The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-11-09
WEST AND SOUTH.

WEST AND SOUTH.
THE Minnesota House of Represents
tives, on the I'd, passed the Senate bill for
adjustment OF the old bonded debt Of the
State.
LARGE amounts of Confederate bonds
we're purchas ed at Augusta, Ga, on the ID at
from SO to 81 per $1,000.
FIFTY-sIx pounds of dynamite ex-
ploded in the house OF miner at Red Fern,
CAL, on the I'd, blowing the building to pieces
and damaging those near by.
TIE steamer City of New York which
arrived at San Francisco on the ID brought
e. O42, $50 in gold.
THERE was furry of snow at Cleve-
land, Ohio, on the 4th.
The boiler of a portable sawmil be-
longing to Davis * Jones, near Coalton,
jackson County, Ohio, exploded on the I'd,
fatally injuring John Davis, one of the pro-
prietors, and David Griffith.
LETTERS of administration upon the
estate Of James A. Garfield, late President OF
the United States, were granted on the I'd by
the Probate Judge of Lake County to Mrs.
| Garfield. The estate consists OF the Mentor
and Washington property and So, 900 life in
surance. The President left little or nothing
in the shape Of personal estate, the reports OF
| his having large investments in bonds, mort
cages, etc, being untrue.
A SAIL BOAT capsized off Adams
Point, Presque Isle County, Mich, on the I'd
| OF September and four persons were drowned.
| A few days ago q party of hunters found the
bodies OF these unfortunates in the woods
near shore with everything on them stripped.
| One man is said to have had $500 on his per-
son when he started on the Inflated voyage.
| Two of the band of red men who
we're convicted In the Circuit Court of Bar
bour County, w. Va, a few days ago and
sentenced to one years imprisonment and TO
| nav fine Of $50 each, we're taken from the
| county iail on the morning of the 81 By twelve
] or fifteen of their comrades, who rode into
PhilippI and going to the jail awoke the jailer,
demanded the keys and forced him by pre-
senting pistols to his head to open the door
| and release their two companions,
Mrs GARFIELD has removed her fam
| iIy to Cleveland, Ohio, for the winter.
A ST. LOUIS dispatch says informa-
ton from high Authority was received there
on the 9TH from Washington that Chauncey
| l. Filley, of that city, had been of red ant
had accepted the position OF Postmaster Gen
eral.
MOVEMENT is on foot for the ad-
mission of new State to be formed out o
Dakota The bill is already prepared ant
will come no before the next session of the
Senate II Is said the bill viii be opposed bJ
all the Democrats but David Davis who has
been secured to favor it.
Nus. GARFIELD has written a letter
commencing the proj,ct of erecting Ma
tional Ga fed Memorial Hospital at Wash
ington CITY.
THE Apaches are depredating in the
Salurpia district, Sonora. Five men, TIVE
women and one child were killed by then
recently.
| CINcINSATI produced 746,S41 barrels
of beer and ale in the year ending Septem
Der l.
The War Eagle, a Mississippi steam
er, in attempting to pass through the draw o
the bridge at Keokuk, Iowa, on the 4th, wa
baffied by the ediies and currents, ant
swung around against the bridge, breaking
one span aud entailing loss Of $780, 600 Z
the bridge. The boat fioated down the rive
4 short distance and sank In fifteen feet o
water. All Of the passengers were saved.
A HORRIBLE accident occurred on thu
, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, near Mansfield
Ohio, on the night Of the Sd. Two freight
, were going north on the road. When abou
two miles north OF town the first train parted
, The engineer on the second train appears u
have been running fast, and to have been de
ceived as to the distance OF the light on thu
caboose Of the forward train. The engiu'
dashed into the caboose, killing Scott Forbes
conductor, and John Andrews, brakeman
and dan yerously injuring William Andersen
! and Frank Howard, engineer and fl eman Of
the second train. Forbes was slowly burne
to death while wedged in the timbers Of hi
blazing caboose. His cries are described a
hear:rending by those who were near.
JOHN S. WISE, of Richmond, son o
|, Henry A. Wise, is being urged for Cabine
position by certain Republican officials fror
the South.
LETTERS of administration on the es
tate of James A. Garfield have been issued {
Mr.. Joseph Rudolph by the Probate Court o
Lake County. Mrs. Garfield had intended t
be administrator OF the estate, and 1t was an
nounced that she had taken out letters OF ad
: ministration, but it was discovered that sh
could not secure letters of both administrs
ton and guardianship and chose the latter
desiring to give the children her personal pre-
lection.
TRE trial of r. K. Scott, formerl
Governor OF South Carolina, for the murde
of Warren G. Drury at Napoleon, Ohio, o.
, Christmas morning last, which had been l
progress at that place for two weeks, resulte
on the 9th in a verdict of not guilty.
THE schools at Madison, Ind, hav
been closed on account OF the smallpox
) The water in Lake Winnebago cor
: tinued to rise and the lower portions OF Osh
{ kosh and Fon du Lac, Wis, were completed
flooded on the 9th. Business in both town
: was practically at a standstill
2 in the Lower House Of the Washing
: ton Territory Leg stature on the 9th hi
a giving the right OF suffrage to women VIZ
e passed by vote OF thirteen tn eleven.
similar bill was defeated in the Upper Houl