The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-09-01
General News Summary.
Interesting Home and Foreign News
Domestic.

Indiana, Illinois, Minnesota, Kansas and
Texas. J. Q. Adams, the President OF the
resolutions reported, calling upon the col
ored press to unanimously demand the open
ing of the Oklahoma territory to the freed
men of the United States; for the support OF
the employment Of colored teachers in col
ored schools. Resolutions OF sympathy for
President Garfield were telegraphed Secre-
tary Blaine
ALL the business portion of Ray
mond, H., was destroyed by fire on the Esd
The Cheyenne Leader has informa-
ton that movement is progressing in official
circles to have Vennor, Of Canada, supersede
Hazen as Chief of the Signal Service. Promi-
nent military men and scientists are SAID 10
be interested.
MAYOR GRACE, of New York City,
on the 23d, removed tie Police Commission
ers, after trial on charges Of failure to keep
the streets clean.
THE alleged Greek Doctor Tachmyn-
to, one of the " cranks" committed to jail
since the assassination for making threats Of
personal violence to Mr.. A. B. Newcomb, OF
the Secret Service Division OF the Treasury
Department., was released on the 22d, on his
personal bonds to keep the peace. Under the
escort of two Government officers he was
taken to the house where he lived when ar
rested, MS TRUNKS packed anu Iucu CaETlcu Ou
a train to New York, where he will be placed
on a steamer for Europe. He protested that
he had committed no crime for which he should
be banished.
SIXTY Chinese students from Hart
ford bound west, passed through Chicago on
the cath.
THE cotton crop of Arkansas is said
to be so badly damaged that it will be only
one-half as large as last year.
AT veteran reunion at Portland,
Me-, on the oath, Governor Plaisted made q
speech OF welcome to the soldiers and sailors
and was followed by General o. o. Howard,
Ex-Governor Washburn and others Resolu-
tions of coincidence and sympathy with the
President were passed and forwarded 70
Washington.
THE Massachusetts, Greenback State
Convention. held at Worcester on the oath,
nominated the following ticket: Governor
Israel w. Andrews; Lieutenant Governor
Secretary, A. B. Brown; Auditor, Wtlber I,
whiting; Attorney General, d. o. Allen.
NINE wholesale houses at Evansville,
Ind, we're destroyed BY fire on the oath. Two
aremen were killed and one seriously injured
by falling walls.
A POLITICAL conference of Green
hackers, Republicans Ind Independents Al
jackson, Miss, on the oath, nominated Ben
jsmin King for Governor.
THE trial of Senator Sessions on the
charge of bribery by Assemolyman Bradley
during the late contest for United States
Senator in New York is expected TO begir
September IL.
The business portion of Arkansa'
City, Ark, was destroyed by fire on the 24th
The loss is estimated at Sl00, 200.
The New York Greenback Conven
ton, held at Elmira on the oath, nominated
/ the following ticket: For Secretary Of State
Epenatus Howe; ,Comptroller, John Hooper
| err Alvin T. Wood; Surveyor General, J. X
Gould; Judge of the Court OF Appeals, L. q
McHarlan. The State Committee was no
materially changed. George Jones, OF Albany
| was reelected Chairman, George Blair, o
New York, Secretary, and Pearce Parson, o
Tompkins,. Treasurer. The platform CT II
| Chicago Greenback Labor Convention, o
June, 1850, was readoptea, and 1r tine res0.s s.s,
to railroad companies for Transporting
persons or property In excess OF what Is re
quired to pay the legitimate expenses OF OF
Grating such roads and fair return on tn
actual cost, is in violation Of the fundsments
public law which allows railroads to be built
and should Immediately be prohit
tied by legislative enactment; ina
railroad eOnPSais' s@ should SbarSine Ss pr0nT @oT
for transporting property during the seaso
when water navigation Is closed than the
charge for like services during the season 9
open water navigation, and denounces tn
Republican and Democratic parties for thei
fl-iiure to restore harmony between the Mort
and South after seventeen years OF peace, an
SAYS SO long as these organizations contrc
affairs there is no prospect OF unanimity /
public interests
THE Illinois and Mississippi Rive
and Canal Improvement Commission held
meeting at Chicago on the 25th. A commit
tee was appointed to prepare a memorial t
| Congress in behalf of the construction OF
canal westward from Hennepin to the Missii
| sippi river, on the best practicable routt
The canal 10 be for commercial purposes an
not to exceed seven feet In depth
THREE boys, Jimmie and Johnn
King and Alex Bsllentine, aged six and eigf
years, were drowned in the Ohio river iui
below Steubenville, Ohio, on the 25th. The
had been riding on couple OF slabs and Re
ting into deep water the slabs tilted an
threw them into the water.
A codMIFrEE of New York banker
has been organized for ths purpose Of appea
ing to the bankers throughout the Nation
contribute each a small sum towards maxim
the Yorktown centennial celebration worth
of the American people and OF the event whic
| 1t is TO commemorate.
THE long drouth is having a serior
effect in Kentucky. Feed is SO scarce tn
farmers are disposing OF their stock. The
has been no rain for two months.
TIE excess of imports of gold an
silver coin and bullion for the twelve montl
ending July 81, 1881, was $50, ,676, ,977. I'll
total values of imports of merchandise for Il
same time were $6S3, 972, ,221. The total valI
Of exports Of merchandise, SS55, 722S7l.
THE committee of arrangements
the Yorktown celebration have decided
have the demonstration at Baltimore on o
tober 10, IL and u and in Washington {
October Is, II and Is.
RAYMOND, the notorious moonshint
of South Carolina, has been convicted in Il
cases, two for conspiracy and eight for vi
lating revenue laws.
DANIEL G. DEJARNErTE, member
the Thirty-sixth Congress and afterward
the Confederate House from Richmond, di'
on the 25th.
UNITED STATES troops, acting und'
instructions OF Indian Agent Tufts, are iss
ing peremptory orders to all white settle
who have not paid the license fee to the Che
taw authorities, to quit the country immet
ately. Many persons are forced to leave the
crops, their homes and all, and seek reful
in the States. Being unable to pay the q
they have no other recourse. The India
are inexorable. Great distress prevails Hu
dreds are rendered homeless.
WHILE four horse thieves, belongir
to an extensive gang which has been opers
ing along the Rio Grande for y long tim
were being taken to Brackets, Texas,
! charge of officers, on the 25th, they were
tackled and all the thieves killed.
! ONE of the buildings of the powd
manufactory of Watson, Burrel & Co.,
Warren, Me-, containing nearly ton of spol
ing powder, exploded on the 18th, demolis
ing the building, blowing in the ends OF Z
, packing house and two other buildings NIL
with powder, though neither exploded. Sal
uel Mark, at work In the building, was blov
nearly four hundred feet and instantly kille