The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-08-08

q ledge Of rocks. The moment he fell there /
was q terrific explosion and nothing could
be found Of him but fragments Of mutilated
flesh and bones. 1t is supposed, as he was
a miner, many Of whom now use dynamite,
he had some Of the explosive In his pocket.
- MOB broke into the jail at Mayors
Vile, La, on the night Of the 1st and took
therefrom d. w. Presser1, who was charged
with rapinga nine-year-old girl, and hanged
him in the Court House yard.
Two stone quarrymen, named Ander-
son and Hyde, working near London
derry, Ohio, took shelter under 9
large. projecting rock during storm
was by some means shaken from its
hold and came crashing down upon both
men, Hyde was killed instantly and An
derson was not expected to live as he was
hurt internally.
CAV NoRDEN, q young educated
Swede, was found dead in the Swedish
Lutheran Church at Englewood, near Chi
cago, H., on the I'd, having committed sui
eide. It is stated that he was an nlegiti-
mate son of King Oscar, of Sweden, and
was raised in the family Of sister of the
King. During his stay in Euglewood he
was instructor in q private school held In
the church, and on q blackboard back OF
the pulpit he had written in Swedish, "The
dead cry never" There was no cause as
signed for the suicide.
A SYNDICATE has been formed under
the name of the Kansas Live Stock Com
pany, which have leased for FIVE years
from October 1st, about 4 900 900 acres of fine
grazing lands west OF the Arkansas river,
| in the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indian res
ervations, which they intend TO stock with
cattle. The consideration for which is
| SO, 900 annually, one-haf IN cash and the
remainder in cattle. The company asked
governmental protection from the encroach-
ment of other parties upon the lands, but
| the Interior Department would not interfere
with those who were already on the land.
THE Acting Secretary of the Navy
approved the sentences of court martial in
the cases of Passed Assistant Engineers
Entwistle and Leitch, charged with aban-
doning their posts of duty in the time of
| peril, on the occasion of the loss Of the
| Ashuelot.
PROFESSOR RICHARDSON, q Canadian,
but now a resident of Washington, says
that he will soon attempt the feat of cross
ing Niagara Falls in an elliptical silken bag
of his own invention, inflated with gas like
| u balloon. -. .--.
THE business failures throughout the
country for the week ending the Sd num-
bered 1872, as against 100 the previous week:
The New England States had, 81; Middle
States, 50; Western, 20; Southern, 30; Pa
cifc States, IL; Canada, %, and New York,
City 10.
The jury in the inquest investigating
the death of Spanish Minister Barea, who
shot himself in New York few days ago,
rendered verdict of death while tenn
porary insane. - -
THE first bale of hops of the season
arrived at New York on the Sd, being four
days earlier than the first bale last year,
and Were sold for fifty cents per pound.
The hops were grown in Oneida County,
n. Y.
The total receipts of customs at the
Treasury at Washington for the month OF
July were S20, ,9O9, I'D against SIS, $50 ,6s7 for
the same month o: last year. This shows
an increase of $9jS, ,G5s for the first month
OF the Erw tariff laws.
CENTRAL HAzEN, Acting Postmaster
General, on the 4th, approved the design
for the new four-cent postage stamp. The
stamp will contain q bust engraving of An
drew johnson.
A NEGRO woman, living in CLARK
County. KY, went from her home few
days ago, leaving two children, aged re
> spectively fourteen and eight. The elder
girl set fire to the cabin and the younger
persisted in the flames A couple of years
ago this same girl tried to poison several
white children.
JOSEPH COSTELLO, q seven-year-old
lad, walked out of coach attached to al
express train, while asleep, near Pana
, H., on the night of the ID. The child wa,
! not missed until the train arrived at Shelby
, vile, and in going back found the little on,
. lying asleep beside the track and bu
, slightly injured. The train was running q
, , the rate of thirty miles an hour at tn,
/ time, and the escape is considered almos
, , miraculous.
CHARLES FORD, one of Jesse James
, slayers, was arrested at Kansas City, Mo.
,, on the 4th, charged with completely in tn,
Blue Cut train robbery in September 1881
The robbery was perpetrated without los
! | of life, although the express messenger, II
, A. Fox, was brutally beaten about the heat
by the robbers, and Ford has been indenti
ba he in Gns foq his
THE Winter Garden Theater an,
: thirty adjoining buildings at San Francisc
were destroyed by fire on the morning o
|; the 4th- Harry Morgan, an actor, perishe,
= | in the flames, and several others were seri
: ously injured by jumping from the win
: dows of the burning theater. The loss wa
estimated at $780, 900: insurance only SO
= 900.
GOVERNOR BLACKBURN, of Kentucky
{ on the 4th, pardoned Clarence Rutherford
= who was sent to the penitentiary for lif
e from Logan County, for murder, committe
: in 1881. Since his incarceration he was cor
I verted by the evangelist, George o. Barnes
;, | VINO nelu meetings III bHdC prison.
The large shoe and leather firm o
4 Hersey, Whittier & wyman, of Boston
n failed ON the 4th. Liabilities about 500
y 900. The suspension, 1t was stated, wa
d not brought about by the recent heav,
d failures in that line Of trade, but due en-
o tirely to other causes
!, The following is the weekly BAN
!. statement of the Associated Banks of Ne,
York City for the week ending the 4th
Loans decrease, S42s, 100; specie increase
$oS.400; legal tenders decrease, S122 500
l. crease, S262 800; reserve decrease, SO, ,35t
10 The banks held S9.246, $50 in excess of th
{, legal requirements.
.t THREE hundred and seventy-five In
5 dians, under Standing Elk, their chic
t, passed through Dodge City, Kan, on th
e 4th, on their way to Pine Ridge, Dakots
't under escort of Company K Of the Tent
e cavalry. In 1878 this same band passe
e through that city on the war path.
" ALTHOUGH Congress did not appr,
d pirate money at the last session to continu
in full operation the National Board c
n Health, the Board has not ceased its labor
"a but continues the work OF investigating til
n causes of contagious diseases, and Obtain
a ing information which will be very valu,
Is BILE in the future. They cannot do anythin
Z toward suppressiug the yellow feve
Is or cholera IL it should appear in thi
1. country, the $4,000 appropriated b
', Congress being applicable only fc
a the salaries and expenses of the men
u bers of the Board. It. is denied this
the expiration by limitation of the law col
ferring upon tine National Board of Healt
at the power previously exercised by I'll
ID Marine Hospital Service in regard to SUI
L pressing diseases revives the old law, an
/; members of the board in support of th
= point to the following section of the Revise
| acf
u repealed which repealed a former act, sue
- former act shall not thereby be revived, VI
:, less it shall be expressly so provided"
Dol w. E. STEVENS. United States Consr