The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-10-18
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
A General Summary of Events at Home
and Abroad. s-E
Compiled from Daily Reports up to the
Hour of Going to Press.
DOMESTIC

the Treasury. The charges are of a serious
character, including frauds upon the
Gover%ent !" connection TonO with n the
enness, the ruthless slaughter of Indian
dogs, arbitrary and aggressive conduct to-
wards the natives, as well as towards officers
OF the government having business with him,
and also with au uuwarrRnted aud overbearing
exercise of authority. II Is further represented
that he is In perpetual coniictwith the natives
and also with the naval officers on duty at that
station, and that his ention in Office is likely
to result In q serious outbreak among the
Indians.
EVERY mill on the Upper dam at Mill
| town, Maine, large amount OF lumber and
| two dwellings,, were burned on the 18th. Loss
| $4,000.
The Methodist church, the Suncook
| House and several stores and dwellings at
Suneook, New Hampshire, were destroyed by
fire on the 1lth. loss S35 OOO Mrs. Joseph
Damans was killed by falling chimney.
FRANKLIN L. CHASE, well known
lawyer OF Chicago, Illinois, has proven n de-
fsulter 10 the sum Of $1,000 The money had
been coufided 10 him by his clients, who
trusted him without security.
HENRY KEREME, a carpenter at work
on the tower OF ST. Xavier's Ca holic church,
at Cincinnati, on the 1lth, fell distance of
sixty feet to the stone floor and was Instantly
| killed.
A MOB of one hundred persons from
POsey Coun y, Indiana, went to Evansville,
that State, early on the morning of the 11th,
and overPoweriug the Sheriff, took man
bamed Redman, who was confined for the
| murder of a woman named McFadden, from
the jail for the purpose of lynching
him. While they were leayi"g with their
| prisoner a number of citizens who had been
| collected together by thief of Police Pritchell,
| attacked the mob and a regular battle ensued.
One of the mob, fearing the rescue of Redman
| struck him on the head with sledge hammer,
killing him instantly. Three of the mob were
arrested, including the leader.
| HENRY WARD BRECHER withdrew
from the association of Congregational
churches of New York aud Brooklyn, on the
11th. Mr.. Beecher had been assigned to open
| the discussion of the subject of spiritual bar
barism, and made it the occasion for announc-
ing his withdrawal from the membership of
the association. He delivered an elaborate
exposition Of his beliefs respecting the doc
trines Of the Bible aud Christianity.
| He assigned rs reason for with
drawing from the association that rs a
Christian gentleman he could not afford to lay
! on any body the responsibility of his views.
He could not afford especially to put the asso-
ciation in such a positiun that they were
obliged to defend him. He could not make
them responsible in any way, and therefore he
now, here, in the greatest love and sympathy,
laid down his membership, and should go
!
really to be nearer them. He should do any
thing for them. He never was in warmer
personal sympathy with them than he now
was, but he laid down the responsibility that
they had borne; he took II of them, and put it
on himself.
A WEST VIRGINIA farmer recently
sold q single black walnut tree for 5000, which
was but little less than the sum he paid for the
tract on which It grew.
! COMPLETE returns from West Virginia
show that the State has given a Democratic
majority Of 1900. The Congressional dele
cation will stand three Democrats and one
Republican.
A WILMINGTON, North Carolina, dis
patch Of the 18th says that the negroes in
many towns of that State are running wild
over the appearance of the comet. They
gather in large numbers in the fields after
nightfall and may be heard singing, dancing
and shouting until the early hours of the
morning. The appearance OF stars early in the
afternoon add much to their terror.
A BLooMNGToN, Illinois, special of
the 18th says that silver ore, assaying seventy.
i've per cent. of silver mixed with copper has
been discovered in the bed Of Panther Creek,
near Secor, Woodford County, twenty miles
from there. It is reported that thousands of
pounds have already been taken out
THE New York and Brooklyn Asso-
citation of Congregational Churches passed a
resolution on sese 18th expressing regret at
Beecher's withdrawal, affirming the belief that
The divergence Of his views on theological and
doctrinal points from the views of the Asso-
citation were not sufficiently serious to demand
such a course and expressing the hope that he
would see his way clear to withdrawing his
resignation.
THE 390th anniversary of the discov-
cry Of America by Columbus was celebrated
at New Yosk on the 18th by the italian resi-
dents by picnic and ball.
DR.. LEWIS SWIFT, Director of the
Warner Observa' ory at Rochester, ~ Y, says
the new comet discovered by DIR. Schmidt at
Athens, is unquestionably fragment Of the
great comet broken of at its perihelion pass
ago. This proves that the great comet must
have grazed the sun and hence passed through
terrible crisis. This is the second instance
on record where comet has been disrupted,
the first one being Biellas' comet OF 1876
ALMoN L. MEAKER, under sentence of
death for killing a little girl at Waterbury,
Vermont, some two years since, by administer
ing strychnine. having previouely cruelty
beaten the child on several occasi us, made a
confession a few days agJ which Is substan-
tally the same as recited by wi uesses at the
trial. He accuses his mother of iustignting z
the murder. The "details show great brutality.
GEORGE d. RISE, cashier OF the Dime
/
attacked by Two men on the evening OF the
18th, while %. his way home from the bank,
| and satch-l containing So .OOI In money
was .wrenched from him and carried away.
No clue.
CONGRESSMAN WILLIAM Lowe, of Al
ALBANIA, died at Huntsville, that state on the
11th. Mr.. Lowe, twn be remembered, con-
tested and was given the seat OF General
Wheeler, the ex-Confederate Cavalry General
4 ~. L. IIa had ha..,, afa Co.
months with consumption, and 1t was feared
at first he would not live until the contest for
| the seat was ended.
DIPHTHERIA has been prevailing at
Chatham, Virginia, and the surrounding coun-
try for some time back, and 200 persons have
already died within the past two months.
Twenty pupils Of one school have died.
A LARGE gang of counterfeiters were
discovered and arrested in Upton County,
Indiana, on the 18th.
A FIRE at Olatha, Kansas, on the
night of the 11th, destroyed the buildings
occupied BY the post-ofice, the Olatha Mirror
\ and several law offices. The mails were all
saved. Loss $4,000; insurance $4,000.
AN explosion Of fire-damp in the Man.
tic coal mine, near Decatur, Illinois, on the
18th, fearfully burned Charles Lindsay and
George Livingstone. It was thought they
could not live.
The Treasury Department purchased
5000 ounces of silver on the 18th for the
New Orleans, San Francisco and Philadelphia
mints.
4 The public sales of lands the past year
amounted to 1888 acres, embracing 5,0l6 acres
near Toledo, o., which were sold for SIC, 735,
an average Of sS.3s per acre.
The Commissioner of the Land Office,
In his annual report, states that the lands now
embraced within the limits OF the public do
main amount to about 900, ,000. 900 acres, in
sluding Alaska. He recommends that the pre-