The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-09-03
occasions wrecked trains on the Illinois

Central Railroad.
AT the session of the American Pharma.
| ceutical Association at Milwaukee on the
9th, John ingalls,, of Georgia, was elected
President, and NJ. Maisch, OF Pennsyl.
vania, Secretary.
On the 9th DR.. Salmon, Chief Of the
Bureau of Animal Industry, said that he
found eight cases of pleuro-pneumonia
among cattle in the vicinity of Chicago,
and ten cases in other parts of the State.
NEBRASKA Republicans met in State
Convention at Omaha on the 9th and re-
Nominated James E. Dawes for Governor.
CoNGREssMEN were nominated as fol.
lows on the 2Sth: Republican-North Car
olina, First District, ]. B. Respess. In.
diana. Third District, James Keigwin.
West Virginia, First District, Nathan
Goff, Jr Maryland, First District, George
NJ. Russum; Second, Thaddeus c. Blair;
Fifth, Hart B. Holton (renominated) ;
Sixth, Louis E. McComas (renominated) !.
Democratic-Illinois, Fifth District, Rich.
ard Bishop; Ninth, James Kirk. Tennes.
see, First District, o. L. King; TenUh,
James NJ. Harris. Louisiana, Fourth Dis.
trict, n. c. Blanchard (renominated).
Texas, Third District, James II. Jones IRE.
nominated). Greenbaclers Indiana,
| Third District, A. d. Hudson. Prohibitions
sts--Illinois, Eleventh District, d. II.
Broaddus.
FoRREsTBURG and Diana, d. T., were
visited by a cyclone on the 2Sth. At the
former place farmer named Briggs lost
| his house, thirty head Of cattle and three
horses, and a man named McKillon was
killed. At Diana track eighty yards
wide was swept over, several houses were
destroyed, and q number Of lives were
lost.
Iowa Greenbackers met in State Con-
vention at Des Moines on the 2sth and
Secretary of State and George Derr, OF
Union County, for State Treasurer. No
other nominations were made. The plat
form adopted arraigned the old parties as
corrupt and dishonest, denounced the Ma
tional banking system, eulogized General
Butler, and urged such a political alliance
as would give the Greenbackers control OF
the electoral vote.
On the Wabash Road an open switch
the other night wrecked over twenty
freight cars, killing Henry Nordeck, the
engineer, and Thomas Devlin, the brake
man.
On the 2sth Judge Knickerbocker ap.
pointed Austin l.. Patterson, the business
manager Of the Chicago Times. 10 be con.
servator Of the estate Of Wilbur +. Storey,
who had been pronounced insane by a
jury.
| AT fire in tenement house in Mime.
apolis few days ago James Curran, one
Of the occupants, was fatally burned. He
had rushed back TO rescue a child.
In filing a bill for divorce q few days
ago Maggie Jones, of Baltimore, alleged
that she believed she was marrying O
bachelor of sixty years, but discovered at
his residence nine grown children, eight OF
whom were older than herself.
OK the 2Sth S. w. Tallmadge, the crop
statistician of. Milwaukee, issued his final
estimate of the wheat crop Of the United
States for 1884, as follows. Winter wheat,
100000 bushels; spring wheat, 10000
900, or 13O,OO0,0)O bushels more than the
crop Of 1888.
In Manitoba few nights ago storm
injured fifty buildings in Winnipeg, de.
stroyed church, paper-mill and the
Canadian Pacific freight.sheds at Portage
la Prairie, and leveled the growing crops
in large territory.
THE State Convention Of the Kansas
! Anti Monopoly Greenback-Labor party
met at Topeka on the 2Sth and nominated
H. L. Philips for Governor and full
! State ticket.
The tracks Of tho Canada Pacific Road
have been laid to points miles west
Of the summit Of tho Rocky Mountains,
and hopes to reach the highest point Of the
Selkirk range this season. The California
Board of Equalization reports the value OF
tho Central Pacific Road at S24, 100000 and
the Southern Pacific at Sl7,OO0,0O0.
OK the morning OF tho goth a hurricane
swept over Evansville, Ind, umoofing
hundreds of houses, mills, factories, ware
houses, stores, etc, and In many instances
whole houses were blown down. The loss
was !estimated at $4,000. The transfer
steamer Belmont, bound for Henderson,
KY, and freighted with train OF cars,
was sunk by the gale, and fifteen lives were
lost.
A SPECIAL agent was sent recently by
Governor Crosby OF Montana to invosti'
gate the reports Of starvation among the
Piegan lndisns. 1t was found that in a
band Of two thousand the deaths for lack
Of food averaged one per day. The Gov.
ernor on tho Goth urged tho Secretary OF
the Interior TO issue full rations to the suf.
ferers until Congress could take action.
CONGRESSIONAL nominations were made
as follows on the 10th; Republlcan-Vir.
ginia, First District, Robert M Mayo (re.
nominated); Second, Harry Libby IRE
nominated); Third, II. T. Hubbard; Fifth
J. H. wartwell; Sixth, r. P. A. Morris;
Eighth, Duff Green. North Carolina, First
District, J. Edwards. Democratic-Indi
ana, Thirteenth District, George Ford
Virginia, Tenth District, James Yost.
NEAR Greeley, Col, railroad-car at
tached TO circus-train caught fire on th,
Goth, and Of seventy-five men who were
sleeping In the car at the time ten per
ished, and several others were badly
scorched.
WHILE city engineer at Sandusky, o.
Wesley A. Lumm was indicted. for ac
cspting brides. He soon entered on q
career Of dissipation, which caused his
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