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


and Canada for the week ending on the
7th, against 242 the previous week. This is
the largest number recorded in any week
for years past.
The business portion of Williamson,
N. c., and a steamer with 200 bales of
cotton and a quantity of miscellaneous
freight on board were burned on the 7th.
Fifteen merchants lost their entire stock of
goods. The fire is supposed to be incendi-
ary.
The slaughter house and rende ing
department of Sinclair's packing house
at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, were destroyed by
fire on the 7th. The loss is 100000. 1t
was the largest single packing house in the
world, employing 800 hands.
THE postmaster at Morgantown, w.
Va, was knocked down by highwaymen
while on his way home on the night of the
in money and stamps. He feared visit
of burglars to the postoffice and was taking
the money home for safe keeping.
JOHN FLEMING and Frank L. Loring,
who, under the firm name of Flemming q
Merriam, had collected about 81 900 900
from people all over the country to invest
in grain speculation and then absconded
with the money, were found guilty of the
charge in the District Court at Chicago on
the Tth.
SPECIAL dispatches from all parts of
Nebraska report the corn crop smaller
than expected and the quality poor. There
will not be more than half a crop of mer-
chantable corn.
The Farmers National Congress ad-
journed at Louisville on the 7th TO meet in
Nashville next year.
JUDGE OSBORNE has instructed the
Grand Jury now sitting at Elkhart, Ind,
to bring in indictments against news
dealers handling obscene illustrated pa
pers.
The nine-year-oid daughter of VIM.
Morgan was burned to cinder while play
ing at bonfire in Elgin, ILL.,, on the 7th.
c. Poole, Chicago, undertaker's as
sistant, while drunk on the 7th went TO
sleep in q coffin and was found dead short
ly after.
The Pottawatomies Indians have
leased 100000 acres of their reserve to
Catherine, wife of Don William GIiffen.
stein, of Chicago, who will use it for graz
ing purposes.
THE California wheat pool has lost
1900 900 to s3,OOO,O ,OOU by the recent heavy
fall in rates.
WHEELER, who killed Prcnt Math-
ews at the polls on election day I'm Hazel
hurst Miss, has been elected Marshal of
that city. He is under Indictment for the
crime.
The annual report of the Auditor
| General of Pennsylvania shows the re-
ceipts at the State Treasury last year to
| have been $G,715, ,430. 10. OF this amount
| s., ,0S9 ,032. .03 was derived from the tax on
| corporation stock and limited partnership,
SSs5I ,5o6.OS tax on gross receipts, 500
1856 tax on bank stock, S3I4Sl9.E tax
| on personal property, 1914, 16+.65 tax on
collateral inheritances, $255, ,66J.13 tax on
/ foreign insurance companies, S4SD, 1888
tavern licenses, S315, ,123.76 retailers, Ii
| censes, S1OI, ,0O4.24 bonus on charters. The
receipts greatly exceed the estimate of the
State Trea asurer made a year ago in his an
nual report
THE Sub-Treasury in New York con-
tains S23, ,6I0, 900 in silver, and the Assistant
Treasurer says the vaults are so full that
| th ey can take but little more.
ABOUT 400 bills were introduced in
the Senate during the first three days OF
the session, number unprecedented, it is
said, in the history of that body.
The Mount Hickory Iron Works and
Rolling Mill, one of the largest manufac-
tories of Erie County, Pa, was destroyed
by fire on the morning of the 9th. The mill
was m ainly owned by William l.. Scott
and and employed 80 men. Loss 800,
900; insured for $4,000. A man,
who gave the name of Frank Ward,
| of Sharon, Pa, was arrested for firing the
building. He was noticed prowling around
the neighborhood in a suspicious manner,
and could not give a good account of him
| self.
FRANCES j. PARMENTER, a coal dealer
of Providence, R. l., was found dead in his
barn with his skull fractured, on the morn
ing of the 9th. John Martin and Joseph F.
Bree, white, and Thomas Harket, colored,
| were arrested on suspicion.
The Penn Iron Company, of Lam
caster, Pa, notified its puddlers on the sth
Of a ten per cent. reduction in their wages
| to take effect on the 18th. 1t is probable
/ the works will shut down IL the workmen
refuse to accept the reduction.
THE Union Rolling Mills at Cleve-
land, Ohio, were destroyed by fire on the
| morning of the 9th. Loss estimated at
$3.50, 900; insured for $4,000.
F. M. NICHOLS was arrested by United
States officials on the sth for runninsa a po.
tai agency in Wilkesbarre, Pa. He en-
ployed boys and delivered letters for one
cent. which is just half what the Govern
ment charges for drop letters in cities
where they have carriers.
THE New York Tribune on the 9th
published articles exposing a ring of con-
| tractors who have defrauded that city out
of large amounts by a system of un-
balanced accounts. They were in collusion
with the civil engineer, who made decep-
/ tive estimates.
| A MOB at New London, Conn.,, on the
sth smashed George S. Avery's store front,
hanged him In effigy and threatened to tar
and feather him. A widow of that place
said he had broken his marriage engage
| ment with her, and il was on that account
the mob made the attack.
FIVE mounted men raided the town
of Brisbee, Arizona, on the night of the
sth and killed three men and wounded a
woman. They then robbed a store of
men who robbed a train at Gage Station
| some time since.
THE Annisquam Mill at Rockpert,
Mass, used for the manufacture of corset
jeans, burned on the 9th. The loss Is esti.
mated at 100000.
DR.. WADswoRTH, United States Con-
sui to Saltillo, Mexico, is i'll, and not ex-
pected to recover.
THE Central Labor Union of New
York, on the 9th, passed a resolution
urgently recommending the President of
the United States to interfere in the case of
O'Donnell, the murderer of James Carey,
and to endeavor to procure a stay of execu-
| ton.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
THE statement that Mr.. Tilden had
willed his Gramercy Park residence to
New York City is now denied by his friends.
SECRETARY TELLER has under con-
sideration proposition to appoint the In
dian graduates at the Carlisle Indian