The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-04-18

The Legislature Of Texas adjourned
sine die on the 18th
A NEGRO girl named Sallie Pruitty, |
aged but twelve years, employed as nurse |
by q colored man named Phillis, near |
Forsyth, Ga, threw one of his children
into Q well on the 18th, drowning il. Mr.. |
Phillis' youngest child had died under sps-
fore, and the girl now confesses that she
caused its death, giving as the only reason
that she was tired of caring for them and
wanted to return to her home.
THE Touring mill operated by L. I.
Plummer, at Abingdon, III, was burned on
the 18th. There was no insurance.
THE boiler in the chair mandatory
at Hudson, Minn., exploded on the 18th, kill
ing William Parker, the engineer, and al
most demolishing the building. Fifty men
c"ps orons sns Of the ~rsct Wsrs hurled
q quarter Of q mile distant
Two unknown men broke into the
house of an old woman named Mccoy, hv-
ing about one mile south of Uniontown, Pa,
on the night of the 9th and brutally assault
cd her. She is q feeble old woman seventy
Eve years ofage. The perpetrators escaped
and there Is nothing known OF their iden-
tity.
, THE business failures throughout the
country for the week ending the 18th num-
bered 1s9, as against 1917 the previous week.
The distribution was as follows: New
England States, "A; Western, 81; Middle,
IS; Southern, Al; Pacific States and Terri
tories, 10; New York City, II, and Canada
TIE bridge spanning the Mononga-
hela River at Monongahela City, Pa, was
burned on the evening of the 11th. The
structure was erected in 1888 and was val
ued at 500, 900. The fire originated from
spark from O passing steamboat-
MAJOR PHIPPs, who is alleged to
have perpetrated remarkable frauds while
in charge Of the Philadelphia almshouse,
was taken on o warrant of extradition on
the 18th from Hamilton, Canada, to Phila-
delphia for trial.
CAIRO, H., was visited by shock of
earthquake on the 18th. The convulsions
lastedfor nearly a minute and were very
| violent. Window shutters and light arti-
| cles were hurled around in an alarming
manner.
GEORGE CROSBY, q married man aged
about thirty years, residing at Clyde, Ohio,
met with o terrible accident or the 18th.
He found Q torpedo, such as railroad men
use to signal trains, and placing it upon a
| stone struck It with an ak 1t exploded,
striking him in the face. One eye was torn
/ completely out of the socket and the other
/ seriously injured.
STmLwELL H. RUSSELL, late United
/ States Marshal for the Western District of
| Texas recently tried and convicted upon
q charge Of presenting false expense ac-
/ counts, was sentenced on the 18th by Judge
Turner, at San Antonio, Texas, to imprison-
ment for two years In the penitentiary at
Chester, Ill.
GENERAL RALPH ELY, ex-Auditor
General of Michigan, died at his residence
near Cross Village, Emmett County, that
State, on the 18th, aged sixty-two years.
He was Colonel Of the Eighth Michigan
Regiment during the Rebellion and was
made a Brigadier General during the latter
part Of the war.
SEVERAL men were seriously injured
and one, Peter Knuff, almost instantly
killed, at Dayton View, near Dayton, Ohio
on the 18th by the caving in of an embank
ment at the electric light works. The mer
were at the bottom of the smoke-stack ex
Ssvs gsP %een RebSin,
and Secretary Barnett escaped merely with
their lives.
SELUCIUs GARFIELD, formerly well
known public man, died at Washington OF
the 18th, Of pneumonia, in the sixty-irs
year of his age. Mr.. Garfield was appointed
Surveyor General of Washington Territory
by General Grant in 1866 and represented
that Territory as Delegate in the Forty-firs
and Forty-Second Congress- Since 1873 hs
had been living In Washington in obscurity
and died in comparative poverty.
The first installment of the 5-cen
nickel piece of the latest design, with th'
word scents" added, was receiveda at Wash
ington on the 18th from the Philadelphia
mint. 1t amounted to 500. More are eI
pected soon, and they viii be put into cir
culation when received. There are alread,
about 5, 5,000, 900 pieces in circulation OF tn
design without the word scents"
, ALFRED g. PACKER, on trial at LAX
City, Col, charged with numbering fiv
, companions in San Juan County, that State
! in 1877, was found guilty on the 18th.
WHILE the supplementary finding o
, the Jeanette Court of Inquiry will not b
, made public until the same is officially az
| proved by Secretary Chandler, on his re
but that It is substantially the same as tn
| former finding, which blamed nobod.
or ANYTHING for the management o
the expedition. Every few days ne,
r rumors have been circulated respecting th
I papers left by Captain DeLong, which wer
5 brought home by Engineer Neville, and
\ | Is quite evident that the publication of th
documents in full would tend to throw ne,
1 light upon the whole story OF the expeditio
and give an entirely different phase to som
;, features of IL. The friends Of Melville, it
Q understood, have nothing to fear In the pull
lication Of any of the papers.
A DISPATCH from Dermott, Chico'
q County, Ark, ON the 18th, states that 81
colored children, living near that plac'
went to picnic in the woods and gatherin
weeds for salad cooked them. All partoo
q and three Of them died.
n DR.. H. R. PALMER's Internations
g Normal Music School begins July ,
o Meadville, Pa, and continues four week
THE United States and Spanis
Claims Commission concluded their wor
= on the 18th, having disposed, in some mai
ner, of every case upon their docket, an
o the Commission have submitted their r
ports to their respective Government
= One hundred and thirty cases were pr
A | sented to the Commission, of which thirt,
Eve were allowed and ninety -f'
were dismissed. OF the thirty-h,
I. cases allowed eleven were allowt
by the Commission and twenty-fol
Is been four since the organization Of the Cor
y mission, Baron Lederer, Mr.. Barthold
r Baron Blanc and Count Lewenhaupt.
le the ninety-five cases dismissed, sixty-sevt
~ twenty eight by the umpires. or the who
" amount claimed, exclusive of the intere
IN (S30, ,313,5S1), 81 go, ISL were allowed; 81
Is 1856 by the commission and 81 ,254 ,66o by 4
g. umpires.
ir A BOILER in the saw-mill of Walla'
=, n Marks, Greenfield Township, Erie Count
n. Pa, exploded on the 14th killing one m,
r. and injuring three others. The mill W
demolished.
Is FRANCIS S. STREET, one of the pr
to prietors Of the New York Weekly, died
of the 18th. He leaves an estate valued
S1,t0o,O0o.
is The jury of the United States Cou
be at Atlanta, Ga, on the 14th, found ].
In Rnhinsnn pniltx on ninatAan counts ON I