The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-03-14
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
A General Summary Of Everts at Home
and Abroad.
Compiled from Daily Reports up to the
Hour of Going to Press.
DOMESTIC.


JACOB HOLM, proprietor Of the Foun-
cain City Brewer, Bryan, Ohio, was caught by
revolving shaft In his brewery on the 7th
and instantly killed.
GENERAL JAMES S. NEGLEY, of Pitts
burg, President ofthe National Union League,
has called O meeting Of the Executive Commit
tee Of that body, to meet at Phfladelphia on
the 24th.
A FTvE-sroRY brown stone building,
known as the Cambridge Flats, New York
City, was partially dest Dyed br FIRE on the
7th. During the confusion and before as
sistance could be rendered, Mrs. wakeman,
wife OF Abraham Wakeman, who was Surveyor
OF the Port OF New York under President
Lincoln, and her daughter, who occupied the
snildir were su1ocated by the smke Mr..
Wakeman was at Albany at the time. Loss
on building and furniture $4,000.
DR.. ISAAC L. NICHOLSON, of st.
Marks Church, Phfladeiphia, was chosen
Bishop Of Indiana by the Episcopal Convention
in session at Indianapolis on the 7th-
A LARGE tannery at Feltsville, N. Y,
belonging to parties in New York City, was
partially insured.
The Governor of Connecticut has ap-
pointed the 25d Of March ss fast day.
THE Maine Senate on the 9TH passed
the bill making the punishment for murder
death.
A BILL was filed in the Circuit Court
at Chicago on the 7th against Hertert e.
Aver and u number OF railroad companies, by
the Otis Iron and Steel Company OF Cleveland,
Ohio, to prevent them from paying over any
monies to Aver or the Union National Bank
OF Chicago. IL is stated that Aver acted as
the Otis Company's agent receiving q COM
mission on sales, but had made no returns
since the 3lst OF January last, and was at that
similar bill was also fled by the Standard
Steel Company OF Lewiston, Pa
The east-bound passenger train on
the Little Rock & Fort Smith Railway was
boarded by gang Of robbers two miles west
OF Mulberry Station, Crawford County, Ar
kansas, and 40 miles from Little Rock, on the
9TH. They ordered the passengers TO throw up
their hands and began firing reyolvers. Con-
ductor j. Kaine, who was g. the rear car at
the time, was fatally shot The robbers rushed
for the engine but the engineer pulled ou be-
fore they reachedi it, thus preventing arobbery.
WILLIAM FAwcErr, aged 100 years,
died at Hagerstown, Ind, on the 7th. He
fought at the battle OF Waterloo under the
Duke of Wellington
WILLIAM e. LINE, q dissipated old
man, shut his divorced wife at her home at
Cleveland, Ohio, on the 1th, making danger
Gus though not fatal wound, and then shooting
himself through the head, dying instantly.
THE remains of Henry Seibert. of
Philadelphia, who died on !he Sd, were Gre
matrd in the lie Moyne erematory at Little
Washington, Pa, on he 7th. He was in the
eighty third year of his age. Though q man
of large wealth, won In a business career of
many years, his disposition was not such as
to make him widely known. He presented the
city of Philad-lphia some years ago with the
clock and bell in the steeple OF Independence
mediate relatives
JOHN DoRANT, of Pelham. N. Y, died
from the effects OF dose of Paris green taken
with suicidal intent on the sth.
The Town Hall at Hyde Park, Mass,
was burned on the morning Of the sth. Loss
ZOO.
THE Kansas Legislature adjourned
sine die on the sth.
MARTIN LUTHER HELPS shot his wife
three times, at Springfield, Ohio, on the 7th,
seriously wounding her, and then placing the
/ pistol to his head blew his own prains out.
They had been attending prayer meeting to-
gether and when they returned home got into
quarrel with the above result.
GENERAL JOHN CRowELL, late Presi-
dent Of the Ohio State and Union Law Col
lege, died a. Cleveland, Ohio, on the Sta. In
/ the eighty-second year of his age. The de-
erased served in Congress from 1896 until
$50, aud was for Q number OF years editor Of
the Western Lao Journal published at Cleve-
| land.
TIE Lutheran Church at Logansport,
Ind, was destroyed by fire on the Sth. Loss
sS2, 900; no insurance.
TIE funeral services over the remains
Of the late Governor Alexander Stephens were
held at atlanta, Ga, on the sth. Large dele
cations Of tizens and military men T. ON al
ov that State were present. Speeches were
delivered by Martin ]. Crawford, General
Colonel Jones, Attorney General Anderson,
| DIR. Miller and ext GOVERNOR Smith All busi-
ness was suspended aud the city was draped
in mourning.
The wholesale drug store Of Litterer
& Co., at Nashville, Tenu.. was destroyed BY
fire on the 7th. Three men-Thomas Wor.
mack, a moulder; William Miller, boiler.
maker, and John Firth. an x-policeman-wers
crushed to death by . falling wall.
j. r. KURTz, farmer living neal
New Philadelphia, Ohio, reports q terrible
fatal disease as having broken out among his
sheep. Ninety-six OF his flock have died
The disease Is called "pale- skim and consis 4
of aparas.te or worm in the lungs
The dwelling of Daniel Grouse, neal
Frederick City, Md, was burned on the nigh
OF the 7th and his wife and one child perishet
In the flames.
A. E. KENT, of San Francisco, grad
uate of the class OF 1858, has given Yale Col
lege s6o. 900 to be used In erecting a chemIca
laboratory.
Ex-GovERNoR WILLIAM SPRAGUE wa.
| --.--faa e., NJ. nor, Tra1 Calvart Of GrAap.
brier County, W. Va, at staunton. Va, OF
the Sth. The bride Is a native of Connection
but has been living in West Virginia for tn
past fourteen years
} The jury in the case of Colonel Theo
, dore Hyatt, President Of the Pennsylvani
Military Academy, at Chester, that State
charged with aggravated assault and batter,
on Thaddeus L, we, a cadet, in punishing hin
for violating the rules OF the institution, re
turned Q verdict OF acquittal on the Sth
The Western Window Glass Manu-
facturers' Association held a session at Pitts
burgh on the 7th. The attendance was large
nearly all the factories being represented. Tn
reports indicated q very depressed condition
, of trade with the future outlook very IN
promising. No change was made in tn
prices.
, The Director of the Mint stated on tn
sth that there were 3,OO0, 600 Of the new nicke
; pieces put IN circuaton. Inc only cnAnk
I that viii probably be made in the design Q
the piece W II be an addition OF the wor
e IIcentsn beneath the "V." The addition,
says, win make the nickel piece in strict CON
pliance with the law. In this connection Il
stated that the three cent pieces are q violatio
5 of the law as the word scents" does not appes
upon them. II Is also stated that, includin
+ the ma erial and the expense OF coinage, eac
? nickel Gusts ihe q vernment one cent.
3 The following amounts of gold an
D silver coin were in the Treasury at Washingto
4, on the Sth: G Id coin and bullion. 8 IS, ,76l,
7s4: silver dollars and bullirn SO, 9.0, ,nSe
fractinnal silver coin. S27. SOS. ISL: Unite