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

threw a handful on the fire. The flash reached
the keg, and a tremendous explosion fol-
lowed, enveloping her in a sheet of flames,
and burning her SO badly that she died on the
following morning. Three of her children
were also badly burned; two Of them proba-
bly, fatally.
CINCINNATI is to have an exposition
in 1879. Mr.. Reuben X. Springer subscribed
$50, 900 and over s1O0, 900 more was raised by
subscription. Work on the buildings will be-
gin as soon as the weather will permit.
Two MEN were carried off on the
ice near Big Suamico, Wis, on tbs Goth ult.,
and are supposed to be lost.
A COMMITTEE of prominent Catholics
Of Cincinnati have prepared circular for die
tribution among the members of the church
soliciting subscriptions for the relief of Arch
bishop Purcell.
The committee appointed by the
Oregon Legislature to investigate the books
and papers connected with the State Depart
ment find that about s97, 900 have either been
unaccounted for or paid out without authori-
ty OF law. The committees report Is very Sc
we're on Gov. Grover, and blames him for q
large part Of the losses.
The Potter subcommittee arrived at
New Orleans on the 30th ult.
AT Sparta, Tenn, on the 28th ult.,
Joe Dibrell, a son of Congressman Dibrell,
was attacked by two brothers named McPher-
son. He defended himself with a shotgun
and shot one of his assailants dead and Sc
verely wounded the other.
The Michigan State House, which
was five years in course of erection and cost
81, ,5o5, 900, was dedicated on the 1st.
In 1877 the commercial travellers of
the West formed a society known as the
Western Commercial Travellers Association.
They held their first annual meeting at st.
Louis on the 31st ult.
THREE boilers exploded in distillery
at Terre Haute, Ind, on the 1st, killing Will.
lam Day, the fireman, and boy named Frank
Hughes. The boilers were torn to fragments
and q piece of one was thrown across the
Wabash River. The cause of the explosion ID
| unknown.
The aggregate produce and provision
business Of Chicago for the past year has beer
unprecedented in nearly every article. The
receipts for the year were: Flour, 8, 100 OO(
0O0, 600 bushels; hogs, 6,345, 600; cattle, l.OS3
600. The clearings of the associated banks
were, however, "a, SOC, ,OOo less than in 1877.
The State Treasurer of Kansas paid
/ OUT gclu anu silver luulecIlmlu2tely W1Jn cur
rency, on the 1st, and they claim to be the frs
State to resume specie payments. Kansa:
was the first State to subscribe for the United
States per cent. bonds.
THERE is no truth in the report tele
graphed over the country that Grand Jur,
at st. Louis had found indictments agains
Capt. j. B. Eads and other directors of tn
old Bank of the State of Missouri, for misap
propriating the funds of that institution.
CHAs. DoTY, superintendent of tn
gas works of the Central Lunatic Asylum, a
Columbus, Ohio, was arrested on the Isl
charged with attempting to outrage the per
son Of girl seven years OF age.
The Union Cotton Press Company
warehouses at Charleston, g. c., containin
10, 12l bales of cotton, were burned on the Is,
The fire was incendiary. Loss, S575, 600; IL
sured for s472, $50.
EIGHT two-story buildings were dc
stroyed by fire at Helena, Ark, on the Sis
J ult., involving loss of about SIS, 900.
The total output of gold and silve
J In the States and Territories west Of the Mis-
souri, River, including British Columbia an