The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-11-01
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
A General Summary Of Events at Home
and Abroad.
Compiled from Daily Reports up to the
Hour of Going to Press.
DOMESTIC.


EMANUEL LEVI, a dealer in gents
furnishing goods, and an extensive manu-
facturer OF mems underwes-, at Petersburgh,
Va, failed on the 25th. The assets and liza
bilities are not known. The indebtedness is
mostly held in New York and Baltimore.
ACTING SECRETARY JosLYN, of the In
terror Department, rendered decision of
utmost importance to a large class of appli-
cants for pensions on the 25th. He holds in
effect that seven years absence may he taken
as proof presumptive Of n soldiers death and
that such prof shall warrant the issue of
pension to his family IL other requirements
have been complied with. This decision is q
direct reversal OF the practice hitherto prac-
ticed in the Pension Bureau. Positive proof
OF a soldiers death was required, in many
cases 1t was impossible to produce
CHARLES F. MEYRAN, President of the
Fittsburgh immigration Association, sub
nitted his report to that society on the oath,
which gives the operations of the society for
the year ending October 1, 1852. 1t set forth
that in that time the total number Of immi-
grants that arrived in Pittsburgh was 81, $40,
including immigrants OF all nationalities.
OF these 1889 remained in the city
their leG home Mhiie 4s5ls continued their
journey farther west. Out of The Is, $50
who settled I'm Pittsburgh, 1895 found en-
ployment in short time, being IN a reason
but 354 were without means and were desti-
tn e. They were provided for by the Aid
Association. The total expenditures in this
line were only S933. 55, or an average of sixty
six cents per immigrant. Four children of
immigrants died in Pittsburgh while en- route.
The American Institute of Architects
held their annual session at Cincinnati on the
25th, C. T. Littell, OF New York, presided.
The following officers were chosen for the
In praefdapf Thufpae NJ Walter
Philadelphia; Treasurer, o. p Hatfield, Brook
lyn; secretary, William R. Ware, New York;
Trustees, I. T. Littell, Il. n. Cong;
Of New York; Secretary Foreign Cor
respondence, T. NJ. Clarke, Boston. The
ins itute appointed standing committees
as follows: Publication-A. J. Bloor and II.
Il. Holly, New York; ]. NJ; Clark, Boston; J.
VI. Macarthur, Jr., Philadelphia; George C.
Morris, Jr., Newport Observation-Disclosures
W. r. Ware, New York; N. Clifford Kicker,
Champaign, Ill; II. Van Burt, Boston; Alfred
Storer, Providence; n. A. Potter, New York.
THERE were thirty-eight new cases
and two deaths from fever at Pensacola on the
25th.
CAPTAIN SAMUEL HILDRErH died at
Madison, Indiana, on the s5.h. He was one
of the oldest and most popular boatmen on
the Ohio River.
J. SCHREIBER, of the cotton commits
sion firm of Schroeder & Schreiber, of New
Orleans, was drowned In Lake Pontchartrain,
La, on the 25 h.
DELEGATES from eleven local societies
of stationary engineers met at New York on
the 25th, and organized a national organiza-
tion. Detroit, Chicago and st. Louis were
represented. Following officers were elected:
President, Henry ID. Ozens; Vice President,
George NJ. Barker. B Jston; Secretary, A. NJ.
Davy, Detroit; Treasurer, j. G. Beckerly,
Chicasr.
The operations of 5,491 postoffice
money order Offices Ito which have been added
since June 30, 1852 while one Office has been
discontiuued) reached the sum OF Sis, 4Oo, lis
paid out and repaid The gain in each
case is about eight per cent Fees
received from the public amount to
Sl,05S,7l0, an increase Of nearly nine
per cent. There were 377, ,443 international
money orders issued, OF the value OF So $50, ,5l4,
and III, ,SS3 such orders were paid amounting
to 50, ass, ,462, while the total amount of fees
paid by the public was S145, 644; so that domes-
ing the year aggregated $ll9, ,966, ,632, and
orders paid with repayments OF over $ll5,-
| OOO, 100.
THE Surgeon-General of the Army
ard Navy made q report to Secretary Lincoln
| on the 25th, recommending plat OF five acres
in southwestern Hot Springs Mountain as a
site for the proposed army and navy hospital,
for the construction of which SS00, 900 was
appropriated st the last session OF Congress.
THE President, on the 26th, appointed
| George E. Waring, OF Newport, r. l., mem
Der of the National Board Of Trade, vice
Charles F. Folsom, resigned.
MAJOR ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE. form.
erly of the British army and well known
throughout Ohio I'm connection with the or
ganization OF troops at the outbreak of the
war, died at Brooklyn, N. Y, on the 25 h.
THE tugboat De Sofa, belonging tc
Brown & Jones, exploded her nigger-boiler a
Memphis on the 25th, killing Dennis Bohlen
the watcbman, and q negro named Joe Hol
man.
THE jury in the case of Bob Ford, al
! Pla:tsburg, Missouri, on the Goth, indicted
for conplicity in the murder of Wood Hite
! shot in the house of sister of the Ford boys
by Liddeil and Bob Ford, brought in a yer
/ dict # { guilty. He was arrested Oh another
charge, that of robbery, for which his brother
Charles Ford is now in jail awaiting trial.
ABOUT 5000 Knights Templar were
in the procession at the Bi-Centenual parai,
on FESTIVAL Day. at Philadelphia on tn,
Goth. The order was represented by com
manderies In Pennsylvania, Massachuset It's
New Jersey, New York, Washington, Della
ware, Rhode Island, Virginia and Maryland
The United States Court at Chicago
on the Goth, affirmed the report in bankruptc,
disallowing the claim OF the Cook Count,
Bank against the estate OF 3. F. Allen, of De
Moines, Iowa, for $G0O,000.
The Adelbert College was dedicated
at Cleveland OIL the 26:h. Addresses wer
made by Amasa Stone, who made the preseuta
iion of the buildings 20 the trustees, Ex
President HR, es, President Cutter, Presideu
Gilman, of John Hopkins, aud others.
THERE were thirty-seveu new cases o
fever, but no deaths, at Pensacola on the 26th
making total Of 2, 1873 cases and 10 Death
up to date.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has appointed
November 80 as q day Of thanksgiving ant
prayer.
The Treasury Department purchased
225, 900 ounces OF fine silver on the 26th, 70
the Philadelphia and New Orleans mints.
THE Treasury Department has de
cided that Chinese laborers residing in tn
United States at the date OF the confirmation
treaty OF 1850 have q right to return at pleas
ure, and IL they left the country before tn
passage OF the act Of 1882, they cannot be re
quired to produce a certificate prescribed b.
that statute.
The following army promotions con
sequent upon the retirement OF Major Genera
Irwin Mcdowell, was announced by the Presi
dent on the 26th: Brigadier General Johl
Pope, to be Major General, and Colonel Ran
dali s. Mackenzie, Fourth Cavalry, to b
Brigadier General.
PROFESSOR X. A. WILLARD, of Littl,
Falls, N. Y, died very suddenly from neural
| IN. Al. -
luminous writer on agricultural topics.
GENERAL S. V. BENEr, Chief of Ord
nance ofthe United States Army, in his repor
for the year ended June 80, 1882, gives tb
fiscal resources of the year rs 81, 1902; ex
| penditurcs, 81, $50 276