The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-03-13
WELLINGTON OHIO, THURSDAY

WE
lected on the Post-ofi1ce verandah, when tn
roof gave way under the weight Of snow
burying several persons. Leonard Wake
was killed, customs officer Green fatally In
tured, and q number Of persons seriously in
jured.
HoRArIo BURcHARD, of Illinois, Di
rector of the Mint, took the oath of Office o.
the 5th and entered upon his duties.
AT Fall River, Mass, on the 9Th
Charles P. stickney, the defaulting treasure
of the Manufacturers Gas Company, wa
sentenced to five years imprisonment in tn
penitentiary.
AT the annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Union Pacific Railroad, held q
were elected for the ensuing year: sidne
Dillon, New York; F. Gordon Dexter
Boston: Elisha Atkins, Boston; Russell
Sage, New York; Solon Humphreys, Nev
ha; David Downs, New York; James r
Keene, New York; William L. Scott, Erie
Pa; Z. II. Baker, Boston; Fred. L. Ames
Boston; Addison Commack, New York; W
stockholder is Jay Gould, who voted in hi
own right upon 123, 700 shares, and on 20, ,OO'
shares by proxy. Sidney Dillon holds %, 20
shares, Russell Sage, q, $50, Oliver Ames, 81,
600 The Board OF Directors later elected
Vice-Presideni; Henry McFsrisnd, Is secre
tary and Treasurer; D. w. Mink, Assistant
Secretary and Treasurer. The gross earning
for the year ending Dec 1, 1873, were sl3, ,12f,
2.s; 60 operating pc expenses, including taxes axes
There was decrease in passenger earning
Of $4S1, ,S0S In through business, but in loca
travel there was an encouraging increase
The freight earnings increased $505, 141
company sold 31S, 1908 acres Of land, an in
crease Of 129, ,SS7 acres over 1877, at an aver
age price of $4.SS4 per acre. Steel rails ar,
to be substituted for iron as fast as track.
need renewal.
Unsupported compromise of the Van.
derbilt win suits, telegraphed from New Yori
on the 4th, is coutradicted by the contestant.
counsel, Scott Lord, who says his action in
terminating the case without argument wa:
dictated by reasons which had nothing to dc
with the case. The Surrogate stated that the
case had been closed and he would give hi
decision in due time.
FORMAL charges have been presented
to the Senate by Governor Robinson. of New
York, against Smyth, the State Superintend
ent Of Insurance, and his removal is recon-
mended.
THREE men were killed and several
severely burned by the explosion of sulphuric
acid in the Lower Rush Creek Colliery, neal
Pottsville, Pa, on the 5th.
The Central Iron Works of Brook.
lyn, N. Y, were burned on the 5th.
A GIGANTIC fraud has been exposed
in Boston. The Mystic Valley Railroad
Company, organized some time since to build
q narrow gauge road from Boston to connect
the towns lying along Mystic Valley to the
north of the city, have completed but clever
miles Of the road, and this has been charged
at $2S, 600 per mile on the books of the corpo
ration, though IL was known that the expendi
lures for every purpose had not exceeded $50,
The widow and daughter of Bayard
Taylor arrived at New York on the 9th.
The Dime Savings Bank of York,
Pa, has suspended. It is supposed that 4,
VIII pay seventy-dve or eighty cents on the
dollar.
TIE Catholic clergy of Newport, R.
l., are in favor of taking up q collection to
help Archbishop Purcell, Of Cincinnati, out
Of his financial troubles.
ELIHU BURRIrr died at his residence,
New Britain, Conn.,, on the night of the 7th.
A GLOUCESTER. Mass, dispatch oi
the 9th, states that no tidings have been re-
ceived Of fourteen fishing vessels which lef,
and feeling Is generally prevalent that the
entire number vent down with all the c-ew.
In the severe gale last month.
THE ship Turkish Empire went
ashore at Big Duck Island, Grand Manau, of
the coast of Maine, on the night of the 7th
She is total loss. The Captain and six mer
were drowned.
In q fire at Georgetown, d. c., or
the night of the sth, three children of David
Martin (coloredD were burned to death.
AT New York City, on the night Of
the 9th, John P. Richards discovered two
burglars in his house. Arming himself with
q revolver he attacked them, killing one an6
capturing the other. The dead burglar was
recognized as Timothy Casey, q hardened
young criminal. The captured burglar IL
known to the police as an old offender.
O'LEARY, present champion, Rowell,
English representative, Hartman, of Boston
and Ennis, Of Chicago, began a six days
walking contest in Gillmore's Garden at New
York on the Sth.
GENERAL SHERMAN and wife were in
Newport, r. l., on the 9th, seriously Ill, the
former with pneumonia and the latter with
consumption.
OVER 1000 guests responded to invi.
tations issued by Cyrus w. Field, to meet al
his: house in New York on the evening OF the
10th, to celebrate the silver wedding OF the
inception Of the enterprise by which Europe
and America were linked by the Atlantic
cable. Mr.. Field during the course Of his re.
marks said: "To-day there are over seventy
thousand miles Of cable crossing seas and
oceans, and, As II 1t were not enough to have
messages sent with the speed of lightning,
they must be sent in opposite directions Al
the same moment. have Just received tele-
gram from Valentia, Ireland, which reads
This anniversary witnesses duplex working
across the Atlantic as an accomplished fact :
by which the capacity Of all our ocean cables
are doubled. One thing only remains which
I still hope to be spared to see, and In which
to take q part, the laying OF cable from San
Francisco to the Sandwich Islands, for which
l have received this very day yconcessions from
King Kalakaua by his minister, who is here
tonight, and from thence to Japan, by which
the Island groups of the Pacific may be
brought into communication with the cont.
nents on either side of Asia and America, thus
the circuit OF the globe"
THE Brooklyn Presbytery on the 10th
decided to try DR.. Talmage on the following
charges presented by the committee at the
previous session: Deceit and falsehood in the
statements regarding his withdrawal from the
editorship of the Christian at Work; in stat
ing that sittings in the Tabernacle were free
in accusing j. w. Hathaway of dishonest prac-
tices and then denyinY IL: of falsehood IN col
lecting subscriptions for the payment of the
church debt; Of deceit In the difficulty con
cerning the organist of the Tabernacle anG
of stating that he was to be arra.gned for het
erodoxy when he knew that such was not the
case.
The floor in Mechanics Hall, Al
North Brunswick, Me-, gave way on the 10th
during town meeting, precipitating nearly
fifty persons to the floor below. No one was
killed, but many seriously and probably fatal
ly injured.
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