The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-09-08

suddenly placed q revolver to the head OF
another inmate OF the room and nred- He
then darted down the stairs to the office, and
with an Indian war whoop shot the only oc-
cupant, an old Swede, William SprtnRcord,
In the back. He took q running jump out OF
g window, struck squarely on ms IeeS ana
firing as he ran and hitting Henry johnson,
q negro, who attempted to stop him. Reach
ing Polk Street he hred at close range at
lam Wolf, depot Waterman, who were sitting
together. Running still further he snapped
his revolver twice at q policeman, who dubbed
the excited lunatic and after violent strug,
Wolf, Springcord and johnson are serious
and may prove fatal. He claims to have been
q grocer In Troy, N. Y.
Ex-SEcRErARY OF STATE EvARTs ar
rived from Europe on the 5th.
The August reports to the Depart
ment of Agriculture show the general aver
age condition of the corn crop to be seventy.
seven against ninety for the month Of July.
The cause assigned for the unfavorable con-
dition is drouth, which is reported from every
section and of unusual severity.
The physicians in charge of Presi-
dent Garfield decided, on the 4th, to remove
him to Long Branch and preparations were at
once made to carry the plan into effect on
the following TUESDAY OF "euuceuhl. DOmC
alarm was created by the bulletin issued
on the morning of the 4th announcing
that the President had yomited twice
during the night and many inquiries were
made at the Executive Mansion as to the
cause. The attending surgeons explained
that the vomiting was occasioned by the col
lection of phlegm in the throat and that no
serious consequsnces were expected 20 ioiloT.
place about ten o'clock and 1t was
not noticed as being Of any Importance; but,
when II occurred the second time, about
be very unfavorable. Soon after the
second, however, the patient asked for
and was given quantity OF milk
porridge, which he retained without
took Of squirrel broth, which he appeared to
relish very much. One Of the attendants
upon the President reported In the morning
that the glandular affection was decreasing
rapidly, and that the wound was discharging
tribe more freely than 1t had been recently.
An attendant said as the discharge from the
gland ceases the flow of pus from the
character of the wound had taken place. His
condition In the evening was much more sat
isfactory than was generally expected after
the announcement in the morning bulletin OF
renewed vomiting.
EX-MINIsTER CHRIsTIANCY arrived at
Washington City on the Sd. He proposes to
enter into immediate action in connection
with the divorce suit against his wife. He
says every charge made by his wife in her
cross bin is absolutely false, and that he pro-
poses TO prove the same In court
GENERAL CARR and command, con-
sisting Of sixty-three enlisted men and five
officers, were massacred by White Mountain
Indians thirty-fve miles from Camp Apache,
A. T., on the S0th ult.
Two thousand cotton handlers were
on q strike at New Orleans on the Sd.
TIE Governors of ofPennsylvania, Ohio,
Vermont, Indiana and Illinois, issued procla-
nations on the Sd inviting the people of their
respective States to unite In public prayer on
the 9th, for the restoration to health Of Pres
ident Garfield.
ONE MILLION six hundred thousand
dollars In gold was received at New York
from Europe on the Sd.
LORENZO DELMoNIco, proprietor OF
the famous New York restaurant died al
Sharon Springs, N. Y, on the I'd, aged sixty
eight
CONGRESSMAN HENDRICK B. WRIGHT
died at wilkesbarre, Pa, on the ID He had
been confined to his bed for the past two
months with dropsy.
Foreign.
In the recent forest fires in Algerii
some most valuable cork trees, which form
the riches of the country, were destroyed.
A PARTY of men engaged in raidins
for arms near Cork, Ireland, on the night q
the I'd, encountered the police patrol. In III
conflict ensuing farmers son named Hickt
was shot dead, and three other raiders and
policeman wounded.
FARM property to the value OF Sl50l
600 has been destroyed, and sixty famiiif
made homeless by bush fires in the ottaVS
, Valley, Canada
A CoNsTANTINoPLE correspondent
says Germans and Englishmen interested
the welfare OF the Jews have set q movemeI
sfoot to obtain grant Of land in Syria frol
the Porte for allotment to Jews desiring b
emigrate from countries where they are no'
subject to persecution.
TIE Vienna Freis Presse says Empero
William went to the Hanover military ms
, neuver by . different route than at first In
tended, because he apprehended an attemr
: upon his life by Socialists
DEPUTY POSTMASTER GRIFFIN, Q
Canada, has notified Postmaster Generi
, James that additional measures have bee
taken for the return of American mail bag
: TIE Union Mail Steamship Compal
estimates the total loss of life by the foundu
ing of the Teuton at the Cape Of Good HOG
) at 2S6.
, A PARIS dispatch says an outrage &c
= CURED at Lille on the 4th where a man sur
posed to be q commercial traveller comml
: stoned q cab driver to deliver SIX packes
u Two of them were opened, when they I,
ploded. killing fve persons. The othel
= were found to contain bombs holding te
= pounds Of gun powder each.