Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1897-06-10

VIII Interest Him II the Column Of
Items Below Is Perused From Begin |
ming to End, Day by Day.
Tuesday.
Libby prison at Chicago h soon to be
closed.
The Chicago gas trust bill passed the I'LL
hois senate.
Secretary Gage says the people want the
tariff bill passed.
The armistice between Greece and Tur-
key has been prolonged.
The tenth annual convention Of the Ma
tionaI Republican league VIII be held In
Detroit July 13.
Correspondent Pepper says his letters
from Cuba are his own, and that they were
not inspired by Commissioner Calhoun.
AS a result of the 10 per cent cut In
wages 200 iron workers Of Jones g. Nc
Laughlin ut Pittsburg went out on a strike.
President Mckinley conferred the degrees
on 80 graduates of the senior and post
graduate classes OF the National university
law school.
Charles H. Smith, former prominent
business man of Detroit, whose estate was
administered upon after he mysteriously
disappeared In 1890, has returned.
Governor Pingree of Michigan has asked
the dean Of the law department of Michl-
gan university for an opinion as to the
constltutionallty of the Merriam bill.
Monday.
An anarchist picnic was broken up by the
police at Pittsburg.
The town Of Namsos in Norway was CON-
pletely destroyed by fire.
George Repshlre and son were drowned
while bathing in Saline river, Kansas.
Turkey demands that Greece reduce her
army to 10000 men and surrender her feet
Justice Brewer was the orator at the ded-
ication Of the sol Hers monument at West
Point.
Miss Annie Hunter, society belle of At
lanta, was fatally injured while riding her
wheel.
Mrs Mamie L. Barr, her 4-year-old babe
and her sister were drowned In u tank at
Abbott, Tex.
At Montpelier. VT, a folding bed closed
on Henry Kendall, 63, and he was dead
when released.
Riotous convicts of San Quentin, CAL, are
still defiant and say they will compel the
authorities to release them.
From now until his trip to the Nashville
exposition on June 10, President Cleveland
will devote considerable time to the Guam
question.
Saturday.
Christian missionaries have recently been
attacked in China.
Silver Republicans in session at Colum
| bus, o., denounced the Dana law.
The tinplate manufacturers met in Pitts
burg and refused to increase wages.
William H. Bunge's vinegar factory IL
| Chicago burned, with a loss of $4,000.
The Nebraska Prohibltionists demand
| suppression Of the liquor traffic, and equa
| suffrage.
| At American Falls, Ida, freight ant
passenger collided, killing nine men and In
| juring eight others.
| In u shooting scrape in a saloon in Oak
man, Ala, Mayor Appling and Charlie:
/ Williams were killed.
Four hundred Inhabitants of the Chimes,
Il village at the Tennessee centennial parade(
i the streets Of Nashville.
Several New York towns were shaken BY
earthquakes.
Mrs. Harriet Higgins, so, fell from traiI
at Kansas City and was decapitated.
| w. T. Powers and John baltimore, mur
derous crooks, were hanged at Chicago
Seven hundred convicts In the Californi;
penitentiary rebelled on the prison food.
DIR. Well of San Francisco claims to hav
discovered new treatment for lockjaw
Jim Parker, the train robher, who brok
jail, has been captured at Flagstaff, Ariz
1t is now claimed that Insurance Commis
sioner Durfee of Illinois under Altgeld, ha
paid in $4,000 and does not owe the stat
| a cent.
| Friday.
T.I4 kl,o
chiefs, Is dead.
A poor quality of liquor is being SNUG
gled into Alaska.
lahoma Territory.
The vigilance committee of Butte, Mon
has warned all hoboes to leave
The suspended Insurance companies wi
defy Insurance Commissioner McNall @
Kansas and continue business.
George NJ. Pullman has received a meds
from Archduke Rainer for building th
most perfect town in the world.
Although Governor Stephens has pa
doned Cashier Saltley Of the Kansas Cit
Safe Deposit bank. Prosecutor Lowe wi
try him on % indictments still pendin
against him.
DIR. Gustayus Hamilton Griffin, the Me-
York swindler, turns out to be an old-tim
operator on the Pacific coast His rigf
name is Jean Baptiste lie Blanc and he
the son Of French plumber and a Hal
; negress.
Thursday.
William Edwards was assassinated In b
home near Trilby, Ga.
Marquis Ito says Japan would not anne
! Hawaii II 1t could be had for the asking.
Greece has her money ready to pay inte
I. est on her bonds, which falls due June 1
Tobacco men have entered prote
against the tax placed on tobacco by Il
senate tariff bill.
1t is said General Maximo Gomez. famo,
Cuban general, Is coming to the Unite
States to see President Mckinley.
Sixteen members of the crew Of the fis
ing schooner John P. johnson have bet
picked up off Provincetown. Mass.
Rev. A. G. Harrison, pastor Of the Pc
pies tabernacle. Washington, is missir
with $4,000 belonging to the church.
John B. Maxwell and VIII H. Hoch, cas-
Ter and teller of the South Bethlehem (Pa
National bank, have been arrested charge
with embezzling $1,000.
Mrs Elizabeth Hennls1 iumped from Il