The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-02-13
DOMESTIC.

w. A. SMITHS a diamond-dealer Of Bos-
ton, has failed for 100000.
ADEETIsr In Scranton, Pa, named w.
H. Heist, gave Mrs. James Stevenson three
doses Of chloroform on the 7th and extract.
ed fifteen teeth. On completing his task
he found his patient corpse.
WHILE crossing the river at Lafayette,
o., on the 7th Frank and James Henderson
were drowned by their boat being crushed
by floating logs. ,. . u
AN entire square in the center Of Hazle-
ton, Pa, town of eight Thousand inhab-
itants, suddenly sank three feet on the 7th.
-Four buildings were wrecked, but no one
was hurt. The town had been undermined
by the coal-diggers. ....
Two BROTHERS named Nelson and two
other young men were drowned In Tusca-
rawas River at Evansburg, o., on the 7th by
the upsetting Of their boat.
A BAND Of boys at Minneapolis, Mimi,
on the 7th hanged lad named Johnny
Nolan In barn, and when found and cut
down life was nearly extinct.
A YOUNG woman named Margaret 0'Don.
nell, while shooting atrats at Cumberland,
Nd, few days ago, accidentally shot and
killed Thomas Coughlin.
HENRY s. CHURCH, for six years Cham.
berlain Of Troy, N. Y, was discovered on
the 7th to be defaulter for $1,000. 1t was
thought that the most Of the money was
lost in stock speculation. His whereabouts
were unknown.
7. @. WALLS, a merchant Of Lockport, n.
Y, sixty-fve years of age, met with re-
verses and emigrated to Texas to retrieve
his fortune. He poisoned himself at Dallas
a few days ago, after having subsisted for
some time on one meal per day.
WHILE robbing the house of Samuel Nor
man, near Chillicothe, o., the other night
Martin Hendricks (colored) was shot dead
by the proprietor.
A MAN supposed to be Kid Wade, a no.
torious horse-thief, was found hanging TO
a railway whistling-post near Basset I,
Neb., on the 7th.
In recent collision between Baltimore
& Ohio passenger trains, near Fallsburg
Station, Pa, four persons were seriously
injured, and the locomotives and express
cars were wrecked.
DURING the seven days ended on the 8th
the business failures throughout the United
States and Canada numbered 200, against
402 the previous week. The distribution
was as follows: New England States, 80;
Middle, 80; Western, 90; Southern, So; Pa
cifc States and Territories, 20; Canada
and the Provinces. 33. .I
JOHN BENNINGTON, a farmer, and his
wife, residing near Frankfort, Kan, were
found dead in their barn on the 9Th. A
hired man who had recently been dis
charged by bennington, and who was
missing, was suspected of the crime.
PERRISE g. Co., woolen dealers at New
York, failed on the 9Th for $4,000.
The river was rising at Cincinnati on
the 9Th and the suffering was increasing.
Provisions were becoming scarce at
Wheeling, W; Va, where fifteen thousand
homeless persons were In need. Wells
burg, W. Va, and some Ohio towns along
the river were also threatened with fam
inc. ,r4ia.
THE Excise Commissioners Of New York
City on the 9th revoked the licenses of
eleven hundred liquor dealers for violating
the law.
JAMES GRAHAM, lawyer Of New Or
leans, who had squandered his wife's fort
une, killed her on the 9Th with pistol
while she slept, and then took his own life
with razor, nearly severing his head from
his body.
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