The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-09-01

body, taking care not to strike him in a vital
part until the last possible moment The
Colonel saws he has good reasons for the be-
lief that the guards OF the Jail, who are all of
them ex-Union soldiers, know of this secret
| organization, and are in sympathy with It.
He says that 1t has been with the utmost diff
fculty that the warden OF the jail has pre-
vented these guards long ere this from find
ing some excuse to kill Guiteau. This ex-
plains the encounter between a guard and
| Guiteau which took place In the latter's cell
recently. The Colonel says he intends to
hSve the jail properly protected, as It will
never do to go before the world that In the
capital Of the nation the officers of the law
were unable to enforce its mandates, and
were at the mercy OF a mob.
QUEEN VICTORIA expressed deep
regret on learning of the relapse Of President
Garfield and renewed the request for the
latest kilograms concerning his condition.
The National Prohibition Alliance
has issued call for a national conference OF
Prohibitionists in New York City September
| Is and 19.
MUELLER's brewery at Philadelphia
was destroyed by fire on the 26th. During
the fire large piece Of cornice fell and
knocked several iremen of ladder, badly
injuringthem.
A TOMBSTONE, Arizona, dispatch
says Indians attacked the town of Eureka,
n. NJ, on the 26th ult and killed all the citi-
zens, said to be about seventy in number.
CONSUL GRrNNEL, of Bremen, reports
to the Department of State that the importa-
tion Of Indian corn into Germany during the
sir months ending July l, 1881, amounted to
| 1,209, 900 bushels, and that the latter half of
the year wiz show much larger importations.
The Republican Senatorial Conven-
ton held at Salamanca, N. Y, on the 2Sth
ult. nominated Norman Mallen state Senator
In place of Loren B. Sessions.
A PUBLIC meeting, which was to
have been held at Geneva, Switzerland, on
the 9th ult. to protest against the expulsion
of Prince Krapotkine, Nihilist, was not held
the police prohibiting placardinG announce
ments and calls for the meeting.
A BUILDING at Cincinnati, the first
floors Of which were used as feed store anC
the upper stories for cheap lodging quarters
caught fire on the night of the 2Sth ult-, anC
though the flames were Immediately discov
cred and promptly extinRuished, seven per
sons sleeping in the fourth floor rooms were
badly suffocated, one of whom lost his life II
jumping from the window. The sufferers are
Lee Iangford, formerly of Aurora, Ind, bad
ly; Fred Brown, wife and two-year-old child
badly, perhaps dangerously; August Berg ans
| |
Quinby, badly. besides suffering from
scorching by hot air; Robert Warren
killed by jumping from the fourth-stor!
window. langford jumped from tn
same window, aiighted on she'd an'
escaped.
A WASHINGTON dispatch says al
though the authorities have denied fror
time to time that there was any danger of
demonstration on the part of the publi
against Guiteau in case OF the President
death, General Sherman thought 1t pruden
on the 9th ult to order four companies o
, troops to Washington as a Safeguard agains
, any possible contingency. Guiteau is fearfu
, that some outsiders mediate an stack O
him, but how he received the impression
unknown, unless from observing that tn
number Of soldiers has been increased.
Foreign.
A PRIVATE dispatch from Bangkok
Siam, says the Asiatic cholera is raging.
is variously estimated that from 100 to &c
natives are dying daily.
A LANDsLIP occurred in the village c
Tatarani, Switzerland, recently. Sixty-fv
. houses disappeared, but no lives were lost
THE Canadian Pacific Railroad d
rectors have arranged with a syndicate {
Montreal and New York bankers to float te
, million bonds secured on their land grant
the Northwest. One half is to be placed o
|, the market In Montreal in October, the othi
+; | half In New York.
TIE English crops have been seriou:
!. ly damaged by heavy rains.
THE Mexican Government will shor
I ly appoiut a commission to design basis fC
4 new commercial treaties with the Unite
z States, Italy and Belgium.
i GERMANY has declined to purchas
= !. the northeastern coast of Borneo for the e
!. adjustment Of q colony there as was r
, ported
2 THE Banks of Belgium and Franc
!, have raised their rates OF discount to fol
; per cent
The surrender of the second zone tel
e ritory ceded to Greece began on the 25th.
' A LONDON dispatch says PaInell
u manifesto to the electors at North DuIham
e most violent 1t entirely ignores the Ian
y act and declares 1t impossible for the Iris
= = party to enter into alliance with any sectic
!, which allows itself to be used in the suppo
:. Of q coercionist Ministry who banisled pc
soual liberty from Ireland and reduced 1t
a worse condition than that OF Russh undo
r the third section
e Mr., CRAMER presented his credentia
+ on the s5th as Charge d. Aftaires Of tie Unit
Q States at Berne. Switzerland.
y THE Socialist leaders are denOuncir
Bismarck's schemes for pensioning ag
~ workmen as merely electoral maneuyers.
y A ST.. PErERsBURG dispatch says ii
= Government will give every assistance to Il
n projected scientific expedition to Tekke Oas
~ Central Asia, A correspondent remarks th
Z such expeditions haYe generally preceded I
"A aDueKations,