The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-04-24

Indiana
Bloomfield voted $13.5OO to the Chicago
. Worthington and Washington railway.
The Cambridge City trotting park hav
published their premiums for the meetin,
June 8 to 6.
State Treasurer Flemming sold the For
Wayne Sentinel, a democratic organ, t.
VIM. r. Nelson and 8. E. Morss, of that
city, for $4,000.
Greencastle is to have several new edi
fees built this summer. Asbury universi
ty will erect a $25,QOO building and tn,
Methodists $500 church.
| An inquest of lunacy was held on Mrs
M. L. Crippen, of Orange township, Rush
county, formerly of Indianapolis. She was
sent to the asylum.
| Andrew Levy, shoemaker of Princeton
suicided with twenty grains of morphine
Cause, melancholy. His family reside al
Paducah, Pa
| Philip Polster, OF Columbus, while re-
turning from a dance was knocked down
by garroters with sand bag, and robbed
of So, all the money he had about his
person.
| Louis, an eight year-Old son of Mrs. Gil
lispie, fell over the falls of Tall creek. at
w llIldIuSDOTt, anu WdSIubtduuy hIlIcu l1c
fell distance of 6Ofeet. The body was
| recovered.
Last fall Alfred Brown was tried at An
derson for bigamy, and received verdict
of ninety days in Jail, but got new trial.
He was tried again and got two years in
the penitentiary.
Rochester and Henry townships, Fulton
county, voted $44, 900 to aid the Chicago &
Alton railway company, by an overwhelm-
ing majority. Track laying has COM
menced at Huntington.
The democrats of Lafayette in conven-
tion nominated the following ticket, for
Mayor, j. Tyler; treasurer, Jacob II. Vie
bers; clerk, George West; marshal, Felix
Connolly assessor Peter Carney.
William Smyser, OF williamsburg
woOed and won the heart and hand of
Mary Wells, but her father said no. The
young couple fled from the parental roof
to Louisville and were made one.
The trial of Hugh Mack, at Cavydon,
for participating in the murderous assault
upon Mrs. Mauck and Miss Vauhgn, was
postponed until the 29th, and he was COM
mitted to Jail in default of $500.
DIR. j. A. Nesbit, living at Alfronte, left
his home about two weeks ago, telling his
wife that he was going to Indianapolis to
have some teeth extracted, and since then
nothing has been heard from him.
The Excelsior School Furniture Com
pany of Indianapolis capital stock $780,
600, Albertus Swain, James s. Bush and
Nathan Doan, directors, have filed arti-
cles of association with the secretary of
state. .za..ee-sri
John q. Paine an engineer on the T. H.
s. E. railroad, was drilling his engine at
Evansville when the lever flew back strik-
ing him in the breast, fracturing several
ribs and inflicting perhaps fatal internal
injuries.
Ralva's heading factory and cooper
shops at Anderson has stopped operation
Over one hundred hands are thrown out
of employment Mr.. Ralya has decided
his property to the National city bank of
Cleveland.
Isaac Deubo, halfwitted pauper in the
county asylum at Corydon, killed fellow
pauper named Robertson. DeubO was cut
ting wood, when the other party got in
reach of the ak, and was struck in the head
and killed.
Rev. John Schrader, died at Poseyville,
twenty miles from Evansville, aged eighty
eight. He was generally known as father
Schrader throughout southern Indiana,
where his life has been spent, and where
he was greatly beloved.
Ella Applegate, of Knightstown, aged
ten years. is on the point of death by over
exertion in jumping the rope at school a
few days ago. Her body is largely swol-
len, and the attending physicians fear that
some internal organ has been injured.
A tenant house in Fairland. known as the
old Gibson house, the property of Mrs.
WOOdsides, caught fire from defective
fiue Monday night, and was totally con-
sumed. The building was occupied by
five families, who lose all their furniture.
Jonathan Splitter, a well-tO-do farmer of
Flora, was taken to the insane asylum.
The cause of insanity is supposed to be his
doubts in regard to baptism, as he has been
reading great deal on the subject lately,
and since becoming insane it is his whole
topic ofcOnversation.
There was nothing mean about the dem
ocratic city convention of indianapolis, for
the delegates nominated "a red-hOt Meth
odist, an active temperance worker, a ne
gro and the president of the Freedom and
Right Saloon -keeper's0 Association. The
Chinaman got away.
An old FTenchman named Dedier De
plein, living six miles north of Ft. Wayne,
Yesterday committed n dastardly assault
upon his wife. Deplein is in Jail. His
victim recently filed an action for a divorce,
since which time he has made several at
tcmpts to murder her.
Jimmy O'Donnell, of Madison, ate his
twenty -four goose eggs in installments of
eight. The first eight in minutes, the
second eight in 80, and the third in 10 :15.
The whole time in preparing and eating,
90 minutes. At the close OF the feast he
called for the goose to eat on top of the
eggs.
An old man by the name of Hudson at
tempted suicide last week at StOckwell by
stabbing himself several times in the neck
and abdomen. No hopes are entertained
of his recovery. He states that financial
troubles are the cause, having been robbed
of about $500 at Lafayette a few weeks
since.
A young man of Osgood obtained a tor
pedo--used by railroads for stopping trains
when there is danger-and exploded it by
striking it with an AK. The force of the
explosion threw the AK back against his
face and shoulder, cutting II horrible cash
in both. The wounds are painful but not
necessarily dangerous.
On Monday Dick Cummins and William
Baldwin, alias Jones, were arrested at
Cummin's farm, eight miles south of
South Bend for making bogus silver dol
lars. Both were examined before United
States Commissioner George, and Cum
minis was jailed IN default of 81 500 bond,
and Baldwin in $4,000 Baldwin was
taken to Michigan on requisition to be
tried for a robbery near Benton harbor.
Cummins will be taken to indianapolis
for trial.
A wholesale druggist imparts the in
formation that there is one honest pool in
the country. 1t is a combination among
west to keep their product up to a fair
price Each manufacturer sells his own
Oil, but the price is fixed and collections
made from Chicago, from which point he