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

board were piled up In q mass, killing
three and seriously injuring seventeen.
The Secretary of the Treasury issued
n call for S15,Ooo,0oO three per cent. bonds
on the 10Th, interest on which win cease
after December 1.
THE Diamond Match Company, of
Milwaukee, the largest concern Of the kind
in the country, made q reduction OF fifty
per cent. in the price OF matches on the
18th, thus breaking the great combinations.
THE final decision of the Secretaries
Of War and of the Navy on the 18th was
that 1t is not practicable to send another
expedition to the relief of Greeley and his
party this year, as there are but o few
hours of daylight in that region after Octo-
Der 20, and Il Is thought that Greeley
has ample provisions to last his party dur
ing the winter.
TIE Interstate Educational Conven-
ton met in Louisville on the 10Th. One
hundred and forty delegates were present
from twenty-three States.
UNION army veterans from New En-
gland visited their old battle fields in the
Shenandoah Valley on the 10Th, and were
cordially received by the people.
TaE Fairlawn breaker at Scranton,
Pa, in which an accident occurred two
weeks ago resulting In the death OF two
men, was burned on the 18th, being set on
fire by an incendiary. Several dwellings
were damaged. The loss Is estimated at
thrown out Of work
DR.. SALMON, an expert veterinarian
Of the Department Of Agriculture, on the
clusion that the cattle disease in the Dis
trict Of Columbia, which caused so much
excitement q few months ago, was not con-
tagious pleuro-pneumonia. He arrived at
that conclusion because every effort to
infect other animals by contact and In
oculation failed to produce sickness, and
no cases aside from the original.ones have
since been heard from, although the oppor-
tunities for spreading the contagion could
9os q
at present In the United States are in Con-
necticut, and there only two herds are
affected. The precautions which have been
taken are, in the opinion of DR.. Salmon,
ample to prevent contamination and he
does not believe the disease viii spread.
THE water was lower in the river at
Minneapolis, Mimi, on the Goth than IL has
been for many years. Alt the saw mills on
rne prHrrorm and all thosa zzaA- water on
the east side of the river were compelled
to stop for lack of force. Nothing can be
done until the water rises, as an attempt
to clear the channel failed.
THE acquisitions upon the Post-office
Department by the postmasters for the new
two-cent stamps are so large that the con-
tractors are unable to supply the demand,
and the department Is consequently re-
dpcing the amounts called for in the .requi-
sitions. The contractors, at present, are
able TO furnish one and q half million
stamps daily, but this is much less than the
number demanded.
OK the afternoon of the Goth battery
Of boilers at the iron mill Of Lyon, Short
& Co., Pittsburgh, Pa, exploded with
terrific force, killing five men and inturfng
twelve others. The shock was felt through
out the city, which shook many buildings
to the foundations, smashing -indows and
terribly frightening the residents south
of the city, who rushed from their houses
into the street in terror. The mill
was completely wrecked. as were
also number OF passenger and
! freight cars and the master mechanics
shop of the Erie Railroad, while q row Of
dwellings on the opposite side Of the street
were burned. In the ruins Of the pill,
scattered around were found dead and
dying men, some with arms and legs of,
some disfgured almost beyond recognition,
and others suffering from painful burns
and scalds.
A CRANK appeared at the White
House ON the morning of the Goth and
asked for an audience with the President.
| He said that he had come all the way from
Colorado to crown the President King Of
America, which duty he said had been
committed to his charge by the Lord Jesus
! Christ. The man gave his name as Por
troit and said he was native of Germany
THE Dakota Constitutional Conven.
tion adjourned on the Goth. A delegation
| of twenty-eight was appointed to wait on
Congress and ask the ratification Of the
constitution.
SENATOR VEST and Delegate Magin
mes arrived at Fort Benton, Montana, from
the Blackfoot agency on the 20th, where they
held satisfactory council with the Piegar
Indians, who agreed to cede to the Gov
ernment large tract Of fine land ON thu
1 eastern side of their reservation. Tn,
| chiefs ask the Government to give then
cattle and farming implements, as they
are starving since the buffalo disappeared
JOHN STERRY, of Warren, Pa, while
cleaning a revolver on the 2Jth let fall
loaded chamber on a stone crock. The
cartridges exploded, and a ball hit him OF
the left cheek bone, lodging behind the eye
| The wound was fatal.
WHILE a civil suit was being heart
before Justice of the Peace at St. Paul
Ind, on the Goth, the litigants, Silas Farar,
and James McCool, exchanged twelve shot
in the court room. Farara was killed, ant
McCool escaped.
DIR. DAY, the Sanitary Superintendent
of the New York Board of Health, made
report on the Goth on the subject of typhoi,
fever. The report showed that In August
1882, there were ninety-six cases and Il
the same month this year there wer
224, the cases being distributed gener
ally over the city. He says the sprea
of the disease is due more to neglec
to use disinfectants where cases have az
peared than to any sanitary defects, an
the report is accompanied by an addres
to the public impressing upon them tn
necessity of disinfection.
NEWSPAPER correspondents at Wash
ington, who have taken the trouble to loo
the matter up, state that the cost TO th
Government of collecting a dollar of Gus
toms at Atlanta, Ga, is 1874; Warren, 4
L, SAB; Dunkirk, N. Y, S2.71; Edgartowr
Mass, $3.50; Kennebunk, Me-, S4.3e; Nan
tucket, Mass, $4.76; Augustine, Fla
S16.S1; York, Me-, S9.12.
JOHN ROACH, the American ship
builder, published an article in the Amer
can Protectionist on the Goth, in which
said the trouble with the navy Is that onl
S3,O00.000 have been expended for ne,
spent S156, 900 900, France Sss,OOo 900 an
even Chilli S7,0o0,O0o.
Ex-DEPUTY SHERIFF ISAAC w. CAM
BELL attempted 10 murder Sheriff williai
, d. Schaefer at Fort Wayne, Ind, on tt
who sold him the revolver loaded it wit
blank cartridges.
In communication to Harvard OF
servatory on the Goth, Rev. George
Searle, of New York, called attention
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