The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-04-04
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.
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
SECRETARY FoLGER gave notice on
the "a b that on Wednesday, April 4, 1888, and
on each Of the following Wednesdays the
United States bonds embraced In the one
hundred and twentieth call viii be redeemed
at the Treasury Department, Washington, to
the amount of IS, 600, 900 with interest to date
Of payment The bonds presented At the
before each named for redemption VIII be
paid In the order OF their presentation, and II
an excess Of $1,000, 90 be presented on either
day such excess viii be d, st paid on the next
redemption day.
A RICHMOND, N. NJ, special Of the
9th says that the Indians attacked the camp
of Palmer and limerick, about ten miles east
of York's ranch, the previous afternoon, and
killed Jack Haynes and q stranger. The others
escaped. They afterwards attacked 1rving's
station, seven miles south, and killed i've men.
1t II thought that the Indians who are com
mittine these depredations belong to Juhs'
baud II renegsdes from Old Mexico.
THOMAS N. MUzzY, one of the oldest
pioneers Of Guernsey County, Ohio, and
veteran nf the war of 1912, died at Cumber-
land, that county, on the 27th, in the ninety
seventh year Of his age
TIE board of trustees of the Palatinate
College, at Myerstown, Pa, deposed Presi-
dent Russell, of that institution, BY leasing
the entire college for twelve weeks TO DR..
Reilly. This Is the result Of the students
rebellion there.
A PORTLAND, Oregon. dispatch Of the
9th, states that there were rumors of an out
break OF the Umatilla Indians. One report
stated that 400 had left the reservation and
refused to return; ano her that they had
gathered at the Columbia river for their annual
salmon fishing. A number OF them crossed
the river into Washington Territory but no
hostilities had occurred
ENSIGN HUNT and seamen Boullett,
Leach, Munson and Lauterbeck, survivors OF
the Jeanette expedition, arrived in New York
on the 9Th, having travelled almost continually
since leaving Bal n, October %.
DR. LEWIS SWIFT, Director of Warner
Observatory, at Rochester, N. Y, received
from Paris on the 9th, $40 francs, the La
Lande prize of the Paris Academy OF Science
awarded to the astronomer most distinguished
during the year.
SAMUEL RUTH, the defaulting cashier
OF the Little Washington (Pa-) Savings Bank.
who was convicted and sentenced some time
ago, was granted new trial and admitted TO
| bail on the 9th.
The bill to pay in full the Tennessee
bonds amounting to $50 200, held by the
| Peabody Institute of Baltimore, failed to pass
| the House of Representatives of that State
for want OF the constitutional majority
THERE were sixty-five deaths from
smallpox at New Orleans during the week
ending the 26th.
The Coast Survey will, during the
present season, complete the .riangulation
connecting the survey of the coast with that
| of the lakes. Besides the work of surveying
| and re-surveyin the coasts there is now being
carried on q system Of triangulation which is
intended to cover the whole country, and
States, viz: New Hampshire, Vermont,
Pennsylvania, New JERSEY, Tennessee, Ken
tucky, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and while
to furnish data to the different States
which contemplate geological and geo
| detic work, AZ In the case of the State
/ Of New York which Is ing the work Of pre-
/ great imp rtance to the General t'overnmen'
In the establishment of post routes and for
| military purposes, etc So many applications
have been made TO the Coast Survey for data
for ma Of particular parts Of the country
| that the bureau has determined upon
/ the compilation OF data for a general map of
the inch, winch win be exhaustive and com
plete so far as that scale will allow. 1t will
be superior TO anything in the map hne hith-
| erto issued by the 'iovernm Mt. The map
will be published ln several parts and form q
sort of atlas, the New England States being in
| one part, and equal amounts OF territory COW
cred By the others. This map viii be issued
| probably during the coming year.
SOLOMON FAGLEY, an aged farmer
living alone near Peru, Ind, was burned to
death on the night OF the 9th ult, while
tryi to save some money In q trunk In the
| gsrret of his burning house
TIE Illinois House of Representatives
passed the senate bill on the 2Sth ult, impo-
sing an extra fine Of Eve dollars upon unli.
L "a
party making the arrest; also providing fine
| and Imprisonment for officers, who, arresting
salesmen, accept bribes and release them
FRANK MILLER, the inventor of the
famed shoe backing, died at Warsaw, N. Y.
on the 18th ult-
TIE Massachusetts, House, on the
18th ult, passed by vote OF 1SS yeas to 81
nays bill providing for biennial elections
for State officers and biennial sessions OF the
Legislature.
AT q meeting of the Dukes investiga-
ting committee of the Pennsylvania House oi
Representatives, speaker Faunce. on the 2s,h
ult-, submitted a letter from Dukes drclinine
| to accept the seat to which be had been elected
and requesting the House to declare the same
vacant, which was done.
THOMAS II. HERNDoN, member-eleci
to Congress from the First Alabama District
the fifty-ffth year of his age.
The Touring mill of Kelley, Reid q
Co., Elgin, H., was destroyed by fire on the
2sth ult- Fully insured
The Tennessee State Senate, on the
2Sth ult., passed he Edmundson substitute
for the House bill establishing q Railroad
Commission. The Commission win be SINH
lar TO ~ now In Georgia
A FRAME house occupied by David
Faulkner, at Allegheny City, Pa, was de-
stroyed by fire on the 2s b ult. and two twin
boys, aged fifteen months, perished in ths
flames
The Western Nail Association held {
session at Pittsburgh on the 2sth ult-, anC
reafiirmed the $40 card rate. Trade wa
reported good and owing to the improved de-
mand It was decided to keep the mills running
COLONEL JAMES L. CoRLRY commit
ted suicide by cutting his throat at hotel IN
Hampton, Va, on the 2sth ult. He was
graduate of West Point and held q commission
In the army before The war, and was Genera
Lees Quarterm- ster General Of Ihe Army o.
Northern Virginia he was a Prominen
citizen of Norfolk and President OF the loca
| Civil Service Reform Ass citation. The inI el
ligence greatly shocked the community.
/. The thirty fourth annual report O
pork packing in the West by the Cincinnati
Price Clurest was published on the 10Th ult
1t shows that western packing for the pas
winter was 8. l32, ,212 hogs, against 5,747, &c,
last year; an increase Of 3S4.452. The aver
age net weight was 2l3.62 pounds; increase
334-100 pounds. The yield of lard shows a de
crease OF lilo pounds per hog. The porl
| produced shows an increase Il Ill, 900 barrels
stocks IL the product in the West for Marcl
showed an increase OF $500 barrels Of porl
, and 33, ,0O0, 900 pounds Of meats and decrease
OF 81 100 tierces of lard, compared with tn
same date last year.
TIE Governor of Tennessee signed tn,
bill passed by til Legislature OF that State re
....i- Co. ,ha .aftl.rnant nf tha dahf of n. II.