The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-10-04
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hibits loaned for the occasion, and transpor-
tation upon all articles donated, will be at the
cost of the board of directors. An entrance
fee of two dollars will be charged for the entry
OF all exhibits made for the advantage or profit
of exhibitors.
The Woods Manufacturing establish
ment, at Winston, N. c., was destroyed by
fire on the 9th. Loss unknown; insured for
$4,000.
THE National Council of the Order of
United American Mechanics, at their session
at Wilmington, Delaware, on the 27th, adopted
amendments making persons eighteen years
Of age or over eligible to membership. The
Council adjourned to meet at Lynn. Mass, on
the fourth Thursday Of September, 1888.
GOVERNOR MURRAY, in obedience to a
law of Congress providing for appointments
TO fill vacancies occasioned by the failure to
hold an election in August, has appointed a
number Of officials throughout Utah. In de-
fance of law and the Edmunds bill,
the Governor has been refused the rec
ordS and places to which they have
been appointed. This organized nullif-
cation is in obedience to orders of Mormon
leaders. Those who think 1t criminal to hold
over are whipped in by counsel and threats,
and polygamists are holding on, Congress to
the con rary Notwithstanding. Wrils of man
damus were applied for on the 9th to enforce
the titles of officials appointed. The action
of Governor Murray in firmly executing the law
in the face of the Mormon leaders is approved
by all law abiding people.
IT is estimated that it will take $780,
600 to replace the bridges washed away by the
recent floods in Union County, New Jersey.
ROBERT S. FERGUS, a widely-known
Journalist, died at Jersey City on the 2sth.
SECRETARY CHANDLER had an inter-
view OF some length with Engineer Melville,
Lieutenant Danenhauer and Ninderman on
the 2S h. All the relics and records of the
Jeanette expedition, which had been in the
turned over to the Navy Department. The
Investigation concerning the loss of the Jean
nette will begin the 5th Of October.
SECRETARY TELLER has decided to
open up for settlement all that portion of
Northern Dakota between the 4Sth and 10th
parallels and 9sth and 102d degrees longitude.
now occupied by the Turtle Mountain band Of
Chippewa Indians.
FIVE new cases of fever were reported
at Brownsville on the 2Sth, but no deaths.
Sixty new cases and six deaths were reported
at Pensacola.
THE Flathead Indians have signed a
treaty granting the right of way through their
reservation to the Northern Pacific Railway
for s17,0 900.
JOHN ROPER, the confidential book
keeper of Benjamin Allen, of Chicago, who
fed to Scotland with $4,000 of his employers
money, and was brought back, pleaded guilty
on the 18th and was sentenced to seven years
in the penitentiary.
AsKAMP & Co.'s show case in the
Cincinnati Exposition building was robbed on
the night of the 27th of $4,000 worth of 6ia-
monds. The case was opened with skeleton
keys.
FIVE burglars who were confined in
the Mercer County, Pa, jail on the charge of
robbing the express office at Greenville, that
county, escaped on the 9th. They over
powered and bound the guard, gagged him
and put him in q cell, forced the other prison.
turnkey as he entered, locked him in a cell,
took the keys from him, passed out, bound
and gagged the Sheriifs wise aud fed.
THE Anti-Monopolists and Greenback-
ers of Nebraska held their State Convention
at Hastings, that State, on the 2Sth, and
nominated the following ticket: E. P. Inger-
soil for Governor; d. P. Reynolds, Lieutenant
Governor; j. A kir ley, Secretary of State {;
P. d. Sturtevant, Treasurer; John Battle,
X. Points, Superintendent of Public Instruc-
ton; II. G. Medley, Commissioner of Public
Lands and Buildings; John Bell, Regent.
The ninety-ninth annual convention
Of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the
diocese of New York met in New York CITY
on the 2Sth. Rev. Curtiss T. Woodruff, CITY
Missionary, read a report reviewing the chari-
table work of the missionary society of that
city for the past year.
A THREE-sToRY dwelling house on
Wallace Street, Philadelphia, isll on the 2Sth.
Seven persons were asleep in the building at
the time, but they were dug out OF the debris
uninjured. The foundation had been weak
ened by the recent floods.
THE Treasury Department purchased
on the 2Sth 415,0O0 ounces of silver to be de-
hvered at the Philadelphia, New Orleans and
San Francisco mints.
ARMY officers and civil employees of
the War Department have been forbidden to
make public any information relative to the
business of the Department.
SECRETARY TELLER and Inspector
Hayworth have made the following distribu-
tion-of the Indian school fund for the present
fiscal year: For support OF non-treaty schools
already established and to be established,
S317,0O; increased attendance at schools now
established, $4,000; establishing new indus
trial schools, $50, contingent exp .nses OF
catilefor Industrial school, $50, $50; completion
of school building, outhouses, etc, Tor indus
trial school near Arkansas City, $4,000; sup
port Of above school, $Sl 800; support of indus.
trial school at Genoa, Neb., S3l 500; support
Of Indians in schools in the States, $1,000.
The annual convention of the Young
Mems Christian Associat on of Pennsylvania
met at Williamsport, thar State, on the 2Sth.
About 200 delegates were present. The fol.
lowing officers were elected to serve during
the ensuing year: President, 7. B. Patton,
Altoona; Vice Presidents, j. w. Sephart,
Bellefonte, and c. 2. Helfenstein, Shamokin
Secretary, +. A. Hatch, Erie.
A DESTRUCTIVE fire occurred al
Ridgeway, Pa, on the 2oth ult. The whole ol
Main Street, except one house, was burned
Both newspaper offices-the Elk County Ad
uocafe and the Democrat, were destroyed. Tho
loss is estimated at So, 900.
HENRY j. HALL, late President of the
Rhode Island Hospital Trust Company, al
Providence, pleaded non contender on the
10Th ult. to one of the four indictments for EN-
bezzlement and was sentenced to five years in
State prison. The amount of the embeZzle-
ment was s21 900. The other indictment,
were MOLE pressed
AN opinion was rendered by the Illinoi:
Supreme Court at Springfield on the 29th ult
in 8 case involving the question of the powel
of the Legislature to regulate the rates charged
by railroads for freight carried 10 points out
side of Illinois, and whether the act prohibit
ing unjust discrimination in such rates wa.
not in contravention of the Constitution
of the United States. The case was one
wherein sixty-six per cent. larger rate wa,
charged on haul from Gilman TO New Yorl
than on haul from Peoria to New York
though the distance from Peoria is greater BY
eighty-six miles. 1t was held by the court thal
the charge was unjust, excessive, extortionate
and unlawful, and in effect the court upheld
the authority Of the railroad and warehouse
commissioners to regulate freight charges
from points in Illinois to points outside The
State.
JUDGE JERE BLACK, on behalf of the
Mormons, will present to the Secretary of the