The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-05-16

buAu-etoEJ WludON anu was rCIAOu6Ay
jured.
ALARGE storing oil tank in the yard
of the Standard Oil Company, ut Bsyonne,
n. J., was struck by lightning on the morn
ing Of the 10th, setting the oil on fire. The
fire soon spread from tank to tank until
eleven of the twenty-seven were In flames.
The fire then communicated to two large
brick storing houses, together with the dock
and several tank boats, and they were soon
consumed. The loss viii reach about ST.
10000. John Herbert, Assistant Superin-
tendent, and six employees were killed by
an explosion.
The hurricane which occurred in the
Lehigh and Wyoming Valleys on the even
ing of the Sth was the severest ever known
in Eastern Pennsylvania Trees for dis
tance of 1000 feet were moved down like
grass. The engine Of passenger train
was struck by falling telegraph pole and
| damaged. The same pole struck q passenger
car, making sPlinters Of II in front. Near
| from the hillside and lodged on the track.
but the watchman saw IL in time TO stop
trains going either way. Near Stony Greek
Station four freight cars OF q moving Le-
| high Valley train were overturned.
Mrs. JAMES SToUGH, wife of a prom
inent miller living few miles north Of
Ostrander, Delaware County, Ohio, met
with a most shocking accident which caused
/ her death on the lUJ1. one W dS on the Dank
| of q small stream watching her SON shoot
/ fish, when the weapon was accidentally
discharged while the muzzle was near her
and the contents passed through her bowels,
| infiicting fatal wound. The son Is grief
| stricken over the sad occurrence.
ANDREW j. SMITH, President of the
Manhattan Fire Insurance Company, Of
New York City, was arrested and held to
bail in the sum of 5000, on the 11th,
Il riuo 10 falo
returns in the annual report of the company
| for 1880 to the New York Insurance. De-
partment. Insurance Superintendent Nc
Call swears in his affidavit that the un-
paid losses of the company are at least
| $4,000, whereas the report says they are
/ only S43, ,7S0, and that the other liabilities
will aggregate Sd, 900, while they are put
| at only Sl2 900 by the company. Mr.. Mccall
| swears that another officer of the company,
/ whose signature was also affixed to the re-
/ port, has purloined SO ,143, aud that he al
tered the ecompany's book, attempting there
by to conceal the embezzlement.
Two colored children perished in a
burning cabin near Gainesville, Ga, on the
10th. A dog, refusing 10 leave the little
| ones, perished also.
| JACOB BLossER, farmer aged about
forty years, living about fifteen miles south
/ of Grafton, w. Va, cut his throat with an
i old dull barlow knife on the 9th, and died
| the following morning. De had become
| Respondent at reverses which he met in his
| business. A large family Is left in poor
| circumstances
The johnson brothers, who were on
trial at Little Rock, Ark, for robbing a
| train and numbering the conductor, Cain,
/ at Mulberry Station, that State, were con-
victed of murder in the first degree on the
/ 10th. Three others were convicted some
time ago, and the remaining one, McDon-
aid, viii soon be put on trial.
4 AMAsA. STONE, a wealthy and we'll
known business man Of Cleveland, Ohio,
committed suicide at his residence in that
city on the 11th by shooting himself through
the heart with pistol. He had been great
| sufferer from insomnia for several years
and it was thought that he was temporary
insane when he committed the act
RrNGEL & ELLIOTT, wholesale dealers
in hats and furs, at Cincinnati, made an
assignment on the 11th. The liabilities are
about $4,000 and the assets about half that
amount
THE aphis has made its appearance
in nearly all the orchards in Niagara Coun-
ty, N. Y, and the farmers are considerably
exercised about the apple crop.
The President on the 11th appointed
William Youngblood Collector of Internal
Revenue for the Second District of Ala
bama, and George Holmes Collector OF
Customs at Beaufort, g. G.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR removed G. Ir-
wing Deity, Collector of Internal Revenue al
Baltimore, on the 11th, and appointed John
n. Sullivan in his place The change was
the Treasury that Deity was physically un-
able to perform the duties of the Office.
The Union Steam Forge at Borden
town, N. J., was destroyed by fire on the
11th.
Mrs. HANNAH s. GRANT, mother OF
ex-President Grant, died at the residence Of
her daughter, Mrs. Mary Corbin, on Jersey
City Heights, N. J., on the 11th. Mrs. Grant
rose on the morning of her death apparent
ly In good health, but was seized with Sc
we're pains in the region Of the heart shortly
| before noon and died before a physician
could be summoned. The deceased was borr
in Berks County, Pa, November %, 11S9
and was married to Jesse Grant at Cler
| mont, Ohio. She was the mother OF si1
| children, three of whom are now living
ex-President Grant, Mrs Corbin and Mrs
| Kramer, wife of the present United States
Minister to Switzerland. She was buried
in the family plot at Spring Grove Gene
terry, Cincinnati, Ohio.
The residence of William Head, a
Holly Springs, Dallas County, Ark, wa.
destroyed by fire on the 10th and thre'
children of his son-in-law, James Good
game, were fatally burned.
WALLACE BRUNDAGE and A. Becker
were killed, and three brothers, John
Joseph and Levi Guyer, fatally injured by
J the explosion at Guyer's saw mill at Elk
hart, Ind, on the 11th.
OFFICIALS of the Treasury Depart
ment at Washington state that it viii no
be necessary for dealers in tobacco VIII,
. have claims for rebate of taxes, tax stamps
etc, to employ lawyers to collect sheil
considered in the order filed, and that tn
fact that q claimant is represented by al
attorney viii not help the consideration o
his claim IN ,s;y any wsy sRPsaris i.y s1ss sav
, been sending out circulars in larg
, quantities to tobacco dealers, in SOM
cases sending them through other larg
tobacco manufacturing firms, Offering thei
services in the collection of the drawbacl
: or rebate tobacco tax for q fee of from fiv
to ten per cent of the amount OF the claims
Some of these claim agents have stated d
, their circulars that they possess certain
such claims The practice of the lnterna
4 Revenue Bureau Is to treat all claimant
alike. The money to pay the claims OF re
l tail dealers has not yet been appropriated
. stamps, so that there win be no delay q
paying them.
THE graves of the Confederate dea,
I in Elmwood Cemetery, at Memphis, wer'
decorated, with the usual ceremonies, ol
: the 18th. Rev. d. c. Kelly, of Nashville
. delivered the oration.
TEN houses at Cassville, w. Va, wer
destroyed by fire on the 18th. PARTIAL,
insured.
The jackson Iron Company's furnac
at Fayette, Mich, was destroyed by fire ol
the 18th. Loss about $500, 900; no Insurance.
THE Hancock building, occupied b,
Z q number OF business firms at Austin, Tex