The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-02-14

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patents as to pruvide that an American patent
shall run fifteen years from the time the inven-
ton was patented In q foreign country;
making all patents Of whatever class extend
seventeen years: not to revive any American
patent now dead or to extend any living patent,
but to apply only to patents hereafter granted.
JOHN E. Cross, living at the foot
of the Allegheny Mountains, near High
land, Va, on the night of the 9TH dreamed
that he was on q chase and ,,ressi g a stag.
just as the imaginary animal turned at bay,
the sleeping hunier jumped out of bed and
fell down stairs, receiving injuries from which
he died. few months before Mr.. Cross had
n similar DIR. am, resulting in his springing
from his bed and injuring himself painfully.
A CHICAGO Tribune correspondent
telegraphed that paper on the Sth, as the
result Of trip through central and southern
Illinois that the peach crop OF central and
western Illinois and part OF Missouri is
practically wided out, but in The southern part
Of the State the buds OF all varieties of fruit
are in excellent condition
A HORRIBLE discovery was made in
tenement house at st. Louis on the 7th. 1t
was found that Henry Dress, German team
ster, had cut his wife's throat with q razor
and then his own. The body of the
wife lay on the bed, the covering of
which was soaked wi h blood. The man
lay on the floor. Five little children slept In
TOOul dllu Onc III Dcu Will buc COuplC. VIC
of the children had gotten up and to X the
baby out of the bloody bed in which its mother
lay and change its dress and put 1t in another
bed, where It was found. The cause of the
tragedy was supposed to be jealousy.
PETER HEFFNER, residing near Fleet
wood, Berks County, Pa, accidentally threw
lighted match into keg containing powder
on the 7th. An explosi IN followed, and Heff-
ner, his wife and two-year-old child were
terribly burned, the child fatally.
A BOILER in a coal office at Boone,
Iowa, exploded on the sth, killing the engin-
eer, George Fleming, aud Joseph James. Two
horses were also killed. The building was
blown to atoms
TIE Ohio River at Parkersburg, w.
Va, on the sth was the highest known since
1860, being forty-three feet above low water
mark. The hous all along the banks Of the
river were inundated and three hundred fam
ilies were homeless. Every mill In the city
was under water. The loss will be heavy. At
p mercy, Ohio, three. fourths If the business
houses had six feet of water in them and the salt
furnaces and Crescent Iron Works were badly
damaged. Business was entirely suspended.
The railroad tracks were six feet under water.
At Belaire the water flooded the cellars sev-
eral squares ON the river. The lister Islands
were submerged and family living on one of
them barely escaped with their lives, losing all
ressdents ree OF tbe % other isana Were Shut in by
the water, which was frozen over in still
places, preventing egress by skifs. There has
been great damage to buildings, household
e DDS and merchants stick all along the river
The boiler of tile factory at Taylors-
vile, Ill, exploded on the Sth, killing Peter
New and five other men, and fatally injuring
Henry New, the proprietor's nephew.
REPORTS from the cattle range section
of Colorado on the 9th, say that tn; loss OF
stock by snow storms and recent cold weather
amounted to fifteen per cent.
The boiler of B. J. Grier's saw mill at
Charlotte, Mich, exploded on the 9th, killing
the proprie' or and W. Gordon, the engineer.
JESSE BUCY, prominent and wealthy
farmer of Holmes County, Ohio, committed
suicide on the 9th, by taking strychine. No
cause was assigned for the act.
THE steamer Gem, plying between
Seattle and Port Mad son, Elliott Bay, WASH
/ ington Territory, was burned on the 9th and
six persons, who jun ed into the bay, were
drowned. The Captain and remainder of the
crew were taken off by boats from shore.
| There was no insurance on the boat or cargo.
GREAT excitement prevailed among
the negroes at Raleigh, N. c., on the 9th, in
consequence of a rumor that the students OF
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robbing the graves Of bodies. One negro died
suddenly from fright
JACOB BoALMAN, an old man over
seventy, who lived hermit life in the woods
in Newaygo County, Mich, was found dead
| in his hut on the 9th He had the reputation
| of having considerable money and was doubt
less murdered for The purpose of robbery.
GOVERNOR BATES, of Tennessee, in
his annual message to the Legislature of tha:
State, on the 9th, recommends the payment In
| full of what is known as the State debt proper
| This amounts to 81, l1S,OO0, out OF total
| bonded debt of 50, 600 600 on balance. He
| favors paying hfty cents on the dollar with
8 80 bonds, justifying his acti n of cutting the
debt down one-half on the GROUND that the
debt IL q ''carpet bag" debt.
A CROWD, composed mostly of colored
people assembled in front Of the jail at aola
Miami County, Kansas, ON the night Of the
Sth, and demanded the surrender of Henry
Smith, a negro, who had been commit ted fol
brutally outragi"g a little girl named Ben
nings, whom he left in the road until her arm:
and legs were fr, zen stiff. The Sheriff refused
and struck the leader over the head will
q cane, when the mob opened fire
wounding the Sheriff in the cheek anC
his son in the arm. The Sheriff an(
Il his deputies returned the shots, killing James
At q later hour an immense crowd OF bott
whites and black, led by number OF business
men, broke down the doors of the Jail will
sledge hammers. To their great disappoint
ment they found the prisoner lying dead on
floor OF his cell, he b wing cut his throat with
q pocket knife. They, however, placed a rop'
around his neck, and dragging him to the
public square, hanged him to tree. Tht
little girl was not expected to recover.
ADvIcEs from the Cheyenne and Ara
pahoe Agencies, OF Indian Territory, on tn.
9th, say that an unknown aud fatal diseas
was creating great ravages among horses. Th
animals would fall dead soon after being
attacked wi hout warning.
TIE President sent the following nom
nations to the Senate on the 9th: George W
wurtz, Pennsylvania, Secretary OF Legation
to Russia; La Rue Peck, New York, United
Sta es Consul at Fort Erie, Ca 'ad Harry 2,
Dill, Maine, U tied Sta es Consul at Guelph
Canada; William White. United Sta es Judg,
for the Southern Dis rct Of Ohio; Lo
Wright. United States Marshal n the South
ern District OF Oaio. Regs ers OF Ian,
Office-George A. Noses, Iron on, Ohio
Morris, Valentine, Neb. Receivers of Publ
, Moneys-John Q. A. Payton, Topeka, Kansas
, J. Wesley Tucker, Valentine, Neb.
The business failures for the weel
ending the 9th throughout The United State
and Canada numbered 275, reduction of hirt
, as compared with the previous week. Ne-
, England States had 26; Southern, IS; West
ern, SIS; Middle, 4S; Pacific Coast and Terri
tories, Is; New York City, 4; Canada, "a.
THE first sentence for attempt at sui
J eide at New York, under the new code, wa
that of Lawrence Bullard, q boatman, on th
sth who received one year in the ne nitenti Ir,
, for attempting to hang himself in the Tomb
prison, that ci Y, where he was confined on
charge OF drunkenness. Several previou
cases have resul ed in acqui'tal.
: TIE steam planning mill of Thoma
; Morford and the lumber yard of Fields
Morrow, adjoining, at Red Bank, n. j., wer
destroyed by fire on the 10th. Loss $50, ,O0C
Insured.
THE residence of j. S. Haldemar