The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-05-17
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Ohio, on the 18th sf violating the Smith Sun
day law In keeping his saloon open on the 30th
Of April, and was fined twenty-five dollars and
costa and committed to the county jail for
twenty-four hours. This was the first convic-
ton under the hv in that city.
A TOMBSTONE, Arizona, dispatch of the
18th, says an immense demonstration was held
at Charleston, that Territory, the evening
previous to denounce the Presidents cowboy
proclamation. Speeches were made and res
olutions passed condemning the President and
his advisers.
TEE National Prohibition Conference WIN
be.held at Chicago August %.
REPORTS say that the yield of whea. and
oats In South Carolina and Georgia win be
larger than any year since the war.
LYDIA ADAMS, colored, aged Ills years, died
at Eureka, Mo-, on the 18th. She was born at
Halifax, Va, in 1860.
THE Methodist Conference at Nashville,
Tenn, on the 18Th, occupied most Of the day
In discussion Of the number of Bishops to be
elected without reaching conclusion. The
Committee on Temperance submitted the
following rules 10 be placed In the book Of
discipline: Let preachers and members observe
the general rules which forbids drunkenness
or the drinking Of spirituous liquors, unless in
cases of necessity. In . case of drunkenness,
let discipline be administered as in . case Of
immortality. Let all Of our preachers and
members abstain from the manufacture or sale
Of intoxicating liquors to be used as bever-
age, and II any shall engage In such manufac-
turs or sale, in such case let the discipline
be administered as In q case of imprudent or
improper conduct
w. 7. McGLoTHIN was waylaid and as
sassinated about two miles from Lime Greek,
No., on the night Of the 18th by unknown per-
sons The body was riddled with twenty-four
buckshot- An attempt was made few nights
previous to assassinate Governor Overton, of
the Chickasaw Indian Nation, by firing into
his house. A squad Of Indian militia followed
the trail Of the party that did the shooting,
overlook one of them named Hevers and
killed him.
A FoAf GARLAND, Colorado. special on the
18th, says: "Dick Rogers, q COW boy, was shot
dead by soldiers and Jim Cation, one OF the
Paghas Springs stage robbers, was fatally
wounded on the evening" of the 18th. These
desperadoes had got drunk and terrified the
town and were trying to run the soldiers out
Of the fort. Large rewards were offered for
| Cation In Texas"
THE St Louis Coruner's annual report for
the year ending March 81, shows that there
Wefe eAknty siX suiclucs IN tnat city ourinB bnc
year, thirty one homicides, eight infanticides,
and that there were 212 accidental deaths, and
4sS deaths without medical attendance. OF
the suicides ffty-twe and one-half per cent.
were by Germans, twenty per cent. by Ameri-
cans and nine per cent BY Irish.
TIE Central Ohio Teachers Association met
At Columbus on the 18th and organized by the
election Of the followed named gentlemen as
officers: President, C. Coleman, Groveport
Vice President, John Laffier, Powell; Treas
urer, John G.. Edwards, Columbus, and g. n
Watson, Secretary, Worthington. The regu.
lar meetings win occur on the second Saturday
of June and December.
GENERAL JOSEPH G. BARNARD, for many
years the head of the Department for Engineer
in the United States army, died at Detroit or
the 14th. He had been an invalid for SONS
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