The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-10-11
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.
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ISAAC ROBINSON, an employe of the
Reading (Pa.) Hardware Company, was
caught in the betting IL the machinery on the
4th. His head was smashed to a jelly his
arms and legs torn from the trunk u d eye.y
bone IN the u dy br ken.
The Connecticut Democratic State
Convention met at Hartford on the 4th. James
G. Gallagher Was chosed permanent President.
The following ticket was nominated: For
Governor, Thomas VI. Waller; Lieutenant
Governor, George ID. Sumner; Secretary of
sta e, :. Ward Northrop; Treasurer, Alfred
X. Goodrich; Comptroller, Thomas p. San
ford.
TIE election in Delaware for the Sc
lection OF Inspectors and Assessors to serve at
the November elections, was held on the Sd,
with The following result: New Castle County
is Democratic by 81 on Inspectors and on
assessors; Kent County Republican by Ia on
i .spectors and 222 Assessors; sussex
County Democratic by los on Inspectors and
81 ON Assess RS. The Democrats elect Ia out
Of 32 Inspectors In New Castle County, out
of Q I'm he { County, out of l3 in Sussex
County,, thus co trolling the canvassing
boards In all three counties- The duties at
these Inspectors are To have charge OF the bal
lot boxes, conduct the elections according to
law and canvass the returns OF their respective
counties One Inspect r Is also appointed for
each polling place.
Hon. JAMES G. BLAINE, who had been
lying quite sick at York Beach Hotel, near
Portsmouth, N. H., was taken to his home at
Augusta, Maine, on the h in q special car.
AT the annual meeting of the Penn
sylvania Steel Manufacturer Association at
Philadelphia on the 4th, an exhaustive report
was read. It saws the Increase in the produc-
tion of steel from IG1, l0S net tons I'm 1872 to
1,7IS,9l2 tons in 1881 reads like fable. The
figures are reliable, and record the greatest
metallurgical achievement ever accomplished
by any coun ry.
SECRETARY TELLER reversed the de-
cision of his predecessor, concerning the
Turtle Mountain Indian lands IN Dakota, near
Devils Lake, on the 4th, and directs that they
be restored to the mass of public lands and
thrown open to settlers
The Georgia election for Governor
and other sta.e officials was held on the h.
The whole Democratic State ticket was
elected.
WHEN the bouquet sent Guiteau the
day before his execution by Mrs. scoville, was
suspected of containing poison, It was placed
I'm the hands OF Professor w. B. Tflden, an
alytical chemist of Washington, for analysis
The Pro essor, in his official report to District
Attorney Corkhin on the 4th, says hat the
DuQr y Opcu
Eve grains Of "white arsenic" (arsenous
acid.) The qualitative tests were those of
Reinsch, Tresenius, Won Babo and Marsh.
FIFTY stores, dwellings, barns and
railway depots I'm Concord, Hudson, Acton,
Bedford and Sudbury. Massachusetts, have
been burglarized recen .ly, by what appears to
be an organized band. The railroad depots at
Concord aud Acton, aud 4 farm house in South
Acton, were entered early on the morning OF
the 4th and ransacked, One OF the burglars at
the latter place was captured,
CAPTAIN JOHN o. CoNNoR, postmaster
at Maryville, Missouri, and one OF ths most
extensive dealers in agricultural inplemen 3
In Northern Missouri, has absconded, leaving
$40, 900 debts, including $500 to the McCor-
mick Manufacturing Company, and Sl,OCO de-
ficieucy In his Post-office accounts. lie leaves
q wife and six children.
JUDGE WOODS, of the Choctaw Ma
ton, who was shot by an employe s me time
tInce. died on the Sd.
PROFESSOR CHARLES AIKERs, who vas
Superintendent of Music IA the Cincinnati
public schools from 1S4s to 1873, died at his
residence in tina. city On the 4th.
The State of California was visited by
an unusually heavy rain storm, lasting forty
eight hours, during the Sd and 4th-
DURING the year ended October !,
{, 500 hogsheads OF tobacco were inspected in
Petersburg, Va, as against 1910 for The
previous year.
AT the semi-annual meeting of the
Chicago Association Of fConsrega,io ional church
es Of Chicago, in session at Englewood, on the
4th, the name Of the Rev. Jacob r. Shpherd,
OF Peruvian scheme notoriety, was dropped
from the rolls by a unanimous vote.
MIR. E. Z. BARNARD, of Nashville,
says he discovered about half-past four
O'Clock, on the morning OF the 5th, that the
nucleus in the Cruls comet had separated IN to
three unequal fragments, tie largest estimated
to be Is, 900 miles in length, aud the space be-
tween the fragments OF the nucleus was esti-
ma ed at not less than 5, 900 miles. Professor
Wilson, of ice Cincinnati observatory, cor
robora es Mr.. Barnard's statement The dis
turbance makes no difference In the appearance
of the comet to the naked eye.
In the Senatorial fight in the Oregon
Legislature, some OF Mtchelps friends, on the
5th, went over TO Richard Williams, ex-nem-
Der of Congress, who appeared for the first
time, and was considered promising dark
horse.
Four prisoners escaped from the Che
boygan, Michigan, jail on the 5th. They broke
open an inside door, and then called for a drink
OF water. When the jailer's wife opened the
outside door they rushed out, and made good
their escape.
PETER COOPER addressed the Tariff
Commission at New York on the 9Th, saying
that the country wanted 4 permanent tariff,
one that would not be broken every ten
years. A lengthy paper prepared by him
was read, containing q review Of the ques-
tions under investigation; also treating
generally the causes Of the last panic and
-
pamphlet also advocated protection for labor
and this could only be done by the amount of
duties that shall equal the differences between
the cost of q days labor in our country as
labor in other coun ries. The difference.
when carefully examined, will be found 10 be
on an average In this country from so to 100
per cent. more than is paid for similar labor In
other countries.
TIE Bee-keeper's National Society at
Cincinnati on the 5th elected the following
officers to serve for the com ng year: Presi-
dent, d. A. Jones, Ontario, Canada; Secre ary,
A. J. pCt, Medina, Ohio; Treasurer, tharles
ident from each state represented I'm the Con
vention. The next meeting will be held in
Toronto, Canada
THERE were three deaths and fifty-six
new cases OF fever at Pensacola on the 5th.
LOUIS WoLLsrEIN & SULsEBACHER,
manufacturers OF closks and skirts in New
York City, have failed. Liabilities $4,000.
NEW gold certificates to the amount
of 81, 100000 were forwarded to the Assistant
Treasurer al New York for signature on the
5th.
THE annual report of General Sutler,
of the engineer corps in charge Of the Missouri
River improvements, shows an expenditure OF
Ag1Gna III IA
81 ,SS3, 900 could be profitably expended the
next fiscal year 10 continuation of the i'm
provement.
The annual report of the Free De-
livery Department Of the post-ofiice for the
fiscal year shows fl2 offices, at which 3, lis
carriers are employed. There were delivered
at these offices 29S 906 130 letters, which is an