The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-12-27


A coURT-MARTIAL has been ordered to
meet at jefferson Barracks, st. Louis, on the
4th of January next, for the trial OF Captaia
H. Ii. Crews, OF the Fourth Cavalry, on charges
of disobedience of orders, fraud and conduct
unbecoming an officer and gentleman, and
conduct subversive OF good order and military
discipline.
Ex-CAPrAIN HOPKINS, recently court
martialed and dismissed for deserving his post
at the Pensacola navy yard, asks Congress for
reinsta; ement on the Ground If allie ed gross
injustice done him by the court-martial.
TIE fax seed mill of Thompson &
Boyd, at Liberty, Ind, was burned on the
10Th.
GENERAL CURTIS, who was convicted
of the violation of the law In collecting assess
ments from officeholders for political pur-
poses, some time ago, paid his fine Of $1,000
on the 10th and was discharged from custody.
Miss CATHERINE SroUTENoUT, an in
mate Of the Central Insane Asylum Al Colum-
bus, Ohio, crawled through the FIVE and one
of the window of her cell in the fourth story
of the northswing on the 10th, and precipi
ted herself to the ground distance OF sixty
feet, instantly killing herself.
THE Sisters of Charity Hospital, at
Big Rapids, Mich, was destroyed by fire on
the 21st. The sixty inmates were all re-
moved safely, but the valuable library be-
gig to the estate Of the late Father De-
sured for $4,000.
The heaviest foreign mail ever dis
patched was taken by the steamer scythia
from New York on the 21st 1t consis ed OF
202. .046 ordinary and 9,533 registered letters
and 24S sacks OF newspapers.
WILLIAM &. MooRE's private banking
house at Victor, N. Y, closed its doors on the
morning Of the 2lst The suspension was
caused by the failure OF the City Bank OF
Rochester. The liabilities were estimated at
| 100000 1t is s. ated that More had made an
assignment Of his property to Joseph Upton
| of that place.
JAMES A. WILSON, of Wilson, ILL.,, and
Treasurer of De Witt County, that State, COM
mitted suicide on the Goth. He had been an
invalid for several months, and II was believed
| that he took his own life rather than suffer
further pain, though on the body was found q
paper stating that he had lost several thousand
dollars on the Chicago Board OF Trade. The
| accounts In the TreRsure,'s Office were all
| found correct.
REPRESENTATIVE WATSON has pre-
pared and will present a bill in Congress to
increase the pension from eight dollars to fifty
dollars a month Of Simon Harris, of Putnam
| County, Ind. Harris is los years old, was a
| private in the war of 1912 I'm the North Caro-
| lima Volunteers, and is the oldest man now on
/ the pension rolls.
THE joint Congressional Commission
on the Newburg, N. Y, Centennial celebra-
ton, agreed on the 2ist, to request the Gov
ernors OF States to attend the celebration,
| escorted, II possible, by military guard Of
one hundred men in Continental uniform.
The celebration takes place in October next.
THE five-story building of the Buffalo
Commercial Advertiser was burned on the night
OF the 2lst. The fire communicated and
burned the four-story brick block on the op-
| posite side of the street occupied by Miller,
Greiner & Co., Wholesale grocers- The ag-
gregate loss was $3.50, 900; insured for $685.
600.
JOHN RUNK, arrested for wife-beating
at ShelbYviile, lad, on the 2lst, was surroun-
ded by a crowd Of men while being AIKEN TO
prison, and being forced from the officers was
| whipped nearly to death.
Rev. II. o. SHELDON, Methodist
minister widely known throughout Northern
Ohio, died at obcrlln on the 2lst, in the eighty
third year OF his age
THE National Committee Of the Green
back Labor party held session at st. Louis
on the 10th. The PRINCIPAL questions dis
cussed were the adoption OF q platform aud
also the propriety Of changing the name OF
the party.
DAVID WILcHER was shot and in
stantly killed by his brother William, at San
dersville, Ga, on the night Of the 10Th.
William went out Of the house with his gun
to investigate the cause of some unusual noise
on tho premises. David went around the
house in an opp site direction with the inten-
ton of frightening William, when the latter
sho, him dead
AT a meeting of the Western Flint
Bottle Manufacturers held at Cincinnati on
the 21st the Official national price list ol
green bottles was adopted for flint bottles
with no charge for boxes. This action was
taken In response to the resolution OF the
National Wholesale 6ruggists' Association at
Cleveland in November last.
ELI II. McFEELY, an old and we'll
known citizen Of SteubenvIlle, Ohio, died al
that place on the 2lst In the seveniy-nin /
year of his age.
THE Mansard Block, owned by the
United States Life Insurance Company OF
New York, at osvego, N. Y, was bu ned or
the 21st, together with the Union Hotel ad
J joining. Loss $S5,OOo; partly insured.
GoLDsMTTH's HALL, at Philadelphia,
was destroyed by fire on the Goth. Loss $780,
!. 900; insur nee $4,000.
, The Iron Manufacturers National As.
sociation at a session at Pittsburgh on the
, Goth, resolved that the volume OF trade wa
! good and the prospects for pext season bright
+ 1t was decided not to change the card rate o
two and-a half cents, but to reduce the sellins
rate to o-and-one-fourth cents. Congress.
was asked to adopt the report OF the Tariff
! Commission.
REAR ADMIRAL JAMES T. SCHENeE
4 y q
2lst, aged seventy:hve years. He entered tn,
3 United States naval service in 1921 as mid
shipman on board the Hornet. He ros
rapidly on account of gallant service, anC
when the rebellion broke out he commanded
feet Of fourteen vessels In the Atlantic
on Fort Fisher and in the blockading service
Previous to this he had served In the Mexical
war under Commodore Stockton, and late
was assigned to command In the Western
i Gulf squadron, and assisted In the seizure o
California He was placed on the retired lis
= Of the navy In 1859.
Ex-GovERNoR BENJAMIN G. HUMPH
d REYs, of Mississippi, died at Vicksburg on tn
e Slst.
JosEPHR. MAcKEY, once q awel-knowl
r politician Of New YORK City, died in Hare'
Q fslsud Hospital on the 2lst from the effects o
a dose Of chloral, taken with suicidal intent.
A LIFE-sIzE portrait of General S
Wiley Crawford was formally presented to tn
i State Of Pennsylvania on the 21st.
BANCROFT, the historian, has founde,
a Scholarship at Worcester, Mass, to perpetu
4 ate the memory Of his parents.
3 THE business failures throughout tn
d country for the week ending the 22i numbere
|, 1877. The Eastern Sta es had %; Western, 81
- | aoufhern N. Mtddle *. Pacific (,oaat On
Canada IL, add New York City, 6. This 1
: eleven less than the week previous.
. ERNEST DUBoUoUE, the Frenchmal
: | who .ome TINA ro attacked several ladies n