The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-10-12
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
A General Summary Of Events at
Home and Abroad
COMPILED FROM DAILY REPORTS
Up to the Hour of Going
to Press.
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
NELSON W. ALDRIcH received the
majority OF the votes of the Rhode Island As
sembly in the separate Houses, on the 4th,
for United States Senator to succeed General
Burnside.
COMMISSIONER RAUM, of the Internal
Department, rendered decision In
relation to the taxation OF banks and bank
ers on the 4th. He maintains that every per-
son, frm or company having place OF busi-
ness where stock, bonds, bullion, bills OF ex-
change or promisory notes are received ior
discount or for sale, is regarded in law as /
bank or as a broker, and that the capital ano
deposits of such bank or banker are subject |
TO taxation.
The Star route cases were in court |
again on the 4th. Messrs. Brady, Brown, |
French and Turner, four OF the persons &C |
cused. appeared with their counsel and asked |
leave to BILE motion to qussh the Govern-
ment's information. Mr.. Cook, OF the Gov |
ernment's special counsel, objected 70 the
fling of the motion until the prisoners gave
to hx the bond. Mr.. Cook requested that the
bail be fixed at $4,000 in each case He
thought this sum would be sufficient although
the Government had lost $4,000 by the con-
spiracy Mr.. Wilson, of Brady's counsel, and
Mr.. Ingersoll, of Browns counsel, made short
arguments against being obliged to give oail
in such q large sum, and In their speeches
criticised the information. The Court sus-
tanned Mr.. Cooks objection, and dismissed
the accused on their personal recognizances
until the following day.
THREE companies Of troops were or
dered out from Fort Keogh on the 5th, in the
direction Of the head waters of the Red River,
In order to prevent 9 threatened collision be-
tween q large body of whites, engaged In
hunting buffalo in that vicinity, and band
- N-<x.- o 49, d., ,laN rDa
Agency. For several weeks past parties from
Gfendive and other points on the fellovstone
and Missouri Rivers have been following up
buffaloes and killing them BY hundreds merely
for the sake OF the hides, leaving behind
broad, weil-defned trail, marked by bleach
ing bones and decaying carcasses. As the
hard has been approaching nearer the agency
the Indians have been getting more restive
at the eucroachment of the whites on their
hunting grounds and this wanton destruction
of their game, and at length have started out
to drive OF the intruders- The whites on the
other hand learning Oh ne ,hsr far sei3
defense and are preparing TO stand Siege
IL is reported that about i've hundred men
are engaged in the slaughter OF buftalo, and
In case a meeting should occur some hot
work is expected, as the party contains many
old froutiersmen and Indian hghters and the
Tanktonians are said to be determined to re-
sist this raid on the rapidly decreasing game
on their reservation.
THE paying teller in the Bushwick
Savings Bank, Brooklyn, N. Y, WAS arrested
on the 9th on a charge Of taking $4,000 OF the
funds since January l, and Of having con-
| cealed the theft by forgery and false entries
| inadequate salary II one reason assigned Tor
| the crime.
" THREE MILLION dollars will be spent
by the United States Government on new
| lighthouses next year.
THERE was a net reduction in the cost
of the Star route and steamboat mail service
during the month OF September Of s6s, 47s.
The value of exports of petroleum
and petroleum products from the United
States during August, 1881, were e49;
during August, 1850, they were sS SIS, 0S9.
| For the eight months ended August 81, 1881.
| they were $50, Isl, $50; for the same period In
| 1880 they were 81, ,276,5S
A New YORK paper says President
Arthur has asserted that the whole years sal
ary OF the Presidents Office shall 60 to Mrs.
Garfield.
BRADY, Brown, Turner and French,
implicated in the Star route frauds, were ad
mitted to bail on the 5th-
The Massachusetts, Democratic State
Convention nominated the following ticket
on,the 9Th: For Governor, Charles p. Thomp
son; Secretary Of State, General Michael y
Donahue; Treasurer and Receiver Generai
Colonel Francis j. Parker; Auditor, Shariei
R Field; Attorney General, General Patriel
A Collins. The resolutions hold that th'
National debt is hinderance to our CONNER
cial well-being, the removal OF which by hon
est payment, as speedily as possible, VIII
simple and moderate taxation, should be tn
strenuous policy of the Government; tina
the civil service ought to be simplined ans
reduced ana that appointments be regulates
| by law and removed as far as possible from
| personal favoritism-
TnS New York Republican Stat.
Convention, ncld at New York City, on tn
9Th, nominated the ssollowing ticket: secre
tary OF State, General JOSEPH b. Carr; Stat
| Comptroller, Ira Davenport; httorney Ten
sral Leslie w. Russell; State Engineer, STA
| Seymour; Judge of the Court of AppeSs
Francis NJ. Finch. Resolutions were adopte'
deplorng the death OF President Garfield AM
expressing confidence in his successor; sus
tanning the Administration In its efforts 3
punish dishonest Government officials an
, favoring civil service reform The Anti-Stal
Depev Chairman. ConkIing did not attend
The Convention passed on In very harmc
| nious manner.
: GOVERNOR HORT, of Pennsylvania
) has notified the Insurance Commissioner this
> he will not issue any more letters patent I
? Mutual Assessment Insurance Companies
, He ssysthe business is not conducted legally
liz the Joint convention of the Rhod
Island General Assembly on the 9Th, Nelso
o W. Aldrich was elected United States Sens
tor to succeed Senator Burnside
Snow squalls were frequent at Vol
boro, N H, on the 5th. Fruit was frozen @
: the trees and blown of. London, Canad
reported ice a quarter OF an inch thick, an
ice formed In the Hudson River valley.
. THE steamer Canada, from Havr'
with French delegation invited to the Yorl
town celebration, arrived st New York Ci
Il on the 5th. 1t was met by French and Amer
q can men-ot-war, which were waiting. 8
d lutes were exchanged and the guests e
A corted by the combined squadrons up q
harbor TO the city. At noon the deleaatic
;, landed and, accompanied by the COMMITTEES
# of reception and escorted by the Sevent
o Regiment, proceeded up Broadway to Il
hotel
CAPTAIN HowGATE failed to give ba
le and yAs committed to the District jail on Il
5: 5th.
a THERE was frost in Wisconsin on Il
l. night OF the 4th.
IS The Cotton Exposition at Atlant'
= Ga, opened in the presence OF thousands
y people on the 5th.
le REV. STUART ROBINSON, D. D., die
is at Louisville, Ky., on the 5th.
THE Government has fixed no valu
le ton upon mutilated silver coin other tn
ar the marked value Of silver they contain; tn
:, are purchased at the mints by weight as bu
- lon, and the value depends upon the price
e. silver on the day the coin is received at {
ne mint.
ID MARVIN, the Richmond, Va, big
he mist and forger, plead guilty on the 5th.
as sentence was fxed ct ten years in the Pc
be tentiary.
GOVERNOR JEROME, of Michigan, b
designated the gentlemen named below TO 6
le ss a central committee, to be known as
Nv Fire Relief Committee OF Michigan. All &C
Tx tributions for the sufferers by the late fires
"A the Huron Peninsula, In that State, should
eu sent to their Chairman at Detroiti Ex;G6