The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-01-09
NINE HUNDRED AND SEVENTEEN

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failures were reported in New York City il
| at SIS, ,695. .53l. This exceeds the record Of an,
| former year, but a large number was mainl.
due to the repeal of the bankrupt law.
ABOUT one hundred delegates of the
Greenbaek party from several New England
States met at Boston on the I'd. Resolutions
were adopted that the name of the Green
back Labor party of New England be given Il
the organization, and that the paramount
issue in the Greenback-Labor movement Il
National bank currency. The meeting was
addressed by Wendell Phillips.
Two BRAKEMEN on freight trains on
the Central New Jersey and North Pennsylva
mia Roads were frozen to death on the Sd
The weather is the severest known for years
CORNELIUS j. VANDERBILT filed a
petition in the Surrogate's Court at New York
City, on the Sd, praying the court to issue a
citation requiring the executors to show cause
why they should not be superseded, and that
they may be enjoined from further acting In
the matter until the controversy is settled.
The failure of Bennett & Co., at
wilkcsbarre, Pa, caused arun on the Miners
Saving Bank, which was stopped by enforce
Llent of the sixty day regulation. The bank
SAoAhiS w oS ooAS W Pof III Auh-
THE miners at Luke Fidler colliery,
Shamokin, Pa, struck on the Sd against a re-
duction Of wages.
ALoNzo GARCELoN was elected Gov
ernor of Maine by the Legislature on the Sd.
The Republicans voted for Garcelon. The
other nominees OF the Democratic Greeuback
caucus were elected.
GEORGE EINsIG, of York, Pa, called
upon his wife, who had been separated from
him, on the evening Of the Sd, and upon her
refusing to live with him he cut her throat,
and she died soon afterward. Einsig was
seized by Gehripg, the woman's father, who
carried the infant child of his daughter in his
arms, but the murderer cut both in the face
and head and fed. He was subsequently ar
rested.
FIFTEEN THOUSAND -Mennonites are
expected to emigrate to this country from
Russia by the first of next May.
GARDINER LINGLEY, of East Attle-
boro, Mass, killed himself and wife on the
4th.
THE home of Benjamin Neal, of Wal
pole, Mass, burned on the night of the Sd.
and his wife perished in the flames.
WIN. BLUMEN, formerly President of
the uelunct r1Ist NatlOnal bank NJ AllentOWD,
was arrested on the 9th on the charge of en-
bezzlement. He gave bail.
Hon. MORTON MCMIcHAEL. senior
publisher of the North american, at Philadel-
phia, died on the 9th.
The Harmony cotton mills at Cahoes,
N. Y, have reduced working time to three
days in the week. They employ $500 hands
and produce 800, 600 yards of cotton goods a
day. The operatives of the Newburgh steam
cotton mills were also placed on half time on
the 9th. The low prices Of manufactured
BROOKLYN increased her municipal
debt 81, ,235, 566 last year. The total debt of
the city now is S37, ,475,3lS.
On the 9th Superintendent McCool
of the New York Central started from Buffalo
with fve engines and small snow-plow to
clear up the road to Rochester. Five miles
east of Batavia they encountered q drift forty
feet long and FIVE feet deep, which was frozen
nearly as solid as earth, and the engines
jumped the track, two Of them going down
the bank. Samuel Cooper, an engineer, was
badly scalded, James Welch, fireman, badly
bruised, and Thomas Lawless, another fire.
man, was caught under one of the engines
and his leg had to be sawed of in order to ex-
tricate him. He cannot recover.