The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-10-31


landed at sau h .ancisco with ''traders"
certificates from the Chinese Government
The Secretary OF the Treasury says, as the
statutes permit traders TO land, it is very
difficult to distinguish traders from labor
ers.
R G. Dun & Co. s Mercantile Agency
at New York report the business failures
during the week ended October 26
throughout the United States and Canada
at 2ls, against 243 last week.
A MULE belonging to the Govern
ment at Mt. Vernon Barracks, Ala, Is for
ty-five years old, and the Secretary Of War
has Just issued an order to ''let the mule
be cared for and kept as long as he lives"
General Sherman says be saw the mule at
Fort Morgan, Mobile Point, in 1912.
THIRTY wells in the Allegheny oil
field stopped flowing on the 26th, which
probably foretokens a collapse of the New
York oil field.
CAPTAIN RAND and Mate Thomas
Pender, Of the steamer Tropic, convicted
of violating the neutrality laws by furnish
ing arms and ammunition to the insurgents
Of Hayti, have been sentenced to one years.
imprisonment and to pay fine of 500 and
costs at Philadelphia.
Two drunken roughs called Mr..
Montsinger out of his house near Lavelady.
Tex, on the 9th and literally cut him to
pieces in front of his wife and child.
GUSTAV HERMAN, of Cincinnati, was
hunting with gun and dog on the farm of
Martin Hess near that city on the 2sth, and
when ordered OF the premises by Hess shot
the latter dead.
THOMAS ROONEY, of Toledo, o., was
locked up at Erie, Pa, on the 27th as in
sane. He had in his possession four
year-old girl, elegantly attired, which he
obtained from the Sisters of Charity of
Hamilton, Canada, on the representation
of giving her . home, and was using her to
procure railroad passes from the poor au-
thorities-
RETURNS received at Washington
from customs districts show that the aboli-
tion Of the stamp tax on matches has re-
suited in large importations of matches
from England, Switzerland and other for
efgn countries, and has had the effect of
demolishing the match monopoly and lessen
hait. lnS the cost of matches more than one
WHILE Alfred Gossett, colored, was
on his way to the Criminal Court at New
Orleans on the 9th to receive q life sem
tence for the murder of Policeman John
Coffey, last April, the eldest son of Coffey,
aged nineteen, stepped up behind Gossett
and shot him in the head, and the deputy
sheriff in charge Of the murderer immedi-
ately arrested Coffey.
A WOMAN giving her name as Nine.
Russell was arrested at Cory, Pa ,on the 9th
for obtaining money under false pretenses.
making at ten dollars q scholar and prom
ised those taking lessons situations at
thirty dollars q month when they had fin-
ished learning, which she failed to do.
TIE country residence of Edwin n.
Benson, Of Germantown, Pa, was burned
on the 2sth, involving loss of 500. 900. he
and his wife and children barely escaped
with their lives.
A FIRE at Oscoda, Mich, destroyed q
block of buildings on the 2sth.
THIEVES stole 500 worth of dia-
mopds and jewelry from the store Of L. s..
Stow & Co., at Springfield, Mass, on the
night OF the 9th.
Ar New Castle, Pa, ON the 9th,
James Hogan, eighteen years old, deliber.
ately placed q revolver at the head of a
little six-year-old boy named Willie Harris
and pulled the trigger, killing him. Hogan
claimed he did not know the pistol was
loaded.
A LAND slide derailed the rear por-
ton Of Q passenger train on the Chicago
& Alton Railroad near Kansas City on the
18th. Three cars were overturned and
dragged some distance, breaking the cars
up and seriously injuring twenty passen-
gers.
The following is the condition of the
United States Treasury at the close Of busi-
ness ON the 2Sth: Gold coin and bullion,
sos, ,741 ,679; silver dollars and bullion,
$40, ,746,674 fractional silver coin, S26, 6,67S,-
775; United States notes, SOS, ,133, ,2S5; total,
S409, SOC, ,413; certificates outstanding, gold,
So, 2,019, ,06o; silver, $S5,06i ,27l; currency,
12,296, 900.
A PASSENGER train on the Pan Handle
Railroad collided with a freight train thir-
ty miles east of Chicago on the 2Sth. An
engineer, brakeman and fagman were
killed. John Dengan, engineer of the
freight train, was severely injured and
crased by hurts and fright. he ran four
miles to Dyer, Ind, where he arrived q
lunatic.
EIGHT persons were convicted of
Ku-klux crimes at Atlanta, Ga, on the
9th.