The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-10-25

me WnOle country curing the week cnQlng
the 10th, seven of which were in New York
City and no in the various States.
MATHEW CONNER and Patrick O'Con-
nell, hod-carriers, got into a fight on the wall
OF new building at Auburn, Maine, where
they were working, on the Goth. They lost
their balance and fell, clasped in each others
embrace, fifty feet to The ground, aud were
instantly killed. Both leave large families.
SIXTY frame buildings, at Durango,
Colorado, were destroyed by fire on the 10Th.
The fire originated ia a Chinese undry.
The furniture warehouse of Thoesen
& Uhl, on Third Avenue, New York, was
burned on the 10th. Loss $4,000; fully in
| sured.
FIVE colored persons, Ridgely Powell,
Simon Oguinn, Joseph King, Robert Donald
son and Ella Moore, were hanged in the jail
| vard at Eastman, Georgia, on the Goth, for
completely in a riot which occurred at camp
| meeting at that place on August last, in
which young white man, uamcd Ames Har-
ward. was set upon BY an infuriated mob and
after being shot was beaten almost to jelly.
Isaac Shipman, who was also under sentence,
was respited by the Governor.
Tue project of eastern and Chicago
| capitalists to establish a harbor city to be
| called East Chicago, at the head OF Lake Mich
| igan, has been abando ed. Tie new town
WAS to have been Located on the Forsythe
| tract for which -1,0n.000 was tn be paid.
| Tive, ty FIVE miles of the right of-way for n belt
railroad was secured, AMI the railroads had
| agreed to use the tracks, but 1t was fou i that
the proposed sum OF $1,000 ,000 would not go
FAR toward completing the project 1t is
| thought that the belt road, h pwever, will be
/ built by local capital.
TIE Stalwart members of the Oregon
Legislature he'd a conference on the evening
1 q led 70, hx-
| for the United States Senate until the end of
| the session, " necessary. The anti Mitchell
| Republicans also held session at which they
resolved to hold out.
TIE parents of Suza Binkowski, resi-
dents tf Chicag', killed their three-year-old
child on the Goth. by ign rsntly administering
creos tie internally for the toothache.
AN organization known as the Macca-
bees has been s.art,d in Cincinnati Its pur-
| pose is to encourage aud assist in the promo
ton of agricu ture among Israelites. The
plan is to enroll in sections all lsraelites over
/ thirtSeD years OF age, who shall pay annual
/ dues of one dollar each. The sections in the
State constitute a Division, and representa-
| tives of Divisi ms constitute n Grand Division.
! The latter will have al Executive Council
| which shall control and di-burse the funds.
| A Provisional Council act until tile Execu-
| tive Council is organized has been chosen. It
consists OF NJ. 10th, Noses Krohn, VI. II.
Marks, Henry Silk, Joseph Abraham, Joseph
| Trounstine, Alex Straus, Max Isaacs and
Henry Loewenstcin.
| COMMISSIONERS MARBLE, of the Patent
! Office, has submitted his annual report to the
Secretary. I the Interior. Duiing the past fiscal
year there we're 80, ,o62 applications for pate1ts,
| the registration of trade marks, labels, and
| the reissue of trade marks. OF these a, 713
| were granted for patents, and ,079 for trade
marks registered. The total receipts of the
ex enditures, $751;, 1880, leaving = surplus of
| Ss19, 144.64.
STAMPED envelopes will be sold to the
public after January 1, 1888, at reduction of
ten per cent. on the present prices. The Post
| office Department has also arranged TO prirt
| special return request notices upon the envel
| opes without additional charge When ordered
/ IN quantities of five hundred or more.
Rev. ROBERT PAINE, Senior Bishop
of the NJ. E. Church, South, died at Aber-
deem, Miss, on the Goth.
EIGHT out of the eleven starch fac
tories of the West signed terms of cousolida-
ton on the 10th at Cincinnati, forming n
single stock company under the title of the
/ National Starch Company" The remaining
| three, composed OF the firms at Madison,
Franklin and Elkhardt all In Indiana, took
4 the matter under consideration.
THE Evangelical Lutheran Synod in
session at Pittsburgh on the Goth, decided to
| allow ministers or school teachers serving
| congregati ms not yet organically connec- ed
with the synod, as well as profess RS IN insti-
tutious OF learning, the right OF suffrage in
| the business OF the Syno'.
| WILLIAM A. BROOKS, of Phelps, n.
Y. reports that he saw at five O'Clock, on the
morning OF the 2lst, a cometary mass two
degrees in length, eight degrees east of the
| present comet.
RECEIPTS from capitation tax on i'm
migrants arriving in the country, under the
act of August 8, up to aad including Septem-
Der 80, were s57,66S.
A TERRIBLE accident occurred on the
State Route Railroad (Hoosac TunneD at
North Adams, Massachusetts,, on the morning
of the 2lst. A caboose loaded with workpen
was run into by an engine and nineteen men
badly scalded and crushed, eight of them
| fatally.
The trial of the case of Charles A.
Straut against seven students OF Bowdoin
College, for damages on account Of injuries
| inflicted while hazing freshmen, concluded
with a verdict on the 2lst OF 81, 700 damages
against the seven students.
The sash and blind factory of Ham
mond & Mason, at Cory, Pa, was destroyed
by fire on the 21st. Loss, $4,000; insurance
$1,000.
THERE has been great excitement in
Zoar, Massachusetts,, over the alleged poison
ing, by carbonic acid gas from numerous
charcoal kilns in that vicinity. The gas, it is
| stated, settles down in the valley inoculating
| the atmosphere. Six or seven deaths had al
ready occurred and many others Were sick.
THE American Homestead Aid Society
Of Columbus, Ohio, made an assignment on the
21st. Assets about $4,000; liabilities, 5000.
THERE was slight frost at Memphis
on the 2lst.
Second In antry, U. s. A, nephew "f General
w. :. Hancock, died at TOWNSEND, California,
on the Goth.
| Hon. john ID. DEGREES. late Public
Printer, was buried iu Crownhill Cemetery at
Indianapolis on the 2lst.
The biennial convention of the Sigma
Chi fraternity will be held at Chicago on No
xember 7th, Sth and 9th.
The Enterprise Touring mills and one
| of the warehouses Of the Compress and Stor-
age Company, containing 800 bales Of cotton,
at Memphis, Tenn, were burned on the 21st.
Loss, S35,OOO; insurance, $4,000.
COMMISSIONER PRICE, of the Indian
Bureau, transmitted his report Of the condition
Of the Indians to the Secretary of the Interior
on the 21st, for the fiscal year ended June 80,
| 1882 He says the land has been opened to
| cultivation, houses for Indian residents built,
| schools opened and opera ed, and in many
| cases and in various ways, the cause of
civilization generally advanced. The cor
| poration of religious societies is regard
| ed by the Commissi ner as very im-
portant auxiliary in the civilization of the In
! dians, and he points to the benefits derived
1 frN. thafr drrf tha fax.v
| The evils OF cash anEuities are also commented
upon and an instance given where, after cash