The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-08-13


shot in the breast.
IT is estimated that the corn crop Of Me-
braska this year will be 120,000,0O0 BUSH
els-nearly 100000 bushels greater than
last year.
CONGRESSIONAL nominations were made
on the 9th as follows: Democratic-Mary-
land, Third District, William II. Cole;
Fourth, John " L. Findlay; Fifth, Barnes
Compton; Sixth, Fred j. Nelson. Illinois,
Nineteenth District, r. w. Townshend (re-
nominnted); Indiana, Eighth District,
John L. Lamb; Virginia, Eighth District,
j. S. Barbour (renominated). Republican,
Ohio, Sixteenth District, Henry G. Hedges;
Iowa, Fifth District, Milo p. Smith.
THE town of Wasco, in Eastern Oregon,
was swept by a cyclone the other day,
and several buildings, including the
Methodist Church and a mill, were de-
molished. A. NJ. Barnett was caught un-
der q falling building and fatally in
jured.
THE correspondents of Z. p Bacon &
Co, of Milwaukee, reported on the 9th
heavy losses in the barley crop, by hail
Dakota, Iowa and Nebraska.
JAY GOULD having resigned the Presi.
dency of the Wabash Railroad Company,
James +. Joy, Of Detroit, has been elected
TO succeed him.
On the 9th General Hatch encamped
with six cavalry companies at point
twenty-five miles southeast Of Caldwell,
Kan, and proposed to clear Oklahomo of
two'thousand invaders.
NEAR Whitesboro, Tex, a Missouri Pa
cilc passenger train was ditched few
evenings ago. Ten persons were injured,
one fatally.
THE Catholic Total Abstinence Union Of
America met in fourteenth annual conven-
tion on the 9th in Chicago, Rev. James M.
Cleary. Of Wisconsin, President Of the
Union, in the chair.
The Chicago committee which made the
arrangements for the Republican National
Convention reported on the 9th having
collected S25,76i, Of which amount $12,-
542G0 would be returned to subscribers.
Ok a charge OF embezzling 5000 Samuel
H. Drew, ex-County Prosecuting Attor
ney OF Cincinnati, was arrested on the 9th.
NOTICE has been sent to the members Of
the National Committee Of the Anti
Monopoly party to meet at Chicago Au-
gust 10 to nominate candidate for Vice.
President Of the United States.
THE following Congressional nomina-
tions were made on the 7th: Republican
Ohio, First District, Benjamin Butter
worth; Second, Charles E. Brown; Eighth,
Judge Little. Indiana, Fourth District,
John o. Cravens. Iowa, Third District,
D. B. Henderson (renominated). South
Carolina, Fifth District, w. H. Weller.
Democratic-Ohio, Fourth District, G. NJ.
Anderson. Virginia, Tenth District, j.
Randolph Tucker (renominated). North
Carolina, Seventh District, Kerr Craig.
Georgia, Tenth District, Henry K. Har.
ris.
OKLAHOMA PAYNE's camp at Rock Falls,
/. T., was entered by two squadrons OF
United States cavalry on the 7th, who ar
rested the leaders, and started them off
for Fort Smith. The women, children and
new offenders were escorted TO the Kansas
line. The boarding.house, drugstore and
some other cheap structures were burned,
and not vestige Of the settlement was
permitted to remain.
The National Christian Sundays School
| Association at its session at indianapolis
on the 7th elected A. K. Benson, Of In
diana, President, and f. NJ. Green, Of Ohio,
Secretary.
/ AT the session of the Catholic Total Alb.
stinence Union of America in Chicago on
| the 7th Rev. James NJ. Cleary, Of Wiscon-
/ sin, was reelected to tine Presidency.
Or receiving. information recently that
young lady was being followed home in
the country by a negro, about dozen
white citizens Of Fairfax, Va, rode out
and captured the villain, who was given
one hundred lashes on the bare back.
NINETEEN Chinese lepers embarked
from San Francisco on the 7th for their
native land, the city giving each five dol
lars and paying full fare.
SAM FAULKNER and Henry Allen, while
going to cnmp.meeting few days ago,
accosted the two Woodall brothers, near
Fredonia, Tex. Firing began, Allen be-
ing shot dead, the Woodalls being NOR.
tally hurt, and Faulkner might possibly
recover.
AT Omaha on the 7th the defendant in q
"Mother Hubbard" dress case was dis
missed, Difference to public opinion caus'
ing the Chief-of-Police not TO prosecute.
The style OF dress involved was being
worn more than ever.
AT Petersburg, Va, the Grand Jury on
the 7th indicted the officers and several
employees Of the wrecked Planters Bank
for niisdemeanor or for felony.
A PROCLAMATION was issued on the 7tf
by Governor Sheldon, Of New Mexico, fol
the inspection Of cattle, no matter from
what section, before they were permitted
to enter the Territory.
THE other day runaway horse dragged
ex-Sherif Goliath and Mrs. Leathermar
onto the railway track at Lima, o., and I
switching engine killed both of thom, thu
horse escaping.
In the neighborhood Of Point Pleasant
W. Va, three farmers at different point
had within few days suffered the los
Of wheat fields from fires set by incendi
aries.
In the La Belle Nall Mill at Wheeling
W. Va, one hundred and fifty men wer'
discharged on the sth, the mill-owners de
Gliding to procure their steel bars from
Pittsburgh, doing away with their forg'
department. II other mills adopted thi
.