The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-05-16
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.

coming dissatisfied with his change of life
shaved and bathed himself and calling his
young wife to him bade her good-by and
swallowed the fatal drug.
j. ALBIENUs, while undergoing an
examination In court, before the Lunacy
Commissioners, at Des Moines, Iowa, on
the 9th, placed pistolto his head and blew
his brains out.
The Illinois State Department of Ag-
riculture on the sth completed its crop re-
port, covering 1,6O0 townships In that
State, from which the estimate Is made
that the crop of winter wheat win not ex-
coed forty per cent
GRIMES & Co. s mill at vermontville,
Mich, was destroyed by fire on the morn
ing Of the 9th, and three men, including the
proprietor, were burned to death.
The Minnesota Republican State Con-
vention viii meet at st. Paul on June "a.
THE Legislature of Georgia opened
the election returns for Governor of that
State on the 9th. The vote stood: Henry d.
Mcdaniel, q, $50; scattering, S34. McDan.
iels was inaugurated on the 10TH
A SPECIAL from West Belleville, III,
on the sth states that the striking miners
at the Western Cooperative Company had
set that mine on fire on the night of the 7th
and the flames ragged for two days. The
mine was one of the largest in that district
and the loss will amount to 100000.
JOHN BEGG's distillery at Shelby
vile, Ind, was burned on the 9th. Loss
$4,000; partially insured.
Mosr of the business portion of the
town of Forney, Kaufman County, Texas
was destroyed by fire on the 7th. Insur'
ance light
THE Western Nail Association held q
session at Pittsburgh on the 9th The dis.
cussion of trade developed the fact that the
demand, owing to the possibility OF strike,
was very heavy. Stocks are still light but
in better assortment than a month ago.
The card rates remained unchanged.
SECRETARY TELLER, of the Interior
Department rendered decision on the 9th
in which he holds that the act Of June 81
1878, which permits the sale, at the min
imum price of $50 per acre, Of lands
valued principally for their timber
and unfit for cultivation, does not ap
ply to timber land which may b
rendered susceptible Of cultivation by
the ordinary farming process. "Such
lands" the SECRETARY says, ''are not within
the purpose of thfs act, which Is intended
to embrace within its provisions timbered
tracts only in broken, rugged or mount
nary agricultural purposes when cleared Of
timber"
Miss LOUISA GAvoILLE, q young
daughter of Joseph Gavoille, of Dingmar
township, Pike County, Pa, left home or
the morning of the 4th to accompany her
mother q short distance on her way x
- cfN nafo rrn r0
until found by her brother, eighteen hour'
afterwards, lying in the woods q mile
from home suffering from three gun
shot wounds in her head. She stated thai
a man whom she did not know had shoi
ber with q gun and then fed She was very
weak from nervous shock and exposure
The physicians found one of the balls, bui
the other two could not be found. The af
fair Is shrouded in mystery. There Is nc
clue to the would-be assassin and no motiv'
known
THE bill prohibiting the manufacture
sale and use of any article, device or inven
ton for the purpose Of surreptitiously de
stroying human life and injuring property
by explosion or are, Pssssedt Ps cd the the Fennsyl ss
to the House for concurrence.
JAMES EGAN, Ex-Speaker Of the New
Jersey State Assembly, was arrested anS
lodged in jail on the 9th on an indictmen
found by the Grand Jury of Essex County
that State, charging him with attempting
to bribe Assembly yman Armitage, of New
ark, during the session OF the Legislature o
that State
A STAY of Judgment was denied il
the case of Joseph Bork, the defaultinI
treasurer Of the city of Buffalo, N. Y, OF
the 10th, and he was sentenced to five year
in the Auburn State prison.
The old arsenal building in Rome
N. Y, occupied - knitting mill, wa
burned on the 10th. Partially insured
The Baptist church, fine bricl
structure at st. Albans, VT, was destroye
by fire on the morning of the 10th. Insure
for one-half the loss.
JOHN GREENE, a prosperous farme
of South County, r. l., and q rugged ma
Of temperate habits, entered the Rhod
9Th for treatment for blindness.
few nights before he went to bed a
usual but in the morning when he wa
called he was surprised to find nothing bu
darkness. When he raised his eyelids q
first Mr.. Greene thought he had slept to
soundly and began to bathe his eyes. Thi
was of no avail, and il was soon found ths
during the night he had totally lost hi
sight. The physicians cannot account 70
this there being no apparent cause.
THE Supreme Lodge of Knights G
Honor at their session at Galveston. Texa.
on the 10th, reelected the following 81
preme officers: Dictator, R. II. Cochran
V est Virginia; Vice Dictator, r. p. IrelanC
Nebraska; Reporter, B. F. Nelson, Ohio
Treasurer, r. ]. breckenridge, Kentucky
Chaplain, G. w. Holland, South Carolins
Guide, z. A. Davenport, Minnesota; Gual
dian, P. C. Carlton, North Carolina; Sent
mel, Louis Wilson, Ohio.
A FIRE at Bridgeport, Ohio, ON tn
10th, destroyed the Cochran House, th
residence of Amos Osborne and q wago
and blacksmith shop, before it was checkeC
Two fire-engines sent from Wheeling save
the wooden bridge which spans the Obi
River between Bridgeport and the Islans
THE Pennsylvania State Senate on tn
10th, by a vote Of twenty-one to nineteen
passed through the second reading the joiI
resolution proposing to submit TO the voter
of that State an amendment to the Const
tuition forever prohibiting the manufactui
and sale of intoxicating liquors in Pennsy
vania.
CHARLES RECTOR, of Martins Ferr,
O., was killed, and three others seriously Il
jured, by q cavern at q stone quarry nes
that place on the 10th.
POSTMASTER Brown, of Dubuqu,
Iowa, committed suicide by shooting hin
] self on the sth- He placed the muzzle
the gun against his breast and touched tf
| trigger with a lath- A shortage of 81
has since been discovered in his account
with the Government and it Is thought thi
this trouble caused his suicide.
THE postofice, three business house
and two barns, at Vienna, Trumbu
County, Ohio, were destroyed by fire Q
the 9th. Partially insured.
J. d. WATSON, who was convicted
attempting to bribe some of the Ohio legi
larors at Columbus during the late sessic
was committed to the penitentiary for or
year on the 10th.
THE house of Emory Bird, on Bel
nett's Bayou, Baxter County, Ga, was d
| stroyed by fire on the 9th and his younge