The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-08-22
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.

DOMESTIC.
The creditors of F. Shaw & Bros.
met at the Shoe and Leather Exchange,
Boston, on the 18th, and Fayette Shaw, the
senior partner, made a statement explain
ing the causes which led to the firms en-
then presented the firms liabilities as
follows: Liabilities, direct, A,6l2, 900;
contingent, S2,s9T 900; total, S,5Oe, 900;
assets, So ,262 900; also claims against
lngs in notes, the amount it is i'm
possible to state. OF contingent liabilities,
81 ,S24, 900 is insolvent and the balance it is
thought will not be provided for, being
Trade paper.
NOTICE was given by the United
States Treasurer on the 10th that on Wednes-
day, August %, and on each Wednesday
following, the United States bonds en-
braced in the 121st call will be redeemed at
the Treasury Department in Washington to
interest. The bonds presented at the De-
partment on the day named for redemption
will be paid in the order of their presenta-
ton, and il an excess of 5000, 900 be pre-
sented on either day, such excess will be
the first paid on the next redemption day.
THE Amalgamated Iron and Steel
Workers at their session at Philadelphia
Ou Nuc Aobu, dGNCPiCu Nuc AhNlldblOh AIOLu
Senator Blair to send representatives of
that Association to Washington to appear
before the subcommittee on Labor and
Education, and appointed John Jarrett,
President, William Martin, James Penny
and William Weilie to represent that body.
THE firm of E. c. Stedman & Co.,
of New York, made an assignment on the
18th to John McGinnis, Jr. The liabilities
are small. The failure was due to a dis
honest clerk who took securities and hy-
pothecated them for his own speculations
on fictitious account.
CAPTAIN VINCENT SHINKLE, of Cow
ington, KY, made an assignment to Judge
W. NJ. FinlaT and R. T. Miller on the 18th.
The cause was the tightening of the money
market. Liabilities about $4,000. He had
paper in the banks and they declined to
renew. His embarrassment was brought
about by helping his son, who would have
been forced into bankruptcy by the loss of
the steamer Charles Bodman some time
ago, if he had not advanced him $50 900.
THE funeral of the wife of Senator
Allison, who drowned herself in the Missis-
sippi River while temporarily insane, took
place at Dubuque, Iowa, on the 11th. The
public buildings were draped in mourning
and all business throughout the city sus-
pended. Governor Sherman and other State
HENRY YOUNG, General Agent in
Cincinnati OF the Grand Rapids & Indiana
Railroad, committed suicide by shooting
himself in his office in that city on the
morning of the 18th. He had been seen in
an intoxicated condition a few hours be-
fore. A letter was found on his person
purporting to be from a cousin, threaten
ing him for improper relations with the
writer's wife.
CITY MARSHAL MOONEY, of Memphis,
Tenn, was assassinated by unknown par
ties on the night of the 14th.
AUGUSTUS NJ. HARRINGTON, United
States Attorney for the Northern District
of Illinois under the administration of
James Buchanan, and later one of the So
licitors of the Chicago g. Northwestern
Railroad, died at Geneva, Ill, on the 18th.
THE race horses Raynard and Rander
Rothschild collided in a race at Charlotte,
Mich, on the 18th and the former was
killed. He was owned by Seth Mclean
JOE PAYNE, n colored man, was
lynched by party of citizens at Oakland,
Miss, about two O'Clock on the afternoon OF
the 18th, for the murder of a young
merchant of that place named Towns Sayle
| in July last. Suspicion pointed to Payne
as the murderer at the time and he was ar
rested and placed in Jail. On the morning
| of the 18th, it being reported that he had
made confession of his guilt about SOC
or GOO citizens went to Sheriff Pearson
and demanded the prisoner. Being refused
| they overpowered that officer and tool
Payne out. A court was at once organ
| lied, Hon. H. j. Moore, Mayor of Oakland
presiding, and W. U. Fitzgerald and w,
V. Moore, attorneys, prosecuted. Payne
| made a full confession, saying that on the
night Of the killing he went to the house OF
IL Enwa hA AH LII h kgwwl
for his money; that he waited
there until Sayle came out when ht
| Joined him. They walked about 200 yards
| when he knocked him down, cut hi.
| throat and threw him into a deep gully
| rifled his pockets of money, the store SAFE
| keys, then went to the store, got whai
money was there, amounting in all K
about thirty dollars. After confessinl
was the verdict of the crowd, whS
acted as jurors. Gallows were at oncs
/ erected, and the prisoner mounted the scaf
fold with a firm step. He made a speech
everybody to teach their children to avoit
/ evil thoughts. The black cap was then ad
/ justed, the drop fell, and In ten minutes ht
| was pronounced dead. The colored people
were as clamerous as the whites for aveng
| ing the outrageous crime, and the peopl,
think they have done right.
| JESSIE Town and his wife, and
| MIS- StOckwell, OF St- Adams, W., wn1l
out driving on the 18th, were thrown from
the carriage and received injuries from
which Mrs. Town died and the others wer'
not expected to recover.
THE Farmers Bank, a private insti
tuition of Richmond, Ind, closed its door
on the 10th. 1t was rumored the day pre-
vious that the bank was embarrassed anC
a run was commenced upon it but all de
mands were promptly paid up to the hou
of closing. The directors, who are sub
stantial men, principally farmers, thel
held a meeting and it was believed tina
they would wind the affairs of the bank ur
The bank was established in 1877 by STANLEY
& Co., and managed by James Z. Thomas
cashier. The deposits amount to abou
$4,000.
A CYCLONE swept over Chattanooga
Tenn, on the afternoon of the 18th. The rail
road depot and a number of other build
ings were unroofed and damaged an
several others blown down. The fiyin
A heavy hail storm prevailed at the time
doing considerable damage.
AN official dispatch from Foote, tn
newly appointed United States Minister {
Corea, on the 10th, states that he had take
up his residence in the depths of that littl
country, but life there is attended wit
many discomforts and privations. Th
only house he was able to obtain was
rude one of wood and paper, wit
paper windows, situated in an undesirabl
location in the midst of novels and filth
The climate, he says, is marked by grea
extremes of heat and cold. The only fut
obtainable consists of the boughs OF pin
trees, and everything in the shape of food
| | arcapt the SimnlRSt nRC6SSariaS of life. ha