The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-10-24

party to invade Oklahoma, Indian Terri
tory.
EDWARD HovEr was hanged in the
Tombs jail, New York, on the 18th for the
murder Of his sister-in-law.
NEW YORK Academy of Medicine
on the 18th defeated the new code amend
ments and abolished the old code as to quail
ifications for membership.
The Hanging Rock and Ironton CO.)
iron region is undergoing a severe financial
strain. The Union Iron Company at that
place failed, with liabilities at $600, 900.
John Campbell, q heavy stockholder and
owner Of five other furnaces, was compelled
TO make an assignment on account OF the
failure of the Union Company. It l.
feared the furnaces may shut down, which
means distress to thousands of worlcmen.
Speculation in Western silver mines Is said
TO be the cause of the failure. Many Door
people have all their spare money invested
In the stock of these furnaces, and IL the
company Is hopelessly involved great dis
tress will prevail.
THE Mexican Government is nego-
tiating in New York for $4,000 900 loan.
A FREIGHT train moving eighteen
miles an hour on the Marrow Gauge Rail-
road, near Sulphur Springs, Texas, on the
10th was struck by a cyclone, blown over
and almost completely demolished. A
jured, and a number of other passengers
considerably hurt.
R. G. Dun & Co. s Mercantile Agency
at New York on the 18th reported the
business failures in the United States and
Canada for the previous week at 24S, an
increase of fifty-six over the week before,
mainly in the New England States, South
and West. Failures are on the increase in
Canada
The amount of gold received at the
sub b-Treasury in New York from New Or
leans, Galveston, Mobile, Memphis and st.
Louis, for which silver certificates have
been demanded and sent back, from March
8 to the 18th inst. was S1l 100000. In the
nine days, from October 9th to 18th, it was
$, sos, 900.
THE report of the Commissioner of
Pensions for the fiscal year ended June
80, 1888, shows there were 303, ,65S pension
ers on the roll at the end OF the fiscal year.
During the year the names of seventy-six
whose pensions had been dropped previous
ly were restored to the roll, making 3S,95S
pensions added during the year, an excess
of IL, ,645 over the preceding year. The av-
erage annual value of each pension is S106,
and the aggregate value of all pensions,
So, ,245 ,192, an increase of 1904 900. The
By a boiler explosion in a planning
mill at Mount Pleasant, Iowa, on the Goth
two men were killed and five others in :
jured. The building was blown to atoms
and many windows in adjoining houses
were broken.
A RICH gold lead has been discovered
at Lisbon, Dakota, causing great excite
ment, and crowds are arriving there daily.
ORRN A. CARPENTER was arrested on
the Goth for the murder of Fora Burns,
whose body was found in lane in the
outskirts of Lincoln, H., recently. She
had formerly been employed as domestic
in Carpenters house.
A BOILER exploded in the planning
mill of John Loomis, Brooklyn, N. Y, on
the 21st, wrecking the building and killing
q watchman named Lick. One section of
the boiler was found 800 yards distant.
Another weighing 400 pounds was found
In Q tool shop block distant, through the
roof of which It crashed.
A PLATFORM crowded with spectators
watching the boat races of Harvard Col
lege crews on the Charles River at Boston
one man, and breaking the arms or legs OF
nine others.
The shops of tie Stearns Manufact-
uring Company and contents, with ware
house, paint shop and three or four dwell
lings were burned at Grand Haven, Mich,
on the morning of the 21st.
A HEAVY northeast squall struck q
fishing fleet of Princetown, Mass, on the
2lst and q number of vessels were dam
aged, one losing crew of eight or ten
men.
The White River overflowed its banks
In the vicinity of Batesville, Ark, ON the
2Ist, inundating at least 1900 acres of
corn and cotton in the White River Valley,
The flood viii leave many small farmers in
destitute condition Some will not be able
to survive the winter without assistance.
BOSTON and Baltimore capitalists on
the Goth concluded the purchase of 5000
acres of oil land in Gilmour and Brackin
Counties. w. Va. The purchasers will i'm
mediately operate for oil. They are most
emphatic in their assertions that West Vir
ginia and Kentucky are the coming oil
producing centers of the country.
THE experts sent to Brewton, Ala,
by Surgeon General Hamilton, of the Ma
rine Hospital Service, to make an investi-
CATION of the epidemic at that place, have
reported by telegraph to Washington that
the disease is yellow fever. Up to the 10th
there had been thirty-four cases and
eighteen deaths, which is considered a very
high rate of mortality, as the population Of
the town is only about 400.
ST.. PAUL, Mimi, is troubled with
incendiarism. Three fires were started by
incendiaries on the night Of the 2-st, a
number of buildings being burned.
A CONSCIENCE contribution of 5000
was received at the Treasury Department
on the goth in a letter postmarked at ALE
gheny, Pa, and signed Clergyman"