The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-01-30
DOMESTIC.

CORNELIUS VAN SCHAAcK, Chicago at
torney, confined in the Insane Asylum al
Painesville, o., escaped from that institu.
tion, and his dead body was found under @
railway bridge ON the 23d.
In IA quarrel at Portland, Me-, few days
ago John Flynn stabbed his brother
Charles, who died at midnight.
THREE Gloucester (Mass.) fishing schoon.
ers, carrying crews OF forty.six men, were
on the 2lth given up as lost.
ELEVEN business houses at Dallas, Ore,
valued at $4,000, were destroyed by fire
on the oath.
The northwest portion Of Minnesota was
swept by terrible blizzard on the 9th,
which confined every one to their houses.
At Superior Junction and other points the
thermometer indicated forty.four degrees
below zero.
JAMES and Edward Shadwick, boys aged
thirteen and fifteen years, Of Marietta, Ca,
who gave information which caused the
arrest Of moonshiners, were on the 2ith
said to have been murdered by friends Of
the moonshiners.
THE City Treasurer Of Bayonne, N. j.,
was on the 24th said to be defaulter for
5000.
THOMAS VALLEY, Of Petrolia, Pa, while
carelessly handling a revolver on the 2ith
gave his six.year-old sister fatal wound
in the brain.
BY an explosion on the oath in the Colo.
RADIO Coal Company's colliery at Crested
Butte, Col, fifty-seven men were supposed
TO have lost their lives. The engine-house,
which stood one hundred feet away, was
utterly wrecked.
In the Common Pleas Court at Erie, Pa,
Leroy Warner on the 2Ith asked judicial
confirmation Of the sale of his little daugh-
ter Maggie to Peter Wilds, the considera.
tion being one dollar. The request was
refused.
CALIFORNIA reports the dryest season
for seven years, with bad indications for
the growing crops.
GEORGE I. CoMINGs & Co., State Prison
contractors at Concord, N. H., failed on
the oath for $4,000.
j. j. DOUGLAS, a lottery manager, was
arrested at Louisville on the oath by the
Chief Inspector Of the postal service for
sending circulars through the mails.
The Bradstreet Commercial Agency on
the 18th reported that prices for all com.
modities were generally hrmer, and that
the movement Of merchandise throughout
the country had increased in volume.
DURING the seven days ended on the 25th
the business failures throughout the
United States and Canada numbered 34S,
against 1903 the previous week. The distri-
button was as follows: New England
States, a.; Middle, 90; Western, O7;
Southern, so; Pacific States and Terri.
tories. 27; Canada and the Provinces, SO.
A GYPSY man and woman were on the
25th found dead in tent at Huntsville,
Ala, with no marks Of violence. They had
~, 300 in cash.
JOHN SPAULDING shot his wife on the
25th at Bangor, Me-, aud then killed him.
self. Mrs. Spaulding was not seriously
hurt. Domestic trouble was the cause.
JOHN ANDERSON and Zachariah Snyder,
each about twenty-one years of age, were
hanged at Mount Vernon, Ind, on tho 25th,
for the murder Of young James Van Wye
on the 18th Of August last. The motive of
the crime was robbery, and the amount SO,
cured was less than eighteen dollars.
SELAH SPRAGUE. farmer Of East
Meadow, l.. l., was attacked In his barn on
the 2oth and probably fatally wounded by
a mulatto named Charles Smith. The vii
lain then went to the house, struck Mrs.
Sprague, and began a search for money.
The neighbors heard the woman's screams
for help, and they secured the country un-
I'll they captured the robber.