The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-12-06
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

REAR ADMIRAL JAMES II. STRONG,
retired, died at Columbia, s. C., on the 2sth
ult
FORT POINT, in San Francisco harbor,
VIII hereafter be known as 'Fort Winfield
Scott" and Fort San Jose, In the same harbor,
as Fort Mason"
The exchanges in three per cent. bonds
during the month of November amounted to
S20, 0,3l0,9 900.
WILLIAM G. CHURCH, of New York;
A. c. Gibbs, of Oregon, aud David w. Stor-
mont, of Kentucky, were appointed on the
2Sth ult. Commi. sioners to examine twenty.
five miles OF the Northern Pacific Railroad on
Clark's Fork division, Montana
A coLoRED boy, aged but twelve
years, murdered another boy, at the instiea-
ton OF a colnred man, at Shreveport, La, on
the 26th ult, and concealed the body under
an old house where it was found. He was
arrested and committed.
GENERAL ANDREW S. HERRAN, Con-
gresham elect Of the Sixth Louisiana district,
died suddenly at Baton Rouge Of heart disease
on the 2sth ult.
THOMAS HUGHES, living near Spots
VILE, Ky, went with his family to church on the
26th ult., leaving an infant child in charge Of
a colored girl. When they returned in the
evening they found the child dead on a pallet
on the floor horribly eaten by rats and the girl
missing.
THE count of the vote for the Regent
of the Nebraska State University shows q
majority of 27e for Gere, the Republican can
didate.
JOHN MUELLER, well-to-do saloon
keeper at Pittsburgh, cut his wife's throat,
killing her instantly, on the 2Sth ult. and
then committed suicide by cutting his own
throat. 1t is not known how the crime was
committed or what was the provocation, but
crazed him. The razor was found lying on
the piano.
THE fattening- house, packing depart
ment and pot-room of Abel, Kim & Co.'s glass
mauufactory, on the South Side, at Pittsburgh,
were destroyed by fire on the 2sth ult. Loss
$4,000; covered by insurance in the home
companies
TIE Erie Canal was frozen over at
Albany, n. Y, on the 2sth ult- The Division
superintenden,s were running ''breakers" and
keeping navigation open.
ADUEL was fought at Charlottesville,
N. c., on the 2Sth ult. between Dick Romhead
and Peter Gold, both statesmen in a commits
sion house at that place, with knives, in which
Gold received an ugly wound diagonally up.
ward across his breast, from which it was
thought he could not recover. 1t appears
that Romhead, in sport, threw some cayenne
pepper in Colds face, some Of which got into
his eyes. From this harsh words were used,
and the two agreed to settle the matter with
knives.
THH second trial of r. Porter Lee,
late President of the First National Bank OF
Inf ~ for raerltaH In
his conviction on the 2Sth ult., and he was
sentenced to ten years. imprisonment in the
penitentiary.
The exercises attending the accept
ance of the statue of John Bridge, Puritan,
presented to Cambridge by Samuel ). Bridge,
took place at Boston on the 2sth ult- in the
Shepard Memorial Church. After the services
in the church the assembly adjourned to the
Common, where the ceremony OF unveiling
the statue took place.
The large Touring mills of Upham,
Son 81 Co., at Blue Rapids, Kansas, were
burned on the 26th ult. The mill had only
been completed two months. 1t had sixteen
rollers and cost over $50, 900; insurance $685.
0O0 on the building and machinery. Several
thousand dollars worth of wheat and -four
was fully covered by Insurance
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 2Sth
ult. says that 1t has been learned there that
certain complications in South America have
arisen that seriously threaten the interests ol
the United States on the Isthmus. 1t seems
that Chill, having utterly destroyed Peru and
absorbei about all of that unhappy country
that is OF any value, has been trying {
pick a quarrel with other South American re-
publics, and has gone SO far as 10 be insolent.
iy offensive to the United States In threaten
ing to seize upon the Is hmus Of Panama
which the United States is bound by treaty to
defend. 1t appears that Chilli has preferred
a claim of so, ,00O, 900 damages against the
United States Of Colombia The claim Is for
allowing arms and military stores of various
kinds to pass across the Isthmus from the
United States TO Peru and Bolivia during the
late war with Chill. This claim Colombia can
not pay, being utterly bankrupt In treasury, q
fact that Chilli is very well aware OF. The
report was current at Panama thata seizure
of that point by the Gillian navy was one ui
the contingencies of the pending affair and
that two ironclads were on their way thither.
The interest OF the Uni ed States turns upon
the guarantee of the treaty OF 1915 with New
Granada, by which we bound ourselves to pre-
serve the neutrality of the Isthmus transit
THE II. A. Pitts Sons manufacturing
company, Of Chicago and Marseilles, failed on
the 2sth ult. for s23o,00o. Il is claimed that
the assets will reach $3.50, COO, largely in farm.
ers' notes for threshing machines sold them.
Robert c. Miner was made the assignee. The
company promises payment In full and re-
sumption of business soon.
THE Supreme Court of Indiana re-
versed the decision of the lower court legal
izing the Vincennes Lottery, which has been
operated for more than n year past as q policy
game taking thousands of dollars from the
pockets of credulous people.
JAMES w. CLARK, of Syracuse, N. Y,
Farnsworth q wolcott of Minneapolis. and
Thomas Cochras, OF st. Paul, have purchased
1000, 600 acres OF land in Texas, the largest
sale ever made by that State, and. closing out
all its solid lots
IT is estimated that the reduction OF
the public debt during the month Of November
reached 81, 100000.
THE Comptroller of Currency on the
Goth ult. authorized the Champaign National
Bank, OF Champaign, Illinois. to commence
business with q capital OF $4,000.
CAPTAIN ALLEN MAY, Of Hardin
County, KY, aged 1o1 years, procured a license
on the 29th ult to marry young lady aged
nineteen, in that county.
A GANG of drunken cow boys boarded
train at Sweet Water, Texas, on the 2sth,
and drove the passengers of At the point OF
their revolvers. They then bound the con-
ductor and engineer back to back and run the
train to Fort Worth, Texas, where they left it.
A YOUNG girl. aged fourteen years,
while riding horse to school, near Nebrasks
City, Neb., on the 29th ult., was attacked by q
number of dogs swapping and barking at the
horses head. The animal dashed away and
the girl became so terrified that when she was
carried home she died within an hour.
THE Commercial Hotel, the Pacific
House and Mandan House, at Mandan Da-
kota, were burned on the 29th ult. Loss,
$4,000.
The Almo Hotel, at Dennison, Texas,
was bnrned on the 29th ult-
Rev. j. NJ. MANNING, ID. D., pastor OF
the old South Church, Boston, died at Port
IL