The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-11-12
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nights ago. her clothes catching fire from
bonfire she was building.
THE death of DIR. G. e. Rives, the Demo-
cratic candidate for Congress in the Peters
burg District of Virginia, occurred on the
morning Of the 4th.
OK the 4th nearly four thousand coal
miners were on strike in Colorado.
IT is estimated that the damage done 70
the California grape crop by recent rains
was over 81 100000.
A MAN named Rudger Clawson, of Salt
Lake, who was recently convicted Of polyg-
amy, has been sentenced to four years In
the penitentiary and fined $500.
CERTAIN citizens of Louisville, because OF
an alleged flaw in the Tax law, prayed an
injunction TO restrain Their collection. Vice.
Chancellor Simrall denied the request re-
Gently, thus making necessary the pay
ment of about Sl0OOO0,0OO.
On the Virginia Midland Road freight
train collided with passenger train at
Accotlnk Bridge n few days ago, and q
brakeman was killed and five other per-
sons were injured.
N FFN ulbtIhOOhh uBO bNO
named Lee and Tom Farnsworth engaged
In bowie-knife encounter at Buckhannon,
W Va, in which Tom was horribly cut
and mutilnted and left in a dying condi-
ton. The participants belong to wealthy
family.
FoUR roughs at Dalles, Ore, few days
ago took an intoxicated German to a lonely
place and attempted to rob him, when the
German, who had been knocked down,
pulled revolver and shot one Of the roughs
through the heart, killing him instantly.
In the habeas corpus case the other day
of a China-woman named Ong Con, who
arrived recently at San Francisco on the
steamship Oceanic, Judge Sabin, of the
United States Circuit Court, remanded her
to the vessel and refused to allow her to
land
A FEW days ago a prairie fire which
started recently on the north side of the
Yellowstone River, in Montana, near Dale's
ranch, burned over fifty miles of rich land.
The country burned over was one Of the
finest cattle ranges in the Northwest
A FIRE few days ago destroyed Groh-
mer's stables in Carrollton, Ind. Thirteen
valuable horses were consumed and several
others fatally burned. The loss was very
heavy.
OK the East Tennessee, Virginia &
Georgia Road train was wrecked a few
days ago near Chattanooga by broken
rail. The mail and express cars were
burned and their contents consumed. Nc
passengers were injured.
The office OF the st. Louis Smelling Com
pany was entered recently by two we'll
dressed men and, while one of them en-
gagged the manager in conversation, th'
other entered a private Office and walked
of with n sachel containing 5000. Botl
made their escape.
DR.. s. s. GARDNER, of Chicago, and his
infant child were shot dead by Mrs. Gard
ner on the 9th, and she also shot herself
probably fatally. 1t was thought that, ow
ing TO domestic difficulties, the woman wal
temporarily insane.
A SUPPLY pipe in q planning a
Michigan City, Ind, became disconnected
few days ago, fatally scalding B. F. Lower
and John Snyder.
OK the Straitsville branch Of the Colum
bus, Hooking Valley & Toledo Road three
bridges were burned by strikers on the 9th
The loss was about $4,000.
A FIRE destroyed the entire business
portion Of Silver Plume, Col, on the 9th
The streets were filed with crowds Of ex
cited, homeless people. Several lives wer'
lost One body had been recovered. Tn,
| loss would reach 100000. Silver Plume 4
a small mining camp Of few hundred in
habitants three miles west Of Georgetown
THE other day the schooner Wild Gazelle
owned at San Francisco, was lost of tn
coast of Siberia, and fifteen OF the crev
were drowned.
! RAILWAYS centering at Chicago hav
made rate Of S2j for round-trlp tickets b
the Worlds Fair ut New Orleans whicl
will open next month.
THE execution OF Homer Perry (colored
aged fifteen years, occurred at Covington
Ga, on the 7th, for criminal assault upon
little girl.
ON the 7th tho President Of tho HocklnI
Valley Road called on the Governor o
Ohio for troops TO prevent the burning o
bridges. He alleged that Murray City wa
attacked by three hundred miners carryinI
giant powder, fuses and dynamite.
A FEW days ago another person wa
convicted OF polygamy In the United State
Court at Salt Lake City.
The assignment is reported OF Henr!
| Wolff, liduor -dealer at Louisville, Ky.