The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1885-02-18
WEST AND SOUTH.

Simon Hanky, awealthy lumber dealer
and well known citizen Of Akron, Ohio, was
thrown from his sleigh on the night Of the
1lth, fracturing his skull, from the effects
Of which he died a few hours after.
A rufilan named Bill Beard, living near
Dixon, Tenn, becoming enraged at his
four-year-old step-son, on the 18th pulled
its hair out by the roots, gouged out It's
eyes and threw them away, gnawed the
ears off and then threw the bleeding trunk
into the fire and burned IL TO crisp. After
seriously beating his wife and father-in-
law the inhuman brute was finally arrested
and lodged in Jail.
The family Of William Frazier, colored,
consisting OF himself, wife and grandchild,
were burned to death in fire which con-
sumed their residence, near New Albany,
Ind, few nights ago.
The Texas Legislature has enacted law
requiring all heads Of departments to give
at least half the clerkships In their offices to
women. This is considered a great victory
for the Woman's Rights party.
Wheel Mill No. Of the Ohio Powder
Company, located near Hubbard, Ohio, ex-
ploded on the 18th, making kindling wood
Of the building, but not damaging the mas
sive machinery 10 any great extent. Mike
Eagan and Otis Hurlburt, employees, who
were near the building, were badly hurt,
but viii recover.
L. b. Eddy, the leading banker Of Fargo,
Dakota, and the President OF the First Ma
tlonal Bank Of that city, died OF typhoid
pneumonia on the 12th.
Ex-Governor Alexander Moulton died at
his plantation In Lafayette parish, La, on
the 18th, aged eighty zone years.
At their session in New Orleans on the
18th the National Farmers Congress
adopted the following resolution: "we
find we have been denied our Just rights
and now ask that we be no longer ignored.
We therefore most respectfully and ur-
gently press upon our Senators the i'm
portance Of immediate action during the
present session upon the bill before them,
having passed the House by handsome
majority, providing for Department of
Agriculture and making the head Of that
department Cabinet officer"
II. p. Veasie, railway mail clerk, has
sued the Mississippi Valley Railway Com
pnny for $4,000 damages for injuries re-
ceived while on train which was wrecked
by a misplaced switch at Harrison, Miss,
last month.
As John and Peter Haaver and son
OF the former were crossing the bridge OF
the N. Y. p. & o. Railroad over the Cuya-
hoga River at Cleveland, Ohio, on the night
of the 18th, they were run down by train.
John Haaver was instantly killed, his
brother Peter fatally injured, and the boy,
aged twelve, severely hurt. Both men
leave families.
The strike in the Hooking Valley, Ohio,
which started last April, is virtually at an
end Announcements were made In all
parts OF the Valley on tho 10Th that the
commissary had given out, and aid was no
longer coming In, and advising the men to
get work. Many Of the men went in last
week In anticipation Of the climax.
The propeller Michigan, which left Mil
waukee on the Tth to search for the steamer
Oneida, had not been heard from up to the
18th and IL was feared that she had also
been lost. She had crew Of thirty on
board.
The assignment OF Davis, Roper q Co.,
the Oldest and largest wholesale grocery
firm in Petersburg, Va, is announced. The
liabilities and assets are not known. -. /