The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-09-05
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.


0oAE8Tlo.
4 LAWSUIT was the cause of the
dsath Of three men ct indianapolis, Ind,
ON the 18th ult- Jacob Oldenberger and
Jacob Bush were the interested parties,
and after tss suit was decided Oldenberger
met Bush on the street and shot him Turn
ing from Bush be shot Samuel Campbell,
Eho was passing at the time, probably
putting the pistol to his own head shot
himself dead. It Is probable the shooting
OF Csmpbsll was accidental, as he was in
no way connected with the suit.
OFFICIALS connected with the Treas
ury Departments at Washington commenced
an Investigation on the 18th ult. in the mat
ter of overcrowding passenger steamers.
The Law stipulates that the owners of ves-
sells are liable to q forfeit of ten dollars for
each passenger carried beyond the number
allowed by the certificate Of inspection, and
that the owner shall also be liable to the
United States In . penalty Of $500 for each
ofsnse.
HENRY CRIcHERs was found dead in
his wagon at Peoria, Mich, on the morn
ing Of the 2sth ult. The inquest developed
evidence of poisoning. John Wollner was
arrested for the crime and takento Coruna.
E. j. OLDE & Co.'S store at Mt.
Clemens, Mich, was robbed of 81 900 worth
OF dry goods on the night Of the Goth ult.
A FURIOUS hailstorm practically de-
stroyed the entire tobacco crop Of Rock
County, Wis, on the 2sth ult. The damage
Is estimated at fully 100000, and on the
tory fifteen miles long by ten miles wide,
near Sterling, Ill. The loss to crops Is ap-
proximately estimated at $4,000.
THE Department of State at WASH
ington received and transmitted to the
Treasury Department on the 10Th ult., dis
patches from the United States Consul
General at Constantinople, in regard to the
cholera In Egypt and the sanitary condi-
tion Of Constsntinople. He states that
while the sanitary administration were
employing the best means their resources
admitted to prevent the Introduction OF
cholers, orders from the police for the cleans.
ing and disinfection of Constantinople
were totally neglected, as was the case in
the provincial towns. Tho most elementary
commenced after the cholera had existed at
Damietta over . month. The ditch-draining
into the Golden Horn, which drains about
two square miles of land thickly built up
and densely populated, receives through q
thousand tributaries all the sewage of that
large district. IL Is an open stream of filth
and the noIfous gases spread with every
bresae to distant quarters. This pestilen
IiAl Q1UCn Bblu y2Wns ana DeIOulS the
atmosphere Of Pera and other quarters OF
the Golden Horn. While the authorities
are discussing measures to improve the
sanitary condition of the city, the streets
remain unswept, the sewers are choked
and overlooking or open, and indescribable
filth and garbage go on Increasing in ope1
spaces, the accumulation of years.
Vno ISDRIzzo, an Italian, was ar
rested at New York on the 29th ult. FOL
Eol q.
Cappici, who worked under him when b,
Delaware & Lackawanna Railway, neal
MOSCOW, N. Y, over O year ago. HI
escaped after the deed was committed, anC
was only found on the 18th ult. Verify
murder will out"
TIE merchants of Chicago on the 30tl
ult. effected an organization known as tn,
Chicago Freight Bureau, for the purpose o.
obtaining uniform rates on railroads anC
against discrimination. About all the larg,
Wholesale and manufacturing firms of Chi
cago are members.
THERE was considerable loss of prop
erty along the beach at Atlantic City, N
J., on the 18th ult. by the invasion of tn,
ocean. The surf was by far the heavies
ever known there. Bath-houses, restau
rants, photograph galleries and stores witt
from the surf that 1t was thought no set
could reach them, were undermined anC
carried bodily into the ocean and beater
by the waves into fragments. All railroad
tracks between there and Absecom, excep
the West Jersey, are submerged, and :
branch of the Camden & Atlantic Railroad
along the beach front was badly washed
compelling passengers to abandon tn,
train and walk about six miles. The tota
loss will not be less than $4,000.
The Treasury Department on the 30tl
ult. purchased 900 ounces of silver fo
delivery at the San Francisco, New Or
leans and Philadelphia mints.
AT ameeting of the Board of Trustee!
of Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa, on tn,
Soth ult., Rev. A. l. Rittenhouse, of tn,
Philadelphia Conference, was elected to tn,
chair of Bellies lettres; Fletcher Durrell
late teacher In Pennington Seminary, n
j., to the mathematical chair in place of ]
A. Lippincott, recently elected to tn,
chancelforship Of the University of Kan
sas.
A LUNATIc walked into the Keystone
shoe factory at Erie, Pa, late on the nigh
Of the soth ult. armed with a gun, and goin,
up to the watchman said he thought he wa
Bob Ingersoll and that 1t was his religious
duty to give him dose Of cold lead. Mr.
Churchill, the wstchman, overpowered tn,
lunatic before any damage was done.
AN express train on the Philadelphi,
& Atlantic Railroad which left Philadel
phis on the 30th for Atlantic City, N. j.
was thrown from the track at Pleasantvill
by q loose switch, which swerved after tn,
engine passed. The baggage car turned
upside down and four passenger cars wer
completely wrecked. Noperson Twas killed
but about thirty were injured.
THE Grand Jury at New Orleans il
their report on the 3Oth suggest as a sani
tary measure that crematory be estab
lished under tho direction of the officers o
the Charity Hospital for the purpose o
burning the bodies of those who die of con
tagtous diseases.
ELENoR and May Vail, aged eighteel
and twenty, of Philadelphia, were drownet
at Ocean Grove on the Both ult. while bath
ing.
THE Baltimore Grand Jury on tn,
9Oth ult. returned three true bills OF indict
ment against members OF the late Board O.
Fire Commissioners, ignoring all charge
against Mayor White, er-ortcio member o.
the board.
A DISPATCH from San Francisco, Cal.
says earthquake waves disturbed tn,
waters of the Pacific on the 18th ult. Tn,
disturbances were caused by the earth
quake that almost depopulated Java.
HENRIEcH MACHLE, a fugitive from
justice in Germany, was arrested on hi
arrival in New York on the Both, for rob
bing q widow in his native country.
A LARGE number of applications hav,
been made to the Marine Hospital Servic,
for food for the destitute citizens on tn
naval reservation at Pensacola but the,
have no funds on hand that could be uset
for that purpose, and inform the applicant
that the State OF Florida must care for IL
own poor or else make public appeal 70
aid.
FRANK KNIGHT, of Pittsboro, N. c.
has been bereft of his six children in a re
markable way. On the 10Th ult. three chill
dren died in quick succession. The da,
after the death of the last of these. two O