The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-11-28

tea transaction ever known there In one
day. One firm bought 500, 900 worth. The
speculation is based on decreased crop.
JOHN CHISHOLM was hanged in the
Essex County IN. ~ Jail on the 22d for
the murder Of his wife five months ago.
JOHN STENHmBER, a dissipated man,
shot dead Thomas Kerns, aged seventeen,
on q street of Ashland, Pa, on the 22d. He
says he mistook Kerns for q member Of q
notorious gang " no have committed many
outrages in that section. He was jailed.
OWING to the strike of cigar-box
makers in New York, several cigar manu-
facturers have been compelled TO shut
down, and other firms compelled to retire
large number of hands.
AN extensive cave-in occurred near
Logan Colliery, Pa, on the 27d, about 1000
yards long and 600 yards wide, on the
Lehigh Valley Railroad, doing considerable
damage to the railroad and endangering
other property.
A NEW process of making Bessemer
steel has been discovered at the Home
stead CPa-) Steel Works, which viii en-
tirely do away with pudding and give .
better quality of metal.
The license to transact business in
Massachusetts of the Union Mutual Insur-
ance Company, of Maine, was revoked by
the Insurance Commissioner of that State
on the 22d.
THE Secretary of the Treasury has
authorized the payment, without rebate, of
the three per cents embraced in the twenty
second call maturing December 1. The
amount outstanding is about $l4, ,IoO,OOO.
Secretary Folger has also authorized the
payment of the 3s embraced in the one
hundred and twentY-fourth call whenever
presented for redemption prior to ma
Of presentation.
DETAILED reports, published in
Chicago paper on the 22d, of the corn crop
of Illinois, Iowa and Indiana show that it
is the poorest crop harvested in many
years, owing to frost and thaw following
IN quick succession. A large percentage is
soft and will not keep, being at only for
excellent condition, and in Kansas the crop
is the largest ever handled.
ANDY TAYLOR, the last of the three
Taylor brothers, who murdered two Sher-
ifs and captured . railroad train with 100
gineer to carry them twenty miles in order
to hberate brother, was hanged at Lou
don, Tenn, on the 23d. While Being taken
from Knoxville to Loudon on the 22d he
slipped q revolver from the pocket Of one
of the guards, though heavily manacled,
and had it within q few inches of Sheriff
Foute's head, when he was discovered and
Knocked down.
PRISONERS in the county jail at In
dianapolis, Ind, on the 2ad attempted to
escape by the use of dynamite, and sue
ceeded in blowing q hole in the wall large
enough to crawl through, but were con-
frontcd by the Sheriff with loaded re-
volveT.
AN express train on the Pennsylvania
Railroad on the gsd struck . wagon at
Philadelphia and killed hrs. Christiana
Frey, her son William and fatally injured
her husband.
REPORTS from Mill Creek, Pa. on the
Path state that q disastrous fire has been
raging on the Jacks Mountain in that vicin-
ity for the past few days, and ex-
ance of nine miles. About 5000 cords
OF wood and q like number of cords
OF bark belonging to Hon. r. B. Foust, and
DR.. A. R. Mccarthy, were destroyed. The
fire extended over an area of several thou
sand acres of valuable timber land and 10
supposed to have been started by hunters
camping In the mountains. Joseph
Straight, who had built house on the
mountain preparatory to making Q clear
ing, had his home destroyed, the family
barely escaping with their lives.
TIE strained relations between
France and China, and the effect the hos
tilities will have upon the interests Of the
United States, were the subjects Of consid-
GRAFTON at the Cabinst meeting on the 23d.
The house of T. w. Huston. . we'll
to-do farmer living t~o miles from Union
vile, No., was burned on the 23d and Hrs.
Huston and two children psrished in the
flames.
TIE business failures throughout the
United States and Canada for the soven
days ended the 23d were 2G7 against 235 the
previous week.
DEvEL oPMENTs on the 22d showed
the late A. B. Johnson, who suicided at
Utica, n. z, some time ago, 10 b Q de-
| faulter in the sum of $4,000 TO the Nc
| Donald estate. Mrs. Mcdonald 10 . sister
| of Johnson.
A DRovKR named John A. Martin
was run over by Asin At Tsrrs Hsute,
Ind, on the 23d and killed.
AT Bonneville, Mo-, on the Esd,
Deputy Sheriff Rsgland shot and killed
David Gett. . negro, while be was escaping
| arrest.
BERNARD BoLAND, who was sent
enced at Boston in 1873 to State Prison for
stabbing man who caught him tapping |.
till. was psrdoned by the Governor on the
23d- An old statute taE discovered by the
/ prisoners friends which provides that no
person under sixteen yesrs shall be sent 20
the State Prison. Boland was fifteen when
/ sentenced.
AvERDIcT of $50. 900 was given in the
United States Circuit Court on the 23d
against Albert B. Slennaker, Of Phiisdsl.
/ f0rrr@rl- 81 T,k n
nue. Of Philadelphia, in = suit brought by
the Government to recover the amount OF
the bond OF Benjamin 2. Emery. defaultine
Collector Of Internal Revenue in the Third
District of Mississippi.
MARY O'CoSNoR, who jumped from
a burning building, to which there were nc
fire escapes, belonging to Samuel J. Kelley
at Msnsyunk, Pa, year ago. was swsrd
ed $1,000 damages on the sd for injuries
sustained.
ELLEN REED. of Chicago. wife Of
Charles Il. Reed. counsel for the assassin
Guiteau, has begun . suit for divorce
Ground, failure Of support.
The skeleton Of David Bowling, who
mysteriously disappeared ten ysars ago
was found In an old disussd well st hi,
former home in Milltown, N. J., on the I'D
II Is supposed that In returning home In
the night hesfell In the well.
OVER $4,000 worth of counterfeit
Erie (Pa.) water bonds were r.csivsd al
that place from New York bankers on the
23d for collection.
AT Joliet, H., on the Esd, in the tris
of the convict Mooney for the murder oi
his fellow convict, Anderson, the lattsr'i
| head was brought into court 10 show ths
/ character OF the wounds. Mooney secured
| O new trial, and it is discovered that An
/ derson's head has mysterfously disap
another conviction impossible.
COMPTROLLER KNox's annual repor,
shows 262 National banks organized in the
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