The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-12-05

Mich, on the morning OF the 3)th rlt., IN
'imidGtcd the inua5r,, r1''l %, tie q. II
500 aud Two gold watches and rode away
with the family horse and airiage.
AT Penconning, forty miles west Of
East Saginaw, AlIv,., on lac % IA uI-., ir.
broke out in hall where dance W ~ in
progress. The hall and the greater part O.
the business houses o. the icwu w,.r con-
sum, d, consisting of six or ei hit hnildings.
Miss ELECTA LEWIS, mil,iner of
Danvillc, H., and two giIls wero ou- div
ing on the Goth ult., whLn the horse became
frightened aud ran in a river, drowning
all three. .....
THREE murGerers were hanged on
the 30th ult., .J,seph jew Il, at San Jose,
CAL; Ambrose West, culorel, at Marion,
Ga, and Richmond Stuart, also colored, at
Shreveport, In.
The coinage Of the Mint at Philadel-
phia during November was 81 ,9I2, 40.
a LAD named Briggs was struck by
the cars near Fennville, Mich., on the 30th
ult. and instantly killed. He was trying to
see how near the train could approach.
A MORTGAGE for $40, 900, 900 in favor
of the Farmers Loan and Trust Company
by the Bankers and Merchants Telegraph
Company was received at the Recorders
office at Lancaster, Pa, on the SOth ult.
TRAINS on the Texas & st. Louis
Railway were suspended from the 2Sth ult.
to the 1st. The employees had not been
paid for two months and the engineers re.
fused to pull car until they had received
their back pay.
A LIVERY stable and twenty-one
horses and the outfit of buggies and harness
burned at Valley Falls, Kan, ON the 3Oth
ult.
THE roof and upper floor of the Ma
sonic Temple in New York were burned on
the 1st. Loss SIOO,0O0.
On the morning of the lst fire broke
out in the Farwell Block, the largest busi-
ness building in Chicago. The fire was
confined TO one end of the building, occu-
pied by Metzler Bro thers, notion dealers,
and Bsak & Bucher, dealers in iurs. Sew
enty-hve girls were in an upper noOr wh.'n
the fire broke out and panic ensued, but
all but two made their way along the win
dow lodges on the outside of the building
to part of the building away from the fire.
Kitty Hilgert and Frances Fairwsather got
on the fire escape, but were so overcome by
and were instantly killed. The loss to
stocks and building will reach about
S200,000. While the Farwell Block fire was
in progress another fire broke out in the
Erening Journal building, completely
quitting the interior, leaving III" stone
walls standing. Besides the Eueninq Jour
nal, the building was also occupied by the
j. b. Jeffries Printing Company. The loss
to both firms was over S1i0,OOe.
WHILE Peter Garvey was cleaning
shotgun at his home in Baltimore
on the I'd the gun was accident
ally discharged and the CON ents OF
both barrels struck Peter Eollahan, a
| ten-year-old neighbor boy who was look
ing at him, in the head, almost severing the
head from the body.
JAMES BoYD, huckster, discovered
his son Alfred, aged seventeen, playing on
the commons near his home in Cummins-
Vile, a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio, on the
1st and dragged him to his house, where
a scuffie ensued and the father shot the son
dead with q revolver. He was incensed
because the boy was not working.
GOVERNOR CROSBY, of Montana Ter.
ritory, has recommended TO Congress,
through the Secretary of the Interior, the
immediate cutting down OF all the Indian
reservations, now covering two-hfths the
area of Montana, to the actual wants OF
ls,00 Indians, throwing the lands open TO
settlement.
GENERAL DUMoNT, Supervising In
spector of Steam Vessels, reports the acci.
dents for the year 'thirty-tour; lives lost,
2S4; passengers carried, 475, 900, 900, OF
which number one in 1,I5O 900 perished.
ADAM SCHNEIDER, dissipated man,
living with his wife and four children in
the southern part of st. Louis, In family
quarrel on the 1st crushed his wife's skull
with wagon spoke, and inflicted danger
Gus wounds on the head OF bis oldest
/ daughter with the same weapon. The wife
| will die, but the daughter viii probably
recover. Schneider was arrested.
The late Mrs. Charles III. Nathan. oi
Hartford, Conn.,, left SIO0,O0o to Trinity
College and Hartford Hospital, ami 81, ,0)O
to religious organizations.
THE excess value of exports over i'm
ports of merchandise for the month of Oc-
tober, 1888, is S15,0S1 ,5s6. For the twelve
months ended Octob>r 81, Sl22, 40 944.
The Excelsior Manufacturing Com
pany's stove works at st. Louis closed
down on the 1st for an indefinite period,
| throwing $50 men out of work. Dull trade
/ is the reason assigned.
THE public debt statement for the
month of November shows the total inter.
est bearing d,Lt to be $50, ,O4o, 800; ma
tured debt, St,645, ,SS5; legal tenders, S346,
T39 ,s16; certificates o: deposit, SI4 ,465, 900;
| gold and silver certificates, SSH 6,73l
fractional currency, $500. .3I3; total debt
| without interest, 500 81 $50; total debt
S1,S13, SOC, ,9S5; cash in Treasury, 1864, 166,
5l3; decrease during Nov ,mber, 81 ,731, ,616;
decrease since June 13, 1888, 81 SOC, ,l46.