The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-04-25

w aite and President Noah Porter, of Yale
College, delivered the addresses
Ar q public meeting held at Burling-
ton, Iowa, on the 10th, it was decided to
celebrate the semi-centennial Of that State
June l. in that city. Invitations will be
extended to all the old settlers societies.
THE walls of burning building fell
on a saloon at San Francisco on the Goth,
burying q number of men in the debris.
The bodies of six were taken out but 1t was
feared that there were still others in the
ruins.
The Catawassa paper mill, owned
and operated by McCready & Co., at Read
ing, Pa, was burned on the Goth. Loss es-
timated at $50, 900.
HERMAN HATHMAN, Del Rose, Grant
Moore and q Mr.. Wiltz were drowned at
williamsport, Pa, on the Goth by the cap
sizing of q boat in the Susquehanna River.
THE CONSTITUTIONAL prohibitory amend
ment was defeated In the ennsylvania
lower house on the Goth when 1t came mp
for q third reading. A motion to reconsider
was made, but was rejected by vote of
twenty-seven to fifteen.
THE business failures throughout the
country for the week ending the Goth num-
bered 205, as against 1s9 the previous week.
They were distributed as follows: New En-
Western States, 81; Southern States, 60;
Pacific States and Territories, 20; Canada,
IA; New York City, 10.
A NUMBER of communications have
been received at the Treasury Department
at Washington from various foreign steam
ship companies, indicating q willingness to
comply with the requirements Of the rules
and regulations prescribed by the Depart
msnt TO carry into effect the Steam Vessel
line has notified the Treasury Department.
that the number OF life preservers on their
vessels win be increased in each instance
from 400 to 800.
GOVERNOR FOSTER, of Ohio, on the
Goth, appointed Hon. d. A. Hollingsworth,
Of Cadiz, Attorney General of that State,
vice George K. Nash, resigned.
A GANG of gamblers murdered an in
offensive old fisherman named Robert
Crawford, at Hard Times Landing, La, on
the 18th, and with red hot iron burned out
the eyes of German named Keisner. The
fiends imagined that their victims were
watching them. .H
A MAN named Lewis, a lime burner,
living at Utica, Ind, while intoxicated on
the 10Th, murdered his infant child with a
club and then struck his wife with an az,
inhicting fatal injury. he was arrested.
EDWARD Mock, who has long en-
joyed the distinction of being the first boiler
Of iron in the United States, died at
Youngstown, Ohio, ON the Goth. in the
eighty fourth year of his age. Mr.. Mock
was known to almost every iron worker in
the country. Since he had become too old
to work at the furnace he has travelled
about the country the honored guest of the
puddlers.
/ STEPHEN CUNNINGHAM, while placing
o heavy log in position for saving at Cum
ningham's Saw Mill, near Milford, Knox
County, Ohio, on the Goth, slipped in such a
manner as to throw his body upon the
rapidly revolving saw. His left arm was
cut in two and his body almost completely
severed. Notwithstanding the frightful
nature of his injuries he lived nearly an
hour after the accident. Mr.. Cunningham
was twenty-six years of age and leaves q
wife and two children.
TIE lumber mill of H. S. Mathews.
situate few miles from Texarkana, Ark,
was burned with q large amount of lumber
on the 10Th. Loss 100000.
SOLOMON s. GRAY, the pioneer manu-
facturer Of paper collars, died at Natick
Mass, on the 10th, in the ffty-ninth yeaI
Of his age.
ROSWELL HART, Secretary and Treas.
urer of the Rochester IN. W Savings
Bank, and Representative in Congress in
1854, died of pneumonia on the Goth, aged
sixty years. r.
Two THOUSAND houses were de.
stroyed by fire ut Delhi. India, on the 18th
THE body of Maggie Hennecks, who
so mysteriously disappeared from Nil
waukee, Wis, last October, was found il
the river near that place on the Goth.
was thought at the time of her disappear
ance that she had been abducted, and he
father spent hundreds Of dollars in search
ing for her.
KATE KANE, a female lawyer of Mil
waukee, threw a glass of water in the fac,
OF Judge Mallory, Of the Criminal Court o
that city, on the Goth. She was fined fift,
dollars. She claimed that the Judge hat
insulted her by word and action, but woul,
not say in what particular respect. Sh'
| refused to pay the fine.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE TREAS
uRY FRENCH, in speaking of the Tariff bill
on the 30th, said It was evident that tn
Government would be involved In a larg
| number of suits on account of the doubtful
meaning of some of the provisions of tn
bill. Within day or two questions hav
been brought to the attention of the Depart
| ment which will most certainly result Il
numerous lawsuits unless the decisions ar
altogether In favor of the claims of the i'm
porters, which Is not at all probable.
THE address of Frederick Douglas a
4 the celebration of Emancipation at Wash
| ington on the 18th has caused great dea
of comment among leading colored men 4
that city, to whom his utterances were sig
| nificant, In view of the tendency anon
4 fnxuard fndanandan(a in n0litiCQ
action. Mr.. Douglass said the colored ma
could not AFFORD to set up for himsel
q separate political party or, adop
for themselves political creed apaI
To some these remarks were not VI
expected, because it has been notics
bic OF late that amongthe younger and NOR
ambitious colored men who lead the rae
there is q tendency in the direction agains
which Mr.. Douglas warned his hearer.
To them the old leaders, conservative n
terances were distasteful, and split anon
the prominent colored men of the countr
was imminent. His strong argument
favor Of the former policy followed b
viii undoubtedly have a marked infiuenc
upon the future political course of the negr
race in America, the address being gene
ally commended by those who assume
| speak for them.
JAMES PRRK, JR., one of the olde:
iron and steel manufacturers of Pittsburgl
died on the 21st of apoplexy. Mr.. Park wa
prominently identified with all the publ
and charitable movements of that city. 3
was q man possessed Of wonderful wi
power and tenacity of purpose, and bui
up one of the largest steel manufacturin
establishments in the country. He was
strong protectionist, presiding at the Nj
tional Tariff Convention at Cresson, Pa
last summer. During the past winter
spent most Of his time at Washington a.
vocating high tariff. His estate Is value
at over 5000, 900.
TwENTY-FIvE business buildings wei
destroyed by fire at Aurelia, Iowa, on Il
21st. Loss estimated at $100, 700.
A HEAVY snow and wind storm, a,
oompanied by thunder and lightning, pr
vailed generally throughout the State