The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-10-31
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
A General Summary Of Events at Home
and Abroad.
Compiled from Daily Reports mp to the
Hour of Going to Press.
DOM EsTiO

Hour of Going to Press.
DOMESTIC.
AN eccentric bachelor worth S25, 200
named A. 81. MADEIRA committed suicide ut
Reading, Pa, on the oath because q church
chapel he was building, and to which he
had donated s, 900, would cost more than
the amount contributed.
Mrs. WILLIAM STRAuB killed her
nephew, L. L. Dering, at Clifton, No., on
the 24th by striking him on the head with
O hammer.
JOSEPH E. HUsE, with several aliases,
was arrested at Boston on the Path for en-
ticing Cornelia Larrieu, aged seventeen,
from her home in st. Louis.
A SNOW storm of several hours du-
ration occurred in parts of New Hampshire
and Vermont on the oath.
AT THE session of the National Epis-
copalian Convention in Philadelphia on
the 24th the Committee on the State of the
Church reported that there are now in the
Protestant Episcopal Church Of the United
States forty eight dioceses and fifteen mis-
sionary Jurisdictions, sixty-seven bishops,
2,600 other clergy, 3,000 organised parishes
and more than $4,000 communicates.
The annual report of the Second
Assistant Postmaster General shows the
total cost Of transportation by all methods
to be S19, ,234, 500, an increase over the pre-
ceding year Of Sa53,5s7. Increase in rail-
way service, s., ,0S4 ,6l6; in steamboat serv-
ice, S33 Goa. Decrease in the cost of the
star route service, $Sl4, ,3T1. Estimated
cost Of the latter service next year, S., ,600.-
900. Estimate for railroad service hext
PRISONERS In the District Jail at
Washington say that Guitsau's ghost visits
them In their cells.
Mrs. BURMEIsrER, q young woman
who was severely cut with q razor by her
husband at Baltimore recently and to save
her husband testified that she had inflicted
the wounds upon herself, committed suicide
by hanging herself to q bed-post In the
presence of her little SON on the oath.
A SEVERE northeast gale off the coast
of Massachusetts, did great damage to
shipping on the Oath.
THE New York Board of Aldermen
ask for $4,000 for the celebration of the
centennial of the departure of the British
troops from New York, and ask the Mayor
to proclaim it general holiday.
MUNFoRD's planning mill. 1000, 900
feet Of lumber and FIVE dwelling houses
on the 25th.
The treasurer of the Defense Fund at
Chicago forwarded $, 700 for the defense of
O'Donnen on the 25th.
SINCE September 1st the Post-office
Department furnished postmasters 290,-
e26, ,164 postage stamps, 6,359, GOO stamped
envelopes, and IA 1856 $50 postal cards, or q
total of 452, al OLA pieces, with an aggre-
gate value of SS,520, $40. This enormous
issue was made upon ia, ,o51 acquisitions
from postmasters.
A DISPATCH from Greensboro, N. c.,
on the 25th stated that diphtheria In that
section had carried of 800 children. So
alarming was the disease at one time that
there was quarantine by the people Of
neighboring counties.
SUIT was begun at Philadelphla on
the 25th in behalf Of Mary Rose Berlear
against the Sisters of the Order Of st.
Francis, OF that city, to recover 81 800 de-
posted with the Order in money and goods
upon her admission. eighteen years ago,
and six years salary at 81 500 for services
es needle woman.
A MILDLY insane man named Keeney
was picked up on the streets of Warrenton,
No., on the 25th and placed in q room out
of the wet and cold in the Court House.
While the jailor was absent screams at
tracted people to the window, and they
saw Keeney, in insane frenzy, hugginR
q red hot stove. He was taken away but
soon died.
Four men were drowned by the cap
sizing of a schooner on Vineyard Haven,
Mass. The mate cluug to the upturned
boat and drifted ashore on the 18th, after
being twelve hours in the water.
j. c., MURPHY, owner of the farm on
which the notorious Bender family lived,
near Chetopa, Ks, found $4,000 in green
backs, silver and gold buried in q tin can
on the premises.
The teachers for the three schools
for the education Of Indian youths recently
built in Indian Territory, Kansas and Ne
open next month
A BAND of men tied a rope around a
Mexican's neck, who was implicated in the
murder of four men, at Gardner, Dakota,
on the 18th, then fastened the other end to
the horn of a saddle on a horse and fright
ened the horse into a run, dragging the cul-
prit over the rocks and stumps until dead.
The Naval Advisory Board at Wash
ington has recommended the construction
of seven new naval vessels.
A sAwMILL, two salt blocks, 1000
barrels of salt and two drill houses were
burned at East Saginaw, Mich, on the 18th.
REYNOLDS & WILLIAMS planning mill,
sawmin and foundry, Brown & McClellan's
gristmill and one dwelling house were
burned at Bronson, Mich, on the 18th.
EDDY, HARVEY & Co., Chicago hat,
cap and fur dealers, failed for S225.OOo on
the 25th.
AT Rockfort, Ind, on the 26th,
Francis J. Kelly, the boy who confessed to
the murder Of r. T. Arnett, on the trading
boat, was sentenced to imprisonment for
life.
THE general convention of the Pro-
testant Episcopal Church, in session at
Philadelphia, adjourned sine die on the
26th.
A MAN was arrested at the Chicago
stock yards on the 26th for passing coun-
terfeit half dollars. He has been identified
as Frank Mcclure, alias Moore, of the
noted Mccartney gang Of burglars and
counterfeiters.
LEWIS BROTHERS, of New York,
liquor dealers, made an assignment on the
26th giving Sis preferences. The head
of the firm is the assignee of Mayor & Co.,
whose failure recently caused such an ex'
citement in the clothing trade.
The Ohio Overland Telephone Com
pany has been organized at Cincinnati with
a capital of $500, 900, the greater portion OF
which has been taken. 1t is understood to
be q branch of the New York Company.
They will use the Baxter instrument.
A COURIER from Lieutenant Hunter 9
camp at Silver Greek, A. T., brought ad-
vices on the 26th that seventy-four hos
tile Apaches had surrendered to Lieuten-
ant Hunter, and that eleven more were