the annual meeting of that
body.
The London Chronicle says the Aberdeen
letter is no answer to disclosures made by
Norman.
A suit involving the title to 1900, 900 acres of
land is on trial before Judge Golf at Parkers-
burg, w. Va
The postoffice at Coburg, Ind, was burglar
lied and three registered letters and $50 in
money taken.
The steamship Cisgar of Barcelona has been
sunk in collision off Ramsgate, England, with
the German ship Nereus and 10 of hsr crew
were drowned.
In fight between two printers at Lexing.
ton, KY, E. W. McGinnis struck Carl Snyder
on the side of the head with sidestick, in
ficting wound that may prove fatal.
Friday.
A more cheerful tone pervades the iron
trade
The Old Judge Distilling company at Frank.
fort, KY, has assigned.
A thousand families in st. John, N. F., are
without food, fuei and clothing.
Near Jaques, O. T., vigilance committee
shot c. and hanged three outlaws
low, Legislature in joint session elected W.
The Boer government has siezed the cattle
belonging to the reform committeeman.
The American Association Of General Bag.
gage Agents is in session at San Antonio Tex.
The Niagara Power company has taken op-
tion on 26,501 acres of land in western New
York
The British troopship Victoria has arrived
at Cape Town with 1900 men Of the Kings
Own Regiment.
AT Schenectady, n Y. Clarence @. Miller
and Charles G. Humphrey, Union college stu.
dents, pleaded guilty to burglary.
Secretary Of agriculture says the reason he
did not distribute seeds among farmers was
because he did not think they wanted them.
The Orange Free State volksraad (legisla-
ture) has adopted resolutions asking for the
annulling of the charter of the British South
African company.
Saturday.
A new flat building was totally destroyed by
fire in Chicago.
dispatch from Vienna says the German
festival elected no enthusiasm there.
President Kruger of the Transvaal demands
an amendment of the convention of 1884.
Emperor Menelek Of Abyssinia accuses Ros
Makonnen with being the secret friend Of
Italy,
Professor Moore of the weather bureau is
perfecting his balloon scheme for taking OBJ
servations.
The New York correspondent of the London
Times says England has not much influence
over the present congress.
The London Chronicle says it is now most
probable that arbitration will be resorted to
IN the Venezuelan dispute
The New England editors now sojourning in
Florida will pass resolutions urging the recog-
milton of Cuban belligerency.
The London Times, speaking Of Germany's
peace policy, says England is also for peace SO
long as no other power interferes with her.
DIR. Adams, the Indiana spiritualist says DR..
Gov ert the anti-spiritualist, asked him to ex-
plain to him some alleged spirit manifesta-
tons.
The postmaster generals of the Australian
colonies and New Zealand held a conference
in London looking to the laying of Pacific
cable. but there was a great difference of
opinion.
Monday.
R. M. Desha of Cynthiana, KY, was arrested
in Cincinnati.for passing bogus drafts.
The lifeless body of r. Harshbarger was
found in a low resort at Wheeling. w. Va.
Mrs. Sarah F. Dick has been reelected cash.
ier of the First National bank at Huntington,
Ind
Henry b. Chandler, one Of the formerown-
ers Of the Chicago Times, died at Youl,ars
N Y
Sheriff Heffner, at Celina, o., was murder |
ously assaulted by prisoners in the county |
Jail who tried to escape
The meeting of the national board of base |
ball clubs called for the 2lth at Washington
has been postponed TO Monday. the 9th inst
The exattorney general of Cape Colony has |