The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-02-28

colt & Co., bankers and loan agents, at To-
peka, Kansas, committed suicide on the oath
BY shooting himself. Nervous disorders,
bringing on mem al alteration, and n family
tendency to suicide, were the causes OF the
act
MATTHIAS UNGAsHICK was accidentally
shot and killed by Andrew Marshey, near
Canton, Ohio, on the 23d. Marshey and the
deceased had gone to 4 field on the farm TO
she OF a COW. Ungashick went around to drive
the COW out Of thicket when Msrshey fired,
missing the COW and striking Ungashick in
the breast, from the effects of which he died
an hour afterwards.
ALBERTJ. HOWELL, broker, of the firm
of Howell, Cropson & Co., Chicago, committed
suicide by shooting himself on the.24th. Poor
health 10 said to have been the cause.
FIVE inmates of the Western Lunatic
Asylum at Staunton, Va, died from effects Of
poison on the Path. It is suspected that .
patient tampered with the medicine.
The Missouri Free Trade League was
24th. Ex-Governor Hon. John 8. Phelps, Of
Springfield, was chosen President; E. L.
| Martin, o Kansas CITY, Prof. ID. P. McAnnelly,
OF Columbia, and Clark Irvine, OF St. Joseph,
Vice Presidents, and Albert Young, of Kansas
| City, Secretary.
The following is the weekly statement
of the Associated Banks OF New York City
for the week ending the Gath: Loans increase,
$2oSS, 800; specie decrease, 81, ,495, 900; legal
81. .4S7, 500; circulation decrease, s44, 500; re.
serve decrease. -, 465, ,S25. The banks held
y, 100000 in excess Of legal requirements.
GREAT excitement and anxiety was
felt az Red Bank, N. J., on the 24th, among
the oyster fishers owing to the discovery of q
disease peculiar TO bivalves, which renders
them unstable and sometimes permanently
damages the beds. The disease is known
among breeders and fishers as the green gill +"
It first appeared in the South Shrewsbury
River but is now freely noticed in the beds in
/ North Shrewsbury. Its presence and cause
are unaccounted for and the oysters are at
present unmarketAble.
JoHNsoN's paper bag factory at
Middletown, Ohio, was burned on the 25th.
Loss $40, 600; partially insured.
The old Malley cotton mills at North
Adams, Mass, were burned on the 25th.
There were three buildings. Loss s75, 900;
insured for 81, 900.
DIRECTOR SWIFT, of the Warner Oh
servatory, Rochester, N. Y, discovered q
bright telescope comet on the evening of the
Esd about two and one-half degrees north Of
| the star Beta in constellation p, gasus, having
q tail about one-half degree long and slow
eastward motion, right ascension about TWEEN
iy-two hours fifty minutes, declination north
about twenty nine degrees. This makrs the
hrst comet of the Year, and promises to be q
conspicuous object in the western sky.
SEVERAL suits were brought on the
oath against the Augustinian Society,
Roman Catholic organization at Lawrence
Mass, incorporated in 1870 to receive deposits
Of parishioners of the church. The sUciety
was formed by priests and chartered BY
the Legislature with authority to hold
property not exceeding $20O,O00. Large
amounts Of real estate, including churcf
property, had been conveyed to the
society. Since 1881, when Father Regan tool
charge of its affairs, depositors have had diff
Guilty In securing their deposits and severa
claims have been entered against it. At
meeting OF depositors on the sd they wer,
notified that there was no money left, but tha
the society would endeavnr to pay hem at the
rate of 424, 900 yearly. The Indebtedness OF
the society is placed at $50, 700 to depositorI
and $2O0, 900 to mortgage holders.