The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-07-25
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
A General Summary Of Events at Home
and Abroad.
Compiled from Daily Reports up to the
Hour of Going to Press.
DOMESTIC.

IHE properly or Isaac Holtinger,
farmer living near Fremont, Ohio, was
made the object of vandalism on the night
of the 18th, during the absence of the fam
ily. All the windows in the house were
broken and the furniture destroyed. Barn
doors were torn of and the roof punched
through with poles. A reaper, mower, cut
ter and other agricultural Implements were
destroyed Warrants were issued for the
suspected parties.
NOTICE of contest over the will of the
late Louis c. Hammersly, of New York City,
was fled on the 17th- He left an estate
valued at about s., 100000
NOTICE has been given that the Gov
ernment telegraph lines of Venezuela were
opened for business from Bogota to the
frontier of Colombia on the 18th, where
United States, which are in direct connec-
tion with the lines of the Central and South
American Telegraph Company via Calves
ton, Texas
The Sprague mansion and estates
In Providence, r. l., were sold at auction on
the 18th. The prices obtained were very
low. Fanny Sprague's house was bought
Sprague's house by James c. Hidden for
s2s,OOO; greenhouse, lot and buildings, con-
tanning $500 square feet, by the Union
Company for thirty nine cents per foot, and
another lot containing 81, ,415 square feet by
the Union Company at thirty-four cents
per foot.
SURGEON GENERAL HAMILTON of the
Marine Hospital Service at Washington,
received the following dispatch from Vera
Cruz, Mexico, on the 18th: "Yellow fever
is prevailing with unusual severity. Ninety
deaths occurred i'm May, 26I in June and
IA to date in July. The number of new
cases is diminishing, especially amongst
the shipping, for want of material"
The quarantine officer of the Marine
Hospital service, on duty at Ship Island,
Gulf of Mexico, has been instructed to pre-
vent all non-infected vessels from anchor
ing within two miles Of the quarantine sta
tion.
HARBECK's Dock, on East River, New
York City, and the ships Lawrence e.
Delap and Colonel Adams and bark Perse-
verance were burned on the 10th, and eight
persons lost their lives and twelve injured.
The dock, which was filed with hemp, jute
and coffee, Just landed from the vessels, took
fire from spark, and was soon ablaze
the three vessels they were consumed
with all on board. The supports of the dock
roof gave way and it fell in with a crash
burying about dozen firemen and dock
hands beneath the ruins, several of whom
were seriously injHred, one fatally. Capt
ain Grove, of the ship Delap, his wife and
three children, who were on board the
vessel at the time of the fire are missing,
and supposed to have been, burned to
death, and three dock men and one sailor
were knocked from the burning vessel and
drowned Custom House Inspector Har-
radan, in attempting to escape from the
loss was estimated at about So, 900 900: in
surance not stated.
JOHN A. MORLEY, of TitusyiIle. Pa.
was convicted in the United States District
Court at Erie on the 18th for attempting to
bribe Pension Commissioner Dudley, and
was sentenced to serve four months in the
Crawford County jail.
SOUTHWESTERN Missouri was visited
by another severe thunder storm ON the
evening of the 18th. W. P. Miller's large
barn and slaughter house at Carthage were
struck by lightning and burned to the
ground. Several other barns and buildings
were also struck and destroyed. At Mar
shall the storm OF wind and rain was very
severe. Trees were uprooted, fences lev
eled and the grain blown fat. At Warrens-
burg the Church of God, a new structure
was demolished, stock was killed by the
lightning and about one mile of telegraph
wire and poles destroyed. Other points
were also visited by the storm but the dam
age was slight
A PACKAGE of valuable jewelry was
stolen from the vault of the Coldwater
(Mich.) National Bank on the 18th. While
the cashier, who was alone at the time, was
engaged counting small sum of money
handed him by a stranger, he bead a noise
in the vault and discovered a man with the
package of jewelry making his way out.
He succeeded in getting to the street when
he was Joined by three companions in a
buggy and they made their escape. The
Marshal of the town with posse followed
the robbers, but being overawed by their
revolvers returned.
A BISMARCK, Dakota, dispatch of the
10Th states that while General Terry, SEN
ator Edmunds, Chief Justice Waite and a
party of army officials were riding around
Mount Washburne, in Yellowstone Park,
that morning, the pony on which the Chief
Justice was riding backed and threw its
rider violently to the ground. He struck
on his side injuring him severely and prob
ably fractured a rib.
ATTORNEY GENERAL TAPPAN, of
Concord, N. H, on the 18th made an elabor-
ate report in the matter of the arrest and
imprisonment of several Swedish oper-
atives at Suncock. that State, in whose be-
half the Swedish Minister at Washington
had taken a lively interest. The report
shows that on the whole the importation
of the Swedish help was a failure. A few
were honest and Industrious, but the ma
jority were indecent, degraded and inn
stated that they were imprisoned for
refusing to sign paper pledging them
selves to refund their passage money. This
was proven to be false, as their arrest was
caused by conduct having nothing to do
with the mills. The company advanced
5000 passage money, which the Swedes
agreed to refund, and some were doing it,
although the company had made no effort
to compel it. The company boarded the en-
igrants for two weeks after their arrival,
newly painted and papered the houses
they were to occupy and also advanced
money for the purpose of buying furniture.
The town authorities opened a school in
which the Swedish children were taught in
their native tongue, and much effort was
put forth to improve their religious condi-
tion. The arrests were made for debt, the
debtors being about to leave the State to
avoid payment They were arrested legally
and the process was explained to the men
before being carried out. The arrested
men were released and all but one ran
away The Swedish Minister stated that
he had been deceived about the arrests and
had forwarded money from Washington to
assist the families of the arrested parties
THE Brotherhood of Telegraphers
throughout the country inaugurated strike
for an advance of wages at noon on the
10Th. At New York several hundred en-
ploYes stopped work, leaving but 156 at
the Instruments; at Washington all the
operators but nine stopped work and left
the offices; at Pittsburg ninety four went
out, leaving but fifteen in; at Cincinnati
f04 shut of their keys and left, leaving but
three of the night force at work. At Chi
cago, st. Louis and all points throughout
the country about the same ratio of Broth
erhood members left the company's employ
The men state that they are determined to
stay out until the demands are acceded to,
The Telegrapher's Brotherhood is con-
nected with the Knights of Labor and will
be supported in their strike by that strong
organization. The operators employed and
paid by the lessees of wires leased by brok-
ers, newspapers or private individuals will
remain at their Instruments unless an at
tempt is made by the Western Union Com
pany to utilize these operators in handling
dispatches not connected with the business
of such private firms.