The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-11-07
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tence for the murder of Policeman John
Coffey, last April, the eldest SON Of Coffey,
aged nineteen, stepped up behind Gossett
and shot him in the head, and the 1eputy
sheriff in charge of the murderer immedi-
ately arrested Coffey.
The whole number Of males over
twenty-one in the State of Ohio, according
to the enumeration made by township as
SCISSORS, was sos, 3,633, of which 7S6,050 are
fore, at the late election was 81, ,323 short OF
a full vote.
A FIRE in Sperry Brothers store at
Garfield, COL, on the 31st ult. caused the
explosion of 600 pounds Of giant powder,
hurling buildings, timber and fire in every
direction, totally destroying the post-ofhce,
ton of the town. Only one person was
killed, but the IRE made the majority Of
the people of the town homeless and with
out food or clothes for the winter.
JENNIE MITCHELL accidentally shot
her sweetheart while practicing with
rifle in shooting gallery in New York on
the 31st ult. The ball entered his temple.
On the 31st ult. two freight trains
collided near Lebanon, Pa, and the en-
gines and forty cars were wrecked and
John st. Clair, engineer, was killed.
The accidental escape of oil at the
Old Dominion Creosoting Works at Marry
Points, few miles from Norfolk, Va, on
the 31st, destroyed, in few minutes, the
entire works, a quantity of lumber, and
5000 barrels of creosoting oil. Immense
cylinders 100 feet long and six feet in di-
ameter exploded and disappeared in the
river q hundred feet from the works.
DURING the performance of Hunters
Great Consolidated Shows at New Eden
burgh, Ark, on the night of the 31st ult.,
some unknown parties outside fired volley
of shots into the main canvas and then
beat a has'y retreat, and disappeared in
the darkness. Strange to say only one per-
son was killed. Cholmon Decillenburg, one
of the circus performers, contortionist, who
was shot in the head, dying in the ring.
The seats were crowded and the bullets
passed through all sections of the audience.
Two masked men robbed the equity
treasury at Virginia City, New, on the
night of the 3lst ult. of 5000, half of it
being silver. After securing the funds they
locked the treasurer in the vault
FULLY one-haf of the corn crop in
the first bottoms of the Wabash River,
near Terre Haute, Ind, was ruined by q
freshet on the 31st ult. One farmer had
IOO, 900 bushels under water. George and
Sarah Ruggles were drowned by driving on
q bridge that had been moved out of place.
WHILE two men and two women,
Germans, were playing game Of croquet
at Woodbury., N. j., on the 31st ult., Ru-
dolph Hines became angry because his
wife beat him, and he kicked her with his
heavy boot, from the effects of which she
soon after died.
THE coinage of the United States
Mint at Philadelphia in October was 81 ,35e,-
9l4, of which 1,05O,O were silver dollars.
ANOTHER discovery of gold has been
made in Clermont County, Ohio, about
three miles from the place worked for gold
in 1869. There is much excitement in the
locality.
A FREIGHT train near Fountain City,
Ind, collided with special on the 3lst ult.
containing officers of the Grand Rapids &
Indiana Railroad. The latter train was
going sixty miles an hour. Both engines
were wrecked, but no one was hurt.
THREE hundred houses, covering half
a square mile of territory, a large cotton
warehouse containing 5000 bales and an
immense amount of other property, burned
at Savannah, Ca. on the 31st ult- Fully
/ 500 people, mostly colored, were made
homeless and slept beside wood fires which
effects they saved from their ruined dwell
ings. The homeless and destitute are
being cared for by the city. A relief fund
of over 81 900 has been raised. 1t is esti-
mated that the loss will at least reach
81 ,000, 900. The charred remains of eight
bodies have been found in the debris
UNITED States detectives captured
three brothers named Columbus, Jesse and
Joseph Hauchens, Henry Grossman, Zin-
ney Kinder, Wesley Woods, Phil Taylor,
BERTHE Smithers and Andy Hart. charged
with counterfeiting in Pike County, Ind,
on the 1st- During the fight which occurred
in the capture of the gang Joseph and
Jesse Hauchens were shot in the right
lung and hand respectively. The gang
have been operating in the southern part
of that State, with headquarters in the
knobs in the vicinity of New. Albany. The
spurious coins manufactured are hair DOL
lars and dollars in silver, and two and
half and five-dollar gold pieces.
THREE children who were gathering
kindling were killed by the falling of q
building at New York on the 1st.
THE post-office at Haverhill, Mass,
was entered by thieves on the night of the
1st. The safe was blown open and $4OC
in cash and 5000 in stamps stolen
THE New York Chamber of Com
merce adopted resolutions on the 1si
strongly condemning the watering of stock
by corporations, and favoring a reduction
| OF city postage. A committee was ap
pointed to prepare plan for National
bankrupt law.
MRs. FREDERICK JAsoBER, of Balti.
more, died on the 1st from the effects ol
carbolic acid. 1t was improperly labeled
by a druggist as an internal remedy.
GEORGE JONES, hotel keeper a
Jonesville, Mich, was shot accidentally by
his wife and died on the 1st.
JOHN EARNEsT's house burned q
Middletown, Ohio, on the 1st, and his two
children suffocated.
THE first frost of the season occurred
at Charleston, n. c., on the 1st. 1t stop
the growth of cotton which set in after thu
fall rains.
Mrs. MARY WELSH, aged sixty-five
and her grandson, aged seven, suffocateC
on the night of the 1st during fire at thei
house in the western part of Cincinnati
Ohio. Mrs. Welsh went out of the house ..
give the alarm and returned for the child
/ when both perished.
JOE HOLDEN, colored, with two whit
men, laid in ambush in a swamp near Ma
con, Ca, on the 1st to capture hog-thieves
They fell asleep and were attacked by tn
thieves. In a desperate fight three Of tn
thieves were killed.
The first annual fat cattle show o
Kansas City opened on the 1st, entries be
ing made from dozen or more States ant
from Canada. 1t will continue eight days
with public sale each day.
AS a freight train was crossing tn
Santa Anna River bridge at Santa ANNA
cal, on the 1st, eighteen cars were precipi
lted into the river by the breaking of
4 Txrra ira Eillad and fxxy
irakemen severely injured.
THE Treasury on the 1st purchased
10000 ounces of silver for the Philadelphia
yew Orleans and San Francisco mints,
A TERRIBLE tre occurred at WIN
.oughby, Ohio, on the morning Of the Cd
Fourteen business houses Consisting o