The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-09-12
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
General summary Of Events at Home
and Abroad.
Compiled from Daily Reports mp to the
Hour of Going to Press.
DOMESTIC.

New York City, for Attorney General.
A SPECIAL report of the corn crop
by Charles B. Murray, editor of the Cincin-
natl Price Current, published on the 9Th,
makes the outlook in the western States
favorable for a gain of 30, 100000 bushels
over last year, but the South and else
where will be about an equal amount
short, so that the entire crop prom
ises to be about the same as last year. In
many sections of Indiana, Illinois and
Iowa growth is backward, partly from the
use of seed from the West, which is late in
maturing. The estimates show a reduc-
tion of fifteen per cent. compared with last
year, and an increase of five per cent in
Indiana, ten in Illinois, fifteen in Iowa,
five in Missouri, thirty in Kansas and ten
in Nebraska, and a decrease in every
southern State of fsignificance except Texas,
which will be fifteen to twenty per cent
over last year.
A DECISION was rendered by the
Solicitor of the Treasury on the 9Th that
may ultimately lead to the breaking up of
the practice Of overlooking passenger
steamers. The law has been understood
heretofore to provide that the Government
must proceed against the violators OF the
steamboat law only upon Information fur
nished by outside parties. The Solicitor OF
the Treasury decided that it was within
the power of Government officials to direct
" prosecute owners of steam vessels for
violation of the law.
A GREAT throng witnessed the open
ing of the exposition at Cincinnati on the
9Th. Thirty carloads of excursionists from
Iowa and Illinois arrived there in the
morning.
ST. JosEPH's Passionate Monastery,
a large granite building near Baltimore,
Nd, was destroyed by fire on the night of
the 5th. The structure was five stories
high, and a magnificent and costly affair.
REPORTS from Santa Barbara, Will
mington, and Los Angles, Cal, announce
sharp shocks of earthquake at 4:30 on the
morning of the 9th. The vibrations were
from northeast to southwest.
THE Utah Commission has sent q
report to the Interior Department stating
that they have excluded u 900 polygamists
from voting and all polygamists from eligi-
bility to office. but there are grave doubts
whether .polygamy can be destroyed by
legislation.
A TORNADO of quite extensive pro-
portions and very disastrous results passed
over Lockport, N. Y, on the 5th, accom-
panied by very severe hail, thunder, and
lightning. A barn at Coomer was struck
by lightning and burned with all its
contents. Trees, fences, chimneys, and
rections. The roof of the Rome, Water
town & Ogdensburg Railroad depot at
New Fame Station was carried off into a
neighboring field, while at Middleport, on
the Central; the strong iron roof of a new
four-story canning factory was lifted bodily
like a feather and carried over two hun
dred feet. Four large barns were unroofed
there and many trees cut down.
TWENTY towns in the Naugatuck
Valley, Conn.,, report frosts disastrous to
crops on the 9Th, especially tobacco and
buckwheat. In Southbury thirty acres Of
tobacco were destroyed. Corn, grapes and
melons also suffered
A STRANGE coincidence occurred at
Sandy Hill, N. Y, on the 9Th. NJ. s. Teller,
druggist, shot himself with the same
weapon, in the same room, and at the same
hour that his father killed himself a year
ago.
DURING sham fight at muster in st.
Johnsburg, Vt, on the 9Th the premature
discharge of a cannon blew OFF the arm of
Andrew Keizer, and the rammer narrowly
missed a large crowd of spectators.
By an explosion of gas at Fair Lawn
Mine, near Scranton, Pa, on the 9Th,
Daniel Saurwine, Secretary and Treasurer
of the Fair Lawn Coal Company, and D..
c. Blackwood were fatally injured.
FRANK JAMES, the brother of Jesse,
the notorious train robber, was acquitted
of the charge of murder at Gallatin, Mo-,
on the 9Th. The jury was out but few
minutes. The prisoner received the YER
dict coolly. The general opinion of
a majority of the people who attend
ed the trial was that the jury would
disagree or return a verdict of murder in
the second degree Public sentiment can
be quoted as strong in condemnation Of the
verdict, although there are those who argue
from a strict legal standpoint that the jury
was justifiable in acquitting, the States
evidence being made up of Liddelps testi-
mony, supported only by circumstantial
| evidence. The general feeling, however, is
one of disappointment and chagrin that
/ the strong chain of evidence woven by the
| State failed to stand.
Mr.. J. K. RlCHLEY, who fatally shot
his wife at Mendoza, H., last Monday and
then fed, returned to his home on the 9Th
with his throat cut from ear to ear, but nc
main arteries were severed. He was
| emaciated, having lain in a hay-loft all the
| intervening period. He is under arrest and
| will recover.
THE Brazil, Ind, bank failed to open
its doors on the morning OF the 9th. The
liabilities are $4,000 and the gross assets
5000
The boiler of steam thresher on the
farm of Abraham Overholtzer, in Dauphlr
| County, Pa, exploded on the 9Th, Instantly
killing Simon Bringer, the engineer, and
| jacob y. Kline. Ihe explosion was due &C
lack of water in the boiler.
The wheat crop in Kansas is thresh.
ing out much heavier than was expected
The State Board Of Agriculture now say.
the crop will aggregate 5000, 900 bushels
The corn crop, it is estimated, will reacl
fully 200,O00.0O0 bushels, the largest evel
produced in the State.
A TERRIFIC collision occurred neal
Charleston, W. Va, on the 5th, between
two freight trains. Both engines and seven
teen cars were ground to atoms. One Of
the boilers exploded, injuring several men
A REPORT from Waldron's Station
on the Cincinnati, indianapolis, st. Loui
& Chicago Railway, states that freigh
train ran into preceding one on the 6tl
near that station and broke through a small
bridge, wrecking twelve or fifteen cars
A brakeman of one OF the trains and
brakeman of another road, who was golni
home with broken arm, were killed.
A CONDUCTOR and brakeman wer'
injured and twelve cars demolished at BIZ
Dam, Pa, on the 9th, by the neglect of
brakeman who fell asleep.
JAMES KING and George Gaddis
negroes, were arrested in Edwards, Miss.
on the 9Th, for robbing the grave of Mrs
Hattie Howell. A mob demanded the pris
oners from the Sheriff, who refused. Cad
| dis attempted to escape IN the confusion
and was shot and killed by the mob an
King was taken from Jail and hanged.
The Missouri Planning Mill, st. Louis
! was burned on the 9th. William Bell,
carpenter, was suffocated at his bench an
badly burned about the face and head. W
J. Wilderman, engineer, while attempting
10 shut the shaving chute, where the FIR
, started, had his hands burned nearly to
crisp and his head seriously scorched.
A SHAM battle at Trenton, N. j., ol
the 9Th came near being a real one. ThiI
teen men were seriously injured, but it i
, thought none of them will die. All O