The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-07-25

Mo-, attacked little four-year-old son of
r. Diffendorfer on the 18th and severely
bit and bruised the child in the thigh and
abdomen. The cries of the child brought
the family dog to the rescue and saved the
little fellow from terrible death.
GEORGE w. STARR, James DonnelI
and Joseph Gotthelp fled a certificate for
incorporation in the Secretary of States
Office at Springfield, H., on the Goth, of
what is to be known as the "Aerial Naviga-.
tion Company of Chicago" The object of
the incorpora ion is stated to be "the trans
portation ot passengers and freight through
the air." 7 ie capital stock is to be 81 ,000,-
600, in 20,0OO shares at 800 per share. 1t is
ured by this company are a perfection of
the one tested at Hartford, Conn.,, nearly
two years ago, which at that time attracted
such widespread interest.
A LITTLE daughter of James Meehan,
of Willow Springs, Wis.,, was bitten by q
rattlesnake on the ankle on the 18th. The
limb became greatly swollen and the child's
a black snake, six feet in length, were killed
by the father of the little girl.
WILLIAM A. GoUsER and young
man named Miller, living near Berlin,
Holmes County, Ohio, got into a quarrel
while working in a hay field on the 18th,
and Gouser was about TO strike Miller when
the latter ran a thre e-pronged fork into
trated the liver, causing q dangerous
wound.
GREAT excitement was caused at
Grafton, W. Va, on the 18th by the re-
ported failure and detalcation of John L.
Hechmer, ,ex-Supreme Treasurer of the Cath
Ollie Knights of America, one of the most
prominent and highly respected citizens of
that place. Seven thousand dollars was
the amount of the defalcation first re-
ported, but later developments place
the amount anywhere from $4,000 to
1000. Mr.. Hechmer has been for
years resident of Grafton, and never
until this time has suspicion or doubt rested
upon his sterling integrity and honesty.
He was elected Supreme Treasurer of the
Catholic Knights of America five years
ago and held that office until May last,
when w. O'Brien, of Chattanooga, Tenn,
was chosen his successor by the National
Council In session at st. Louis, despite
Hechmer's strenuous efforts to be re-
elected
CONRAD LEPPER, a native of Wurtz-
burg. Germany, committed suicide at New
Haven, Conn, on the Goth, by shooting him
self through the head. Ho had only been
in this country about one year. 1t is
thought that he was respondent because he
could not make money fast enough
GUM, CURLIs & Co., mercantile and
label printers and stationers of Boston,
suspended on the Goth. The liabilities are
said to be some $40, 600, of which So, 900 is
secured by the Endorsement Of Curtis
father.
A MEETING of the creditors of Phin-
ney & jackson, the Cuba and West India
merchants who recently failed, was held at
Portland, Me-, on the 10th. The disaster to
the firm is attributed to the speculations of
WIN H. Phinney, one of the partners, who
used over 500, 900 of the firms money and
securities and lost it all. The assets are
mostly merchandise and the balance due
accounts, largely in Cuba. The amount is
nominally $235, 900. Liabilities about S347,-
900, counting out $177,0 liabilities. A
committee was appointedto to investigate af-
fairs.
The Manchester Iron & Steel Com
pany, at Pittsburgh, made an assignment
on the Goth to w. W. Martin, of Allegheny
City, Pa, and Henry Staunton, of New
York. The failure was not a surprise in
industrial circles as il was generally known
that the recent depression in trade would
bear heavily upon its financial resources.
The liabilities are estimated at from $780,
900 to $500, 900; assets not given
The remains of an extinct monster
were taken from a gravel-pit in the town
of Manlius, on the West Shore Railroad,
uAilco 0dot VI SYRACUSE, ~. Oh bQc
18th. A portion of a tusk about five feet
long and eight inches in diameter at the
thickest part, q huge molar, weighing about
twenty-five pounds, and a part of the shin
bone, were found about thirteen feet be-
meath the surface of the ground. They were
taken to Syracuse and placed in the hands
of Professor Brown, instructor in Natural
History in the University at that city, who
gave it as his opinion that the bones were
that of amamnfoth rather than mastodon.
The tusk, he says, indicates one of the
largest skeletons that has ever been ex-
humed. The tooth and the tusk are in an
the tusk shows the natural color of the
ivory. Professor Boynton, who exposed
the Cardiff Giant fraud, stated that he be-
lieved that these were the relics of mas
todon which must have been fully fourteen
feet high and probably weighed a third
more than Jumbo. The tusk, he says, must
have been at least eleven feet long, and
that the animal lived in the past pliocene
period of the tertiary age. He was also of
the opinion that the remains were washed
into the gravel pit where they were found.
SEVERAL dams in Dane Creek, above
Fon du Lac, Wis, broke on the 2Oth food
ing the eastern part of the city. Two hum
dred houses were submerged and the streets
badly torn up.
WILLIAM HERLIG's chair factory,
James Bryson's bending works and George
0TOn' oWelllnBt at fNedulnBs Ga., were 0e-
stroyed by fire on the 21st.
THE planning mill of Barber & Hen
derson and the general store of Henderson
& Scully, were destroyed by fire at Mont
gomery Station, Lycoming County, Pa. on
the Goth. Two or three of the adjoining
buildings were badly damaged by the
flames
THE following is the weekly bank
York City for the week ending the 21st:
Loans decrease, 81, ,4SS, 200; specie decrease,
$1I0, 800; legal tenders Increase, $961, 500;
deposits decrease, I,121 900; circulation
increase, So6, 200; reserve increase, $1,01l,-
400. The banks held IS, $50 1906 in excess of
the legal requirements.
TWELVE inmates of the Bellevue
Hospital, New York City, were prostrated
by lightning while sitting upon the balcony
in front of that institution on the Goth. One
was burned on the arm. About one-half of
the number were picked up unconscious,
and all were more or less affected by the
shock, although none were seriously in
jured.
The five upper floors of the George
Munro publishing house at New York City,
were burned on the I'D. Loss about $780,
900. The building was eight stories high
and the lower floors were damaged by
water. rPhe cause of the fire was spontane-
Gus combustion.
E. w. HoLBRooK & Co., cotton goods
manufacturers and converters of cotton
goods, ateNew York, made an assignment
on the Goth. Liabilities about SIPS, 900, with
preferences amounting to S67, 900. Their
loss from manufacturing exceeds $3.50, 900,
which have been somewhat increased by
outside transactions.
A HOUSE at the salt mines on Ayers
Island, La, containing 1000 pounds of dy-
Mantle, was struck by lighting on the 21st,
causing terrific explosion. The building
was blown to atoms but no lives were lost.
The Department of State at Wash