The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-10-17
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BY the breaking of an axle two cars
Of q freight train on the Pennsylvania
Railroad fell over on another track near
Elizabeth, N. J., on the 10th, Just as an
express train was going along at full
Tpeed. The express locomotive turned
completely over. The baggage car tele-
popped with a freight car, and two other
freight cars were demolished but no one
was seriously injured.
BRIDGE, the Pennsylvania State Vet
Urinary Surgeon, visited Trextertown. that
State, on the 10th and ascertained that the
,attle reported suffering from pleuro-
pneumonia were merely affected by capil-
iary bronchitis. The disease is contagi-
BUS.
Four men of a threshing crew were
killed and eight narrowly escaped death at
the farm Of Mr.. Northruff, near Moorhead,
Wis, on the 10th. They were sleeping In q
barn and 400 bushels Of oats In granary
over them broke through, suffocating them
before assistance could be rendered. The
eight who escaped were crowded through
the side of the barn, which gave way under
the pressure.
EVERY physician in Pensacola has
signed q certificate that no case of yellow
fever exists In that city.
The negro who murdered the police
man on the street OF Huntsville, Ala, on
the 9th by splitting his head with an ak
was taken from jail on the night Of the
10th by fifty masked men and hanged.
AN earthquake was felt in San Fran
disco at one O'Clock on the morning of the
10th. 1t was the most severe shock In sew
eral years. A third shock occurred In the
evening.
The eight or ten rice mills in New
Orleans, ever since the advent of the new
rice crop, have been kept running night
and day, and an overproduction of clean
rice is the consequence; To prevent q
further accumulation all the mills agree on
the 18th to make half time and thereafter
stop night work.
E. r. ROBBINS, Superintendent of
the Dayton co., Electric Light Company,
in examining light that went out on the
street in that city on the evening of the
11th, took hold of the conducting wire
where the insulation was torn of and fell
as IL shot. Before he died, which was three
out of me-" This is the third man killed
from contact with electricity in the United
States since the advent of electricity.
GEORGE CRAMER, q carpenter work
ing at Lancaster, Pa, on the 11th fell be-
tween rafters and was caught by the neck
and strangled.
THE fifth triennial session of the
National Congregational Council begun at
Concord, N. H., on the 11th.
A FIRE in the kitchen of the Brevoort
House, Fifth avenue, New York, on the
night of the 11th caused the guests to rush
into the corridors In their night clothes.
No one was injured, and no serious damage
done.
JAMES F. BUzY and William Harig
fired five shots at each other in front of the
City Hall In Baltimore, Nd, on the 11th.
Harig was killed, several women tainted,
and bystander named Flanagan was shot
in the arm. Quarreled over politics.
FIVE prisoners made an attempt to
escape from the Ohio Penitentiary at Co
lumbus on the 11th. Four escaped entire
ly, one was killed near the wall and two
were wounded. They scaled the wall by
with a rope. Thirty shots were fired by
the guards.
AN attempt to place telegraph pole
In front OF the property Of Napier Bros. at
Machias, N. Y, on ths 11th resulted In a
riot between the workmen and the property
owners, in which the foreman OF the tele-
graph gang received fatal blow from q
plCkd4 anu NAPIER was sLdODcu.
THE receipts at Washington from
customs and internal revenue are so heavy
that Secretary Folger intends making an.
other bond call soon. The receipts on the
11th reached $157, 600, 600.
SECRETARY FoLGER received infor-
nation on the 11th from Port Townsend,
w. T., of the capture Of eleven Cinnamon,
who landed on the coast near that port In
violation of law. Officers were directed tc
return them to the place they came from.
Two freight trains on the Chicago &
Northwestern Railroad collided at Han.
over Junction, Wis, ON the 11sh, demolish.
ing three engines, wrecking twelve cars
and killing fireman
COUNSEL for the State of Virginia,
who recently fled in the Treasury Depart
ment at Washington q claim for large
sum of money, said to be due that State
under the deposit act of June %, 1895, has
prepared q similar demand in behalf of the
State of Arkansas. The claim and the &C
companying papers were presented to Sec
retary Folger by Senator Garland on the
11th.
EDWARD KENNEDY, who shot and
killed Sheriff McCorkle at Shelbyville
Ind, in 1880 and escaped, and for whose
turned and surrendered himself on the 11th
A MANIAC woman named Mrs. Free
land escaped from the Erie (Pa.) County
House on the 11th, and would have killed
Assistant Superintendent Wagner, wht
made chase, with q crowbar she carried
but for the timely arrival of other persons
Two negro boys, aged twelve anC
thirteen, of White Bluff, near Nashville
Tenn, plotted to murder their respective
fathers, and almost succeeded in killing the
| father of the oldest, Rev. A. ID. Nicks, hav
| ing shot him twice while he was passing
along the highway.
On the 18th R. G. Dunn & Co.'S Mer
camille Agency reported 1s7 failures in tn,
United States and Canada for the previous
seven days, four more than the week pre-
| vious.
ELLIS CRAFT was hung ut Grayson
| KY, on the 18th.
A MYSTERIOUS disease, similar Il
yellow fever, has been making terribl,
ravages at Brewton, La. DR.. Foard tele
| graphed from there on the 18th: "DurinI
/ the past four days we have not had SUI
ncient help to bury the dead"
DAVID BARRY, an old veteran at tn
Soldiers Home at Dayton, o., was founC