The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-10-17

FRANK K. fLORIN was SuffOcated by
coal gas from a stove in his house
at Erie, Pa, on the night CT the
18th. In attempting to crawl to the door
he pulled desk down on him, which held
him pinioned to the floor until he suffo-
Gated.
AT Teegarden, ten miles from Plym-
outh, Ind, on the 18th William Webb,
while drunk and crazed by domestic
troubles, shot his two-year-old daughter
dead and blew his own brains out.
The Circuit Attorneys Office at st.
Louis was entered on the night of the 18th
and the shorthand records of the Grand
Jury which investigated the gambling ring
were missing. The missing stenographic
notes cover all the testimony of some
twenty witnesses in-the gambling investi-
cation and notes on other important cases.
AT the National Conference of the
Episcopal Church at Philadelphia on the
14th Rev. David Bull Knickerbocker, DID,,
Of Minneapolis, Mimi, was ccnsecrated
Bishop of Indiana.
The first National Congress of the
International Socialistic Workingmen's
Association, which convened at Pittsburgh
on the l4th, was failure, only twenty-six
delegates being present.
SIX cars loaded with canned peaches
were derailed near Menlo Park, N Y, on
the 18th by a collision between freight
trains. Alonzo Robb, an engineer, was
seriously injured.
As A passenger train at Unioutown,
Pa, was crossing n switch on the 18th
switch engine in charge of an incompetent
engineer ran into the middle of it, injuring
ten or twelve passengers, some seriously.
The car struck almost Immediately burned,
but the passengers were all gotten but.
j. B. EHRET, on going to a large
hogshead kept for catching water early on
the morning of the 18th, found his mother,
who keeps a place known as the Wine
Garden, near Erie, Pa, head first in the
hogshead, drowned. Supposed she went
to the place for water during the night and
fell in. A singular fatality has attended
the family for years. A little daughter
was drowned fifteen years ago, followed by
the drowning Of an uncle. Two years ago
the deceased woman's brother found q
watery grave, and six months ago her
nephew was capsized In the Erie Bay and
died in its waters.
Ex-Governor CRAWFORD, of Kan
sas, has been prosecuting case against
the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad
for the recovery of over million acres of
land said to be illegally certified to that
company, and Commissioner Mcfarland,
of the General Land Office, on the 18th
rendered a decision restoring the land to
the State. 1t is not certain whether the
Secretary of the Interior will sustain the
decision. The value of the land restored
to the State by the Commissioners decision
is said to be about S5o.0Oo,000.
A MAss-MEETING of the citizens of st.
Louis was held on the 18th and resolutions
were adopted declaring that the Police
Commissioners of that city were being
made the tools of a band of conspirators
organized for plunder, and demanding that
the Governor remove at least three of their
number, viz: Lutz, Caruth and Cleveland.
MAMIE GORDON, fourteen years old,
being reprimanded at school for an offence
and told that her parents would be in.
fomed, drowned herself at Trenton, N. j.,
on the 18th.
A FIRE in the Lyceum Theater, Chi.
cago, on the night of the 18th did S25 ,00C
damage to the building, destroyed the
wardrobe of company playing there and
burned Harry Perry, who was sleeping in
the building, to death.
ALFRED WHITE, the youngest of q
gang of horse thieves known as the White
boys, suicided in jail at Madison, Ind, on
the 18th. Two of his brothers were recently
sent to the penitentiary.
The National banks of the United
States held $2,165,O75 in excess of the
amount required by law on the 18th.
THE United States Treasury, at the
close of business on the 18th contained
gold coin and bullion to the amount OF
S206, ,915, $40; silver dollars and bullion
$50, ,16S, ,6e6: fractional silver coin, S6, ,6S2,
SoT; United States notes, $52, ,93S, ,SSS; total
S4Q6. .656.3Q1. Certificates outstanding, gold,
$50, 30, ,730; silver CSsI Ys24, ,701; currency
$12, $4,000.
THE Secretary of the Treasury issued
call on the 18th for Sl5, ,000, 900 three pei
cent. bonds, which will be paid December
10, and interest cease from that date.
OK the night of the 14th pipe used
to conduct ammoniacal gas in Moerlein's
| brewery, Cincinnati, o., bursted where II
passed through stable, killing twenty
three horses.
WILLIAM GILBERT was fatally stabbed
in Philadelphia by a negro thief on the
14th. The wife Of the latter, a white woman
enticed Gilbert into the house where ht
Was stahhed