The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-11-14
DOMESTIC.

Drought S0OO,OO IN specie.
TWELVE miles east of Greencastle,
Ind, on the night of the 7th Dudley Burke
and John Thomas were robbed of $500 and
500 respectively by foot-pads at the point
OF revolvers.
A PASSENGER train on the Panhandle
Railroad ran into q freight standing on a
sidetrack near Newark, Ohio, on the 7th,
killing engineer Matthews and q fireman,
seriously injuring two others and making
terrible wreck.
KELLOGG, SAWYER & Co., lumber
manufacturers of Kalamazoo, Mich, made
an assignment on the It'll, with liabilities
at $4,000. The failure has caused the
suspension of several smaller firms in the
lumber business In that State, and feeling
of uneasiness Is manifested.
Two hotels, the Commercial and
Western, three adjoining brick buildings,
q livery stable and thirty horses were
burned at Sioux Falls, Dakota, on the 9TH.
In q disturbance occasioned by po-
litical discussions at Wakefield, Va, ON
the evening Of the sth. several shots were
exchanged and r. w White, prominent
politician was fatally shot.
THREE hundred cattle were burned
to death at the destruction by fire OF
Ont, opposite Detroit, recently.
ONE hundred masked men surround
ed the house of John L. Martin, who had
confessed to numbering his wife, at Luling,
Texas, on the 7th, and took him to q woods
and hung him to a tree.
Two Swedes named Olson and Nell
son were suffocated in well they were
digging near Bismarck, OAK, on the 9TH.
They had cut through a vein of coal the
day previous
WHILE James Hawkins, a colored
preacher of St. Louis, was eating supper
on the 7th some person in female clothes
shot him in the back. No clue.
BARRY CUNNINGHAM was found dead
in his room at Schoolcraft, Mich, on the
7th. 1t is supposed he had been murdered,
as he had a large hole in the side of his
head.
SEVERAL cases of contagious disease,
known as the swell-head, have developed
among the cattle at the Chicago stock
| yards The first scientific examination of
this disease in this country was made on
| the 7th under the direction of the United
States Treasury Commission. 1t was de-
cided that the disease was the result of the
j lodgpent of microscopic plants in the
teeth. When the disease extends to the
| eyes it nearly always proves fatal. It can
| be communicated to man.
A COLLISION between passenger and
| freight train just outside Chicago on the
7th resulted in wrecking a number of cars,
fatally injuring Baggageman George Barry
and seriously injuring several others.
TWELVE members of q thoroughly
organized gang of shop-lifters were arrest
ed at Chicago ON the sth. 1t is stated that
the peculations of the band. nearly all of
whom are fne-looking women, led by
..Mother Wier," amount to $4,000 or
| S15,0o0 Over s. COO worth of stolen goods
were recovered.
The latest account of the cyclone at
| Springfield, No., recently states that four
more persons have died from injuries re-
ceived, making eleven in all.
A GANG of expert thieves are work
ing in the vicinity of Pittsburgh, Pa. On
the sth safe in the store of Samuel
i Schultz, a few miles from that city, was
i hauled out of the building on planks. blown
/ Three men and a woman have been ar
rested and $3 900 worth of clothing recently
stolen recovered.
HENRY CLAY, a farmer living ten
miles south of Kansas City, killed his wife,
twenty-year-old daughter and himself on
| the Sth. His children, returning home
from school, found the lifeless bodies on
the floor of their fathers house.
The roof, inside walls, and iron and
stone columns of the new Capitol in course
or erection at Madison, Wis, fell on the
sth, killing four men and injuring twenty,
ANNA BERINGER, domestic, was
burned to death while kindling fire with
coal oil at Indianapolis on the sth.
STANFORD, an American confidence
British Government for forgeries in En-
gland. A New York jeweler was swindled
out of S25, 900 by Stamford.
i HoLLINGER's store at Lincoln. Pa,
was robbed by burglars on the sth, and q
posse of men followed the thieves to Welsh
Mountain, where fight took place, in
which one of the thieves was captured
another seriously shot and one Of the posse
fatally shot. cam
A MOVEMENT is on foot in Washing,
ton to convert the valley of Rock Creek
in the District Of Columbia, into grand
park. The plan proposes a dam making Q
lake of some :, 900 acres, and reaching be
yond the District boundary.
A HOTEL, grocery, hardware store
billiard room and another block were de
stroyed by fire at Hamburgh, N. Y, on tn,
Sth.
THE missionary committee of tn,
New York NJ. E. Church on the Sth appro
priated 5000 for general missionary worl
at Naples, $4,000 to purchase real estat
there and $4,000 for general missionar,
work in South America.
AT Ostrander, Ohio, on the 9th, by
strange freak of nature, lightning strucl
the cupola of the Presbyterian Church ant
divided into two forks. One reached tn
ground and followed the surface into tn
yard of Mr.. Renhew FreshwalleI an
climbed his house to the chimney, and the
into the interior, where it tore a hole thre
feet long in the floor. 1t then reappeare
> through one of the partition walls an
struck Mr.. Freshwaller in the head, litel
, ally splitting it open and killing hir
Instantly. His wife and children wer
: terribly shocked. but not seriously injured
4 THE discovery of an ingenious eva
sion of the tariff by importers ofsheet iro
2 and their agents has been made at Pitts
| burgh, Pa. An iron which pays one an
one and a half cents a pound was foun
/, per cent. ad valorem, and the whole wa
appraised as the cheap grade. 1t is sal
thousa?ds of tons have been brought int
3 the country by the evasion.
d THE business failures in the Unite
States and Canada for the week ended o
J. the 9th were 212 against 215 the previou
week.
AN explosion on a tug boat at Ne'
York on the 7th sank the boat and kille
four men.
The bark Margarita, laden with l, 80
barrels of gasoline and 200 barrels of r,
fined oil, burned at New York ON the 9tl
A POLICEMAN, attracted by won
ans cries, entered a tenement house in Boi
s ton on the 9th and found McIn; osh, tn
4 tenant, fearfully beaten and bruised, hi