The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-01-25
DOMESTIC.

DIR. DE Wolf, Health Commissioner
of Chicago, said on the 18th, that unless the
people Of that city protect themselves BY vac
safe from the disease.
The Grand Encampment of Ohio of
the Grand Army OF the Republic, met at Gin
cinnati on the 1eth- The following officers
were elected for the ensuing year: Command
er, J. c. Clark, Columbus; Senior Vice Com
mander, j. o. McGowen, youngstown; Junior
Vice Commander, F. w. Young, Weston.
youngstown was chosen as the place for hold
ing the next meeting.
A NOTORIOUS swindler known as Au-
gust Walter, with half dozen aliases, was
arrested in Baltimore on the 18th, for having
swindled Rev. B. T. Schauer, q provincial Of
Of forged checks. He had been several times
at confession to Father Schauer, and In that
way gained his confidence.
The House Committee on Military
Affairs recommends that the Government ac-
cept the title to lands known as Garrison Hill,
Erie, Pa, for establishing thereon q home for
INDECENT sailors and soldiers.
THE Boston Journal published on the
18th confession of Frank Goodman, that two
years ago, while tramping from Boston to
Barnstable, Mass he murdered a companion
named Philip Brown. Goodman says the
crime weighed upon his mind, and he has sew
eral times attempted suicide.
A SEATTLE, Wyoming Territory, spe-
cial of the 18th says James Sullivan and WI J.
lam Howard were arrested there on the 18th
and taken before q Justice Of the Peace to an
swer the charge of numbering George R. An
derson, q young man whom they waylaid and
shot on the night Of the 18th. The evidence
W QOnrlrfefya and Qt the end Of the aYamtna-
ton the Committee Of Safety overpowered the
officers and took the prisoners short distance
from the town and hung them The Commit
tee then returned to the jail and forcibly took
therefrom Benjamin Paine, who was confined
| for the murder of O1icer Sears, and took him
to the same place and also hanged him.
Ex-SECRETARY BLAINE gave dinner
to President Arthur and Murat Halsted, Of
Cincinnati, on the 18th.
The Soldiers and Sailors National
League, at their session on the 10th, con-
demned the attacks recently made in Congress
and in the newspapers upon the arrears of
pension act, and expressed disapproyal Of all
efforts to bring about its repeal.
TEN cowboys from the upper country
rode into Long Pine, Neb., on the night OF
the 1elh and took possession Of the town.
They shot out the lamps in saloons, riddled
the windows, fixtures and wa Is, and terrorized
the Inhabitants by firing fully one thousand
shots during the night. Finally part of the
the rear platform. The inhabitants were too
| glad to have escaped personal injury to think
of following the ruftians.
The house of George Smith, at Lewis,
five miles north of Clinton, Mo-, was burned
on the morning OF the 18th, and five of the IN
mates perished, viz: Elizabeth Smith, aged
seventeen; Rachel, aged tn rteen; Ella, aged
six; Theodore, aged sixteen, and the mother,
aged forty hree. The fire is supposed to have
started from the clothing han ing by the
kitchen stove or froma coal oil explosion.
The Peoples Bank of Tecumseh,
Mich, failed on the 18th. The liabilities are
$4,000; assets, $4,000. FI.
The National Board of Trade, in ses-
sion at Washington, adopted q resolution on
the Goth urging Congress to appoint q COM
mission which shall have supervision over all
Interstate traffic ip the interest of all parties
copcerned, both the general public and cor
porations themselves. This result was reached
after lengthy debate.
N. RADLEY and Ed. Wilson were killed
at Pullman, Ill, on the Goth, by being caught
in a belt which runs q wood machine. They
were both horribly mangied.
SEVEN buildings were entirely con-
sumed by fire at Belle Plaine, Iowa, on the
18th. Loss 5000; insurance $4,000
THERE are 10000, 600 standard dollars
in the Treasury at Washington and $62, 0oo, 600
of silver certificates outstanding. A.
THE Executive Committee of the Ma
tional Board of Health, at Washington, on
the Goth, declared smallpox epidemic In the
United States, and irected the inspection of
several of the most important quaraa tine sta
tions to determine IL the rules and regula-
| lions are properly enforced. An appropriation
of 5000 ha been made for the purpose OF
preven ing the introduction into the District
| of Columbia.
DELEGATE BRENT, from Washington
Territory, presented bill on the tn and got
It referee to a subcommittee of the House
| Commit ,ee on Territories, for admission into
the Union of States of Washington Territory
aud three counties in Northern Idaho Mr..
Ainslie, Delegate from Idaho, Is fighting the
bill because it takes in part of his Territory.
and he is backed by her erritorial repre-
sentatiyes who do not like the precedent this
bill will establish. -
A MOB surrounded the Jail at Ironton,
Ohio, on the Goth, snd effecting an entrance
took therefrom John Wagner, one Of the
purde ers of Paymaster Beggs, on the SOth Of
November last anu hung him to q tree in the
Zeek, an accomplice, and swung him up, but "a
! he made a confession duplicating others he
was cut down and returned to the jail. The
prisoners bore bad characters. There Is not q
trace or clue to the perpetrators, and public
opinion apparently Approved OF the act. &. IL
r. G. DUNN & Co.'s Mercantile Agen-
ey, and their ninety branches, report the busi-
ness failures for seven days, ending 18th, 20