The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-09-21

DIR. LUGENBEEL, q brother of Mrs.
Christiancy sent q challenge to ex-senator |
Christiancy on the 10Th, proposing q meeting |
within twenty miles Of Washington. Mr.. |
Christiancy swore out . warrant for the ar |
rest OF the doctor, but It was found that ne |
had gone over to the Virginia side, and was
not within reach of the officers On the same
day, while the Senator was absent from his |
room his door was forced open by thieves and |
box containing 5000 worth OF tewelry
and diamonds was rned. The box had re-
that thieves followed it from New York TO
Washington City. The jewelry and diamonds
did not belong to the ex-Minister, but were
placed In his custody as United States Minis-
ter for safe keeping. There is no clue to the
thieves.
FOREST fires, about thirty-five miles
south of Buffalo, N. Y, on the 10th, destroyed
q number of dwellings and barns. Blazing
trees across the railroad track interrupted
travel for q time.
A SNOW STORM was reported in South
ern Minnesota and portions Of Iowa on the
18th.
A wEsT-BoUND train ran of the track
near Edwards depot, Miss, On the 10th. The
sleeping car, passenger car and superinten-
dents car we're thrown from the track. Many
passengers were injured, several seriously.
REPORTS to the Department of Agri-
culture show that the potato crop will be be-
low the usual average.
For the month of August for this
year the value of the exports of breadstuffs
was, in round numbers, SIS, ,000,000 For the
month Of August last year 1t was S31, zoo, 900,
| showing afalling on OF over *, 100000. The
| total value Of these exports from sixteen OF
The leading ports OF the country ond r0r e,gn. nG
bers, sl57, 500 900, which was less BY $27, 500
/ 900 than the corresponding period OF last
| year. The number Of bushels of wheat ex-
found numbers, "A 800, 600, as against q, ZOO
| 600 for August, last year, and q, SOC, 900 for
| August of 1879. The exports of corn were
| 6, 700, 900 bushels during August, this year,
$4,000 during August, 1880, and 4, 700. COO
during August, 1879.
SERGEANT MASON, who shot at Cult
eau, has written an address to the American
| people, admitting that the act was unsoldiery,
| but maintaining that he had Justification for
1t. He refers to Guiteau as q miserable
wretch who deserves no consideration
| such as q man is entitled to. Mason's ad-
dress was written IN reply to some newspaper
article saying that he would have been guilty
of murder had be killed Guiteau- Mason de-
nies this holding that It would not have been
murder for him to have killed cowardly as
sassin who had shot down the President.
Mason further says that he does no: think
soldiers should be required to guard a dog
|
diers were outside exposed to rain and bad
weather, Guiteau, an assassin, was well housed
and well fed; that the Jail guards are shell
tered from the weather and receive one hun
dred dollars per month for their services,
while he and other soldier guards get only
thirteen dollars per month. He refers par
ticularly to bis poor vile and children, and
says he does not want to bear the brand OF Q
would-be murderer for their sakes- Mason
maintains that he did right, and says his only
regret Is that he made poor shot-that he
did not Kill Guiteau.
A WASHINGTON dispatch says that
while the recent and second operation per
formed in Philadelphia upon Senator B. h
Hill for an affection of the tongue was tenn
porarily a relief and satisfactory in its imme
diate results, there has since been change
for the worse. There is danger that the Sen
ator will lose the power of speech.
The schooner d. r. Van Valkenburg
corn laden, for Buffalo, went down with al
hands, of White Fish Bay, on Lake Mich
igan, on the 10th. The crew consisted o.
; half dozen persons.
: BEATTY's organ factory at Washing
, ton, N. j., was destroyed by fire on the 18th
Loss estimated at 100000; partially insured
: FOREST fires in the vicinity of Car
I thage, N. Y, have destroyed crops, stock anC
! many buildings. Twenty houses in one set
s A SHARP shock of earthquake wa
felt at San Francisco on the evening Of tn
) 18th. 1t was severe but only brief, doing n,
z damage.
UP to the 18th, citizens of New Yorl
City had subscribed IA, ,23o for the Michigal
u sufferers.
A SERIOUS confagration occurred q
Carrolton, No. on the 18th, burning the Cal
roll House block, with stores underneath, an
: several stores adjoining,
: AT Rock Island, H., on the 18th
: Charles Smith, q laborer, shot and killed hi
: wife, infant son and mother-in-law, and al
tempted to kill Mrs. Metcalf, an old lad
living in the house. but she, with two chi
dren, escaped. The murderer gave himsel
= up. Cause, jealousy OF his wife.
, A. s. TRUDE, who went from Chicag
! as special counsel for the Chicago & Alto
I; Railroad In ferreting out the facts regardin
!, the recent train robbery near Kansas City
!, states that his trip was brought about by
= visit to the headquarters Of the railroad CON
pany Of swoman who gave the company som
g valuable pointers leading to the apprehensio
4 Of the outlaws. As q result of this talk an
= subsequent investigation, Trude believes tn
: | robbery was planned BY man named CLARK
1 an expert professional train robber, formerl
!. associated with the notorious Hoosier Bill
~ | and the Reno gang. Clark Is ostensibly a cat
3 tie dealer in Missouri. Trude thinks his a
q sistants were hoodlums, green at the bus
+ ness who believed their leader was jess
,e James. The gang were informed of her mil
sion SO early that some of them escaped, bu
more important arrests are expected.