The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-07-24
OHIO NEWS.

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OHIO NEWS.
Hon, Charles Foster was in Washington
:. last Saturday.
Cincinnati had three sun-stroke cases
: Saturday, one proving fatal. -
, Emmitt s. Burnett's house. Guernsey
county, was burned-caught from defec-
+ tive flue. .-..-.,-.
Synodical conference of the Lutheran
> Church Of North America was held at
Columbus, last week.
Among the cadet vacancies for Ohio
J that will occur in 1880 are those of the
ninth and tenth districts.
The editor of the Cleveland Sunday
Voice has been arrested in Detroit to an
! swer suit for criminal libel
Harvey Evans. of Washington, was found
In his bed just at the point of death, as
windup to drunken spree. sssfts
The Cincinnati (or Hamilton county,
republican convention, on the 2sth will
be composed OF 896 delegates.
Acheese factory and warehouse, owned
by a Mr.. Phelps, of North Eaton. was
burned. Loss about 81 900.
A farmer named Joel Evans, of Monroe
county committed suicide by hanging.
Financial embarrassment caused it.
The Cincinnati Gazette says the expo
sition, to be held in that city this fall, will
eclipse any ever before held in any western
city.
A large new barn owned by Sheridan
Cox, near Mt. Gilead was struck by light
ming and, with the shed also, burned to
the ground.
A barn owned by William Bostwick,
near ChillicOthe, was struck by lightning
Sunday morning and burned. Loss 81 800;
covered by insurance.
| A dwelling house in Summit county was
struck by lightning and burned to the
ground Loss 81 900; fully insured in the
Ohio Farmers.
| The colored girl who was supposed
murdered and her remains burned in the
BrothertOn barn, near Cedarville, is dis
covered alive and well in Washington.
A policeman in New Philadelphia, in
attempting to draw his revolver and fire
on supposed fleeing burglars, shot him
self In the arm, infllcting an ugly wound.
Daniel Rouser, the wellknowa temper
ance lecturer was drowned in the Miami
river. ROuser had broken his pledge, and
was drowned while under the influence of
liquor.
A young man named Warren Huffman,
it Saturday, with single le-barrel pistol and
| pen-knife, but it is thought he may re-
cover. He was .tired of living"
Two men from Wilmington, while look
ing around the depot at yellow Springs
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supposed they were burglars. A danger
wound was inflicted in the hand of one the
men. la
Gates murder trial at Irontown, the State
has established the fact of death by poison,
but the matter of connecting the accused,
DR.. Gates, with administering the poison,
is not yet touched.
A dispatch from Logan, says: The re-
mains of Mrs. Ella w. Bower, of Bristol,
Ind, were inferred here today They
were accompanied to this place by the
bereaved husband, G. c. Bower, NJ. D.,
and c. F. Mosier, of the Bristol Banner.
The Ashland Press, the official demo
cratic paper of the county, was sold Satur-
day to w. A. Alberson and G. w. Pitts
man. Its former proprietor, B. F. Nelson,
goes to Akron to take editorial charge of
the new daily and weekly democratic pa
per to be started there.
During the severe storm Friday even
ing, the barn of Jacob Spence, near New
Winchester. Crawford. county, was set on
fire by lightning and entirely destroyed
with its contents of grain and farming
implements, and valuable horse. Loss
over 81 900; insurance $40O.
It is now said that no coadjutor for
Archbishop Purcell will be appointed be-
fore fall, as the list of candidates adopted
by the Synod bishops McQuade, Fitz-
gerald and Chatard} has not yet been
forwarded to Rome, but is being sent
from Archbishop to Archbishop for their
approval.
Mr.. A. E. Bush, q well-known travelling
salesman through Ohio, Indiana and Ken
lucky, for the notion house of Joel j.
Bailey s. Co. Market street, Ph,ladelphia,
committed suicide at his residence in
Greenville, Sunday afternoon, between the
hours of 1 and $3.50, by hanging. The
cause of the commission of the deed is an
inexplicable mystery, as he was in no f.
nancial trouble, of happy disposition, and
the father of large and pleasant family.
Warren Huffman, single man, about
thirty-five years of age, went into the
wood-house of his uncle, Morgan Huff
man, who resides in the southeast part of
Eaton, and made desperate attempt at
suicide. He fired q charge of shot from
q single-barrelad pistol into his stomach,
little below and to the left of his breast
bone. He also made an attempt to cut
bis throat with a dull pocket.knife inflict-
ing jagged flesh wounds upon each side
OF his neck. BE is suffering great pain.
and will likely soon die. He has long
been afflicted with enlargement Of the
brain, has been sick and despondent for q
month or two, and was doubtless insane.
Dayton authorities are turning their
attention to the drinking water OF that
city, seeming to have concluded that
enough of their citizens still drink water
to make it of consequence to get the ar
ticle little purer than they have had it.
A communication from the Board of
Health to the Council ''shOws q most
shocking condition OF affairs. The acque-
duct with which the city is supplied with
water in case the reservoir becomes low
is filled with putrid animal matter and
filthy substances. Its banks have become
a dumping ground tor the city refuse and
adjacent slaughter houses are drained in
the stream" says special from that city,
consequently steps were taken for reform
in this direction.
1 Raising N0rses.
1t is often said tha. it does not pay for
farmers to raise this or that breed ofhorses,
but this is true only in a limited sense
The best specimens of any strain or style
of horses sell rapidly, at good prices, and
the poor ones OF all breeds are drugs upon
the market It is no doubt true that o