The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-05-10
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SOME revivalists have been holding services
In the Jail at Washington where Guiteau is
confined, for several days, and adeep religions
feeling has been excited among the prisoners
Guiteau was allowed to take part on the Sd
and was much overcome by the exhortation of
the evangelists who sang and prayed with him.
He realizes now that he is doomed to die, and
that his hope Of ever leaving the jail alive is
vain. He wept after the revivalists had gone
and refused to see any one for long time.
TIE bill for the erection OF q lighthouse at
Point Patterson, Lake Michigan, passed the
Senate on the 4th.
THE Commissioner of the General Land
Office says that fraudulent certificates of de-
posits for surveys, issued at Santa Fe, n. NJ,
have recently been put on the market In Da-
kota, Minnesota and Montana He has notified
the western land Offices not to receive the Santa
Fe certificates until further notice. It Is be-
lieved these fraudulent certificates have been
scattered all over the West
SECRETARY CHANDLER received the follow
ing dispatch from Lieutenant Berry, Com
mander of the United States .search-steamer
Rodgers, dated Tredni Kolymsk, Siberia,
March g.: "The Rodgers was destroyed by
fire originating in the fore hold November 80.
Efforts to save the ship were unavailing. The
people landed safe with difficulty through
the young ice, and are now quartered in a
natives house. One months provisions were
saved. Native food is abundant. There is no
danger Of starvation. Bearer Of dispatches en-
route:f
IT was rumored in Washington on the 4th
that Senator Hin, of Georgia, had sent HIS
resignation to the Governor of that State,
and that Senator Brown also contemplated do
ing the same. Bad health Is given as the rea-
son for this action on the part of both Sena-
tors.
THE Secretary OF War informed the House on
the 4th that there were in Arizona ,273 en-
listed men and 40 officers in addition to the
officers under General Forsythe.
THE Comptroller of Currency has declared q
final dividend of ten per cent and interest TO
the creditors OF the First National Bank OF
Newark, N. j., making in all dividends to 100
per cent. in interest.
TIE Senate confirmed the following nomina-
tons on the 4th: Alfred c. Coke, New York;
District Judge for the Southern District OF
New York; John s. Wise, Virginia, United
States Attorney for the Eastern District OF
Virginia
THE Executive Committee OF the Republican
Congressional Campaign Committee elected
Colonel D. B. Henderson, of Dubuque, Iowa
SECRETARY on the oIu
THE Committee on Claims reported to the
Senate on the 5th the bill providing for the as
certainment of claims Of American citizens for
sPoliations committed by the French prior to
July 81, 1901.
SECRETARY CHANDLER received the follow
ing telegram from Engineer Melville on the
5th, dated Lena Delta, March "a: ''Found De
Long and party dead. Found all papers and
books. VIII continue the search Tor Chipp.' -
WASHINGTON correspondent says that the
discharge papers of Ohio soldiers In the late
war, which were entrusted to the State Agent
at Washington for the collection of bounty
claims, were boxed up and sent to New York
without his authority, and cannot now be
found.
MAJOR TwINING, one of the Commissioners
of the District OF Columbia, died at Washing
ton on the 5th.
REAR ADMIRAL JOHN RoDsERs died at
Washington on the 5th Of Bright's disease, In
the fifty-fourth year of his age
The reception in the rotunda of the Capitol
at Washington given by the Ladies' Aid So
c,ety OF the Garfield Memorial Hospital on the
9th, was one of the most brilliant events Of the
season, and realized handsome sum for the
object for which 1t was given.