The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-03-07


member Of the congregation, became greatly
excited and fell dead In ht.
HANK Monk, Horace Greeley's
famous stage driver, died at Carson city,
New, on the 2sth ult.
The Michigan Republican State Con-
vention met at East Saginaw on the 18th ult.,
and nominated the following ticket: For
Justice OF the Supreme Court, long term,
Austin Blair; short term, Thomas J. O'Brien;
Regent ofthe University, long term, Harry II.
Hutchins; short term, Joseph c. Jones'
A FIRE at Paris, KY, on the 2Sth ult.
destroyed nearly whole block Of business
houses. The Presbyterian Church was the
only building saved. Loss 100000. The
origin of the iire was not known
ROBERT 4. Cook, arrested on the 28th
ult., charged with embezzling 81. $50 from the
Fifth Ward Savings Bank, Jersey City. N. j.,
entered plea of guilty and was promptly
sentenced to five years In the penitentiary.
WILLIAM A. DEsNEY, prominent
farmer of Milford Township, Knox County,
O., dropped dead in law Office at Mount
Vernon on the 2sth ult- He was seventy
years old. Heart disease caused his death.
MASKED burglars entered the house
OF farmer named Samuel Bixler, in Stras-
burg, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, on the night
of the 9th, and bound and ragged his daugh-
ter and then putting pistol TO Mr.. Bixler's
head, compelled him to point out the hiding
place of his money and valuables, aggreRating
visited the house of another farmer living near
by named Diffenbach and secured. by the
same means, $4,000. They escaped.
By the will of Boston lady, lately
deceased, Miss Susan B. Anth ny and Mrs.
Lucy Stone Blackwell received 10000 each,
as representative woman suffragists.
s. H. Fox & Co., glass manufacturers
at Utica, N. Y, the largest establishment of
the kind in that State, made an assignment on
the lst. Liabilities s15o,ooo
SENATOR ORvILLE II. PLArT, of New
York, was chosen member Of the Republican
National Committee on the LIST in place Of the
late Marshall Jewell.
THOMAS w. PALMER, Of Detroit, was
elected TO the United States Senate from
Michigan on the LIST.
MISS MAGGIE CoGGAN and James
Healy, wife and daughter, were sufocated by
the escape Of coal gas from q stove on the 1st
at Madison, Wis.
JAMES ELLIOTT, the pugilist, was shot
and killed in a saloon at Chicago on the lst by
JOHN HUMNoS, an old farmer living
near Findlay, Ohio, was crushed to death by a
tree which he was choppius down on the 2sth
ult.
GEORGE w. HAIGHT, Justice of the
Peace, and one Of the most prominent resi-
dents OF De Ruyter, Madison County, N. ",
was mysteriously shot In the head on the
m,ruiug of the 1st. pistol wrapped in a
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the explosion was fund under his pillow.
The wounded man made a statement before
he died In which he declared thai he did not
fire the IA al shot and did not know who did.
stand drawer at the foot of the bed. Mrs.
Haight said sh. did not even hear the shot and
knew nothing about It. She had large in
surance on HaiRhts life.
A DISASTROUS fire in Monongahela
City, Pa, on the morning of the I'd, des royed
the Record printing ofiicr, Alexander & Co.'s
banking house, McFsrland's carriage works,
McClain's sewing machine depot, the Union
school building, one nf the finest in that
State, and ten other business houses and
dwellings. The fire originated I'm Cooper's
pool-room- The loss will be about $4,000;
two-thirds OF which Is covered by insurance.
The family of William X. Leesig, of
Reading, Pa, We're frightfully poisoned on
the morning OF the 1st, by something in dish
Of liver pudding that they ate for breakfast.
Mr.. Leesig, his wife and four children partook
OF the pudding aud in less than twenty
minutes were 90 teaihly sick that they were
unable TO sit up or move Prompt medical
attention saved their lives. II was thought
that there was putrid meat in the liver.
The hook and ladder-truck companies
OF chicago have each been presented with an
immense pair of shears to cut telegraph vires
IL case Of fire.
The Dexter woolen mills, at Dexter,
Me-, suspended operations on the 2d. The
principal reason given was the high price of
wool.
WATSON, who was on trial at Colum-
bus, charged with attemp ing TO bribe William
Bloch, q mem Der of the Ohio Legislature, to
vote for the Ufion Railroad scheme, was
| found guilty on the ed. This was the second
| trial. The first resulted In the disagreement
of the jury. The penalty Tor the offense is
from three TO ten years imprisonment In the
penitentisry.
A BOLD robbery was perpetrated in
| Philadelphia on the ID. A thief stole $40, ,00O
worth of the Peoples Passenger Railroad ne
gotiable bonds from the Office Of the company.
They were numbered from lO6 to It's.
THR Senate confirmed the following
nominations on the 2d: John N. Irwin, OF
Keokuk, Ia, Governor Of Idaho; Martin P.
Kennard; Assistant Treasurer of the United
States at Boston; Marcelin R. Ledet, OF
/ Louisiana, United States Consul at Tuxpan.
Register of Lands-Bentamin NJ. Thomas,
Tucson, A. T.; Joseph Joreensen, Maila
| Walla, w. T. United States sAttorneys-Ehhu
Root, Southern District OF New York; w. Fl.
/ Dewitt, Terry, VI. T.; Edmund Waddin, East
District of Nevada. 4. c. Tate, United States
/ Marshal for the Eastern District of New York
Robert J. Fisher, Chicago, Examiner-in-Chief
/ of the Patent Office. Surveyor OF Customs
Joseph L. Benedict, District of New York
Charles K Graham, Naval Officer, New York.
Andre " J. Perry Appraiser OF Merchandise,
New York; Merritt Gickhsm, Assis ant Ap-
/ praiser of Menshandise, New York. Indian
Agency, Ia Pedro Sanchez, Pueblo, N. NJ
| Thomas NJ. Kirkpatrick, Collector OF Internal
Revenue, Eleventh District Of Indiana
GENERAL PETER J. SULLIVAN died al
| Cincinnati on the I'd, In the sixty-second year
Of his age. He served as Colonel Of the Forty
eighth Ohio during the war, and was app inted
i Minister to the United states OF T. lumbia By
i President johnson.
JOHN O'NEIL, q liquor dealer oi
Whitehall, n. Y, was found guilty on the I'd
of 457 offenses against the law, and was fined
s., 900 and costs amounting to $500, beside
one mo this imprisonment. The alternative
is eighty years Imprisonment. He gave bal
and appealed.
The Pennsylvania Legislature on the
ID passed a bnl abolishing the RecordershiT
of Philadelphia r-
PRoF. MARS WAGAR, of the Cleve
land, Ohio, Central High School, died OF ma
larial fever at Rome ON the LIST. The deceased
was married but short time before and wa.
on his wedding tour.
TIE boiler in Hatton's box factory Al
westviIle. La Porte County, Ind, exploded OF
the 1st, killing o. Fl. Ha'ton, the proprietor
Henry Hilton, the engineer, and fatally injur
ing Arthur Reynolds. Hilton's body was blown
two hundred yards.