The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-06-28
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Mrs CONSIDER FISHER, the original Ade-
hide in the novel ''Cape Cod Folks" died at
her home In Cedarville, Mo-, on the 22d, OF
consumption, caused by mental excitement
over alibsl suit against the publishers Tor using
real characters. fE
A DANvILLE, Illinois, special says that Allie
Mills, aged fourteen, Mary oglie, aged seven
teen, sud Mary Jones, aged twelve years,
committed suicide by taking arsenic. Allie
Mills gave as her reason that her father lived
with shameless woman. Miss Oglie's reason
was that she was an orphan, and Mary Jones
took the drug because the others did
A DEs MONIES, Iowa, special on the 22d gives
the following estimate of the damage done by
the cyclone in that State on the 18th: Boone
County, $4,000; Story County, $4,000; Jas
per County, $4,000; Poweshiek County, sao,-
600; Keekuk County. $lo0, 900; Henry County,
S5oo, 900; Mount Pleasant, $7oo, 900; Grinnsl,
$6oo, 900; Malcolm, $50, 900; Fonda, Pocahoa-
tss County, $4,000; Chicago & Rock Island
Railway. merchandise and property, 81, 900;
Iowa Central, $1,000; scattering damages,
$5o5, 900. Total, 81, 575, 900. Some estimate
the loss at over s., oO0, 900.
TIE Ohio Republican State Central Com
mirtee met at Columbus on the ed for the
purpose of effecting an organization. All the
AioSAAGto NNAC ACPtCoCuhGN. n. L. OOukCif VI
Summit, was chosen chairman Of the Central
Committee, and Hon. George K. Nash chair
man Of the State Executive Committee, and j.
c. Donaldson was re elected secretary Of both
committees. The following gentlemeo were
then appointed as members of the State Exec
utive Committee: Governor Charles Foster,
John +. Ogleve, Alexis Cope, d. K. Watson
and z. l. Taylor, Columbus; w. S. Cappellar
add Henry Schlattman, Cincinnati; David
Morison, Cleveland, and J. Kent Hamilton,
Toledo.
Oar Z. OWEN, receiving teller Of the Third
National Bank of st. Louis, was arrested on
the 23d for embezzltng $150, 900 OF the banks
funds. He confessed that for ten years he has
been appropriating money to pay margins on
cotton and grain deals, principally on the st.
Louis board The thefts were covered by
using large deposits which came after three
p. m, and not entered until the next day.
A SPECIAL dispatch from Indian Territory
says that smallpox is raging with fatal effect
among the Greek Indians. At Okamulgee
there were twenty-five cases, many likely to
be fatal. The scourge was spreading rapidly.
The neighboring villages have been quaran-
tined and general vaccination was progress
ing at Okamulgee. The medicine men were
adopting q very unwise treatment, which killed
many Of the patients.
A DISPATCH from Findley, Illinois, says that
a terrible storm visited that place on the night
of the 22d. Three men, named Charles g.
Sweeney, of Fort Wayne, Ind. John G. Wilson
/ and Charles G. Holmes, were instantly killed
by lightning.
| A TERRIBLE hail storm and tornado visited
Rockford, Illinois, on the oath, doing great
damage to crops and fruit. A $1,000 cherry
crop was totally destroyed. Corn fields in the
course are entirely ruined. Hail stones fell a
large as hens eggs. Windows were broken
from nearly every building IN the city. Nc
person injured
THE northern portion of Iowa was agaSn Wis
tied by heavy storms on the cath. The towr
of Emmettsburg, the county seat Of Palo AltS
County, was blown TO pieces by tornado, and
a number OF lives are reported lost. AtPeter
son a store, four or five dwellings and two
stables were blown down. Four miles norti
of there four farmhouses were leveled, killing
a. woman and child and wounding severa
others. A few miles this side several mort
farmhouses were leveled and others damaged
At Switzerland three stores, blacksmith
shop and seven or eight dwellings went down
There are rumors of other damage in the sur
rounding country. AT Agona twenty housei
were demolished, five persons killed and twenty
FIVE injured. In Fenton Township, Kossuti
County, all of William Myers family were hur
and the house was blown down. Near Wesley
G.. W. Adams and child were injured.
JOSEPH SULLIvAS, member of the origina
and one of the most prominent families o
Columbus, Ohio, died at that place on th'
24th. He was for twenty years member o
the State Board Of Agriculture, had beel
prominently identified with all educational in
stitut:ons and was instrumental in making tn
Ohio State University scientific as well as al
| agricultural school.
THE California Democratic Convention a
San Francisco on the oath nominated Genera
George Stoneman for Governor, Frank P
Baldwin, Of San joaquin, for Attorney Gen
eral; Professor w. T. Wicker, Alameda, Su
perintendent OF Public Instruction.; s. W
Mccarthy, Stanislaus, Clerk Of the Suprem'
Court; Wiley, San Diego, Surveyor General
The platform adopted reafirms fidelity to tn,
principles of the Democracy; thanks thI
party throughout the Union for its as
sistance in the struggle in Congress
with the hostile Republican Administra
ton against the Chinese immigration, thu
illustrating the fidelity of the party 10 tn
pledges given in the National platform; rec
. ognizes the right of local self-government
appreciates the movement of workingmen o
the East notably of Pennsylvania, in oppo
sition to moneyed corporations aud mono Po
lists of the Chinese trade, who, under
humanitarian cloak, are endeavoring to thwar
the efforts in behalf of the white man in Cal
ifornia; denounces the Chinese now In Cal
ifornia as an unmixed curse to The people AM
an iusurmountable obstacle to progress; ap
peals to the Democracy of the Union for de
/ ND dannopdS tlat the Nati0na
Democra ic Convention shall declare the doc
trine OF self preservation, and, II it attains h
power, shall take prompt steps for the re
moval of every Mongolian from the country
that the pretense of Republican leaders ant
J organs that the ten year law has taken tn
: Chinese question out Of politics is deceitfu
: in purpose and false in fact so long as tn
Chinese remain in the country; declares tn
l enmity of Ale party to all sumptuary legisla
: ton and laws restraining the exercise of pc
litical and religious opinion, and demands tn
; repeal Of those now existing; demands tn
material reduction OF railroad fares an
freights and the prohibition of Discriminate
against localities or persons; condemns tn
/ majority of the present State Board of Rail
road Commissioners to official duties; pledge
the Democratic nominees to carry cut tn
I letter or spirit of this resolution; advocate
competing rauroaus 10 pay IA4cs on iuii y
; sessments, holds that railroad hand grant
/ lspsed for noufulfllment of contracts shoul
be revoked and public domain reserved 70
actual settlers; that its duty is to give to, pre-
, tect and improve rivers and harbors; favor
civf service reform in accordance with tn
, Pendleton BILL
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE-
} HoEDE, the French Secretary Of Control {
Egypt, committed suicide at Alexandria o
the Goth.
A DISPATCH from Shanghai on the 10th sag
, n serious diseussfon was in proeress In Tsuul