The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-09-12

way to give them more general circulation
is for the Governmental retire n portion of
the one and two-dollar paper bills and thus
create demand for those denominations
which would be supplied by the dealing
out of silver dollars.
THE State of Illinois claims five per
cent. cash value of the lands located by
military land warrants in that State, and
they are now proceeding against the Gov
ernment for the amount due the State, es-
timating the land at Sl.25 per acre.
SAMUEL MCLITTY, a we'll known
business man Of Columbus, o., attempted
to commit suicide by beating his brains
out with hatchet on the 9Th. A
friend took the hatchet away after
he had battered his head pretty
severely. He was lodged in jail and there
attempted to cut his throat. Intoxication
and financial trouble.
The Maid of the Mist, a new steam
boat just finished and fac-simile of the
steamer which successfully made the dam
gerous passage in 1862, went through the
rapids and whirlpool at Niagara Falls on
the 9th. There was no one aboard the boat
when the trip was made, and she sustained
only slight injuries.
The steamship William Crane, from
Savannah, Ga, to Baltimore, Md, loaded
with cotton and turpentine, caught fire
while out at sea on the 5th, and narrowly
escaped being burned up The crew worked
fourteen hours at the fire before it was sub
dued. The greatest excitement prevailed.
About forty balls of cotton were destroyed.
Fifteen passengers were aboard, but no one
was seriously injured.
HEAVY rains in the vicinity of Laredo,
Texas, on the 7th did great damage. Rail-
road bridges were swept away and con-
siderable loss sustained by the drowning
of sheep.
RUDOLPH SCHLEGEL, who claims
Chicago as his home, was found nearly
dead in a field on James Hickox's farm
near East Cleveland, o., on the 7th. He
had shot himself in the left lung and will
probably die.
A DELEGATION from the Dakota Con-
stitutional Convention, now in session,
went to Omaha on the 7th TO intercept the
Senate Committee on Indian Affairs
and laid before it the demand OF
the convention for the opening up of the
Sioux Reservation to settlement.
On the 9TH forest fires were raging on
the shore of Sandy Pond, lying between
Townsayer, Groton and Littleton, Massa-
chusetts, and the flames were extending
rapidly into Littletou.
THOMAS H. OAKEY, delivery clerk at
the Cleveland, o., postoffice, was arrested
on the 7th for taking stamps from prepaid
parsels and reselling them. Oakley is
sixty years old and was formerly pastor of
Methodist Church in that city.
WILLIAM BAILEY was caught in
frog on the Michigan Central Railroad at
Yypsilanti, Mich, and instantly killed on
the 1th.
AT fire in building attached to q
hotel in Long Beach, N. J., a musician
named Adolph Friedrich was burned to a
crisp and several others taken out insens-
ible.
THE vessel Maggie, of Wales, was
wrecked at Bob Cove, New Foundland.
The crew were discovered by the mail
steamer Curlew standing on jutting crags
waving their caps aud handkerchiefs,
where they had been a whole day and
night They suffered terribly, but were
saved without loss of life.
LATEST reports show that fifty-four
more lives have been lost on the Grand
Banks, Newfoundland, making a total Of
150 in all.
THE State Department at Washing
ton received a communication on the 7th
from Consul Dockery at Leeds, England,
charging Marshall & Co., of that place,
with making false statements in regard to
the importation of linen thread for the pur-
pose of defrauding the Government of rev.
enue. George A. Clark & Bros. are their
agents in this country, and tits claimed by
the Consul that the latter are in collusion
with the English firm in the matter.
The French Charge d'Afairs at
Washington made an application to the
Secretary of the Interior on the 7th for
permission to take twenty Indians from
their reservations for the purpose of ex-
hibiting them in France, but was refused
| on the ground that such exhibitions were de-
moralizing to the Indians.
The American Chamber of Com
merce, of New York, has sent circulars to
the different Boards of Trade over the
country asking an expression of opinion
regarding the establishment by the Gov
| ernment of a postal telegraph system.
Answers to these are now coming in, and
in almost every case they are favorable to
the project.
A MAN whose identity is yet mys-
terry was found in the woods eleven miles
north of Wooster, o., on the 7th. He was
attired in a hunters outfit and setter dog
was with the body. Thirty dollars and an
/ advertising card of John +. Felta, Toledo
| o., were found in his pocket. Heart dis
ease is supposed to have caused his death.
The Archbishops of Cincinnati, New
York, Baltimore, and Philadelphia and
several other prelates were expected at the
i Vatican on the Sth, to confer with the
propaganda upon the extension of church
i regulations to the clergy of America.
LITTLE CHEF, Cheyenne Indian,
sent unique appeal to the Secretary of the
Interior for new suit of clothes on the
| It'll. He saws: / don't care much for grub
but do like to dress in proper style.
want the best white hat you can purchase
in the market.
Mrs. MARY CRUDDEN dropped dead
on the 7th at Baltimore, Md, on seeing the
mangled remains of her brother-in-law. He
was crossing a high trustle near that city
when overtaken by a train, and in order tc
save his life dropped between the rails and
clung to the cross ties. After the train had
passed be was unable to draw himself up
and fell seventy feet upon the rocks below,
Two persons almost 100 years ole
died on the 9Th near Lockport, N. Y
Arthur Connolly, the oldest, lacked only
sixty days of being 100 years old, and Mrs
Catherine Farman was ninety-nine years
five months and sixteen days old when she
died.
THE last spike in the Northern Pacific
Railroad, made of solid gold, was driver
by the president of that road at a tow
called Golden Spike, in Montana Territory
on the afternoon of the Sth. A large Grove
was present, among them Representatives
of foreign nations, members Of the execu
tive, legislative and judicial, and military
branches of the Government, Governors o.
States and Territories, and other dis
tinguished guests from our own and foreign
| nations.
NAVAL officers are busy making
plans for three or four large vessels, anC
in addition number of smaller gun yes
sells with light armament, which, in tim,
of peace, may be used by the coast survey
and for other purposes.
I The Charge D'Affairs of the Frencl
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