The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-11-21

a rigid examination, and refuse permission
to passengers to land until satisfactory
evidence Is produced; and persons feeling
the correctness of the customs officers de-
cided in the courts by writ of habeas cor
pus.
COLONEL A. X. MCCLURE, editor of
the Philadelphia Times, was arrested on
the 18th on a charge of libel preferred by
George Smith, a well-known politician of
Reading, Pa.
SECRETARY TELLER has rendered an
important decision in reply to the question
of the Commissioner of Pensions, asking
for q proper and uniform construction of
the revised statutes concerning pensions
to dependent mothers. The Secretary
maintains that if SON was minor his
| father was entitled to his services, or if not
living, his mother was so entitled, and
therefore dependent, and the father or
mother should be allowed the pension.
Mrs. JOHN w. GARRETT, wife of the
| President of the Baltimore & Ohio Rail-
road, died on the 18th near Baltimore.
The Pennsylvania Legislature on the
10th decided not to adjourn December ., as
previously reported they would
Rev. DIR. BENJASIN LARABEE, for
merly President of Jackson College, Nash
vile, Tenn, died at Boston on the 10th in
the eightieth year of his age.
MAJOR julius LOWELL, Secretary of
the United States Consul at Panama, died,
after q brief illness, in that city on the 7th.
He was for a long time Acting Assistant
| Adjutant General of the Army of the Gulf
under General Candy.
R. J. LAWRENCE, Deputy County
Clerk aud Coroner of McDonough County,
| H., was killed by the cars at Macomb, that
State, on the 10th.
JOHN OEsTERLING, President of the
Central Glass Works, Wheeling, w. Va,
died of apoplexy on the 10th, in the fifty
ninth year of his age.
FOLLOWING is the official vote of
Pennsylvania for Auditor General and
State Treasurer: Auditor General, Jer-
ome B. Stiles, Republican, 319, JOG; Robert
Taggart, Democrat, 3O2,0Sl; ]. r. Ford
Greenbacker, 4,452; scattering, 162.
State Treasurer: William Livsey, Repub-
lican, 312,050; Joseph Powell, Democrat,
300, $3.50; j. E. Howard, Prohibitionist, 1851
T. 2. Marsh, Greenbacker, 4, ,43l. scattering,
PIG. The average Republican loss com
| pared with last years vote for Governor is
80, ,24S, the Democratic loss 54.216, and the
Greenback 1888 The Prohibitionist gain
LAS.
REV. DIR. BENJAMIN LARABEE, for.
merly President of Jackson College, Ten
nessee, died at Boston on the 18th, aged
eighty-two years.
FREDERICK NJ. KEER, cashier fol
Preston, Kean & Co., bankers of Chicago
who fed in February, 1883, short $4,000 In
his accounts, and was captured after 9
long chase in Peru, South America, wa,
convicted and sentenced to ten years in the
penitentiary on the 18th.
A PETITION is being circulated in
Washington and throughout the District o.
Columbia asking Congress to grant the res
idents the right to vote.
SECRETARY FoLGER on the 17tf
called in S1O, 1000 900 three per cent. bonds
FOREIGN.
A PARIS dispatch of the 14th asserts
; that Marquis Tseng, Chinese Ambassador
is prepared to present an ultimatum to tn
French Government and demand his pass
ports if the French forces in Tonquin max
an attack upon Bacninh and Sontay.
, THE German Government intend
! sending a special envoy to Pekin, China
soon to exert his influence in behalf of
: : peaceful solution of the Tonquin question
JOHN A. BURGAN, late manager o
/ the Union Bank of Birmingham, Eng, wa
a sentenced to fifteen years Imprisonment
| for forgery on the 18th.
FIVE hundred of the thousand rnel
employed by the Canadian Pacific Railwa.
at two dollars a day to work oIrthe road mort
of Lake Superior, arrived at Montreal, Car
ada, on the 18th, absolutely destitute, an
|, entered three hundred actions against th
!. company for wages and damages.
A CREW of six men belonging to
: schooner which was wrecked Off Lon
Point, Canada, were drowned.
, On the 10th general strike of tn
! railroad and steamship laborers on th
lsthmus of Panama was reported. The
demanded an increase from a dollar and
= half to two dollars day.
t The British steamer Condor sank o
Manden, Holland, on the 18th, during
violent storm. Eighteen persons wer
drowned. The steamer Hymethus was ais
wrecked off the same coast on the sam
j., day. But few of the crew were saved.
!, THE San Fernandino cotton factor
I in Tlaxpam, near the City of Mexico, we
! destroyed by fire on the 18th. Five opers
tives were burned. Loss 5000, 200.
4 IT is understood that Postmaste
General Carling, of Ontario, will submit
the Canadian Parliament the coming Sc
. sion such an amendment to the postal Law
as will prevent the circulation of lotter
d circulars and tickets through the mails.
A JoURNEYNAN baker named Cul
g rieu attempted to shoot Prime Ministe
Ferry at Paris on the 18th, but was unsu
cessful. He was arrested and claimed
a belong to an anarchist organization VIII