The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-06-27
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
A General summary Of Events at Home
and Abroad.
Compiled from Daily Reports mp to the
Hour of Going to Press.
noMEsIIC.

POSTMASTER THOMAS Il. BULLOCK, OF
Washington City, died at Atlantic City, N.
J., on the Goth of tumor of the throat.
TIE New York City Board of Alder
men on the Goth adopted a resolution that
from and after the 18th of June to the 18th
of September each year, until otherwise
ordered, all mechanics and laborers Of the
City Government shall stop work at noon
Saturdays without abatement of wages.
TIE mate and six or eight men of
the crew Of the whaling schooner Ellen
Rizpah, Of Provincetown, Mass, were lost
while on q voyage recently. The captain
and mate both struck q whale at the Same
time and the line becoming foul the mates
boat was drawn under and never seen
afterwards.
The Grand Lodge of the Temple of
Honor of Pennsylvania held its annual
session at Allegheny City on the Goth. The
next session will be held at Reading, that
State, on the third Tuesday Of June, 1884.
THE four-mile straight-away eight
cared boat race between Harvard and Co
lumbia crews was rowed at New London,
Conn, on the Goth, and the Harvards won
by twelve lengths.
COLONEL w. c. PArTIsoN, President
of the Union Trust Company, died at Phila-
delphia on the Goth. He was well known In
the financial world, and was President of
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company from
ARCHBISHOP WOOD died at Philadel-
phia on the Goth.
THE Pennsylvania State Convention
OF Coal Miners held another session at
Pittsburgh on the 10th and after adopting
q constitution and electing the following
officers adjourned sine die. President, Hon.
IL. ~.
quarters at Pittsburgh; Vice President,
George Harris, of Reynoldsville, Jefferson
County; Secretaries, Richard Davis, Dubois
apd Hon. Thomas Armstrong, Of the Labor
Tribune, Pittsburgh. The State was di-
vided into seven districts, including the
anthracite regions, Connellsville, Mercer,
Clearheld, Jefferson and Pittsburgh.
GENERAL SHERMAN, Colonel Tidball,
Chief Justice Waite and Justice Gray left
Washington on the 10th for q trip across
| the continent, along the boundary of the
United States. They viii inspect all the
military posts en- route.
TIE finding of Wasson Court Martial
was received by the Judge Advocate Gem
eral at Washington on the Goth. The result
was not made known, but it was thought
that the sentence was at least dismissal,
| otherwise the Department Commander
| would have acted upon IL.
GENERAL CHARLES EWING, formerly
Of Ohio, died at Washington on the 10th Of
pneumonia, after q short Illness. He was
q brother of General Thomas e. Ewing, of
Ohio, and brother.in-law of General Sher-
man. He served upon the latter's staff
during the war. Since 1867 he had been
| practicing law In Washington.
E. L. STEWART, an aeronaut, made
an ascension from Fayette, No., In an old
and dilapidated hot-air balloon, which burst
1 IL "a Al n
| feet. Balloon and aeronaut came down
with a rush and both plunged in the Bonne
Femme creek and at once disappeared. The
| remains of Stewart were afterwards recov-
cred
The monument erected by the women
of Kershaw County, s. c., in memory of
the Confederate dead, was dedicated on
the 10th, at Camden, that State. There was
grand military demonstration, in which
twenty companies participated. Senators
| Hampton and Butler, Governor Thompson
| and other distinguished men were present
The ceremonies of the unyeiling consisted
of an artillery salute, dedicatory prayer,
an ode by the ladies and a memorial ora
tion by Senator Hampton
The Keunzel murder trial at Belle
fontaine, Ohio, came to an end ON the Goth
in the midst of the argument, one of the
jurors being taken down with the scarlet
| fever.
| A DECREE of court was entered at
Chicago onthe 10th permitting Mrs. Frances
Maria Scoville, sister of Charles J. Guiteau
and the divorced wife OF George Scoville,
to change her name to Frances Maria Howe.
THE eighth annual session of the
American Association of Nurserymen, Flo
rists and Seedmen met at st. Louis on the
10th. President ex-Lieutenant Governor
| Norman j. Coleman presided. There were
about one hundred and fifty delegates from
| the various States present. The Treas
| urer's report showed that there was So, ,667
in the treasury.
81. N. OGDEN died of apoplexy at New
| Orleans on the 10Th in the fortieth year of
his age. He was Attorney General of Louis
lana under the Nichols administration and
took prominent part in the politics of that
State during 1874 and 1915.
The Williamson & Stewart Paper
Company, of st. Louis, made an assignment
to J. P. Whyte on the Goth. Assets $751;
900, subject to a deed of trust for nearly
800, 700.
WILLIAM T. Cook & Co., straw
goods manufacturers of Foxburg, Mass,
failed on the 21st. Liabilities about $780,
900. The majority of their paper is held
| by the Boston banks.
THOMAS SCANLAN was convicted in
the Common Pleas Court of Ohio at Cincin-
natl on an Indictment under the tramp law
The penalty is from one to three years In
| the penitentiary. This is the first convic-
tion under the law In Ohio.
The Ohio State Democratic Conven-
ton met at Columbus on the 21st and placed
in nomination the following ticket: For
Governor, George A. Hoadly, Of Cincin-
natl; Lieutenant Governor, John 8. War
Martin D. Follett, of Washington; long
term, Selwin Owen, Of Williams; Supreme
Court Clerk, John ]. Cruikshank, ofMiama;
Cuyahoga; Auditor of State, Emil Kies-
wetter, of Franklin; Treasurer, Peter
| Brady, of Sandusky; School Commissioner,
Leroy ID. Brown, Of Butler; Member Of the
Board of Public Works, John P. Morton, Of
Greene.
ADIsPATcH from Helena, Montana,
on the 21st states that Butte coach with
eight passengers was stopped by road
agents near the Boulder Mountains on the
10th and the passengers robbed of all their
| money and valuables. The treasure box
was also carried away. The amount It con
tanned was not known.
The Old Council House, Savage's
Art Gallery and Clawson's Wagon Depot
were destroyed by fire at Chicago on the
21st. Loss 5000 During the fire an ex
plosion of gunpowder occurred demolish.
ing the plate-glass windows and sash and
doors of the vicinity.
The Gibsonton distillery, situated on
the Monongahela River about fifty miles
above Pittsburgh, in Westmoreland Coun
ty, Pa, was destroyed by fire on the 21st.
The loss will reach 500, 900. There were
10000 barrels of whisky burned. This Is
the second time within the past six months
that this distillery has been destroyed by
fire. Several explosions occurred, severely
injuring number of employees. Partially
insured.
A TORNADO struck the southern part
| Of Iirinnrfnn Honntu No In, rrhaf is