The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-05-30
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
a General summary Of Events at Home
81 and Abroad.
Compiled from Daily Reports up to the
Hour of Going to Press.
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
PATENT COMMISSIONER MARBLE esti-
mates that the receipts Of the Patent Office
for the current year win be $, 100000, or
$4,000 more than last year. After July
the force In the Office will be reduced to
twenty-one clerks. This reduction will not
affect the examining division, but will, 1t Is
stated, retard work in the copying divi-
sions.
The Treasury Department at Wash
lngton having been advised that party Of
pauper Mormons from Switzerland were en-
route to New York on the steamship Neva-
Customs at New York on the oath to CO.
operate with the Commissioner Of Emigra-
ton to prevent their landing, provided they
were paupers within the meaning Of the
law.
The Grand Division of Uniform Rank
Knights Of Pythias at their session at Gin
cinnati on the 23d adopted Constitution
and elected e. L. Close Grand Inspector;
F. b. Helm, Of Chillicothe, Grand Guard;
Sentinel. The Division viii meet on the
second Tuesday in June next at Toledo. The
Grand Lodge conferred the Grand Lodge
rank on q number Of Past Chancellors
with John L Linton, Supreme Chancellor
charters were granted. A committee Of
seven was appointed to draft a constitution
andreport at the next session. The MEM
bers are Walter B. Richie, Of Lima; e: j.
Dowdall, Columbus; Howard Douglas, Gin
cipnati; Isaac Ullman, Massillon; ID. NJ.
Lazarus, Warren; n. K. Marshall, Circle
vile; @. n. Eichelberger, Urbana. The
next session win be held at Canton, Ohio.
THE Pennsylvania wool growers or
ganizsd q State Association on the oath.
John Mcdowell, of Washington County,
was chosen President, and William Her
mott, of Allegheny, Secretary. One hun
dred names were enrolled. Resolutions
were adopted denouncing Congress for
their failure to protect the wool growing
industry. The members also pledged them
selves to gain information and to oppose
all Congressmen who viii not promise to
assist to get the industry adequately pro-
tected-
Two canvas bags containing about
$4,000 were stolen from the United States
Express messenger at the Union Depot at
Cleveland, Ohio, on, the morning of the24th.
The bags had been receipted for from the
express agent and placed by the messenger
in his wagon, standing Just outside the de-
pot building, and while his attention was
drawn to answer q question of q gentlemen
standing near, the bags were taken from his
wagon and two others, stuffed with brown
paper, substituted in their place. The theft
was not discovered until the arrival of the
messenger at the express office. No clue
to the thieves.
The Postoffice Department at Wash
ington on the oath received notice of the
discontinuance of all Japanese postal agen-
cies hitherto maintained at different ports
in China, except at Shanghai, and of the
consequent inability of the Japanese admin
istration to assume any longer the delivery
of unpaid or -short-patd correspondents of
United States origin for destination In
North China other than Shanghai, which
for some time past it has been the practice
to send via Yokohama. In consequence of
this information the Department has been
compelled to direct the return to senders of
the correspondence referred to:
The annual meeting of the Executive
Committee of the Ohio State Bar Associa
tion held a session at Columbus, that State,
ON the cath. The principal business was to
arrange to present to the people in q COM
prehensfve manner the need of adopting
the Judicial Amendment to the Constitu-
tion Of Ohio. Committees were appointed
to canvass the State and secure thorough
organization in behalf Of the proposed
amendment.
A DISPATCH from Benton, Montana.
ON the 24th states that Burt Steele, of Fort
Maginnis, while out scouting with cor
poral ran on q band OF twelve Canadian
River. Finding themselves covered with
the Indians guns they withdrew and re-
turned with reintorcements and captured
all the Indians under the Cree Chief Tabor.
They were taken TO Fort Assiniboine and
viii be sent across the Canadian line.
TIE East River bridge. between New
York City and Brooklyn, was opened for
travelo on the s4th with imposing ceremonies
and witnessed by hundreds of thousands of
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entirely suspended and the houses beauti-
fully decorated. At two O'Clock the bridge
was thrown open and duly presented TO the
two corporations by the Mayors of New
his cabinet and Governor Cleveland and
his staff and large number of distiu-
guished guests were present and took part in
the exercises The length of the bridge, in
cluding the Brooklyn and New York land
spans, is $3.50 feet, 109 feet more than a
mile. Its total cost will fall but little be-
low SIS, 900 900. The heavy masonry of the
abutments and piers and the immense iron
work prove that the structure was built to
last for ages, and as long as it stands il
viii certainly be regarded as one Of the en-
gineering marvels of the age. The
total width Of the bridge is eighty
it for street cars, and between the tracks
Is q footpath for pedestrians. This foot
promenade is sixteen feet wide and it grad
ually rises from the point where the rail.
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1t reaches an elevation where tits on q level
with the tops of the street cars. Outside of
the railway tracks, on either side, are the
roadways for vehicles: each Of ample width
almost ON level with the street car track.
The construction of the bridge was begun
January 3, 1870 and the first wire was ran
across May %, 1873.
The body of a man named w. L.
Howard was found near Nevada, No., on
the 25th, with four bullet holes in it. Bill
Fox, a dissolute character, was arrested or
suspicion and confessed that he had lured
the man to the place where the body wa: a;
forty dollars.
A WOMAN named Boiling. living in
Lunenburg County, Va, killed her little
girl by knocking its brains out a few days
ago. She then buried the body, which was
Afterwards found by some neighbors. The
murderess was arrested and confessed heI
guilt but assigned no cause for the crime.
GEORGE KRAMER, of Livingston, Ka.
made q proposal of marriage to Miss Lizzie
wenzell, the belle of that village on tn,
oath. Being refused he knocked the girl
down and fatally shot her twice and ther
cut his own throat from ear to ear.
THE striking coal miners at Abbey
H., drove of 150 workmen from the mine,
at that place on the night of the 2ad. Tn,
mines have been worked by machinery
and fears were entertained that they woulC
be destroyed.
THE Surgeon General of the Marin,
Hospital Service has established quaran
tine station at Pensacola, Fla.
SECRETARY TELLER directed on tn,
oath that In future Registers and Receiver
of Land Ofices must not receive fling
upon odd sections of land granted railroad
within the limits of grants withdrawn fo
indemnity purposes.
TIE election returns from Virgini:
on the 18th indicate considerable losses b.
the Malone coalition ticket.