The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-09-15
General News Summary.
Interesting Home and Foreign News,
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THERE was q heavy snow storm In
the Black Hills on the Skh. On the morning
Of the 9th the snow was I've inches deep on
aleyel at Deadwood, and three inches at Gus
ter City. At Bald Mountain it was two feet
deep.
DISPATCHES from various points in
the East rated the 7th as the hottest not only
Of the present but OF many previous seasons:
There were forty-three cases Of prostrstion
In New York City and vicinity, several fatal.
A FIRE at Homecoming, Nd, on the
7th, destroyed the business portion Of the
town, including fifteen dwellings. Loss, es-
timated at $780, ooooi insurance, $4,000.
JOHN MARTIN HENNI, Archbishop of
Milwaukee, Wis., died on the 7th aged sew
enty-six years. Archbishop Henni was con-
secrated Bishop Of Milwaukee In 1874, and
Archbishop in 1875
SITTING BULL says he wants to re-
main at Standing Rock, and is satisfied with
his treatment
COLONEL WILLIAM A. Cook, special
counsel for the Government In the Star Route
prosecutions has completed his cases for pre-
sentation to the Grand Jury. Indictments
viii be asked for against eI-Second Assistant
Postmaster General Brady, Stephen W. Dor
sey, Chase Andrews, Q contractor, ex-Deputy
Sixth Auditor Lilley and A. c. Buell., editor
of the Washington Crtie and Sundob Capitol
A N1TRo-aLYoKRNE explosion Mt
Sawyer City, Pa, on the 7th, resulted In the
death Of William Burton, Charles Grouse,
James Thrasher and Charles Rust. All the
parties except Rust were merely spectators.
Rnat IN fha nft tha Dah 80 Trw
pedo Company and, In putting . "frinr
head" on q torpedo, caused the detonstion.
Fred slattery, q boy aged twelve years, was
struck I In IN the abdomen By . flying fragment
had his legs and arms broken and face
burned There are hopes of his recovery.
Several other persons were injured, but not
seriously. The men killed were all shock
ingly mangled.
THE New York Democratic State
Convention win be held at Albany. October
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THE Pennsylvania Republican State
Convention, held at Harrisburg on the 9Th,
nominated General g. n. Bailey for Treasurer.
Resolutions were adopted indorsing the ad-
ministration Of President Garfield and uniting
in the prayers Of all good people for his speedy
recovery.
FRANKLIN REED, the Democratic can
didate for Congress, in the Second District
Of Maine, has withdrawn in favor Of Judge
Gilbert, the Greenback candidate.
THOUSANDS of acres of beech woods
in Wayne and Pike Counties, Pa, were on
fire on the sth.
THE Secretary of the Interior has
decided that the certificates known as Kansas
land grants are null and void.
THE Social Science Convention opened
at Saratoga on the sth.
OVER o dozen fatal sunstrokes were
reported in New York City on the sth.
SIDNEY LANrER, poet, died at Lynn,
Polk County, N. c., on the sth, where he had
gone to recruit his health.
PAT MCGOWAN, George W. Podgett
and William T. Brown (white) and Amos
and Abel Manley Qndians) were all hanged
at Fort Smith, Ark, on the 9th, on the same
scaffold.
On the 9th passenger train on the
by q COW near Anchorage, KY, and the entire
train rolled down the bank into the creek, .
distance Of about thirty feet Seven persons
were killed and number Of others seriously
injured.
Up to the close of business on the
9th there had been S242.0o0 in i've per cent
coupon bonds under the 108d call, and
S14. IA, $50 in registered 8 per cent bonds un-
der the 104th call, received at the Treasury
Department for payment
THE twenty-mile horseback race be-
tween Miss Cooke and Miss Jewett at Mime
apolis. Minn., on the 9th, was won by Miss
Cooke.
COMPLETE returns from the San
Francisco city election show that the Repub-
hcans elected every officer except Surveyor
and one Supervisor.
THE Land Office states that the sales
Of public land for the fiscal year Just ended
equaled II they did not exceed those Of last
year, which were unprecedented. At present
the eligible public lands are being rapidly
bought up.
A DETROIT dispatch on the 9th stated
that details continued to come In relative to
the destruction by the forest fires. Huron and
Sanilac Counties were the principal theaters
OF the greatest destruction and suffering. An
eye witness states that preceding the ap-
proach of the fire was darkness and copper
changed TO deep red, and BY the middle of
the afternoon Of Monday II became so dark
that lanterns were q necessity In order that
people might find their way out Of
tinued until about eight O'Clock Wednes-
day morning, when the wind shifted
west to north, which cooled the air and
brought slight relief In the woods there
scorched and chsrred by fire. The high winds
that prevailed cut on nearly every avenue Of
escape and large burning masses would be
bodily lifted up and borne great distances,
and IN many instances start fires in fresh
places. The skill and courage OF man seemed
impotent to combat such flames, and fugitive
people were caught in nre traps aud roasted
Port Austin, at the top of the burned penin-
sula, sums up the general destruction as fol-
lows: The loss OF lives by fires Monday and
The following villages are burned: Bad
Axe. Verona, Forest Bay, Richmondville,
Charleston, Anderson, Deckersville, Harris
Vile and Ssndusky. The following are partly
burned: Port Hope, Minden and Uhley.
in the country, where the losses are too nu-
merous to be named Reports from Saginaw,
Tuscola and Lapeer Counties, one tier back
from the lake, while showing much destruc-
the shore counties. Losses BY IRE are much
less sweeping and general and loss Of
life small, but In each of these more favored
counties hundreds of Thousands OF dollars
worth of property have been destroyed. The
fires were qusnched by rain on the 9th
SEVEN of the Missouri train robbers
were arrested on the 9th. Several Of them
are sons of respectable parents residing In
the neighbo-hood. They were nearly all
young men of reckless character, but none Of
them have ever been under arrest before.
One of them had in his possession several
articles of 1ewelry and watch belonging TO
passenger on the train He fills the descrip-
ton given by the engineer and Others a. the
leader Of the gang. Several masks and other
clues were found at the house where these
men were arrested. None Of the men arrested
made any resistance, though they were all
heavily armed. The arrested parties live
within two miles of the place where the train
was stopped, and there fs no doubt that the
remainder OF the gang, with the exception
Of the leader, who is believed to be Jesse
James, live In the same neighborhood.
TIE commission appointed to inves-
Hgate the charges made by Hon. Il. T. Page
against II. L Dodge, Superintendent Of the
United States Mint at San Francisco, has sub
mitted q report to the Secretary of the Trea