The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-08-29
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THE result of the house to house in
spection ordered by Surgeon General Ham
nton at Pensacola on the I'D was the and-
ing Of two eases of yellow fever in q sailors
boarding house. The patients were removed
to the quarantine hospital and the house
put under guard.
A CYCLONE struck the northern part
Of the city Of Rochester, Minn., about seven
O'Clock on the evening of the 22d, making .
clean sweep of the elevators, engine-house
and about three hundred dwellings in that
part of the city. Twenty-four persons are
known to have been killed and thirty or
forty injured. The storm also swept
over the towns Of st. Charles, Utica
and Winona, killing several persons
and injuring number OF others.
A passenger train was blown from
the track near Zumbrota and dashed to
pieces down an emeankment, killing one
hundred passengers and injuring large
number. Heavy hail accompaniment the storm
damaging the growing crops and killing
live stock. The loss in Rochester alone
THE Empire Oil Works, at Long
Island City, N. Y, were destroyed by Ere
on the I'D. The large agitators, containing
$1,000 barrels of oil were also destroyed.
Patrick Cooney. q workman, was badly
burned and three others injured severely.
The fire is believed to have been caused by
a workman accidentally dropping q hot
soldering iron into an oil can. The loss Is
estimated at $4,000; no insurance.
OF the three and one-haf per cent.
bonds embraced in the one hundred and
twenty first call $4,611 $50 were redeemed
at the Treasury Department. on the 22d,
under the circular of August Is. OF
this amount, S46I 900 have been held
by the United States Treasury In trust,
-
tion. These bonds were redeemed with in
terest to November 1, the date of the matu
rity of the call. The amount of bonds en-
braced in the call which had previously been
tation is S529, 100. This makes the total of
the bonds redeemed under the one hundred
and twenty-frst call to date, s, ,440, $50.
The three and a-half per cents still out
expected these bonds will be redeemed at
the rate of S5,0O0,0 900 per week.
AN association for the construction of
underground telegraphs and telephones
has been formed at Albany, N. Y.
CHARLES OsTERHAUDT, of Hoosick
Falls, N. Y, fatally shot DR.. r. r Hudson,
his family physician, Thursday morning.
Hudson refused to obey Osterhaudt's de-
wife was an invalid. Two shots were
fred, one ball lodging in the spine. Oster-
haudt escaped.
GEORGE BEATTIE. middle-aged man,
shot and instantly killed Elizabeth Cam
eron, twenty-eight years old, at her apart
ments in New York on the morning of the
22d- After killing her Beattie shot himself
through the heart and fell dead across her
body. The cause of the murder and suicide
was unknown.
DURING a thunder storm that swept
IT - A. M
valuable horses belonging to John Mooney
and were killed by lightning. The shoes
OF two horses were melted, but otherwise
there Is no mark about them.
The Office of Minister of Spain at
Washington, vacant on account of the
death Of Barca, will not be fled for some
months yet. In the interim the legation
will be put in charge of Dupuy de LONE,
Charge d'Affaires-
The following officers were elected
by the Knights Templar at their conclave
at San Francisco on the 23d: Grand
Master, Robert E. Witser, of Vir-
ginia; Deputy Grand Master, Charles
ROome, Of New York; Generalissimo, john
2. s. Goblin, of Pennsylvania; Captain
General, Hugh McCurdy, of Michigan;
Senior Warden, J.. Larne Thomas, Of Ken
tucky; Junior Warden, George G. Perkins,
of California; Treasurer and Recorder, re-
elected. The Inauguration of the founda-
tion Of the Garfield monument has been de-
clared a State holiday.
THE American Bar Association held q
session at Saratoga, N. Y, on the 23d- Ex-
Governor Stevenson, Of Kentucky, who
was to deliver the opening address, was
absent on accounto of i'll health. The report
of the Comittee on Plans of Relief to Suit
ors in the United States Supreme Court
was accepted
THE recent fire in the woods at South
Milford, Mass, burned over 100 acres. The
drouth is becoming serious in that section.
The first two bales of cotton raised
this year in the Memphis district were re-
ceived at that place on the 23d and classed
as middling. They were sold at auction
and realized twenty-five cents per pound.
Ar eight o clock on the night of the
23d, the dead body of DIR. ]. s. Martin was
found in his office at Cincinnati, with q
sm1H revolver in his hand and q pistol
wo1ud in his temple. The deceased was
sixty-two years Of age. The cause of the
suicide was domestic and financial trouble
AT Mattoon, H., David Woods and
his team were stung to death by honey
bees, on the sd.
A constable and posse attempted &c
take William Andrews from q house of III
| fame at Isadora, No., on the night of the
23d and were fired upon by him, one of the
| party, ]. p. Rex, being killed. Andrews
| gave himself up. Rex was an influential
| citizen.
JOHN GoRMAN, a farmer living neal
Jamestown, H., committed suicide on &C
count Of financial trouble. For the same
cause Robert Tuppener, of that place, alsC
shot himself through the heart with shot
gun.
A PARTY of children playing neal
| Rolesville, N. c., on the 10th saw the heac
and foot of a man projecting from q pill
of logs in q ditch. Parties Of negroes wers
then making diligent search for q muir
derer, who was found to be John Horton
a desperate negro. The body Of the muir
was recognized to be that of Patrick Mitch
ell, colored- Horton lookedupon his victim
and confessed his crime. They had quar-
reled about a game of cards played at tn
house of the latter's mother On the Thurs
day previous and Horton seized an ak ant
broke his skull. Horton then took Mitchell
who was not yet dead, by the heels ant
dragged him through the water and mu,
200 yards and cast him into q ditch. Tn
murderer was taken to Raleigh and lodges
in jail.
The recent purchase by the Govern
ment Of the birthplace of General Wash
ington has created additional interest Il
the preservation Of his old home at Noun
Vernon. AS is well known, through the ei
forts of Miss Cunningham, Of South Care
lima, aided by Edward Everett, the Ladies
Mount Vernon Association Of the Unio
was formed, and the home Of the patriot wa
purchased. To each of the thirteen origina
States was afterward assigned q room, to tn
! restoration of which to its first beauty it wa
intended the ladies Of the State should pledg
themselves. Notwithstanding the enthu
siasm and sympathy once aroused In tn
project, il is worthy of note that some O
the rooms of the old mansion are still bar
and empty, even South Carolina, who's
daughter conceived the plan for the pre-
servation of the place, being backward 4
this particular. It has been decided tha
xhere the ladies of n State do not unde,