The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-08-06


On the 3Oth ult. another herd of cattle
affected with the Texas fever arrived at
tho Chicago stock.yards. They were
promptly slaughtered.
The West Virginia Republicans met In
State Convention at Parkers burg on the
3Oth ult. and nominated Edwin Maxwell
(the Greenback nominee) for Governor,
and divided the other offices equally, save
that the candidates for Presidential elect
ors and Judges Of the Supreme Court are
Republicans.
FIRE the other night destroyed the en-.
tire village of Luning, New, except the
railroad depot.
A FEW days ago Mrs. Upmsier, of Gin.
cinnati, undertook to split open rocket
with hatchet. She and her daughter were
fatally injured by the explosion which fol.
lowed, and two children were severely
hurt.
CAPTAIN ]. NJ. SHELTON and his daugh,
ters, Louisa and Florence, aged nineteen
and twenty-one years, were bathing d
few evenings ago near Little River Sta
tion, Tex, when the girls got beyond theil
depth and were drowned, the aged father
being unable to assist them. They were
highly accomplished, and the family were
travelling through tho State in carriage
for pleasure.
UNDER instructions of A. r. Greene, In.
spector Of the General Land Office, Gen
eral Hatch, with cavalry force, was al
Caldwell, Kan, on the goth ult, and
would Immediately proceed to drive Payne
and others from Indian Territory.
Lucy and Tennie Jones, two beautiful
young girls, aged respectively seventeen
nd nineteen, committed suicide near Gads.
den, Ala, few nights ago by hanging
Disappointment in love was supposed tc
have been the cause.
THE following Congressional nomina
tions were made on the 30th ult., by the
Democrats: Virginia, Third District
George D. Wise, renominated; North Car
olina, Sixth District, Risden T. Bennett;
Ohio, Thirteenth District, Joseph II. Outh
waite.
The sum Of $4,000 per annum has beer
appropriated by the Baltimore g. Ohis
Road for the payment of pensions to em
ployes incapacitated from earning lir
ing.
THE four daughters Of Nathan Miller
residing near Marysville, Kan, were
killed by lightning while sleeping early q
few mornings ago.
THE Chief-of.Police at Omaha has caused
asensation by issuing an order that any
woman appearing in the streets wearing q
Mother Hubbard dress be arrested and
lodged in jail.
MRS. MCCORMICK, Of Barton, Nd, who
was caught in the recent flood, clung to
log for twenty.four hours, and was rescued
after drifting four miles.
REPORTS were received by tho Indians
State Board Of Health on the 3lst ult. from
health officers in over eighty counties ol
the State which showed that the condition
of county prisons was wretched.
AT Baltimore on the 31st ult. rain and
wind-storm flooded cellars in the lower
section, unroofed buildings and damaged
shipping. The loss was placed at 500, 900
A child was killed in falling house.
A LAMP explosion few mornings age
resulted in a fire which destroyed nearly
the whole business portion OF Hot Springs
Ark.
THE Chicago school consus recently com
ploted, indicated population Of 20,0S5
an increase Of 12k per cent. within year
Tho Chinese number 297 and the colored
people 1911
CENSUS returns recently obtained from
sixty.flve out Of the seventy-nine counties
Of Michigan showed that there had been G
net increase in the population Of 1s7,Os;
since 1880. Twelve counties had LOST
slightly.
The other day the steamer City of va
ZOO, with q cargo of cotton. and oil, was
sunk in the Mississippi by q Slision with a
stump near Baton Rogue.
CONGRESSIONAL nominations were made
on the 31st ult. as follows; sRepublican-
West Virginia, Second District, F. NJ. Rey'
nolds; Indiana, Ninth District, G. t. Dox
ey. Democratic-M Mississippi, Fourth Dis.
trict, G. G. Barry.
| AN eleven.year.old boy named Charles
Suffrahn, of Chicago, who was bitten over
/ nine weeks ago by rabid dog, died Of
/ hydrophobia ON the 3lst ult.
! A TRAIN on the Northwestern Road was
attacked by a swarm Of wild bees neal
Chicago few days ago, which few
I through the open windows, and before
/ they could be driven of stung. large
number Of passengers In a painful
| manner.
In a shooting affray near Miles City, M
T., few days ago, two cowboys were
fatally wounded.
The following Congressional nomina
tions were made by the Democrats on the
lst: Missouri, Thirteenth District, II. L
Thomas; North Carolina, Fourth District
Thomas d. johnson.
on the 1st George T. Williams, Secre
tary OF the Chicago Stock Yards, report
ed that the Texas fever had been entirely
eradlcated by tie butchery Of tho infected
herd, and that no further trouble with cat
tlo was expected.
ANEAR Monroe, N. G., Mrs. Frances Ste
gall, widow, aged seventy, who died
few days ago, confessed TO a clergyman
and afterwards made her confession pub
lie, that she had murdered her husband by
pouring Imolten lead into his ear thirty
years ago. She refused TO say what wa
the motive Of the crime.
ELISHA ALEXANDER was killed, hi
brother John mortally hurt, and Mrs
Charlie Poor slightly wounded in shoot