The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-12-06
district, died at ris home, Mount Pleasant, on
the 9Oth nit. in the sixtieth year of his age.


Charleston. s. c.. on the 8Oth ult. IN the pres
ence of. 1900 persons. Senator Blu Ter de-
livered the grafton.
Mrs. PICKERING, aged ninety years,
was burned to death at the residence of her
son, ]. T. Pickering, three miles north Of
Leesburg, Ohio, on the 3oth ult. by her
clothes taking fire from the CRATE.
BRAvER's BLOCK, in which was the
Opera /. use and C. N. Jones' dry goods store,
at Cairo, Illinois, with two adjoining buildings,
were burned on the 30th ult. Loss about
s2s, 900; no insurance.
The Pittston, Pa, knitting mill was
destroyed b. hre on the 30th ult. Loss,
SO, coo; insurance $4,000
AN unsuccessful attempt was made to
launch the monitor Puritan at Chester, Pa,
| on the 30th ult. She has been on the stocks
since 1876.
THE Grand Jury of the First District
of Utah was discharged on the LIST. They
found no indictments under the Edmunds law.
TIE following statement of the public
debt was made on the 1st: Reduction during
the month OF November, s., 5,5S4, ,l42; cash in
the Treasury, s2s7. .s67, ,173; certificates outA
standing, gold, SIS 405 $40; silver, S73 095 $50
certificates OF deposit outstanding, SO, ,S45, 600;
| refun0t0R CertlnC1te9 OF QcpOklL, E4lO,OOU,
legal tenders, $346, ,OS1 ,0l6; fractional curren-
ssi, as.
The will of the late Thurlow Weed
was fled at New York on the LIST. The estate
is valued at from $4,000 to 500, 900. After
making n number Of minor bequests, the re-
mainder of the property is distributed among
his three daughters and ak grandchildren.
Hon. w. L. ScorT's new hotel at Mas
sassauga Point, near Erie, Pa, was burned on
the lst. Nothing was saved, the occupants
barely escaping with their lives.
The business failures for the week end
ing the 1st throughout the country, numbered
14S. Twelve were in New York City aud 1856
throughout the county, distributed as fol-
| lows: Eastern States, 19; Western, AZ; South
| ern, %; Middle, 23: Pacific Coast and Terri
tories, 10, and Canada, II. A large number
| of the failures were traceable to stock and oil
| speculation and the unsettled condition OF the
| iron trade
The coroner of Cincinnati held an in
quest on the body OF Miss Won Behren on the
1st and found that she died from the effects Of
gun shot wound inflicted by Frank FraYne,
but that the shot was accidental.
GOVERNOR O'NEAL, of Tennessee,
was inaugurated on the 1st.
CHRISTIAN Helm, aged sixty-one
years, q native of Bavaria, but q resident of
Louisville, KY, for the past five years, hanged
himself to a bedpost on the night of the lst.
| The cord used being only wrapping twine
| twisted together.
AN employe in an iron foundry at
Buffalo, N. Y, attempted suicide by plun:ing
his head into q pot of molten metal on the LIST.
Both his eyes were burned out and his scalp
terribly cooked. Itwas thought he could not
| live.
HENRY E. MURPHY, a well-known
politician, an e1-Mayor OF Brooklyn, N. Y,
and President of the East River Suspension
Bridge Trustees, died on the 1st-
CORPORAL GERHARD LEBEREcHr
BLUcHER, Post Schoolmaster at Fort NJ Hen
| ry, and attached to the Second Artillery, has
received an offer from Baker Pashs, of a posi-
Of the en arny Of the RhediVe of ESyD ana
soon as certain conditions are complied
with by the Egyptian authorities he will
seek his discharge from the United
States army Corporal Blueher Is a Hneal
descendant Of the famous Marshal Blucher of
Waterloo fame, after whom he is named. He
was graduated from the universities of Bonn
and Heidelberg. He was military q tache of
the German Legation in Egypt and resided for
q long while at Ramleh. While in Egypt
he acquired the Arabic tongue. In 1880 he
i came to America. Sixteen months ago he
enlisted in the Second Artillery as school
master.
REAR ADMIRAL ROBERT II. WYMAN,
OF the United States Navy, was stricken with
paralysis at Washington on the 2d and died.
THE following is the weekly bank
statement of the Associated Banks OF New
| York City for the week ending the ID: Loans
decrease, s3, 735 800; specie increase, %, ,S94,
i 800; legal tenders decrease, S56, 500; deposits
increase, 81, ,3oI, 900; circula ion decrease, s33
/ 600; reserve increase. 1851, l25. The banks
held 81 A ,015 IA excess Of the legal require
| menis.
The steambarge R. G. Peters was
burned OF Chicago on the night Of the Sd and
all on board, thirteen, were lost.
| The boiler of the steamboat Volusia
exploded while that vessel was lying at the
wharf at jacksonville, Florida, on the ID.
The steamer and her cargo are total loss. A
few Of the crew were slightly injured but none
/ fatally.
THE Commissioner of the Pacific Rail-
roads in his report on the financial condition
of the Pacific Railroad during the fiscal year
| ended June 80 last, shows The gross earnings
were s24,094, ,627, against SO, 765, 752 during
the fiscal year ended June 50, 1881. In round
/ figures the operating expenses during the year
were $4,000, 900; interest paid, 5000, 900;
dividends paid, 100000
The Indian Bureau received informa-
ton on the ID that an agreement providing
for the cession Of portion Of the Sioux Res
i ervation to the United States had been exc
cuted.
| The Garfield Monument fair closed on
the I'd after being open eight days, which
were in the main successful, though two days
Of poor weather prove q slight misfortune.
/ There were but few articles remaining unsold
at the close.
CLAYTON McMIcHAEL, publisher OF
the Philadelphia North american, was ap-
| pointed by the President on the ID as Marshal
Of the District Of Columbia, vice Captain
Henry removed.
GENERAL JAMES s. NEGLEY, of Pitts.
burgh, President of the Union League, has
issued q call for the annual session of the
National Council 1t Philadelphia on the 18th.
| DR.. CHARLES j. EASTMAN, Dean OF
Bellevue Hospital, was arrested at Boston on
the ID by Deputy United States Marshal on
the charge Of using the mails with the intent
to deiraud.. He was released on bail.
| THE business center of Colchester,
Connecticut, was burned on the Sd. Loss
about 1000.
ABOUT six hundred Quakers met in
Il tne JcnkiuVoHni ~, ncetiuR-nouse on inc
Sd, in commemoratiou Of the drst meeting oi
the Society Of Friends 200 years ago.
A FIRE at Bunker Hill, Illinois, on the
Sd destroyed $4,000 worth of property. In.
sured for about one-half.
PACKARD & Matters grain elevator
al Webster City, Iowa, was burned on the I'd.
Loss SIS, 900.
The Board OF Audit OF the Garfield
Claims concluded their duties on the I'd. The
claims allowed for services during the Presi.
dents illness are as follows: Professional
services OF Bliss, $500; Agnew and Ham
ilton, IS, 200 each; Reyburn and Boynton,
s., 900 each; son, 5000. The bills foi