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

DOMESTIC.
THE following is the public debt state
ment as issued by the United States Treasur-
er for the month of April: Cash in the Treas
ury, $319, ,15e, ,401; debt less cash in the
Treasury, 1874, ,079, SIS; decrease during
April, 1851, ,402; decrease since June last,
81, 81, So SO; gold and silver eertiasstss,
redemption Of certificates, $40, ,106. 900; cash
balance available, S135, ,2S3, ,026.
TIE stables on the J. n. Woolfolk's
.Palosi plantation, near Yazoo City, Miss,
were destroyed by fire on the 1st. Thirty
i've mules were burned to death.
TIE seventh annual session of the
High Court Of Ohio, United Order Of For
esters, was held at Akron, that State, on
the LIST. High Chief Ranger W. w. Merrick
supreme Secretary, delivered an address,
after which the High Court degreewa con-
ferred upon all the delegates.
TIE President on the I'd appointed
William 8. Woods District Judge for the
Seventh District Of Indiana, vice Walter Q.
Gresham, appointed Postmaster General.
VICE ADMIRAL Rowan was relieved
from the duties Of Superintendent of the
Naval Observatory at his own request on
the ID, and Secretary Chandler appointed
Commander Shufeldt to succeed him.
The residence of William jackson, at
Bailey's Harbor, Wis, was destroyed by
fire on the morning Of the ID, and his two
daughters, Olive and Bertha, aged respect
lively seven and twelve years, were burned
fire originated, and could not be reached.
CLARA j. WILSON, the young girl
who was confined In the jan at Atchison,
Kansas, for setting fire to several buildings
in that city, became q raving maniac and
was incarcerated In the State Insane Asy-
lum on the 3D.
The Ohio Miners State Convention
met at Columbus, that State, on the ID.
John Mcbride, President Of the State
Miners Association presided. A resolution
to provide for the organisation of q Nation
al Miners Association was adopted A
suspension OF mining at stated Intervals
and q schedule Of regular working hours at
different seasons was recommended as the
best means to control the coal supply. The
action Of the Legislature in appointing q
Screen Commission was approved
EDWARD McCABE was killed and
William Scott seriously injured by being
hurled down an elevator shaft at the Bur
den blast furnace, near Troy, N. Y, on the
I'd.
THE Pennsylvania Greenback State
Committee met at Harrisburgh ON the ID
and decided to hold their next State con-
vention at Williamsport, that State, on
August 80. L. 8. Heath's resignation as
Chairman Of the committee was accepted
and l. B. Rynder, Of Altoona, was chosen
to I'LL the vacancy.
Da--.r1ro,s. os.k1
passed q bill on the ID prohibiting any at
tempt to personate or represent any being
recognized as Divinity in the Old or New
Testament in any public performance.
CHARLES Tyler, one of the men in
jured by the explosion at Keystone eolliery,
near Ashland, Pa, on the 3Oth ult., died on
the ID. He leaves a widow and six children
in poor circumstances.
Hon. w. B. SEARIeHT, Mayor OF
Vincennes, Ind, committed suicide on the
I'd by shooting himself. He was O candi.
date for reelection but defeated at the
recent election. 1t is believed that his de
feat prompted the act.
The Union Hotel. two business houses
and two dwellings were destroyed by fire
at New Milford, Pa, on the ID. The loss
was heavy but fully insured.
Mrs. ANNA TRAVERSE was assaulted
by two negroes at Baltimore on the night
of the 1st, while she was on the way home
from her sisters, and felled to the
ground with a stone and robbed Of q
few dollars. She was found ON the vacant
lot where she was assaulted early the next
morning and removed to her home.
COLONEL GEORGE B. CoRKHnL, Dis.
trict Attorney of Washington, d. c., who
+ a. - A.
assassin of President Garfield, read paper
before the New York Medico Legal Society
on the ID, on "Insanity as O Defense fol
Crime" He held that Judgment and
execution should be swift with the
"crank," for the escape Of one Of
on committing crimes for the notoriety
and like exemption They well know they
commit the crime and deserve punishment
and when the knife of Justice falls upon on,
of their number it strikes them with horror
II the disease of insanity really exists ther
let that question be determined, not that h'
may escape punishment, but that punish
ment may be tempered in accord with hi
physical and mental condition
JOHN KINNEY, IS King of the Rust
lers,n and eight of his band, were captureS
and placed in the Leavenworth prison ol
the I'd. This will rid New Mexico Of tn,
terrible gang.
OTTo SCHUMACHER, brother of Fer
dinand Schumacher, the oatmeal manufact
urer, of Akron, Ohio, fatally shot himsel
while temporarily insane on the Sd. n
was sixty 1--WE years Of age.
THE saloons in nearly every town il
the State of Illinois were closed on the Sd
owingto the proprietors refusing to pay tn
high license demanded. In many place
| special police were guarding the saloons
i prevent the surreptitious sale of liquor.
THE body of Daniel Stapleton,
wealthy resident Of Davenport, Iowa, VIII
had been missing for month, was foun
In the river at that place on the I'd. For
play Is suspected
ABOUT eighty strolling Canadia
Creel Indians were captured on the LIST 4
the vicinity of Bear Paw Mountain, MOI
tana, by Company @ OF the Eighteenth Ii
| fantry and taken to Fort Assiniboin.
They had q few guns and ponies and wi
be sent across the border.
CHRISTIAN EWING, q farmer of Eth
Township, Licking County, Ohio, myst,
riously disappeared from his home som
days ago, after lighting a fire for his vii
to prepare the morning meal No trace {
that he had gone west, but his little SON di
covered his body in an old unused well o
the farm ON the Sd. 1t Is supposed that
committed suicide, but no cause can
given for the act. He leaves q wife an
three children.
JOHN A. NEAL, of Boston, who's
brothers are among the heaviest leath<
dealers of Massachusetts,, was murdered O
the ranch of the Kansas City Cattle Con
pany in Indian Territory, some days ag'
He was in the Territory for his health an
was living in a dug-out with two catt
herders. On the morning of his murder b
companions left the dug-out as usual to o
tend to their cattle, leaving Mr.. Neal rea,
ing. In q couple Of hours one of the me
returned and found that Neal had bee
murdered with a hatchet, the pole of whic
had been sunk in his head, and $3.50
money, a gold watch and other valuabl,
carried away. There is no clue to the pc