The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-08-09
General News Summary.
Interesting Home and Foreign News
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and billed derry Fowler and his son
Joseph Fowler at Burrs Ferry, 20
niles west of Leesville, Ga. The
shooting grew out of lawsuit which
had been tried before a magistrates S
sourt that day.
AtsIndependence, Kan, a tramp, y
years old, giving his name as X. G.
Young, has confessed to numbering
A. c. Bush and John c. Cooley, two
fasteners, who were travelling in a
wagon for pleasure in the Indian Ter
ritory They allowed Young to ride
with them one day and that night he
murdered them with an AK. They had
money with them. Young says he is
native of Illinois but does not know
where his relatives live.
Horgan & Slattery, architects, filed
petition in bankruptcy in the clerks
office of the United States district
court at New York on the 3D. Liabil-
tiles are $101, ,392.4O, with no assets.
The management of the Norrie and
East Norrie mines at Ironwood, Mich,
has met the demands of the men for
higher wages and allowed them raise
of about 10 per cent. Two thousand
men are effected.
A Brooklyn On. W manufacturing
company has shipped 40 300--pound
anvils to the Chinese eastern railway
at Vladivostock, where the company
also shipped 10 large machine shop
anvils in November last
Tfohfninn etruoI br;ol VNouar
house and car house of the South
Orange Avenue Electric railroad on
South Orange avenue at Newark, n.
D., on the night of the I'd. The build
ing caught fire and was destroyed
with IS cars. Loss $300,000.
Oscar Il. Rice, white man, and
John kennedyaa negro, were put to
death by electricity in the prison at
Auburn, n. Y. on the I'd. Rice
killed his wife and Kennedy stabbed
another negro to death.
The directors of the Norfolk &
Western railroad declared the regular
semi7annual dividend of per cent. on
the preferred stock on the I'd.
The plant of the Little Rock ARK J
Cooperage Co. in North Little Rock,
was destroyed by fire on the I'd. Loss
about $4,000; insurance not known.
The committee appointed to select
a place for holding the reunion of
Roosevelt's Rough Riders next year
has chosen Oklahoma City, o. T.
Third Assistant Postmaster General
Madden has issued an order calling
the attention of postmasters every
where to the fact that packages cannot
be mailed to the Yukon district. Let
ters and postal cards can be sent to
the Yukon Territory, but there is no
way in which parcels or third or
Fourth class matter can be forwarded
At St. Paul, Mimi, on the Sd Albert
Chlers, 25 years old, died from lock-
jaw resulting from a blow given him
by his father The two quarreled
and the old man hit his son with a
hoe. causing a slight abrasion of the
skin. ss
Jack Holly, L. Priest and VIII BobO,
prisoners at the federal penitentiary
at Fort Leavenworth, Kan, forcibly
assaulted with shovels Guard Knief,
and after beating him over the head
and neck almost severing his head
from his body with their crude weap-
-ons, made their escape. A few min
utes later Holly attempted to board a
fast Santa Fe train, missed his foot.
hold and was cut in two. Holly and
the others were Indian Territory out.
laws.
Phillip c. Hanna. former United
States consul at Porto Rico, arrived al
New York City on the Sd from San
Juan. With his departure from Porto
Rico the office of consul to that coun.
try was abolished.
At a meeting of the directors of the
Standard Oil Co. at New York on the
LIST dividend of per cent. was de-
clared on the common stock, payable
September IS.
At Chicago on the 4th Miss frankie
George. an actress, fatally shot her
self. According to friends, Miss
George was Tilted by one of her profes-
sion, to whom she had been engaged
for three years. A letter which the
actress wrote short time before the
shooting, stated this was the cause of
the deed.
Burt II. Collins and Harold IIavens.
students of Leland Stanford univer-
sity, arrived at New York City on the
4th from Brazil. They went to Era
2il TO study certain geological forma-
tion near Pernambuco, but the au.
thorities thought they were spies
seeking information concerning Bra
lillian Notifications. The students,
however, were not prevented from re-
turning to the United States.
Five persons were drowned bv the
capsiZing OF a small rowhoat in the
northwest branch of the Patap,co
river near Baltimore Md, on the jth.
Jim Mite, the only survivor of the
Dalton gang of outlaws. has been
convicted at Henderson. Tex. OF mur-
der in connection with the robbery
of the Long View bank in 1894, "pd
given n life sentence in prison.
Frank Naska, an Italian, was hange I
at st. John, La, on the 4th. Naska
killed three people and wounded two
Others about three years ago. His
victims were his countrvmen.
Attorney General Taylor, at the re-
quest of the state medical board of
indianapolis, Ind, has delivered an
opinion that it is Illegal for faith cur
lists, Christian scientists and other un
licensed persons, who assume the
title of doctor, to minister to the sick
particularly where a fee is charged.
At Wellsboro, w. Va, on the night
of the Sd four masked burglars en-
tered the home of Josiah Parkinson
and binding and gagging the inmates
searched the house for valuables.
They secured government bonds val
ued al S1O,5O0 S75 in money and a lot
of silverware and iewery.
AzorS. Marvin, for many years pres.
ident of the Marvin Safe Company is
dead at his home in Brooklyn, y. Y.
aged "A years. His rather was the
pioneer Of the safe making business
in the United States.
The secretary of the treasury has
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