The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-06-06
JAxrs T. RArrEn, Revenue collector

He represented that district in Congress
one term.
SIXTEEN thousand rejected models of
inventions were sold at the
patent Office at Washington on the 1st.
The coinage at the various United
States mints for the month of May was
dollars.
JOHN FITZGERALD, John Walton and
John Nousland, log drivers, employed by
the Muskegon Boom Company, were
drowned in the Muskegon River at Hersey,
Mich, on the 1st.
THE official ceremonies attending the
opening of the annual examination at the
Naval Academy at Annapolis, Nd, were
observed with the usual eclat on the 1st.
MISS MARY BACH, an old lady aged
about eighty seven years, of Wheeling, w.
Va, committed suicide on the 1st by hang
ing herself. She tied a rope to the knob of
the door of her bedroom and threw the
other end over the top so that It hung down
but foot or so on the other side. She then
around her neck jumped of. When found
she was dead, with the tips of her toes just
touching the floor.
THE shingle-mill operated by G. v.
Hunter & Sons, eight miles below East
Saginaw, Mich, was blown to atoms by
an explosion of the boiler on the morning
of the LIST, and VIII g. Turner, engineer;
Hiram Goulding, fireman, and John NC
Dowell, night watchman, were killed J.
and three others slightly injured. The
cause Of the explosion was not known.
THE fiftieth anniversary of the first
permanent settlement made in Iowa, was
observed as a general holiday at Dubuque
on the 1st. Every business house and
nearly all the private residences in the city
were decorated. A banquet was given in
the evening at which Senator Allison de-
livered an address on the rapid develop
ment of that State. The first settlement In
the State was made at Dubuque, June l,
1898.
GLENRoY HENSON, a colored man,
keeper of the city hay scales at Petersburgh,
Va, was murdered by his step-son, a luna
tic, on the 1st, by being struck over the
head with fence paling. Several nails
penetrated the skull and death was almost
instantaneous. The boy was arrested and
placed in jail.
THE sale of the State reservation
lands in Gage County, Neb., took place on
the LIST. The prices brought were from ten
to eighteen dollars per acre. There were a
large number of buyers present from the
east, and the prices paid were nearly double
what was expected.
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa, was visited
by one of the heaviest rain storms ever
known in that city on the morning Of the
LIST. Indian Greek, which runs through the
center of that city, overfiowed, sweeping
away several iron bridges and two stone
culverts belonging to the city. The dam
ages to them alone was roughly estimated
at 500, 900. A number of dwelling houses
and barns on farms above the city were
also carried away. Several lives were re-
ported lost.
The business failures throughout the
country for the week ending the 1st mum
bered 151, as against 15s the previous week
The New England States had 81; Middle
States, 26; Pacific States and Territories, ID;
New York City, 8, and Canada and the
Provinces, %
THE Pennsylvania State Senate or
the 1st passed the Railroad Anti-discrim
\ nation bill. The House also reconsidere6
the vote by which the free oil pipe line wa:
defeated and the bill passed
Miss SUSAN Z. DOUGLASS, aged TWEEN
ty seven, the wife of a well-to-do farmer
living in Cumberland County, Pa, during
the absence Of her husband on the 1st, cut
the throats of her three little boys anC
then killed herself. Insanity is given a
| the cause.
Hon. w. L. SCOTT, of Erie, Pa, OF
the 1st, gave 900 each to the Haniot anC
st. Vincent hospitals of that city. He haC
previously given large sums to the Hom'
| for the Friendless and the Catholic Orphan
Asylum.
The Governor of Maine, on the 1st
appointed orestus Pierce representative Il
the Southern Exposition, beginning q
Louisville on the 1st of August next.
THE following statement of the public
debt was made on the 1st: Decrease o
public debt during the month of May
81 SO, ,416; cash in the treasury, S317, ,S6S 062
i debt less cash in the treasury, 81 ,569, ,1S9,
40S; decrease since June 80, 1882, S119, rs,
o51; legal tenders held, $S46, ,I40, ,os6; certifi
certificates, $163, 49,, ,2T1; fractional cur
rency, S7,0O3,59S.
TIE Commissioner of Internal Reve
nue. issued a circular on the 1st, supple
mentary to circular 2J9, in regard to the re
demption and cancellation of stamps i'm
printed on checks, drafts, etc. 1t provide
| that imprinted checks and drafts may b
sent to the Internal Revenue Bureau q
once, instead of from July next, as orig
be cancelled and returned. They may b
presented in sheets or bound In books, an
| will be returned in the same condition
Blanks which have been compressed int
| blocks or pads must be separated befor
presentation.
TIE last Congress made an apprc
priation to reimburse the State Of Georgi
for certain expenses incurred in the cours
of the Revolutionary war. The matter e,
| cited considerable discussion at the tims
the members from the South generall
making great efforts to secure the passag
| of the bill. When the agents OF the Stat
of Georgia came to collect the money the
found that the quota OF direct taxs
apportioned to that State by the d
rect tax act of August 5, 1851, wa
unpaid, and the Government elaine
in payment therefor the recent al
preparation made by Congress. There bein
| a ouibble over the matter Controller Law
renee was called upon to decide it. B
rendered his decision on the 1st, holdin
that the accounting officers of the Treasur
Department, in adjusting the accounts Of
creditor Of the United States, are autho
| lied to set of against the claim Of sue
creditor any sum due by him to the Unite
States.
A REUNION of the survivors of tf
battle of Wilson Greek, No., will be he
ON the old battle ground, ten miles west
Springfield, that State, on the 9th, 10th al
l lith Of August next. The survivors of bo'
Union and Confederate armies, who wei
in that engagement, Will be invited ar
entertained by the citizens of Springhe
) their stay. Prominent officers of bot
{ armies have already signified their desi
Z and intention to be present. A gener
and hearty fraternal reunion, OF blue al
3 gray, is expected.
The barn of j. M. Shirley, a well-t