The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-03-06

ington, has been admitted to practice in the
United States Supreme Court.
In the Supreme Court at Washing
ton, on the Sd, in the case of the United States
against the Burlington & Missouri River Rail-
road Company to annul certain patents issued
by it to the company for Loo, 900 acres OF
land in Nebraska, a decision was given in IA
vor OF the company.
The East.
THE Prohibition State Convention of
Rhode Island, on the 25th, nominated the
present State officers (Republican) for re-
election.
WHILE digging a cellar on the 25th,
in Brooklyn, the earth caved in burying three
laborers. William Mahony was killed and
John Burns probably fatally injured.
AT Philadelphia, on the 26th, Sidney
T. Thomas, election Judge, John Boyd and
Mark Seldom, inspectors at the recent cleo
tion in that city, were held in 5000 bail for
misdemeanor and conspiracy in conducting
the election.
| KEYS livery stable at New York City,
burned on the morning Of the .27th ult., with
a number Of carriages and forty-three horses,
some valuable. Loss about 500, 900.
JUDGE DoNAHUE has refused to vacate
the order of arrest In the case of Frederick A.
Freeman Of New York City held in default of
$500, 700 bail. He is charged with obtaining
| improperly $3.50, 900 from the Guardian Mu-
tual Insurance Company. Pliny Freeman,
father of Frederick, has resigned the Presi-
| dency Of the Globe Mutual Insurance Com
pany.
The manufacturing property of the
Atlantic Delaine Company, of Providence, R.
l., was sold at auction on the 9th ult., for
L fv nnef
The New England Commissioners of
Inland Fisheries recommend that the taking
of salmon be prohibited in Vermont, New
until July l, 1882.
CAPTAIN SAWYER and wife and three
seamen Of the schooner David II. Tolch,
26th, were drowned. A daughter of the Cap
| tain, aged two years, the first and second
mates and three seamen were saved.
ROBERT O'KELLEY, a recently re-
leased Fenisn, arrived at New York on the
9Th ult.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
instructed Collector Beard, Of Boston, to for
| bid the landing of neat cattle from England,
pleuro- pneumonia having broken out at Hull.
INVESTIGATION into the affairs of the
late Horatio n. Richardson, Of Attleboro,
Mass, show . deficiency in accounts of the
several corporations of which he was treas
urer. Richardson was one of the best known
and most respected citizens of Attleboro.
BAssErT, who with Mrs. Alexander
was charged with the murder of Suffering
Jack " at Bridgeport, Conn.,, and attempting
| to sell the body to a physician, was found
guilty Of murder In the second degree on the
LIST and sentenced to imprisonment for life.
IT was reported in New York City on
the I'd that Mr.. Stewards remains had been
| found.
WALKER, Democratic-G -Greenbacker,
was elected Mayor Of Portland, Me-. on the Sd.
REV. SANFORD HUNT, of Buffalo, has
| been chosen senior book agent and publisher
in charge of the Methodist Book Concern at
New York.
West and South.
The State Senate of Indiana has
passed a bill authorizing the city of Evans
Vile to change its name to Lamasco.
TAYLoRsvILLE, Texas, was almost
entirely destroyed by fire on the 25th. Sew
eral blocks, including all the principal busi-
ness houses and Post-office were consumed.
Loss estimated at $4,000; insurance light.
Two-thirds of the business portion of
Bamberg, 8. c., was burned on the 25th.
Loss, 5000; insurance, $4,000.
NINETEEN buildings in the business
portion of Pensacola, Fla, were destroyed by
fire on the 26th.
SIX more buildings were burned at
Taylorsville, Tex, on the 26th, making total
OF thirty-three, and leaving but four business
houses In the town. Many families were left
homeless and destitute.
| CHARLES w. ANGEL, defaulting Sec
retary Of the Pullman Palace Car Company,
pleaded guilty In the criminal court at Chi
cago on the 9th ult. Of the two indictments
| against him for larceny as hailee, and embez-
element, and was sentenced to ten years in
the Penitentiary, the full extent Of the law.
A COAL oil lamp explosion occurred
in a house at Baltimore on the evening Of the
9th ult., occupied by Mrs. Sharp, her
daughter, Clara, the latter's son Harry, and
| man named Thomas Jones, all colored. Clara
Sharp and her son were burned to death and
the other two seriously injured. The build
ing was destroyed.
| ANEW ORLEANS dispatch, on the 9th
ult., stated that the indictments found some
time ago by the Grand Jury against j. Madi-
son Wells and A. p. Dumas, have been filed
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for q certain party.
A SPECIAL to the Columbus (Ohio)
Democrat from Nelsonville, Athens County,
Ohio, states that terrible accident occurred
at Carbon Hill, two miles from that place, on
the night Of the 9th ult-, by which seven
| persons were lost A boarding house occu-
pied by NJ. ]. Lunsford caught fire about
| midnight and burned very rapidly. Mr.. and
Mrs. Lunsford and one child slept on the first
floor, and six children up stairs. The parents
were awakened by the smoke, and rushed out
doors. taken the youngest child with them.
upstairs. rushed back into the house to eave
them, when the roof suddenly fell, burying
all seven in the avalanche of fire, where they
perished.
DEPUTY UNITED STATES MARSHAL
RAE on the 9th ult., arrested some fifty per-
sons of Pekin and Peoria, H., under indict-
ment at Springfield for completely in whisky
frauds.
FIVE County Court Judges were in
dicted in the United States Court at Danville,
Va, on the 9th ult., for Withholding from
negroes the right of serving on juries.
AN extensive con1agration at Paoli,
Orange County, Ind, on the morning Of the
LIST, destroyed $4,000 worth Of property.
The demurrer filed by the counsel for
Wells, Cassenave and Kenner was argued in
the Supreme District Court at New Orleans
on the LIST. Judge Whitaker decided the de-
cision of the Supreme Court in the Anderson
case binding, sustained the demurrer and dis
charged the aca used. This ends the Return
ing Board case.
| RENO. NEv., was almost entirely de-
stroyed by fire on the morning Of the I'd. The
} loss is estimated at 81 ,OO0, 600, with only
about S15O, 900 insurance. Five persons per-
ished in the flames, and q number Of others
, were injured.
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