The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-09-19
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
A General Summary Of Events at Home
and Abroad.
Compiled from Daily Reports mp to the
Hour of Going to Press.
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
VIRGIL Won Week committed suicide
at Iona, Mich, on the 11th. he was cashier
Of the Second National Bank, secretary
and treasurer Of q gas company, of a butter
factory and secretary of the school board,
and had been working beyond the possi-
bility of human endurance.
On the night of the 11th mob of six
teen masked men forcibly entered the Yell
County jail at Dsnville, Ark, and seized
John Coker and DIR. Flood, taking them to
the iron bridge across Pellit Jean River
and hung them from the center span cross
beam. Coker was accused Of leading into
ambuscade the Sheriff's party in search of
the Daniel outlaws several weeks ago, in
which two members Of the party lost their
lives. Flood was accused Of harboring the
outlaws. Coker begged to be shot, but was
told that he must hang.
The protracted drought which has
done great damage to crops in Virginia
ended on the 11th. Very heavy rains have
fallen, too late, It is supposed, to do corn
much good.
The dead body of an unknown man
was taken from the river at Trenton, o., on
the 11th. He was apparently a tramp.
Three clay pipes and g handkerchief were
found in his clothes. he had been In the
water about one week.
AT Wilkesbarre, Pa, on the 11th, the
No. breaker at the Upper Lehigh mines
burned. 1t was owned and operated by the
Nearly one thousand men and boys are
thrown out of employment.
THE first batch of sugar was turned
out by the Kansas Sugar Refining Com
pany at Hutchison, that State, on the 18th.
~. 4 g. -
promises 20 be an extensive establishment.
THE convocation of colored clergy of
the Protestant Episcopal Church of the
United States began at New York on the
18th.
The mystery surrounding the case of
Peter Kohebeck, who was killed Saturday
night at Milwaukee, Wis, was cleared up
on the 18th by the arrest Of Nick Roder-
mann, cattle dealer, who confessed TO
having fired the fatal shot.
A FREIGHT train on the Lehigh &
Susquehsnna Railroad was wrecked near
Easton, Pa, on the 18th. Eight cars were
demolished, tracks blocked and all the
trains delayed six or seven hours.
MICHAEL CoRBETT died at Columbus,
O., on the 18th, from an overdose Of aconite,
administered by a physician for the relief
of bronchial affection. He writhed in con-
vulsions for several hours before his death.
In free fight among eight cowboys
at McLane Ranch, Colorado, on the 18th
three were killed, three fatally wounded
and only two escaped without serious in
jury.
The car stables of the Lexington
Street Railway Company, two cottages,
fifty mules and fifteen cars were burned at
Lexington, KY, on the night Of the 11th.
A MAD cat at Atlanta, Ga, on the
18th caused the death of two grown persons
and q child by biting them. The child was
knocked down by the cat and lacerated in
q horrible manner.
In the Eighteenth Ward, Cleveland,
| o., on the 11th, two boilers in the blast fur
| mace Of the Cleveland Rolling Mills ex-
ploded, wrecking the boiler house and in
juring half a dozen men.
THE signal corps station at Smithville,
| N. c., reported to the chief signal officer at
Washington on the 18th that the maximum
velocity of the wind there the day previous
was ninety-three miles, and its average
velocity for six hours seventy miles. Thir-
teen vessels and pilot boats went ashore
and sunk.
The notorious "Oklahoma" Payne,
who has given the Government so much
trouble by entering the Indian reserva.
tions and settling on land in defiance OF
law, was arrested at Wichita, Kan, on the
/ 18th.
| A STATEMENT prepared at the Pen
sion Office at Washington on the 18th shows
that the department is practically up with
the current work, and that further delay
in the settlement of pension claims win be
| chargeable to the laches of the claimants
/ in producing, or their inability to procure
the evidence required of them, and not tc
the Pension Office.
| JOSEPH PUNE, an italian, while at
tempting to steal potatoes from garden
patch at tGrapeville, Westmoreland County
| Pa, on the 18th, was riddled with bullets
and then dragged to q railroad crossing
and laid on the track, where he was discov
cred some time later. Farmers have beer
/ annoyed for some time past by parties
committing depredations, and that night
lay In ambush with the above result.
A PAINTER named John jenkins, oi
Niles, O., on the 18th, shot at his wife thret
times, but missed her, and then shot him
self in the head and fell on the floor, where
he laid for some time. Some neighbors
coming in raised him up, and seeing his wife
she got away from him and he started of
and has not been heard Of since.
A GANG of five men, supposed to b
the incendiaries who set fire to so mucl
property In Philadelphia recently, wer'
500, 900 worth of property has been de
stroyed by incendiaries In one locality
within q few weeks.
A BOTTLE picked up in the water neal
Charleston, 8. c., ON the 18th contained
note stating that the steam.yacht Cath
| crime, from New York for Jacksonville
| Fla, was sinking, with all hands at tn,
pumps and no hope. The names of tn,
officers and crew were given, but no date
THE Chicago Daily Nesos published
large number of letters from physician
Of that city on the 18th In answer to cir
cular asking their opinions as to the prob
ability Of q cholera epidemic In this countr,
next year, or within the next few years
Most Of them anticipate more or les
1 cholera In this country next year and urg
the necessity of a thorough observance O
sanitary precautions, both municipal ant
personal.
ENGINEER MARTIN, of the Baltimor,
& Ohio Railroad, when near Deshler, o.
on the 18th, saw q small child playing oil
the track. Knowing he could not stop, b,
went forward on the pilot of his engin,
and, when he came near, took his foot anC
tossed the child In the ditch, and saveS
IL from being crushed beneath the wheels
BE burnt his hand to a crisp, holding on Z,
the small escape pipe in front Of his engine
The train was running fifteen miles pc
hour when he came up to it.
A STATEMENT prepared at the none,
order Office at Washington on the 18th
based upon the returns for one week from
one hundred smaller money order offices
shows thatforty-two per cent. of the none,
transmitted by the Money Order Service
was in postal notes.
THE grain firm of H. M. Maltbie 4
Co., of Aurora, Ind, failed on the 18th
Liabilities about $4,000.
A FIRE at Albert Lea, Mimi, ON tn
| 18th dasfrnvad forty stnraa and drraIlinI