The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-11-02
WEST AND SOUTH.

OK the night of the 18th ult. while
William Parker, who lives two miles south Of
Des Moines, Iowa, was putting up a stove
pipe 1t fell, knocking alamp off table. The
lamp exploded, setting fire to the clothes Of a
little son and daughter. The boy died on the
following day from the effects of the burns,
and the girl will probably die. The mothers
hands we're badly burned. J.;
SEVENTY THOUSAND strangers united
with the entire resident population In closing
the Richmond, Va, Yorktown Centennial
celebration on the 26th ult- m ~ ss-a
TIE Peoria. Ill., sugar refinery was
destroyed by fire on the 27th ult- Loss,
800, 600; insurance, $3.50, 600 Two hundred
and fifty men were thrown out Of employ
ment. as boa fllts
A RICHMOND, Va, dispatch says
the remarkable demand for Confederate
bonds continues, and the boom for these
valueless promises to pay is unabated. A
leading banking house has already purchased
nearly Eve millions OF coupon bonds at from
three to i've dollars per thousand. 2ft
EZRA GLoRB, of Jacksonville, ILL.,,
went to the store of William Spinning and
spit upon the goods. GIore was killed before
he would stop. iH-N
EX-SENATOR BALDWIN, Chairman of
the Michigan Fire Relief Commission, in an
swer to question from New York on the
27th ult., telegraphed that the commission
had SIZE, 900 on hand, with $4,000 liabilities,
and provisions on hand for two or three weeks
only. The commission estimate that $3.50, 600
more viii take the sufferers over till next
May, although larger sum would be most
welcome and could be legitimstely used. 1s.'
COLONEL j. G. KELToN. Adjutant-
General of the Division OF the Pacific, who
returned to San Francisco on the 9th uit.
from q tour Of Arizona, says all the trouble is
over unless the Mexicans drive the fugitive
Indians back over the line, in which case
troops will attend to them. =
THE National Convention called to
consider the Improvement OF the Mississippi
and its tributaries assembled at st. Louis on
the 26th ult. Hon. Mark H. Dunnell, OF Min
nesota, was elected Chairman. Resolutions
were presented and referred: Providing that
the recommendation of the convention I'm
clude the widening and deepening OF the
Illinois & Michigan Canal and the improve
ment Of the Illinois river to afford deep
water channel from Lake Michigan to the
Mississippi river; that the several delegations
be declared a committee to press upon Con-
gress the necessity Of appropriations; calling
for the immediate improvement OF the Mis-
sissippl, Missouri and Ohio rivers; neither OF
which is under the control OF one State, and
further Recommending that appropriations
for each river be separate. ss
The Sny levee broke at Hannibal, Mo-,
on the morning of the 2Sth ult The break
was three hundred feet wide, aud the water
swept everything before It, flooding all re-
claimed land behind the leyee. The loss Of
stock by drowning is considerable, but the
main loss from this break, as well as the two
previous ones, Is corn and fences No esti-
mate OF Individual losses can be made, but
the aggregate loss from the overflow cannot
be much less than half million dollars,
GENERAL MERRIwErHER LEWIS
CLARK, OF Frankfort Ky., who fought in the
Black Hawk and Mexican wars and served
under Lee duIing the rebellion, died on the
2sth ult., aged dseventy-seyen years. .f,h
The Governor of New Mexico writes
that he sees no immediate prospect for per-
manent peace with the hostile Indians, and
think the raids dus to the fIet that the In
dams cannot readily find sustenance in the
barren provinces of Sonora and chihuahua,
Mexico. n ai Hrh fer
The Warren Presbyterian Tabernacle
At Louisville. Ky.,was destroyed by fire on the
night Of the 2Sth ult. Loss, $50, 900. Joseph
Walker, fireman, was injured by falling
walls. ~ o-ff-sr,rf 8.-- gof rab
TIE Mississippi river at Quincy, H.,
on the night OF the s0th ult, was nineteen
feet above low water mark and contin-