The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-05-23

train, were killed. The concussion was
terrific, demolishing both engines and tear
ing up the track for some distance. The
passengers all escaped injury.
JERE DUNN, who was on trial for the
murder Of Jim Elliott at Chicago, was ac-
quilted on the 18th.
ADJUTANT GENERAL DUNN, at WASH
ington, received q telegram from Whipple
Barracks, Arizona, stating that, from the
best information obtainable there, General
Crook has with him In his expedition into
Mexico two hundred Apache scouts, fifty
cavalrymen under Captain Adna r. Chat
fee, of the Sixth Cavalry, and fifty civilian
packers, ETC., three hundred in all. This Is
a somewhat larger force than General Crook
was supposed to have taken with him. No
information in regard to his movements has
been received at the Department.
SENIOR ELMoRE, Peruvian Minister
at Washington stated on the 18th that he
discredited the report Of q conclusion Of
peace between Chilli and Peru for the fol;
lowing reasons: First Because General
Iglesias doesn't represent the National
authority Of his country, which the United
States has recognized the past two years.
Second. Because Peru could only make q
treaty Of peace conformity with her ally,
Bolivia, who in time past has been secretly
endeavoring to negotiate directly with Gem
eral Iglesias, notwithstanding the persist
emit efforts of the United States as shown
notably during the late mediation of Minis
ter Logan to bring about settlement Of
terms of peace with the Provisional Govern
ment. He has, however, received no adyices
stating that treaty had not actually been
signed. Senior Godoy, the Gillian Minis:
q conclusion Of . treaty of peace between
Chilli and Peru, and he doubted the pub
lished reports.
CHARLES r. WHITE, awealthy farmer
living near Leicester, Howard County, Nd,
shot and killed Edward Hanson, a neighbor.
ing farmer, on the 18th. Whyte shot him
three times and then cut his throat as, he
lay on the ground. Both were prominent
cause for the horrible deed it is thought that
Whyte must have been insane.
CHARLES F. KING, whose remarkable
success in fighting the law and escaping
punishment for the murder of Dora Broem.
ster at st. Louis some eight years ago, and
who was only released from prison In that
city about three weeks ago under adecision
of the United States Supreme Court, died
on the morning of the 17th at St. Johns
Hospital of internal hemorrhage.
THE steamer Granite State was burned
of Goodspeed's Landing, Connecticut Riv.
er, on the morning of the 18th and is a total
loss. Five persons were missing, and are
supposed to have been drowned. The in.
surance on boat and cargo amounted to
$4,000.
The jury in the case of Alexander
Kier, who was tried at Freehold, N. J., for
manslaughter, returned a verdict of not
guilty ON the 18th. Kier was conductor of 9
train which was wreckedwith considerable
loss Of life
A CYCLONE struck Racine, Wis.
about seven O'Clock ON the evening Of the
18th, demolishing about 15O houses ant
barns. About twenty persons were killec
and 100 injured, some of them fatally. The
cyclone was announced by q breaking Of
the clouds which took on whirling motion
and struck the earth with q noise which
could only be compared to the roar and
rumbling Of a thousand railroad train,
laundering over q bridge. The path of the
storm was a little over half a mile Ions
and perhaps q quarter of q mile wide. Herr
and there building Is left standing, bu
brick and frame structures alike collapsed
and their sites are marked only by heaps o.
formless debris. Many of the occupants
Of comparative safety, but the cyclons
came with such lightning rapidity that
many were killed before reaching theil
cellars. In only few cases wer'
the houses moved from their founda
tions. Those in the center of the storm
simply exploded and fell in ruins wher'
they had stood. Some nearer the circum
ference were turned around, and it Is ex
pected some light articles, such as wagons
were swept into the lake. The cyclone as i
moved from the city out on the water
of Lake Michigan presented a grand spec
tacle, such as Is seen only once in q life
time The whirling columns of air seemed
monster wreaths of smoke as they whirles
over the watery expanse, bearing with then
spiral columns of water, the spouts OF th'
mariner. No ships that encountered thii
monster of the air could by any possibility
escape destruction. The storm also passed
damage. The house Of E. F. lies, two mile
south of that city was demolished, and on'
child injured. The barn, brick structure
the largest in the county, was wrecked A
son, Texas, considerable damage was dom
to property but no lives were reported lost
A SAILOR on board the schoonel
Onita, from Tampico. Mexico, died of yel
low fever at Brownsville, Texas, ON tn
18th.
Rev. DIR. HORSEPOWER, Professor o
Homilitics of the Second Phetarics in tn
Western Theological Seminary at ALE
gheny City, Pa, was stricken with paraly
| sis while preaching in the Bellefeld Pres
| byterian Church, Pittsburgh, on the Goth
! It was thought he could not recover.
ALEXANDER ScoTT, son of Hon. Johl
Scott, President of the Allegheny Vale,
Railroad Company, and a well-known cit
zen of Pittsburgh, was shot and killed in a
| affray with "greasers" at Madison, Cola,
County, N. M, on the 1Ith.
The following is the weekly statemen
OF the Associated Banks Of New York Cit
for the week ending the 18th: Loans in
crease, = 81, 900; specie increase, $3.50, 800
increase, $s,4s6, 400; circulation decrease
| $S7 800; reserve increase, $685. 500. tn
banks held 50, ,760, ,625 in excess of the legs
| requirements.
The most disastrous forest fire tha
ever occurred in Vermont, started nea
Groton, that State, on the Goth. An in
mense tract of land was burned over and
large amount of property destroyed.
MICHAEL O'BRIEN and Joseph Schoe
were drowned at Erie, Pa, on the Goth b
upsetting of sail boats.
| CHARLES d. BIaELow, of Brooklyn
N. Y, died at Richmond, Va, on the e0tl
aged sixty years. He was the first mani
facturer in this country to enlist the sci
vices of convicts In the manufacture c
boots and shoes, and was a man Of lare
wealth. His oldest daughter is the wife {
the SON Of Henry Ward Beecher.
A FIRE in the Woods Cherry Mount
aims, near Lancaster, N. H, on the 1stl
burned Ricker's steam saw mill and boar
ing house, Willoughby & Gales coal xii
works, 1000 cords Of wood and a lare
amount of manufactured lumber. The los
is very heavy; no insurance.
| HORACE HEFFREN, a prominent pol
tician Of the State of Indiana, and durin
the war brought into prominence as ii
alleged robber of the Sons of Liberty, n
sulting in his imprisonment, died at Salen
that State, on the 10th, in the sixtieth yea
of his age. He was a member Of the Stat
Legislature at the time Of his death.
Two Mormon missionaries who wer
laboring in Carroll County, Ind, for COZ
yerts to their faith, were attacked at