The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-05-30

Thomas CLARK, wealthy farmer
had his horse shot from under him and he
was slightly wounded in the leg. Three
saddled horses without riders were after
wards found. Ringo, the leader of the
mob, had one brother and three cousins
among the outlaw gang whom he was try
ing to lynch. He has since 1856 been an
officer Of Manefee County, and always en-
joyed an excellent reputation as law
abiding citizen.
The wholesale grocery and liquor
house Of A. Englehard, and the hide and
fur house Of John White were destroyed by
fire at Louisville, KY, on the 18th. The
fire originated in the junk shop of Isenberg
Bros. Loss heavy; partially Insured
A FARMER named Merrill was assas-
sinated while blowing in field near Bluff
ton, Yell County, Ark, ON the 24th. he
was found dead with bullet hole through
his body. No clue to the murderer.
THE District Court in session at
Beaumont, Texas, adjourned for the term
on the third day of its session on the oath,
consequent impossibility Of getting wit
nesses or jurors.
JOSEPH SrEINAN & Co., wholesale
and retail jewellers at Cincinnati, made an
assignment to Simon Wolfstein on the 18th.
Inc uTm were unaDlc 70 ulhkc any bbabc-
ment of assets or liabilities They stated
that the assignment was necessitated by the
action of some creditors.
THE Illinois State Senate on the 25th
refused to confirm five of the Governors
nominees for Justice of the Peace in Chi
cago, on the ground that they were associ-
ates Of gamblers and guilty Of other asso-
Citations uniting them for the office.
P. j. p. lyman, the so-called "Num-
ber One" who is wanted In Ireland on the
charge of being Implicated in the murder
of Lord Cavendish and Secretary Burke,
was discovered in New York city on the
25th. He stated that he was the lyman
that they were in search for, but refused,
under the advice of his attorney, General
Pryor, making any statements.
Miss BARBARA ACKERMAN was ar
rested at Detroit on the 18th for attempting
poisoning. She was employed at the
Wabash House in that city, where she had
several quarrels with other servants. Re-
Gently nine persons at the hotel were taken
violently i'll after eating pastry made of
-four from barrel to which the accused
had access. She is suspected Of having
placed poison in the -four.
THE business failures throughout the
country for the week ending the 25th num-
bered I5S, as compared with III for the
previous week, a reduction of thirteen. The
New England States had II; Western, Al J;
Southern, 81; Middle, 2S; Pacific States and
Territories, 13; New York City, Z, and
Canada, Is.
THE family of Robert McLaren, a
blacksmith of Paterson, N. J., and a boarder
named William Black, were poisoned by
eating a meat stew on the oath. Black and
a six-year-old son of McLaren died on the
following morning. 1t was thought that
the others would recover. Black, who was
a carpenter, and of dissolute habits, is sus-
pected of placing the poison in the stew be-
fore it was served at the table, as Mrs. Nc.
Laren insists that there was no poison OF
any kind in the house.
JUDGE j. A. CHANDLER, General
Agent of the Milwaukee & st. Paul Rail.
road, and well known in railroad circles
throughout the country, was aroused by
burglars on the night of the 24th, and while
pursuing them fell down stairs and was
killed.
A BISMARCK, Dakota, special of the
18th states that the boiler in the brickyard
of Bly, & Granbary exploded the day pre-
vious, instantly killing John Hassan, fire
man, James Oluette, carpenter, and fatally
injuring ten others
A DISPATCH from n gentleman who
has just passed through twenty of the
wheat-growing counties of Kansas, in
which three-fourths of the entire crop OF
that State is found, says the crop, though
somewhat late, is headed out and in bloom.
The straw and heads will be shorter than
last season and the yield will not average
above fifteen bushels per acre, which viii
give a total yield of 81 900 900 bushels. The
corn average had increased eighteen per
cent. This crop was well advanced and
promised an immense production.
WITH view of keeping the Indians
on their respective reservations, and also
reducing the expense of the Indian service
the Commissioner of Indian Affairs issued
a circular to agents of non-treaty Indian
agencies on the 18th, directing them to dis
continue supplying the Indians with coffee
tea, sugar and tobacco, except as com
pensation for labor performed.
COLUMBUS CRUM, who owned asmal
mill at London, Shelby County, Ind, met
with a terrible accident on the 24th. While
at work in the mill his clothing by soms
means caught in the teeth of the saw anC
he was drawn upon it and his left arm
| from the wrist to the shoulder, was spill
| open, both bones OF the lower arm being
sawed completely in two from one end Il
the other. was also the boue Of the upper
arm. The left thigh was laid open to the
bone and the flesh of the leg cut OF from
| the knee to the heel. It was thought b,
could not recover. He was aged twenty
six and has a wife and two children.
THE Secretary of the Interior on tn,
18th directed the recognition of the mining
claims of settlers upon public lands II
Montana, ceded by the Crow Indians un
der the agreement made June -, 1880, ant
certified by Congress April u, 1882 Tn
/ Secretary holds that these lands, beinl
| ceded by definite boundaries, become pub
lie lands upon the date of the approval o
the act of ratification, and from that dat
the legal rights of claimants and settler
took effect.
THE total value of imported mer
chandise for the twelve months ended Apri
30, 1888, is S7S3, III, ,4Sl. For theyear ende,
| April 80, 1882, Sos, ,024, ,427, an increase o
25,173, ,004. The value of exports Of mer
chandise for the year ended April 80, 1855
is Ss11 ,641 ,34. For the preceding year
SIT ,s75, ,7s1; increase S3S, ,765, ,573.
THE State Department at Washing
ton received information on the 25th that
treaty of peace, substantially the same Il
form as heretofore reported, had bee
signed by Chill and General Iglesias 70
Peru.
The steamer Pilot, plying between
San Francisco and Lakeville, Cal, ez
ploded her boilers at Donahue's Landing
on the 25th. Eighteen persons wer
drowned, among whom were several bus
ness men of San Francisco.
THE boiler of a saw mill at Water
ford, Spencer County, KY, exploded o.
the 26th, instantly killing John Purcell, tn
owner, and fatally injuring seven others.
The Taber Milling Company's stam
mills at Leadville, Col, were destroyed b
fire on the 26th.
WILLIS SHANNON and three boys
named Harry Cass, Snodgrass and Georg
Talbot, were drowned in the Ohio River q
Martins Ferry, Ohio, on the 26th. tn
boys had gone with Shannon to the river {
help him wash a buggy when the horse
became unmanageable and the boys wer