The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-01-03


company with the Secretaries of State, War,
Navy and Treasury, General Sherman, MEM
bers of the Diplomatic Corps aud the Com
mittee on Foreign Affairs and Foreign Rela-
tions paid visit to Mount Vernon on ths 21th
ult., on the Government steamer Despatch.
MRs. MARGARET ELLIOTT. the widow
of Rev. John Elliott, one Of the early preachers
OF the Methodist Protestant Church OF Ohio,
died at Portsmouth, Ohio, on the q h ult. In
the eighty-hfth year OF her age.
HENRY c. KIEsEL, City Treasurer of
Tucson, Arizona, and agent for the Budweiser
Beer Company at that place, absconded on the
27th ult. with considerable amount of money
belonging 10 the city and the Budweiser Com
pany.
A MEMORIAL protesting against the
passage of the Bankrupt act, signed by $50
firms and individuals of New York City, rep
resenting nearly all the principal business of
that city, was presented by Mr.. Lapham to the
Senate on the 2Sth ult- The memoralists state
that the operation of the United States Bank
terests of the whole country.
N. d. SroCKBRIDGE, Assistant Com
missioner of Patents at Washington, has re-
signed.
GOVERNOR PArTIsoN, of Pennsylvania,
has appointed William S. Stenger, of Cham
bersburg, Secretary of that Commonwealth.
ANDREW LoNDER, q merchant tailor
of New York City, failed on the 2Tth ult., with
liabilities Of about $4,000, and after affixing
his signature to an assignment to Henry T.
Deiffenthaler fell to the floor and Immediately
expired.
ROBERT FORD, of Providence. r. l.,
aged seventy-seven years, committed suicide
by cutting his throat on the 2Sth ult. He had
been despondent for few days previous.
ALBERrD. HERRIcK. Assistant United
States Attorney at New York, died of pneu-
monis on the 25th ult-
WHTrNEY's jewelry establishment at
North Attleboro, Mass, was destroyed by fire
on the 2Sth ult. Loss $4,000.
SAMUEL KEED. an old and respected
citizen of Philadelphia, who had been con-
stantly attending at the bedside Of his de-
ceased wife for few days previous, laid down
on q sofa on the 9th ult. to tske some rest.
When awakened and Informed that his wife
was dead he calmly turned on his side and in
q few moments expired de was in thu
SEVENTEEN year Of his age.
Hon. JAMES w. NEWMAN, Secretary
Of State-elect Of Ohio has announced the. ap-
polntment of the following gentlemen to
clerkships In his office: Chief Clerk, 5. L.
Reeves, of Fairfield County; Statistics, James
K. Newcomer, of Champaign; CORPORATION
Clerk, Felix Z. Breen, of Erie; Recording
Clerk, Homer ID. Hunt, OF Trumbull; Super
intendent of Book Room, Thomas G. Howell,
of Scioto.
AT a session of the Ohio State Bar
Association held at Cincinnati on the 2Sth ult.
the following officers were elected: President
r. A. Harrison, Columbus; Vice Presidents,
George Hoadley, George pence, John c. Lee,
J. II, Thompson, Charles Follett, 8. 5. Knowles,
ID. A. Hollinsworth, w. T. Spear, ID. w. II.
Day; Secretary, J. T. Holmes, Franklin Coun-
ty; Treasurer, Telford Groesbeck, Cincinnati.
KUN SING, the first Chinese mission
ary from the United States to China let for
that country on the 2S h ult.
CLARENCE WEIGHT stepped into the
store OF Mrs. Lizzie Swim, at Fort Worth,
Texas, on the evening of the 9th ult-, and
purchased a cigar and, after lighting 1t, ap-
piled the stil burning match e. some fire works
in the store. An explosion followed and the
store and an adjoining builiing were burned,
Mrs. Swim perishinR in the flames. Weight fed
and was not captured
EMMA BENSON, aged eighteen years,
of Logansport, Ind, danced to such an extent
at ball al that place on the night Of the 9th
| ult. that she ruptured q blood vessel in her
lungs, dying five minutes afterwards.
The brick block owned by L. & w.
PheniI, at Port Huron, Mich, was destroyed
by FIRE on the 2sth ult.
A FIRE at Clinton, Mo-, on the 2Sth
ult. destroyed Duncan's livery stable, Couse's
grocery, Nelson's implement store, Seiford's
butcher shop and q saloon. Loss about
$25, 900.
NEARLY two entire blocks of frame
business houses at Prescott, Ark, were de
stroyed by fire on the 2Sth ult. The loss is es.
timated at 800, 200, two-thirds OF which was
covered by insurance. The flames were started
/ by an incendiary.
FIVE colored persons were drowned
ult. by the capsizlng of the Fort Darlington
ferry-boat.
ABonER in the flour mill at Perry,
Mich, exploded on the 2sth ult-, killing tn,
engineer, whose name was not given. The
mill was considerably damaged.
THE pig iron manufacturers of the
United states met at Pittsburgh on the 27tl
ult., and formed q National Protective Asso
ciation. Representatives were present from
fifteen furnaces in Pennsylvania and Ohio
Il
| country expressing hearty approval OF the
scheme and a willingness to cooperate.
committee consisting Of c; N schmick
Leeto"ia, ohi'; ". H. Wallace, steu
o.; J. J. spearman, sharspville, Pa.
j. d. Weeks, Pittsburgh, was appointed Il
draft constitution and report at the neI
meeting at Pittsburgh, January IL. The re-
and the committee appointed at the previou
meeting 20 go to Washington reported that
| would require hard work to maintain fai
duty on pig iron, as an organized effort woulC
be made by the free trade element to have tn,
duty OF six dollars, which was recommended
by the Commission, reduced to five dollars.
GENERAL BAILEY, State Treasurer o
Pennsylvania, has appointed William Livesey
of Pittsburgh, Cashier of the State Treasury
to ill the vacancy caused by the death o
Captain Mutt.
THE shifting engine of the Pottstowr
Iron Company, at Pottstown, Pa, fell through
q trestle work fifteen feet high at the work.
on the 29th ult., fatally iniuring the engineer
Edward Manning, and Henry Block, j. NJ
Halier and ]. NJ. Kink.
The President nominated Andrew w
Brazee, on the 29th ult., as United State.
Attorney for the District of Colorado.
CHARLEsP P. KELLY has been appointed
keeper Of the new Hfe-saving station at High
head, Cape Cod. Mr.. Kelly Is the only sur
vivor of the Peakedhill Bar catastrophe
during which nearly the whole of the life
saving crew were lost and the ship Trumbul
wrecked.
The house of A. Currence, promi
nent farmer, near Beverly, Randolph County
West Virginia, was burned on the 2Tth ult
and he and four of his children perishe
10 the flames. Mr.. Currence had been watch
ing at the bedside of a sick neighbor for sew
eral nights previous and being tired conclude
to remain at home this night and let his wifi
and two Oldest children go and watch the in
valid. The wife saw the flames when they frs
burst from hor home but before she coulC
reach there the walls had fell in, envelopinI
the five inmates The charred bones of tn
Victims were recovered.
MAYOR GRACE, of New York refused
on the 29th ult. to grant q license to Salm