The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-10-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
A General Summary Of Events at Home
and Abroad.
Compiled from Daily Reports up to the
Hour of Going to Press.
DOMESTIC.


GENERAL SHERMAN has fixed upon
the 1st of November as the date upon which
he will turn over his command to General
Sheridan and practically retire to civil
life, although he win not be placed on the
| retired list Of the army until the Sth of
| February.
A TRAVELLING peddler swindled Mrs.
Melhewish, an old lady, infirm alike in
body and mind, out of forty dollars in
Hanover, N. Y, on the 18th, by requesting
| a loan with q promise of repaying It in ten
days. The scoundrel made good his escape.
SECRETARY SIMS, of the Kansas State
Board of Agriculture, stated on the 18th
that the corn crop of Kansas is 60,O00,0 900
bushels more than the large crop of last
| year, which will place Kansas nearly at
the head Of corn-growing States for 1883.
ANKGRo named Warren Neal was
killed by mistake near Oglethorp, Ca, on
the 25th. An escaped convict named New
| some, also q negro, had committed several
| depredations in that neighborhood and q
| party Of men were laying In wait to cap
ture him, when Neal happened along and
was shotin mistake for the convict. He is
the second negro who has been similarly
shot for Newsome recently. f
FERDINAND MAYER & Co., of New
York, dealers in woolens, failed on the
25th, with liabilities at from 81 900 to
S1,750,000. aic.
THE Greenbackers of Massachusetts,
nominated General Butler for Governor on
he 18th.
THE Chief Superintendent of Works
of the Panama Canal Company submitted
reports at Paris on the 25th indicating that
that canal viii be completed in 1883. Sub
scriptions will be opened October 8 for
100000 obligations Of 500 francs each at
eS5 francs. -lffet stae
THE Sternberg elevator ZAP burned
at Buffalo, N. Y, on the 26th. The build
ing and contents were valued at SIS, 900.
Overheated gearing was the supposed
cause ofthe fire.
j. G. BROOKS, freight conductor on
the Buffalo & Southern Railroad, fell be-
tween two cars while the train was in
motion, near Russell, Pa, on the 26th and
was cut in two.
The National Wool Growers Asso-
citation met in Chicago on the 26th. Yer
mont, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Kansas,
Minnesota, Texas, Colorado and West Vir-
ginia were represented. Resolutions were
passed as the sense of the association that
the tariff rates on imported woods should,
at the earliest Opportunity, be restored to
what they were before the hte reduction;
and wool growers in. an States should use
every eudeavor 10 secure the efforts of their
Senators aud Representatives to that end,
and that Congress be called onto make the
restoration.
| BY the explosion Of q lamp at Dallas,
Texas, on the 2eth ave frame and two
brick buildings and a large lumber yard
were burned. The water supply gave out
and the destruction of the entire eastern
end of the city was only averted by blow
ing out gaps between buildings.
HENRY PRUITr shot and instantly
killed Henry Hollowby at Henderson, KY,
on the 26th, because he was whipping his
wife, q step-sister of Pruitt.
AT special election held in Van
Buren, township, near Shelbyville, Ind, on
the 26th, Charles Vernon was stabbed to
death by William Cross. @
A PROMINENT farmer of Pike county,
Mo-, named Owen Utterbank was shot and
killed on his farm on the 26th. Footprints
in a cornfield near by were traced to the
home of Wesley Collins, between whom
and Utterbank there was a bitter feeling.
The glass manufacturers who held q
convention at Cleveland, o., on the 25th
and 26th say that lockout or q strike is
not desirable and express willingness tc
confer with the workmen with the view OF
settling the matter at once, and as q result
the resump tion of work in Pittsburgh and
the West viii soon take place.
SMOKE from fire in the hold of @
steamer at Boston on the 10th killed one
man, made another delirious and seriously
injured six, all being taken from the hold
unconscious. re.s
SITTING BULL, the great Indian Chief,
was to be taken into the Catholic Church at
Fort Yates, Mimi, on the. 26th, but he
couldn't make up his mind which of his
two wives he would let go, and the sep
aration from either of them proved toe
much Tor him, and he will probably return
to heathenism.
PATRICK McCAMBRIDGE was shot
and instantly killed at Edwardsville, III.
on the 26th, while trying to get his two
sons out Of a saloon row. It Is not known
who did the shooting.
TIE schooner Kodiac, which arrived
at San Francisco on the 26th, had on board
four Alaskan mummies, supposed to be al
least three centuries old. They are intended
for the Berlin museum.
i OFFICIALS at Washington state tha
sse necessity for the erection of q fire proc
building for the storage of Governmen
4 records is emphatically demonstrated b,
the recent fire in Olympia, Washington
] Territory, where all the Territorial records
were destroyed. among sne Papers t3es nurnes
s claim papers, which cannot be reproduced
g Their loss viii doubtless entail long ant
: continued litigation on the holders of land
s and much annoyance to the authorities.
THE resignation of Judge Ray, Chic
: of the Division of. Postal Laws and Regu
: lations of the Postofice Department
was rendered the Postmaster Genera
4 he srlf nd y.
|, accepted. Judge Ray was Justice of tn
1 Supreme Court Of Indiana before going {,
Washington.
THE Navy Department received /;
letter from Lieutenant Harper, of tn
Jeannette relief party, dated Irkutz, stat
ing that he will probably leave there il
! November with the bodies of De Long, Am
= bier and Collins andireach this country u
l. January.
q JOHN B. CARROLL, for the two year
preceding March last clerk in the Bureau
of Arrears In New York. was arrested o.
ehe 9th ult. on a charge Of forgery. 1t
|. alleged that he appropriated about $15,0OC
i THE explosion of q steam threshin:
5 machine at Asakis, Mimi, on the 9th uli
killed Albert Garlock, Peter Billedani
;, Leslie Mathew, Joyce Orange, and danger
II ously wounded four others.
On the 9th ult. Commissioner Gen
II eral Morehead addressed aletter from Ne,
:. Orleans to the Press Association in differ
e ent States, requesting them to lurge upo
the Legislature and people Of their re
spective States the Importance of makmt
: a grand State exhibit at the Worlds Expo
sition in New Orleans.
The body of Daniel Anderson, fol
5 merly of Port Washington, o., was foun
l. on the prairie near Abilene, Ks, on th
y 9th ult. with four bullet holes in it. sur