The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1886-03-24
WEST AND SOUTH.

At meeting IN ChicaBo on tne lobn ol
the Barbed Wire Manufacturers Associa-
ton, nt which ninety-nve per cent. OF the
barbed wire manufacturers OF the United
States were present, 1t was decided to make
a general advance Of ten per cent. in the
price of wire.
The dead body of Aaron Palmer, the des-
perado who in shooting scrape last No
vember dangerously wounded two mer-
chants, B. P. andJ. B. Anderson, was found
few days ago frozen, face down, in mud
swamp a short distance from Tecumseh,
Mich.
Lepham & Co., Of Duluth, Mimi, who
own Eight elevators on tho Northern Pacific
railroad, made an assignment on the 10Th.
Liabilities not known, but probably heavy.
Miss Daisy Carroll was arrested at Spring
City, Tenn, few days ago for completely
| In the embezzlement Of about $4,000 from
the Champion Works at Springfield, o.,
said TO have been committed by the conf
Dental bookkeoper, Frank Jones. The
books Of the Champion Company were
found secreted In her ice house at Spring
City, as we'll as other evidence of her COM
plicity. She will be taken to Ohio for trial
Eugene Vandevier killed Warren Pitts
and seriously wounded George Dietz in a
free fight at New Harmony, Ind, sixteen
years ago. He received a wound in the
lung himself, but managed to escape and
has since travelled in the South under the
name Of Ed. Geary. A reward Of $1,000
was offered for hiscapture. On the 10Th he
returned to Evansville, Ind, and died Of
consumption within fifteen minutes after
entering his sisters 'sresidence.
At the opera house in Goldsboro, N. c.,
on the 10th, Captain II. c. Dwight, presi
dent OF the Twenty ty-seventh Massachusetts
Regimental Association, formally returned
the flag captured March II, 1862, from the
Goldsboro Rifles. The unfurling Of the
faded old banner wns greeted with an old
fashioned rebel yell, but this was followed
with three rousing cheers when the new
American flag, also the gift Of the Twenty
seventh, was produced.
The strike at the Studebaker works a
South Bend, Ind, has been satisfactorily
: adjusted and work was resumed on the 22d
The trial 81 John W. Lauer for the mur
der of his wife at Omaha, Neb., Terminated
on the Goth in verdict Of guilty Of man
: slaughter. The punishment for man
,, slaughter is from one to ten years imprison
I ment. Lauers defense was that he kille
Q his wife by mistake for a burglar. TIL
trial excited great interest owing to th
= prominence Of the parties.
The shops Of the Cincinnati, Washingto
and Baltimore railroad at Zaleski, o., wer
n almost entirely destroyed by fire on th
Q 2lst entailing loss Of $4,000; fully II
/ sured.
: Lewis Benditt, one of the clerlu latel
employed by N. K. Falrbank & Co., O
!, Chicago and charged with embezzlin
several thousand dollars from the firm
n was arrested at Detroit a few days ago.
l. The will Of the late Thomas s. Serill, I
s New Orleans, was probated on the 2Ot
d His property, valued at S2,0O0,0O0, is left
his daughters, Mrs. Alice NJ. Kirby, Of Oh
% cago. and Helen G.. Serill.
Is A fire at Helena, Ark, on tho 2lst
:, stroyed three valuable business blocks, 1
IS cluding the opera house. Total loss near
+. s2I5,0O0, mostly covered by insurance.
d The Missouri Pacific Railroad Compar
on the 22d obtained an injunction from d
10 United States Court at Atchison, Kanss
n restraining the strikers from inteTuptiI
IT traffic The Federal power is thus direct
is invoked, and the case is regarded as an II
sr portant move against the strikers.
The heaviest snow storm for the past A.
y years visited Dubuque, Ia, on the 2ls
Or Snow fell to the depth of two feet Al
Of drifted until fences were hidden from vie
ne and several frail buildings fell under \
weight.
d. Az Memphis, Tenn, on the 18th, Emr
TX Norman, aged twenty-one, shot and kill
n Henry Arnold, proprietor OF groce
I'd store, whom she charges with efecting h
ic ruin under promise OF marriage. VIII
ns ARRESTED she expressed great satisfaction
the fatal result Of her shot