The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-09-26

comet Is identical with the long-expected
comet of 1912. Computations at Harvard
confirm Searle's hypothesis
GENERAL DUDLEY, Commissioner of
Pensions, states that the Medical Examin-
ing Boards saved the Government between
S6 900 and 5000 last year. Previousto the
act Of 1882 applicants were examined,
in many cases, by only one physician,
who, IL he happened to be the family
rated rated the % disabilitiss s as high IS the
circumstances would admit. Only in
the large cities were boards of examining
surgeons established. Now $50 Of these
boards have been organized, and eighty
more are being selected. BY these new
the Government will be greatly enhanced,
and no hardship to the pensioner will re-
suit.
CLAIM agents have been sending out
circulars from Washington stating that by
an act of Congress the Secretary Of the In
terror was authorised to increase the COM
pensation Of all Assistant Marshals en-
gagged In taking the ninth census. The Sec
retary says the annual pay can only be al
lowed in q limited number Of cases, where
and warns the Assistant Marshals against
misleading circulars.
A HUNDRED prisoners in the Connecti-
cut State Prison at Westerfield were poi
soned by eating canned corn beef on the
21st.
PHILIP KUHN struck Ezekiel Lee with
his fist during quarrel at Lockland, ten
miles from Cincinnati, on the 2lst, killing
him instantly.
PosrMAsrER GENERAL GRESHAM left
Washington on the 21st for tour of the
post-offices in the principal cities Of the
country to ascertain wherein the expense
Of some Of them may be cut down without
reducing the efficiency Of the service.
RICHARD WHAELLEN shot at Carrie
Hartx, an actress in the Alhambra, vari
ETY. thester at st. Louis, on the Goth. The
woman tainted when fired at, but was moi
hurt, and whaellen, supposing he had shot
her, then killed himself with the pistol.
A PARTY of drunken tracklayers on
the Illinois South eastern Railroad raided
the store Of Frank A. Miller at Smithboro
No., on the Goth, doing about $500 damag'
to the stock and building. The Sheriff o.
the county with q strong posse arrested
about a dozen of the rioters and restored
order.
AT one of the Big Four Cattle Com
pany's ranches, near Socorro, Now Mexico
recently, Joel Fowler, . large cattle dealer
and Bill Chiids, and returned tn,
fre, killing Childs.. Forrest ran int
house occupied by Mr.. McGee
McGee went to the door and asked Forrest
to come out. Instead he fred, killing
Rather than take the chances Of shooting
with Fowler, Forrest then put bal
his own heart All three were buried II
the same grave.
TIE Secretary of the Navy has finally
decided to take the responsibility Of issu
ing additional rations to the destitute fami
lies upon the reservation at Pensacola, Fla.
to q limited extent, but expects some hell
to be given by the inhabitants Of the State
A CHILD eleven months old, tn,
daughter Of Theron Goodman, Of Castleton
Vt, was shot dead in bed with her mothe
by an unknown person on the 2Sd.
OK the night of the 21st about 50t
Polanders attempted to lynch Rev. Johl
Pitass, pastor Of the Roman Catholi'
| Church at East Buffalo, N. Y. Pitass hac
an assistant named Rev. Peter Chowaire
who was more lenient with the parishoner
than the older priest, but was sent ava,
attack was made on Rev. Pitass. The mol
surrounded the priests house while he wa
eating supper. About thirty entere'
| the kitchen and four went up
seized Father Pitass 6odiiy and too
him out doors. When he was being le'
past the house Of Kujawski, who has beel
nicknamed the "Polish King" by reason o
his influence with the people, the fathe
broke away and ran into the yard followe
/ vers and hold thee-s-d MT bay uhila Pitas
got into the house. Some men in tn
| crowd had q rope and the priest woul
have been lynched but for his opportun
escape.
Four men were killed in a coal min
shaft at Kingston, Pa, on the 22d. Th
shaft Is five hundred feet deep and ha
twenty feet Of water at the bottom Th
men were working on platform timberin
i the shaft sixty feet from the bottom
i piece OF timber weighing half ton fell o.
/ the platform while being lowered. 1t gav
| way and they fell into the water and wer
drowned.
Ar Detroit Mich, on. the Esd, Coz
nelius Allies, q young man about twenty
was shot in the back of the head and II
/ stantly killed on q street near a dru
store in which he was employed as q cleri
The affair Is shrouded In mystery. 1t is nc
known who did the killing or for what pul
pose i'll was done, as he was q quiet, unol
/ quaintances, as he had been in the city les
than q year.
AN engine ran into the rear Of
passenger train on the Ohio & Mississipt
Railroad near Seymour, Ind, on the 2SS
killing the engineer and little child bs
longing to Mrs. Taylor, and injurin
twelve passengers, some OF them havin
bones broken, others being badly bruiset
AN explosion of fireworks in an out
building Of the Pittsburgh Exposition Q
the 23d resulted in the death of one bo,
the cremation Of three valuable race hors,
and the destruction of 800 feet of stablinl
| On the night Of the 22d the boiler {
an engine running the saws at . railroa
bridge being constructed over the Re
River at Shreveport, La, exploded wit
terrible force, killing i've and woundin
Ave who were at work as night force.
boy named Willie Watts was the only pc
SON on the boat at the time of the expiosiC
who escaped unhurt.
A STAGE was robbed on the 22d eigl
miles from weatherford, Texas, by OF
highwayman, one of the same two wh
robbed the same stage few weeks ag
The passengers, three ladies and one gel
tleman, were not molested, the robber
manding the mail sacks.
JAMES H. MASON, of Troy, N. Y, {
his way home early on the morning of Il
23d, was struck on the head from behiI
and his watch and chain, money, and di
mond pintaken, also his hat, shoes, coat n
vest. Edward Wilson was arrested wi
the shoes on. Mason was struck on Sou
Street and carried q quarter of mile al
robbed.
A BRAKEMAN on the Buffalo, Ne
York & Philadelphia Railroad nam
, Homer Goldsmith fell from freight ira
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