The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-12-17
WEST AND SOUTH:

The Methodist Centennial Conference
opened its first session at Baltimore on the
10th. The exercises began with a few ap-
propriate remarks by Bishop Andrews,
chairman OF the Executive Committee Of
the Baltimore Conference, after which he
ncminated Bishop Granburry, the oldest
living Bishop, TO preside. A centenary
hymn, composed by Rev. s. X. Cox, D, D.,
was then sung by the delegates and audi
ence in unison. The opening sermon was
preached by Bishop r. S. Foster, on "Meth-
odism, its Purity and its Needs" The BIZ
BILE used on the occasion was purchased by
Bishop Asbury In 1904, and was once the
property of John Wesley. ..
Charles Price was attacked by two high
waymen with club and pistol at Indian.
apolis the other night. He fired three shots
at them. Shortly afterwards Charles
Doherty, well-known crook, was found
three squares distant mortally wounded in
the hip and shoulder. He was identified
by Price as one Of his assailants.
Fifteen men employed at Bruneau's wood
camp near Houghton, Mich, were poisoned
few days since by arsenic which had
been kept to kill rats, but got into the fish
intended for the mess. Two men are dan
gerously sick, but the others are recover
ing. .s 10.
While groups of children were playing
on the commons Of the Garfield School at
Columbus, o., ON the 1lth young negro
named Charles Scott dashed in among
them on horseback, scattering the children
1 l.. al t,,a
ing except Johnny Aylesworth, aged
twelve years, who was run over and tram
pied upon, sustaining injuries from which
he soon after died Scott was arrested and
charge Of murder entered against him.
The Colored National Committee, called
to meet at New Orleans on December IL,
has been postponed to January, .....re
A singular accident occurred at Little
ton, w. Va, on the 18th. John p. Harden
was pounding the muzzle Of a gun on the
hearthstone TO jar out a load OF slugs, when
the weapon was discharged. Eighteen
slugs took effect ON various members Of the
family. One slug broke Mrs. Harden's leg,
and baby had seven marks in the region
Of the abdomen. These two were the only
ones seriously hurt.
The striking miners at Brilliant Mine,
McCunesyille, near Shawnee, Ohio, settled
their differences with their employers on
the 10Th and went to work on their own
terms.
On the night Of the 18th seventeen pris-
oners escaped from the county Jail at De.
catur, Texas, and at last accounts none had
been captured. Among them were two
noted horse -thinvesy and j. NJ. McIntire, Q
murderer.
A duel resulting fatally to both partici'
pants was fought between two cowboys II
Idaho few days ago. The duellsts tiet
their left hands together, and with kniveI
fought till both fell dead. One received
twelve stabs and the other seventeen. The
ARRAY was witnessed by the friends Of botf
men. ar
The persons indicted for participation II
the election frauds In the Second precinct
Of the Eighteenth ward, Chicago, appeared
before Judge Blodgett in the Federal Cour
on the 10Th and gave bail in $4,000 each.
Twenty -four miners, charged with un'
lawfully assembling, were arrested by the
Sheriff at Angus. Iowa, on tho 14th. Th'
warrants were issued by Justice in JEFF
ferson, eighteen miles away. The peopl,
are indignant at this action, as there has
been no disorder on the part Of the strikers
NJ II. Mccoy, dealer in music and musica
instruments az Chattanooga, Tenn, hal
assigned. He was the largest dealer Of thi
kind In che State, and his creditors ar
in nearly all the principal cities Of th'