The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-03-22
THE EAST.

TIE boiler In Goodwin Bros' shoe factory at
Lynn, Mass., expI, -ded on the 18th, destroying
the building and killing the engineer and sew
eral Of the employees.
SERGEANT MASON arrived at Albany, N. Y,
on the 10th, and was Immediately placed In the
penientiary.
THE Rhode Island Republican Convention
nominated Governor A. H. Littlefeld and all
the present State officers, on the 16th, except
ing Attorney GENERAL. Samuel 2. Colt was
nominated for that office
HENRY REMsHAw entered the private Office
Of DR.. Gray, of the Vale Lunatic Asylum,
at Utica, N. Y, on the morning of the
10th, and shot him, but the wound is not
fatal He then went to the jail and gave HIM
self up. The prisoner labors under the de-
lusion that he was an ambassador from heaven,
sent by Guiteau and others to shoot DR.. Gray.
Remshaw bad with him, when searched in Jail,
two navy revolvers and one single barrel re-
volver and one repeater, one dirk, eleavers and
bottle Of chloroform, with about thirty bun
dies Of cartridges.
TEE Executive Committee appointed at the
conference OF the Independent or Wolfe Re
publicans January last met In Philadelphia on
the 10th and agreed to designate one Inde-
pendent Republican from each of the fifty
Senatorial Districts to supervise the prelimi-
nsries for the primary elections throughout
the State and see that one delegate from each
Senatorial and Representative district shall be
elected and sttsnd the State Convention IN
May next
g. T. STEWART, Chairman of the National
Prohibition Committee, issued . call on the
18th for . national convention TO be held in
Chicago, Wednesday, August 2s, instead of
49, -.rlrr, H.
SoUrH BETHLEHEN, Pa, has I2o cases OF
smallpox in population Of 1000
THE widow of the late Bishop Marion, OF
the Methodist Church, died on the 18th.
FRANK RUNBERGKR, one Of the condemned
murderers Of Daniel Troutman In Berks Coun-
ty, Pa, about year ago, has written the fol-
lowing letter to Governor Hoy OF that State
"I know have forfeited all my rights as a Ct l.
lien of Pennsylvania, but have not lost my
feelings as q man, and now write you in be-
half Of man condemned to die for q crime in
bloodshed Of which, believe, he IL innocent.
Ny conscience holds me guilty Of he death OF
Daniel Troutman. Il is nowhere said in my
Bible that two lives should be sacrificed for
one /, therefore, ask you to commute Henry
Rumberger's sentence of death 10 imprison-
ment for life. / ask this in the name of justice,
unprompted by any man. And appeal to you,
ss Governor Of this State, to do this act hat
mercy may honor justice" Both Of the con.
demned men are brothers. and their object In
the murder Of Troutman was robbery.
THE smallpox scourge Is making sad and
terrible havoc in districts all along South
Mountain from Mocrongie, Lehigh County, tc
Shamrock, Berts County, Pa The epidemic
still prevails In South Bethlehem with great
violence, and the au horities are powerless tc
| stay its progress. Two hundred cases were re
ported in that place On the 18TH
THE following is the statement Of the asso
ciated banks of New York City for the weet
ending March IL: Loans decrease, 81, 39o, 800
specie increase, $2,692, 200; legal tenders de
crease, $37, 500; deposits decrease, 81, IS, 100
circulation decrease, $s4, 900; reserve increase
&, ,465, ,475. The banks now hold t3, i52 3Ot
more than the legal requirements.
CHARLES 8. WELLS, of Dudley Observatory
at Albany, N. T.. discovered on the 18th,
bright comet in Hercules right ascension sew
enteen hours fifty two minutes north latitude
declination thirty-two degrees and thirty min
utes. The comet has a tail Ave minutes in
length and . nucleus about Of the eighth mag
nitude.
FREDKRIcKA. PALMER, late Auditor of the
city Of Newark, N. j., was sentenced, on Tx
18th, to twenty years in the penitentiary fol
obtaining money from the treasury on forget
warrants.
BosroN has Al, ,sas dwelling houses, valued
at S4,013,0o0.
THE round-house, three enei.es and foul
cars of the New Castle & Oh City Railroad
were burned at New Castle, Pa, on the 18th
The building is supposed to have been fired By
strikers.