The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-02-13
West and South.

West and South.
The Dakota Legislature have adopt
ed memorial asking Congress to divide Da-
kota into two Territories. There is a strong
sentiment against the admission of the whole
| of Dakota as q State as provided in a bill now
| pending in Congress.
The Cheyenne prisoners, twenty-one
in number, left Fort Robinson on the 4th, in
| charge Of two companies of cavalry, for Fort
Leavenworth, Kan.
The National Butter, Cheese and
Egg Association have selected Chicago as the
place and the 5th, 9th and 7th of March as the
time for the next annual convention.
TWENTY-FIVE persons from Cado,
Tensas, ,Natchitoches and Orleans Parishes were
| indicted by the United States Grand Jury at
New Orleans, on the 5th, for violations of the
election laws at the recent elections in that
State.
CHARLES E. McCAULFFEE, a physi-
clan at the little village of wrightsviIle, llli-
nois, invited his wife and her brother, Mr.
Heavener, into his drug store, on the night Of
the Sd, and after drinking with Heavener shot
him dead. McCaulffee fed, but was captured
by some citizens and hanged to the limb of q
tree. s
AT New Orleans, on the 9Th, Judge
Woods, Judge Billings concurring, rendered
a decision overruling the demurrer Of the
Tensas Parish prisoners; that the indictment
is properly drawn, and that sections 5,5O6 to
$500 Of the Revised Statutes of the United
tionsi. The trial Of the Tensas cases viii be-
gin Feb. 1S-
THE Post-office at Ripon, Wis, to-
gether with all the mail matter, funds, records,
etc, was destroyed by fire on the morning Of
the 7th.
The tennessee bondholders have
agreed to present to the Legislature the offer
of an adjustment sent to the Governor.
As HOWARD HoLTzcLAw, telegraph
operator and railroad ticket agent at War
renton Junction, Va, was returning home,
on the night of the 7th, from his office, he
was waylaid, murdered and robbed. There is
no clue to the murderers.
AT meeting of the Anti-P Polygamy
Society Of Utah, held at Salt Lake on the sth,
a memorial to Congress was adopted reciting
that while Delegate Canon and representa-
tives of the Mormon churches are petitioning
the
pressions and actions Of Mormons In Utah
give no evidence that this promise will be full
filled; that It Is matter Of common notoriety
that Mormons are contracting unlawful mar
riages the same as ever, and the Society there
fore ask Congress, during the present session,
to amend the act Of 1869 that 1t may become
operative by making general reputation of the
conjugal relation proof of marriage, and hv
ing together in polygamy to constitute the
offense; and they further declare unless the
prosecuting officer of the Government is ena-
bled by some such legislation TO prosecute
and punish offenders no regard will be paid to
the statutes.
A TERRIBLE tragedy, resulting in the
killing Of two men in self defense, occurred
near McLeansboro, ILL.,, on the night of the
sth. Mason Morris recently gave all his prop
Hale, cutting of his two sons, Charles and
Frank. This SO enraged the latter that they
went to the residence of their brothers-in-law
Frank f2a motifs casd %am Haze cunt
Of the house and Immediately fired at
but missed him. Hale returned the
fire, striking Frank in the head and
Charles went into the house and discharged
his pistol at Craig, but without effect. Craig
then fired, striking Morris in the lungs, pro-
ducing q mortal wound, from which he died
in few minutes. No arrests had been made
at last accounts.
The citizens of Omaha, Neb., have
sent car load Of flour to Glasgow, Scotland,
for the relief of the unemployed there. Free
Trans Was scCuTcu Uy Tall anu
steamer.
SENATOR CHRIsTIANcY, of Michigan,
resigned on the 10th.
JOHN BRoCKMEIER, of Cincinnati,
while rescuing two children from burning
building in that city on the morning of the
10th, was badly burned. The children were
also badly burned.
MAJOR Wilcox, with his command,
returned to Fort Sill on the 10th from sue
cessful scout after Indians who had left the |
reservation. He captured $50 Kiowas, Co
manches and Apaches. Captain Nolan, who
also made a scout for the same purpose, capt.
ured 200 renegades.
The authorities at Flora Station, Ind,
on the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad, detained
all trains on that road from a. m. to 6 D. m.
on the 9th, By the enforcement of the Sunday
law.
The old Ashbury University build
ing at Greenville, Ind, was burned on the
10th.