The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-07-03
OHIO NEWS.


s Ohio's tramp law goes into force on and
after July 1st. '5e 2, q
Mrs. L. p. Bailey, wife of Mr.. L. p. Bal
ley, prominent citizen of ZanesviIle died
Sunday evening at the advanced age Of
70 years. .----------a---ss-.-s.-.-9.ss=z-
Hon. Richard Moelheany. of Lima. died
Sunday in his 7sd year. he was mayor
!, for several terms, and was the first railroad
, agent at Lima
Muskingum county crop prnspects in
nay, wheat and corn, are reported very un-
promising Though corn may como for
ward, with favorable weather.
VIM. Nothestine, who resides four miles
north OF Canal Winchester. was thrown
from buggy and instantly killed. He
leaves wife'and six small children.
The Ninety-fourth Ohio Volunteer reei.
mental reunion will take place at Piqua.
son, of London, will deliver the address.
The. State Teachers Associaiun 3,
meet in Cleveland in annual session next
Tuesday, and continue until Thursday
evening, closing with grand excursion
to Niagara Falls and return.
Geo Frieg, Andrew Schreiner and q little
boy were crossing wooden bridge over
Rock Creek near Tiffin, with q heavy load
oflumber, the bridge gave way. precipita-
ting them to the bottom. a distanc of
twelve feet All were seriously injured,
schreiner, perhaps, fatally.
John T. Norris has written from Illinois
that he has discovered the man who bur
glarized Dufbin Wards house, at Lebanon,
Ohio, in the person of Charles Beard, q
convict in the Joliet prison, and obtained
confession from him. He expects to re-
cover the jewelry stolen shortly.
Basil Ricketts,, one of the oldest resi-
dents of Dresden, died Saturday, aged
seventy eight years. He removed to that
vicinity from near Washington, d. c.,
sixty years ago, and had been resident
ever since. He witnessed the burning Of
Washington City, by the British in 1874.
The carrier pigeons released at Dayton,
last Saturday morning at Q second after
30 O'Clock, arrived at Philadelphia (dif.
ference of time being computed at 3 80,
making the distance, 628 miles, in 514 min.
utes-or trifle more than . mile min
ute. This is probably as good long dis
tance flight as has ever been made.
A young man named William Griffith,
Of zanesville. said to be at.times insane,
Wednesday morning attempted to shoot
DIR. Ball, Of that city, being hallucinated
with the idea that the Doctor was plan
ming to have him (Griffith) killed. He
was pursuaded to give up his, attempt, and
was afterward arrested and locked up 6
insane. li sa iois E ;sssis ss7si
y The third annual convention of the
Ohio State Millers' Association will be :
held in Akron, commencing on Tuesday,
July 8. A Are-organization of the Associa-
ton will probably take place, and new
constitution be adopted to haImonize with
the constitution recently adopted by the
of importance transacted. s-l'p
The constitution adopted by the Ohio
Liquor Dealers Protective association,
contains q provision for the expulsion Of
any member guilty Of selling liquor to q !.
minor, or to habitual drunkard or to .
drunken person. The provision is Q
ton on the part of the association 70 rid Z
liquor selling of some of its most objec-
tional features. 8
Mr.. Reuben r Springer, whose princely
gifts to the Cincinnati Music Hall are well
known, gave evidence of his en-
dorsemeut of the present successful man.
agement of the college of music by pre-
senting that institution with $500 in z
per cent. railroad bonds, the income to be
used in yearly rewards of merit to those
pupils who by their SUPERIOR industrv and
talent attain the areatest nyoficiencv !.
their musical studies. - - -,
A Frankfort Ry.) dispatch says: aon
Saturday night at Sand Rife, twelve miles
distant, party OF unknown men attacked
the house of Samuel Faulkner, severely
wounding Faulkner as he ran ffom the
house, and then setting firc to the dwell
ing, which was consumed with its in
mates es,AHar1y Russell, aged II (who was
also shot, and two children of Faulkner,
aged II and 8 years. No cause is given
for this brutal affair"
ssi'ss..- ss2r.
The case OF John G. wilkinson, theaged
his step-daughter, Flora A Campbell.
otherwise known as the "seeress,i = came on
for trial on THURSDAY at Cleveland: The :
prosecution showed that the venerable
sinner M nad . snaTed the chamber OF the glr
and that he had accomn1ished he, min h2
making her believe she was to be the
mother through him of second Christ
:, 81. = - :.
The Kansas City Journal of Tuesday
morning announces the safe arrival of the
Ohio EDITORIAL Association in thar s.Fu-
ture Metropolis (all Western towns are
future smetropolises'0 the previous even
ing. They were to continue their Journey
toward the setting sun Tuesday forenoon.
One of the members of the Association
was so enthusiastically rash as to give
vent for his free ride over the Chicago and
Alton new railroad line TO kansaa. City In
an apoetruphlc poem to the road, and the
paper above named published it
ing ofIicers were chosen President
George Pleasants,s clase '76; Vice Presi-