The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-07-15
Late News Notes.

The Cleveland Herald came out Mon
day, in fine new dress.
Jas. McNeal, intoxicated, was struck
by n passing train at Akron, and killed
Monday.
Hot Springs, Ark, and DesMoines,
Iowa, suffered from destructive storms
July 9TH.
Two barns in Euclid were struck by
lightning, July 10th. The storm i'm and
about Akron was very severe. ..-
A barn near Canton, was burned by
lightning Saturday, together with the
grain from sixty acres Of wheat.
Rev. H. r. Hoisington, for years pas
tor of the North Presbyterian Church,
Cleveland, tenders his resignation.
Conrad Crause, whose wife died a
month ago, was drowned Sunday, while
bathing In the river at Wakeman.
Prof. Smith, of Oberlin, gave an out
line history of common schools at the
Convention of Ohio Teachers ut Fair
point.
Judge Barber, of Cleveland, delivered
his lecture ON military Experience"
before the Cleveland Literary Union,
Monday evening.
Bishop Simpson will be accompanied
to China and Japan by his wife and
two youngest daughters. They expect
to return in December.
The recent rains and hot weather
have started the grape rot in the South
ern vineyards, and it is feared the crop
will be greatly decreased by its rava-
ges. .....
Joseph Heacock was accidentlly killed
at the Buckeye Machine Works, at Sa-
lem, Monday afternoon. He was an ex-
soldier, sober and Industrious, and
leaves a vile and children. -r ...
July 10Th at Marietta and July 1lth
| ar Perry sburgh, O., safes were blown
open but in neither case did they sue
cecd in getting at the inner vault before
discovery and a hurried departure.
Jimmy Arnold of Crestline, while
attempting to board the train from
| Cleveland, Monday forenoon, fell under
and was so mutilated in his limbs that
he died an hour after undergoing am
putation.
| Aultman, Miller & Co., of Akron,
completed the 10O,OO0th mower an
reaper, July 10th, and dinner was
spread for the GOO employees to sit down
together with visitors from the Canton
firm In addition.
Four barns within a radius of three
miles were struck by lightning neal
Ashland, Saturday evening, and a
Clyde, Friday night, one was struck ant
burned; one at Doylestown, and orc
in Stark county were also burned.
Miss Carrie French of Mt. Yer
non, was instantly killed by spring
ing from the front platform of the car
near Perrysburg, in anticipation of ,
collision with train on the Wabasl
road. No other person was Injured.
There was a convention of lawyers il
session at Cleveland, July Sth, to organ
ize State Bar Association and devils
schemes to improve judicial system
and practice. Hon. Stanley Matthew
delivered an able address in the even
ing.
A party of tourists, mostly from Kal
amozoO, Mich, were overturned Mon
day, in the descent of Mt. Washington
through the incompetency of drunke
driver, and one lady was killed and fiv
injured. The driver was probably ia
tally hurt. -.. s..." .. -.
A barn at Waynesburg, struck b.
lightning Saturday evening, burne
with a new crop of wheat, mower, reap
, err etc. Loss, $2,50O; insured 70
1000. Another in Berlin, near Dels
ware, loss 81, 900, insured in Ohio Farm
er's Co., for 5000.
Henry Burdick of Elyria, went ava
with Miss Ida Sommers, who had live
in his family the past year. He left
wife and four-year-old daughter, an
$500 of unpaid debts; and took frol
$500 to $500 Of livery stable fund.-
which belonged to his father.
Friday night two convicts in the Obi
Penitentiary, Charles Waite of Medin
county, and John Harrington of Chan
7 paign county, made q desperate atte mi
3 to escape, were shot at about a doze
5 times, caught and given a severe ele,
trio bath by way of discipline. .
III Eighty-five Geauga county giils hel
Q their annual cold Maids Picnic'' la,
Saturday Mt Geauga Lake. A Heral
. reporter went down to get list of thei
. names and ages. There is sufficient va
I riety In the names, but the ages are {
G striking uniformity, every one bein
' printed In full as-l7. ..ar r..r
Tuesday evening of last week boa
, ing party on the Passaic river, was ru
r into and capsized. A young lady, Mi.
Goodsell, who knew how to swim, an
whose GOODNESS did not desert her, ga,
, ed five persons by assisting and direct
ing them how to keep each other frou
sinking, and all, through her heroic e
: forts, reached the shore.
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