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Newspaper
Democratic Northwest
Location
Napoleon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1892
Page
1
Fragmented OCR shows advertising rates and local notices. It lists column headers, death notices from the infirmary, church notes, and a sale on walking shoes. It mentions Arch Lowery and Walter Pitcher deaths, and a sale at Geo. H. Rohrn & Bro’s.
Read the ad urging vigilance against cholera and summer illnesses. Gould Balsley promotes a wide line of medicines and remedies kept in stock at low prices, claiming to offer the best and most reliable cures to keep the blood pure and the stomach and body in good condition. The note also mentions emergency stock, including binder twine and other supplies, available at the store.
In Napoleon era style counsel on prudent life choices and business, Baur and Balsley tout careful selection of goods and low profits for big trade. They promise quality latest styles and a vast stock in paints wallpapers medicines books and stationery with ready access to patent medicines and pure ingredients.
A Wabash line wreck near Keller's station on the 8d after flood damage plunged the engine and eleven crew members to death. The train, moving seven miles an hour, slid into a 15 foot culvert at Kinthney Creek as washed roadbed collapsed. Bodies recovered, nine cars loaded with wool and cotton followed into the water. Loss to railroad estimated at 75 000. Names include Tralomister F Wilcox Harvey Dunlap Chase Helm George Shorey and Frank Mohr. Mohr buried beneath engine. Dunlap and Mohr among the deceased.
The convention features General James B Weaver for President and General Field for Vice President. Speeches praise, resolutions debated, and the platform adopted unanimously amid dramatic telegrams and a high-spirited roll call. The convention adjourns sine die after approving the ticket and platform.
A fragmented public address argues for national unity and reform in labor, agriculture, and currency. The speaker demands unlimited coinage of silver at 16 to 1, postal savings, telephone and telegraph features, and government employment reforms, presenting an agrarian and protective stance against capitalist exploitation.
The New York World says a wide investigation into pensions exposes fraud, rascality, incompetence, and prejudice. It cites a committee’s forthcoming report recommending the removal of Commissioner Raum for incompetence and malice amid accusations of partisan use of the pension machine. The document is described as one of the most exhaustive from a congressional committee.
At midnight General John Bidwell was named the National Prohibition party’s presidential nominee amid cheering. The corrected vote tally and subsequent nomination of J B Cranfill of Texas for vice president followed, with platform calls for temperance, monetary reform, and opposition to suffrage expansion and certain tax measures. Biographies note Bidwell as a 73 year old Ohio native and landowner. Cranfill is described as a Baptist clergyman and editor.
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