The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-01-18

on the 18th: ssRcmain on the ground till the
remainder of the expedition IL found Help
the search by every means in your power"
The special House committee on the
expenses attending the Illness of President
Garfield, and the allowance to his widow, met
on the 14th and instructed Chairman Taylor
to give public notice that all persons having
claims for services rendered, or materials fur
nished during the illness and burial OF the late
President, should present the same to the
committee for auditing on or before the 10th
OF Febr~ary next
GEORGE MELIUs, the brakeman on
the Chicago express charged with the respon-
sibility of the accident at Spuyten Duyvil, N.
Y, on the 18th, by which nine persons lost
their lives, was arrested at the Grand Central
Depot, New York City, on the IA and locked
up on the charge of criminal negligence.
THREE boys were Instantly killed at
Brooklyn, N. Y, on the 14th, by the fall of an
unoccupied house in which they were playing.
THE mother of the late General Custer
died at Monroe, Mich, on the morning of the
14th.
Mrs. CAROLINE RICHINGs-BERNARD
pox.
Mrs. SARAH BELLA MCLEAN, widow
of the late Hon. John Mclean, Justice of
on the 14th in the eiRhtieth year Of her age.
SIBLEY, DUDLEY & Co., wholesale
grocers of Chicago, made an assignment to
Henry NJ. Humphrey on the 18th. Their lia-
bilties are placed at $3.50, ,00l but they claim to
have assets to fully cover that amount
WILSON & GARMAN's, soap factory, on
Fourth Avenue, Pittsburgh, burned on the
18th. Loss 100000; insurance small.
CooPER's hardware store, Franks
hotel, wheaden's meat market, McNally's
| liquor store and three small frame buildings
were destroyed by fire at Aiken, Pa, eight
JUDGE GILBERT, of the Kings County,
N. Y, Supreme Court, on the 14th fined fifteen
Aldermen Of Brooklyn $3.50 each and imprison-
ment in the county JAN Of from ten to thirty
days. The Aldermen, Messrs. Kelley, Weir,
| Casey, Schmitt, Doyle, Mccarthy, Allison,
| Lepine, Bowers, Waters, Seaman, Armitage,
j Dwye-, Donovan and Kane, were taken to the
| jail in carriages, amid the jeers of a rsbble
of boys and men, They affected to make light
/ of the matter, and ordered good dinner from
| q well known Brooklyn caterer. Their counsel
| started out to get stay Of proceedings from
| q New York Judge, but Judge Gilbert told the
| Sheriff to pay no heed to any stay, as in case
of contempt prisoners could only be released
on a habeas corpus.
1 REV. n. W. DEEChEh puDuCly re-
canted on the 18th his statement rejecting
upon the Brooklyn Poard of Education in
sermon on New Years Day.
FOREIGN.
TIE Madrid El Liberal published
letter on the 18th from Francis of Bourbon,
cousin of King Alfonzo, suggesting that En-
gland cede Gibraltar to the Pope If she declines
| To restore 1t to Spain.
I PROFESSOR NoRDENsKJoLD contem-
plates an Arctic expedition next summer
mainly for the purpose of proving the possi-
bflity Of regular commercial communication
with Siberia
A TORONTO, Canada, dispatch says
Trickett has proposed to go to England and
row Hanlan after his row with Boyd, and
suggests, as Wallace Ross Is going to Eng
land, that his race with Hanlan might also be
rowed there
/ AN explosion Of gas at Crosskeep Col
iery, Newport, on the 14th, killed several
persons
AN enormous mass of rock, a thous-
and feet high, fell from the Rothrisa Noun
tain, near the town of Glarus, Switzerland, on
the 18th, destroying orchards, roads and
meadows in its course. No lives were lost.
GENERAL LoGERoP seized several no.
tables at Sfax as hostages for the payment of
the war indemnity exacted by France. He
threatens severe measures IL the money Is not
forfhcominr y hv the end Of Jauunrv