The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-06-07
THE EAST.


THE handsome soldiers monument on the
grounds Of the State Normal School at Millers-
vile Pa, was defaced on the night Of the Both
ult., by bespattering it with ink and other
substances. The monument is ruined
The Maine Prohibition State Convention
made the following nominations on the LIST:
Governor, William T. Eustis; Representa-
tives to Congress, John N. Stone, Henry Tall
man, Rev. N. @. Axtell and j. z. Ladd. The
platform adopted declares that the present
National license system Especial tax so-called)
is responsible, In a great measure, for the in
finite evils Of the liquor traffic, and can only
be oyerthrown by party eonsecrated to the
work. .as ,er .saur.
THE Maine Fusion Greenback State Con-
vention met at Bangor on the ID. There were
964 delegates present. Harris NJ. Plaisted was
renominated for Governor. The resolutions
say that our Government Is of the people, by
the people and for the people, all Of whom are
interested in enterprise and labor; and that it
has been perverted into q government Of the
money power, by the money power and for the
money power, repudiating contracts and
manipulating currency to enrich FIVE per cent.
Of the people by robbing ninety-five per cent. !;
that the interests Of enterprise and labor call
for circulating medium consisting of gold and
silver and paper, all full legal tender controlled
by the Government; that the truth Of the
Greenback creed has been vindlcated by the
partial adoption Of Greenback measures, viz:
the stoppage of contraction and remonetiza-
ton Of silver in 1878; that we unite against
the Republican party; that we are in favor of
free education for all; that Governor Plaisted
has been true to Greeuback principles. Gov
ernor Plaisted accepted the nomination in q
brief address. Congressman Murch also ad-
dressed the convention.
SEYMoUR's chair factory at Troy, N. Y,
burned on the 1st- Loss $4,000.
THE National Surgical Association st their
session at Philadelphia on the2d elected 8. d.
Gross, President; Moses Gunn, Chicago, Vice
President; ]. r. Weist, Richmond, Indiana,
Recorder.
The Pennsylvania Knights of Labor are
dissatisfied with the Greenback State ticket.
They favor holding q labor convention In July.
THE failures throughout the country for the
week ending the I'd numbered 135, against 126
the previous week. The increase was princi-
pally in the West and South. New York City
is still remarkably free from business disas-
ters. The failures were distributed as follows:
Eastern States, "a; Western, AZ; Middle, "a;
Southern, 80; Pacific States and Territories,
IL; New York City, 2
MANTRAP, well-known in connection with
the Peruvian Company affairs, was sentenced
at Philadelphia, on the Sd, to seventeen
months Imprisonment for larceny.
WILLIAM BRoCKAwAY, alias Edward Spen-
Ger, the notorious counterfeiter, was arrested
at Philadelphia on the Sd and taken to Wash
ington-
The follc wing weekly bank statement of the
condition of the associated banks of New York
City was issued on the Sd: Loans increase,
s5S6, 400; specie decrease, 81, ,S26, 800; legal
tenders increase, 81, 154, 500; deposits increase
80, 900; circulation increase, $67, 500; reserve
decrease, $257,5 SIS. The banks now hold
1881, 100 in excess OF the legal requirements.
The picnic of the Analgamated Association
Of Iron and Steel Workers OF the First, Second
and Sixth districts, at Beaver, Pa, on the Sd,
was attended by forty thousand persons.
AcoNvENTIoN of the various Hebrew EN-
grant Aid Societies was held In New York on
the 4th to take concerted action for the recep-
ton, distribution, transportation and coloni-
zation of Russian refugees. President Henry,
ofNew York, called the convention to order.
He said that since December, 1881, SIS, 15S had
been received, 3,69S refugees cared for, and
about 1900 located. But S7,257 remained in
the treasury. Permanent organization was
effected by the election Of Judge Isaacs,
chairman, Henry Mack, Of Cincinnati, vice
chairman, and Messrs. Arthur and Kursheedt,
secretaries.