The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-12-19

used. Michael ]. Forster, Gus Renaud
and Edward Mason were killed, and ten
men seriously wounded by receiving shots
in different parts of their bodies or limbs.
The row occurred over the challenging OF
voter. The leading participants in the
affray were arrested.
A SERIOUS riot took place between
italian and negro laborers at Blue Mount
ain Tunnel, near Newburg, Pa, on the 14th.
The negroes attempted to steal provisions
from the Italians and were discovered and
fired upon by the latter. The negroes were
unarmed but returned the assault with
clubs. One of the negroes fatally
wounded and three others seriously.
The business failures in the United
States and Canada for the week ended De-
cember IA numbered S25, against 3o7 the
previous week.
A STRIKE of coal miners of the third
poolion the Monongahela River has been or
dered the 26th. About 1000 miners are af-
fected.
A DRUNKEN man named John Bon
ner, living near Rockville, Ind, locked his
wife out Of doors recently because she re-
fused him money. She went to the woods
with her children, and while building a
fire her clothing took fire and she burned
to death.
THE State Department at Washing
ton has received report from the United
States Consul at Barmen, Germany,
stating that the Chambers of Commerce Of
that and numerous other cities in Germany
have sent protests to Bismarck against the
prohibition of American pork, stating that
IL America should impose a prohibitory
there would lose s, 900 900 annually.
The United States Consul General in
Egypt has been ordered by the State De-
partment at Washington to have all rags
shipped from there to this country in
spected and thoroughly fumigated.
FRANK SIDDELL, assistant postmaster
at Ames, Ia, was arrested on the 14th at
Lincoln, Neb., on the charge of rifiing
registered letters.
The report of the Investigation Com
mittee of the Board of Managers of the
Western House of Refuge for Juvenile
Delinquents at Rochester, N. Y, made
public on the 14th, shows the most cruel
| and inhuman treatment of boys by officers
and subordinates. The board dismissed
three of the overseers and other subordi-
| mates.
ALFRED B. HOWARD, recently alb
seconded from Winnipeg, Man., with $50, 900
belonging to Wood & Wells, of Milbank,
| Canada, was arrested at Denver on the
14th. The entire amount of money was re-
| covered. He was stopping with his wife
and child at one of the principal hotels
| under the name of Stewart.
MEMBERS of the Salvation Army, who
were arrested at New Haven, Conn, for
demonstrations on the streets, were re-
leased on the 14th, the Judge stating that
they
| drums, etc.
L A urx w o,,l
other boys pelted James Hughes, another
boy with rotten eggs at Vincinnes. Ind.
/ On the 14th Hughes met Joseph on the
street in Annapolis, H., and shot him
/ dead without warning.
THE steamer Josie Harry was burned
fifteen miles below Memphis, Tenn, ON the
14th. A cargo of go bales OF cotton and
a quantity of cotton seed was burned with
1 the steamer. The passengers and crew
were landed in safety.
Four young colored men now in jail
on the 14th confessed to starting the fire
that burned the town of Freeport, N. j., to
the ground in 1880 and the burning of half
million dollars worth of property in that
vicinity recently. They also confessed to
robbing q drunken man of seventy-five
dollars recently and killing him.
The Standard Theater, at Sixth Ave-
nue. and Thirty-second Street, New York.
burned to the ground within an hour on
tha 14th.
RESIDENTS of the Florida parishes OF
Louisiana have presented protest to the
Secretary of the Interior against granting
lands within their limits to the New Or
leans Pacific Railroad.
THE Harris mill at Lowell, Mass,
burned on the l4th; loss $5O,otU. Nine fire.
/ fnitr hxr %
them, caused by an explosion in the works
THE schooner Mary Ann Hubert
foundered of st. Ignace Island, Lake
Michigan, on the 18th. She was In tow o.
the steamer Kincardine, loaded with rail-
rible storm was encountered and she made
one lurch and went down with all OF
board, a crew of five men and fifteer
laborers, all OF whom were drowned.
FIRE broke out in the American
House at Dubois, Pa, about ten O'Clock OF
the morning of the 10th, which it destroyed
together with the post-office building, Fore
& Co.'S drug store and a number Of othel
buildings. The engines which supply th'
water were stopped at the time and the fir
| gained great headway before water coulC
be had. The loss viii be about $4,000.
Two boilers of the Pecan Grove
(La.) plantation sugar house exploded oil
the 5th. Baptiste Aldi and George Burgess
were killed, and four others wounded, two
dangerously.
II, THERE was a change of fifty-eigh
, degrees in the temperature at Vergennes
VT, on the 18th. All the factories wert
compelled to shut down on account o
anchor ice.
FIVE prisoners who were being takeI
to the penitentiary by three Deputy Sher
} ifs made q desperate attempt to escape a
Pittsburgh on the 18th, using revolvers
I razors and red pepper, which had beel
given to them by friends during the trial
. | None got away.
THE Seamen's International Union
} | which closed its annual session at Detroi
I on the 18th, adopted a resolution censuI
: ing the last Congress for not passing Law
|. for the further protection of lie and PROF
erty on the great lakes, and urging tin
necessity of such a law being passed.
THE associated banks of New Yorl
, on the 18th held 50 ,256,575 in excess of lega
requirements.
, The warehouses of Ingham. Lesli
> g. Co. and the Chilled Plow Company, wit
7 SIS, 900 worth of plows, burned at Bento
4 Harbor, Mich, on the 18th.
RUDOLPH AARoNsoN, a carpenter dis
o charged from the Casino Theater, Ne'
i York, has been arrested and confessed Z
d. an endeavor to fire the theater when file
u with people. He had filled a box wit
n paper and shavings, placed IL In the VI
g finished proscenium, fixed candle in th
ceneer and lighted it. Il was accidental
discovered In time to avoid the intende
disaster.
AN explosion Of gas occurred at tn
Cameron Colliery, Shamokin, Pa, on th
18th, demolishing the doors and crattice
the mine, and fatally burning Elias No
z and seriously injuring John Smith. miner
q Noll was burned almost TO a crisp.
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