The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-11-22

Waiters.
The boiler in the ginning mill of A.
P. McGehees, twelve miles from Montgomery,
Alabama, exploded on the 18th, instantly kill
ing three colored employees.
THE cabin of negro named James
Taylor, at Higbee, Mo-, was burned on the
10th, and two of his children perished in the
flames.
The court house at Anderson, Grimes
County, Texas, was burglsrized on the 10th
and all the election returns taken.
ABNER G. MoILRATH, an old citizen
and pioneer of Cleveland, Ohio, died on the
10th in the SEVENTEEN year of his age. He
was giant I'm his build, being six feet six
inches in height, and his average weight about
264 pounds. He probably did not have a su-
perior in strength in the country.
WHILE the water works tower, de-
signed for the use of the fire department of
New-York, was being tested, on the morning
of the 10th, 1t was overturned, instantly killing
an unknown man and fatally injuring George
II. Sayre, of Philadelphia, and breaking the
shoulder of boy looking on.
ONE of the greatest electric storms ever
known, passed over almost our entire conti-
neut on the nth. The disturbance was so
great, and the air so heavily charged with
elect icity, that the teleg aph lines could only
be worked at times and that foe short distan-
ces. The storm seemed TO go in successive,
negative and positive waves, neutralizing the
current on the telegraph or increasing their
intensity 10 such q degree as to burn every
thing up. The storm extended throughout
the United States and Eastern Provinces of
Canada, and continued during the entire day.
THOMAS WILLIAMS and Albert Will
Jams were killed and Sylvester Williams
fatally injured in the Grass Island coal mines,
Scranton, Pa, on the 10th by the caying in Of
the roof.
Mrs. CARMEN, her daughter Emma
and boarder named Miss Kuntz, were Sc
riously poisoned by eating canned beef at
Philadelphia on the 18th.
DIPHTHERIA has been raging at st.
Johns, N. B. A large number of deaths have
occurred.
The barge Signal, loaded with 700
barrels of sugar, while being towed up the bay
at New York on the 18th was run into by the
steamer City OF Worcester and sunk. The
crew Of seven men were drowned.
THERE were 139 business failures
throughout the country during the week end
ing the nth. Eight of which were In New
York City and iS1 in the different States. The
Eastern States had %; Western, 81; Southern,
3S; Middle, IS; Pacific, IL and Canada II.
AN explosion occurred in the nitro
vault at Cold Spring Powder Works, Al
lentown, Pa, on the 18th, aud 81. c. Welsh,
tbs superintendent is missing. 1t is thought
he was killed.
HOMER w. BARNES, a well-to-do
farmer of Brecksville, Ohio, committed suicide
on the 18th by shooting himself. Barnes was
about twenty-seven years of age and uni
uarnallv tad narnaeffn -
signed as the reason for the suicide.
A SERIOUS riot occurred at Opelika,
Alabama, on the 18th, in which Jim ROBBERS,
Charley Dix and Charley Griggs were
wounded. Pistols and shot guns were freely
used. The riot continued during the entire.
night and the destruction OF street lamps
and show windows was considerable.
The disturbance grew out OF q general dislike
for the city government.
TIE wholesale drug warehouse of Gil
bert Brothers & Co., Baltimore, was burned on
the 18th. The loss was unknown.
The five-set blanket mill of r. S. Frost
& Co., at Otter River, Mass, was burned on
the 18th. The fire originated in the card room.
Insured.
GEORGE R. MELBURN, of Santa Fe, N,
NJ, has been appointed special Indian Agent,
vice William Burris, resigned.
THE Bureau of Statistics reports the
value Of exports of domestic breadstuffs dur
ing October, 1882, to be SIS, ,205, 103. In the
same month of 1851, the value was s14, S39, ,9l4.
The total for ten months, ending October 81,
1881, was sl92 292, 5S2 against sl49 137, $50 for
the same period in 1882.
M. II. CRoNIN, watch-case manufact-
urer at. Philadelphia, failed on the 18th. LA
bilities about $4,000.
ROBERT MYHAN, treasurer of the
Brooklyn, N. Y, Catholic Orphan Asylum, is
q defaulier to the amount of SIG, He has
assigned all his property over to that institu-
ton which, it is thought, will cover the de-
hciency.
THOMAS LoEMAN, thirteen-year-old
cash boy In a store at Boston, and a younger
sister, have, by the death OF an uncle in Mel
bourne, Australia, fallen heir to his entire
fortune, s2,0oO,OOo. The parents OF the chill
dren died some time ago.
The Congregational Church ut Rich
mond, Mass a large wooden ructu e, built
one hundred years-ago, was destroyed by fire
on the 18th. Loss $4,000; Insurance 5000.
FIFTY pupils at the Ohio Asylum for
Imbecile Youth, at Columbus, were PROSTATE
with scarlet fever on the 18th, ard three had
already died.
The wholesale grocery of Trips &
Kewanda, and several ether buildings, were
burned at Bolton, Texas, on the 18th. Loss
10000; Insurance S24, coo.
g TIE motion for new trial in the Sco-
vile insanity case at Chicago was again post
poned on the 18th on account of the non-ap-
pearance Of Mrs. Scoville.
A FLOUR MILL and nine dwelling
houses were burned at Fort Worth, Texas, on
the 18th. Loss, $4,000; insurance about one
half.
ONE HUNDRED persons, who have been
converted to Mormonism, left Chattanooga,
Tenn, on the 18th for their colony in Colora-
do. They were all from the Southern States.
That church has seventy missionaries at work
in the South, who are gaining a great many
converts.
The large machine and blacksmith
shop at Muskegon, Mich, were damaged by
fire on the 18th. Loss $4,000. The foundry
and other shops were saved.
BURGLARS entered the house of E. E.
Went, at Napiersvlle, ILL.,, on the night OF the
18th, and their noise awakened five year-old
daughter of Mr.. Went and young lady who
was sleeping at the house, who gave the
alarm. The burglars tried to silence them by
threats, but failing drew revolvers and shot
them dead They then made their escape.
HENRY SAME's flour mill, Joseph
Gurnsey's hominy mill and several dwelling
houses, atJeffersonville, at Indiana, were burned
on the morning of the 18th. The loss win be
SIS, 900, with comparatively no insurance
IT is asserted that Secretary Teller will
not, in his annual report, recommend reduc-
ton in the cost Of obtaining patent. He is
persuaded to this course from the fact that
the patent laws are now the most liberal of any
country in the world. In England it costs
81 ZOO to obtain q fourteen year patent, in
Germany over 5000, in Russia about 300, aud
in Canada $40, while here it costs but S35 for
q seventeen year patent.
REAR ADMIRAL NICHOLSON, in his re-
port to the Navy Department regarding a