The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-11-21
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at Charlie Ford, one of the slayers of Jesse
James, while in the yard of his fathers
house, two miles from Richmond, No., on
the night of the 18th. The shots were
fired them.
A SULPHUR explosion in Eagle Hill
Colliery, near Pottsville, Pa. on the 14th
killed Robert Kennedy and Michael Kelley
and fatally injured q boy named Edward
Heating. The whole neighborhood was
shaken by the intensity Of the shock. The
bodies of the men were found fifty yards
away, terribly mangled.
HARRIET HAWKINS and child were
found dead in bed at Lexington, KY, on
the 14th, supposed from starvation and
cold.
Two hundred hands were thrown out
of employment at Ashland, KY, on the
14th, by the burning of the Norton iron
works, rolling mill and nail mill.
The Western Nail Association met
at Pittsburgh on the 14th and decided to
close all mills for Ave weeks, beginning
December % and ending FebruaryL
A PASSENGER train on the Chicago &
Northwestern Railroad killed a man and
woman and cut another mans legs on near
Grand Rapids, Mich, on the 14th. All
were walking on the track.
RocKAwAY, Martin and Foster, three
notorious forgers and counterfeiters, were
indicted by the Grand Jury at New York
on the 14th.
NINE burglars were sentenced to the
penitentiary on the 18th at Lebanon, Pa.
EIGHT buildings, including dwellings
and business places, were burned at Du-
luth. Mimi. on the 14th.
MARTIN L. CooNEY, a brakeman, had
his head crushed out of all human SEM
blance while coupling cars at Meadville,
Pa, on the 18th.
TIE tug Protection, reported lost in
the recent gale on Lake Michigan, with
seventeen men on board, arrived at Sauga-
tuck, Mich, on the I4th all safe, with the
exception of two, Captain Kelley and one
of the firemen.
The Chicago fat stock show opened
on the 10Th. Entries were made Of $50
cattle, 55 horses. 100 sheep and 7S hogs.
The notorious stage-robber Black
hart, who has robbed twenty-three stages,
and for whose CAPTURE q reward Of 1000
was offered, was arrested at San Francisco
on the 14th. He is fifty years old and of
fashionable appearance.
In a train robbery on the Mexican
Central Railway, near San Antonio, Tex,
on the 18th 5000 in silver was stolen.
AT Charlotte, N. c., on the 14th,
Charles Warren and Murdock Malley, col.
ored, quareled about a game Of cards.
Malley killed Warren with a knife.
THE National League for the Sup
preston of Polygamy, which was lately
formed at Cleveland, o., held meeting in
that city on the 14th. Letters were read
from prominent men in most Of the leading
cities of the country, expressing hearty Co
operation with the league and promising
the formation of large societies in their
respective cities. An appeal that will he
printed in circular form and sent all over
the country was ratified.
Four hundred bales of cotton, a ship
load of merchandise, two warehouses and
two dwellings were burned at Norfolk. Va,
on the 18th. Loss S250,000.
QUARANTINE was Withdrawn at al
Texas ports on tho 18th.
WILLIAM LAwLER, the noted safe
cracker, recently arrested at Hamilton
Ont, wss the principal in the burglary at
Simcoe, that province, a few days ago
when $4,000 worth of jewelry was carried
| of.
The Bay View, Mich, fish-plate mil
of the North Chicago Rolling Mill Conn
4
hundred men out of employment Tn,
| shutdown is owing to lack OF orders, tn,
season for rail laying being about over.
THE engine Of north-bound freigh
struck tree blown across the track neal
Colfax. Ind, ON the 14th and was thrown
from the track, killing Albert Keckner
/ engineer.
THE National Swine Breeders Asso
citation began its session in Chicago on tn
l4th, with delegates present from all tn
4 corn-producing States of the Union. 4
| committee was appointed TO consider wha
legislation was required in reference {,
marketing American pork in foreign coun
| tries.
ArErie, Pa, on the 14th the trial of A
Kuhn, for the shooting of little Rosa Stein
er from a street-car window last 4th O
July, resulted in a verdict of voluntar,
manslaushter.
Mr.. TREBRAULT, wife and two chill
while crossing MitchelPs Bay during tn
recent storm.
IT is stated that Henry Chaplin
member of Parliament for Lincolnshire
England, proposes to continue his effort
to induce the Government to restrict tn
importation of cattle from the Unite
States, which is steadily increasing.
A TERRIFIC cyclone passed over thre
or four counties in the northeastern paI
of Maineon the 14th. In Kingfield Count
alone 1900 acres of timber were destroyed
and in three or four other counties nearl
as many acres of timber were leveleC
The timber was so twisted by the storI
that it will be of little value. Houses an
barns were destroyed and cattle killeC
The damage was heavy throughout th
| whole of Northern Maine.
PETER SMULL, the horse-thief VIII
tasted thirty-eight days, escaped from ia
at Belvidere, N. j., on the 18th.
A sHIPLoAD of imported Jersey cattl
were sold at auction at Philadelphia on Il
18th. There were over ninoty head an
regarded as a high standard.
JOHN WAFFEN, q German aged fortl
four, and but little over a year in thi
country, on the 18th drank fifteen glass,
of whisky in fifteen minutes in q Clev
land (O.) saloon on wager and died soc
after.
OGLETHoRPE barracks at Savannah
Ga, were sold by the Government on tn
, 18th for S67, ,3s1.
ONE hundred and fifty thousand do
lars have been subscribed to establish
general Unitarian headquarters in Bosto
, A DISPUTE over foot race at Wilke
+ barre, Pa, on the 18th resulted in Villa
r sarties fatally shooting Alfred Jones.
a THE Washington Woolen Mills
' Lawrence, Mass, on the 10Th stopped ov
$50 looms for an indefinite period and di
charged sixty weavers.
MARY HENDERSON, wife of q wealth
farmer of Knob Noster, No., was burn.
: to death on the 18th. Her clothes caug
lire from a CRATE.
}, EIGHTY-FIvE- thousand dollars wort
:, If lumber burned at Oshkosh, Wis, on Il
Il 18th.
: The value of exports of breadstui
n from this country for October, 1888, WI