The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-09-20

IHE tenements on the 11fft farms near
Buffalo, N. Y, were destroyed by fire on the
18th. The farm had but recently been pur-
chased by the Lehigh Valley Railway and large
improvements were being made thereon
REV. j. S. Brown, aged ninety years,
and for more than sixty years a minister of the
Methodist church, died at Delaware, Ohio, on
the 18th.
DURING a thunder storm at Long
Island City, N. Y, on the night of the 14th,
lightning struck Lane 81 Fleming's oil works,
setting them both on fire and they were de-
stroyed. A tank OF naptha exploded during
the fire killing Charles Keegan, foreman Of a
fire truck, and Captain Dury, an employe OF
the works.
THE Windsor Hotel at Far Rockaway
was burned on the 18th. Loss 10000.
IT was reported that four persons were
killed BY a tornado at winsted, Connecticut,
on the 14th.
The Board of Audit to pass upon the
claims growing out Of the late illness snd
burial of President Garfield has received the
bill of DIR. d. s. Lamb for holding the autopsy
at Elwood, amounting to 81, 900. DR.. Hamii-
ton is the only physician who has not yet been
heard from. After all the physicians claims
are presented it win be some time before the
of the sS5, 900 which has been appropriated for
the purpose.
JUDGE WYLIE in the Criminal Court
at Washington on the 18th, set aside the YER
dict rendered in the Star route case against
Miner and Rerdel on the ground that 1t was
contrary to evidence. The new trial will COM
mence about the LIST Of October.
The free traders of the First Michigan
district have nominated William G. Brownlee
on purely free trade platform
GEORGE WIER and wife, of Newark,
N. j., died at Pensacola, Florida, on the 18th,
within few moments of each other. He from
heart disease and the wife from yellow fever.
THE extensive lumber mill of the
Mitchell & Rowland Lumber Company, at
Toledo, Ohio, was destroyed by fire on the
18th. The fire spread to the lumber yard and
burned nearly IA, 100, 600 feet of lumber. Loss
on the mill 500, o. and on the lumber S225,
600; covered by Insurance.
A SERIOUS break occurred in the Erie
Canal at Camilius, N. Y, on the 18th. One
hundred feet of the BERN bank was carried
away, cutting out the bottom of the canal to
a depth of twenty feet. Two boats were
washed into the beach. Laborers were at
once put TO work repairing the damage.
In the eight hundred yard contest at
Creedmoor on the 18th, the British team won
by a score of 295 against 255 of the American
team.
BARNEY SWEENEY, train robber,
captured at vinta, Indian Territory, on the
18th, proves to have been q member of the
James, gang.
The Marquis of Lorne and Princess
Louise sailed from San Francisco on the 10Th
/ for Victoria.
THERE were seventeen new cases Of
fever and one death at Pensacola on the 10th.
This aggregates $50 cases and twenty-eight
deaths at that place.
| THE Catholic church and parsonage
and two frame dwellings, at Pensacola, Fla,
were set on fire bya negro and destroyed on the
16 h. He was arrested.
The Missouri Car and Foundry works,
At st. Louis, were burned on the 18th. The
loss is estimated at s150,OO0; fully insured.
THE freight depot of the Chicago
Alton Railroad, at Kansas City, Mo-, wa.
burned on the 18th. The loss on building ant
freight could not be learned.
Mis-. MELVILLE, wife of Engineer Mel
vile, of the Jeanette Arctic expedition, wa
seized with delirium at public demonstration
| at Inc nome OF the Iamiiy al sharon hill, IA.
on the 10th. She had been suffering from nerv
Gus prostration previous to his arrival home
Rev. DR.. NORTON, wife and children
Rev. G. L. Wharton, wife and Miss Mar.
Graybeil, OF Buffalo, N. Y; Miss Ida Boyd,
of Kentucky; L. v. Kinsey, of Indiana, ant
| Mary Kingsbury, of Illinois, missionaries {,
India, sailed from New York on the 18th.
PUBLIC PRINTER ROUNDS delivered
the first complete set of bound editions of tn
Congressional Record, including the index, ol
the 10Th. The volumes of the debates mad
1904 pages, and the index 734 pages, being b.
far the largest number of pages reaehe'
in n single session. The volumes wer
delivered this year over two months
sooner than ever before An orde
was given Mr.. Rounds on the 10th 70
25,00O,O00 register cards for the use of th'
Post-ofice Department To I'LL these order
It win require about 1o4, 167 sheets Of card
board, which, after being cut to the prope
size, If strung end to end along the railroad
track, would cover 15S miles, or nearly tn
distance between Washington and Trenton
New Jersey.
NEWTON EDMUNDs and Judge P. C
Shannon, OF Dakota, and James H. Teller, o
Cleveland, Ohio, have been appointed by Sec
retary Teller as Commission to negotiat
with the Sioux Indians for the cession of par
of their reservation in Dakota
j. III. BALLENTINE, the welI-knowl
brewer Of Newark, n. J., died on the 10th.
H. F. RAYMOND & Co. bankers, of New
York City, have made an assignment. The
had representatives both in Chicago and Cleve
and.
THE plasterers in convention at St
Louis on the 10th organizeda National Union
with Michael Mulvahill, of Cincinnati, Pres
l - ~
ideut; Joseph Kennedy, OF Cleveland, Ohio
! Secretary, and Jacob Matthias, of Indianapolis
Treasurer. The next meeting will be held a
Cincinnati on the 21st of July, 1883.
THE Catholics of Columbus. Ohio
aided by large number of visitors from dil
ferent parts of the State, laid the conversion
of the new Holy Family church on the 18th
Bishop Watterson ofhciated.
: Two freight trains collided in q tun
J mel on the Missouri Pacific railroad on tn
/ nth, and taking fire, were both consumed.
JAMES j. BEATTY, a well-know1
banker, of Meadvilie, Pa, died on the lit
from stroke Of paralysis, aged sevenly y one
NINE new cases of smallpox wer
! reported at Paterson, N. J., on the 18th.
1 THEfollowing is the weekly bank state
5 ment of the Associated Banks of New Yor
City for the week ending the 10Th: Loans d.
crease, So S37 100; specie increase, 81, ,07e, 600
legal tenders increase, $3.50, ,0C0; deposits dc
crease, 81, 1868, 200; circulation increase, $50
500; reserve Increase, $50, 800. The banks hel
S1,06l, ,975 less than the legal requirements.
The boot and shoe manufactbry of ]
. Richardson s. Co., at Elmira, N. Y, was do
stroyed by fire on the 18th. Loss estimate
3 at $500, 900; insurance S150,oO0. Four ireme
were seriously injured by falling walls. Thre
hundred men were thrown out OF employment
: FOREIGN.
: A VIENNA dispatch of the 18th say
: that the Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs hs
issued circular, saying IL the Porte does nc