The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-08-08
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Compiled from Daily Reports UP to the
Hour of Going to Press.
DOMESTIC.

Freiz and other eminent physicians Of that
country report that after the various micro
scopic and other tests of the blood OF yell
low fever patients, they have fully estab-
exists in the blood. They claim to have
found various evidences in every subject
operated on
The Lancaster, Pa, watch company
suspended on the 1st, throwing go en-
ployes out of work. The suspension was
caused by the failure of A. Bilner, late
manager, and one of the principal stock
holders Of the company. The Directors
stated that the suspension would only be
temporary.
THE following public debt statement
for the month of July was issued on the 1st:
Cash in the treasury, 1851 $50, ,S45; decrease
of debt during the month of July, $780,
500; total interest paying debt, 81 ,33s, ,2s2,-
600; without interest, $3.50 81, ,61S; matured
debt, S7.267, ,165; legal tenders, S346, ,739,-
a26; certificates of deposit, Sl2,910, 900;
Gold and silver certificates, Sl72, 723, ,451;
silver certificates, S172, ~, ,451; United
States notes held for redemption and GER
tificStes of deposit, S12 900; cash bal
ancs available August /, 1888, S165, III, Jas.
LEVI D. JANARD, the missing ex-
Postmaster and defaulting ex-County Col
lector, of New Brunswick, N. J., to the
extent of so 900, was captured at Niagara
Falls on the 1st.
Two freight trains collided at Pow
nal, W., on the 1st. Both locomotives and
trains were wrecked and six employees
killed. The wrecks took fire and were
burned.
A HUMAN skeleton was found en-
bedded in thesand on the bank of an island
in the river near Lawrence, Kansas, on the
1st. The skeleton was that of man prob
ably thirty-five years of age, and had been
placed in a box, as the remains of wood
were found about it. The man had, no
of the skull was split open from the back
cf the head to the roof of the mouth, and
there was also a fracture from the right
ear to a point over the left eye. Nothing
else was found except two small buttons.
A HoT SPRINGS, Ark, special of the
1st says; San officer and posse pursuing the
Montgomery, Yell and Garland County
outlaws on Sunday came up with the Dam
iels brothers and bands in the mountains
of Perry County, on the headwaters of the
Fourche River. The fugitives were in a
stronghold and a desperate battle followed.
Two of the pursuers, Shelton Caldwell,
of Garland, and Charles Carter, of Oar
danelle, We're killed. Barnes OF Dardanelle
was wounded and one OF the hlnodhounds
killed. The pursuerS had been drawn into
the fastnesS, which the desperadoes had
fortified with stones and ambushed. The
desperadoes escaped without injury, though
tits reported that one of them, Rial Blacker,
of Garland County, surrendered to Sheriff
Nichols afterwards. The strength of the
outlaws is unknown"
A yILLAISoUs attempt was made to
wreck train by burning the immense
bridges spanning the Brazos River and
canyons in the Palo Pinto Mountains
Texas, on the 3lst ult., for the express pur.
pose of robbery. The engineer of the east
bound express from El Paso, shortly after
midnight, discovered the fire Just in time tc
stop his train within a few yards of the
structure. The stringers leading to the main
abutments were almost burned through, and
had the train gone on il would undoubtedly
have been hurled to the bottom of the can
yon, nearly one hundred feet below. The
engine was detached and ran over and
across the western bridge to the tank soms
distance beyond, where it obtained water
and, going back, put out the fire with the
hose. No sooner was this done than the
eastern bridge, over which the engine hac
not passed, was also discovered burning
and soon extinguished. The villains who in
tended to rob the train were deferred from
making the attempt by the discovery tha
a detachment OF United States troops an6
eight or ten Texas rangers were on board
who showed themselves when the traiI
stopped at the first bridge. Several mounted
and armed men were seen to emerge from
a clump of bushes near by and ride rapidly
away into the mountains.
A -REMARKABLE surgical operation
was performed by Doctors Weist, Gros
and Hay, at York, Pa, on the 9th ult. Mr.
Edward Swartz, a resident of that place
had the fourth joint of the neck fractured
and dislocated by the limb of a tree falling
on him during a storm the evening pre-
gious, and these physicians successful.
reduced the fracture. The patient, imme
diately after the operation, said he felt re
| heved of pain and had more feeling u
his body, which had been paralyzed.
/ was impossible to tell the result of the op
Grafton, but it was thought that IL tn
spinal cord had not been injured the patien
| might recover. The case attracted grea
deal of attention among the medical fra
ternity, owing to the singular and critica
nature of the injuries.
The Louisville Exposition was opene'
for visitors ON the 1st. There were 1000
| persons present, which completely file
the main hall. General Dupont welcome
| President Arthur in a fitting speech,
which the President gracefully responded
and concluded by starting the vast ms
chinery and declaring the Exposition oper
The fourteenth annual session of tn
National Ger1nan-American Teachers Al
sociation was held ut Chicago on the q
Mayor Harrison and Professor G. A. Zir
norman made addresses of welcome to th
visiting delegates. Mr.. Herman Schmid
president of the association, reported tbs
a National Bureau of Teachers had bee
established at Milwaukee and was pro-
pering. Mr.. A; Schnecht, Of Detroi
sSnss cy the maas association during the
year, and Mr.. H II. Flick reported th
finances in a favorable condition. Thre
hundred delegates were present, represent
ing st. Louis, milwaukee,, Cleveland, Ne'
| p,.rnElxyr Cincinnati SAGINAW an
st. Charles, Mich; Madison, Indiana; Day
ton, Ohio; Buffalo and Belleville, Ill. Dii
cussions were had upon the kindergarte
system, manual schools, the study OF th
German language in private schools an
other topics of interest to Germans an
their relation with the school system Of th
country. The following officers were cleo
ed for the ensuing year: President, Lou
Soldan, st. Louis; Vice President, ii.
Ratteman, Cincinnati; First Secretary
Macmillan Grossman, Milwaukee; Secon
Secretary, Emma Glatz, Cincinnati; Thir
Secretary, August Esch, Cleveland.
The Secretary of the Treasury {
Washington received a letter on the
from a prominent firm in New York, cal
ing attention to the fact that large quaint
ties of wool of low grades are exporte
from Egypt, Syria and countries in the
the principal market for them, b
sides considerable quantities of be
wool (extracted from old mattresses) frol
Constantinople, etc. These woods are fr
quently fraudnlently transhipped at Ma
seilles and in England for this country.
view of the epidemic now raging in Il
Eastern Mediterranean, these woods migf
convey infection as well as rags.
The body of Major General Ord, wh
died of yellow fever at Havana, Cuba,
few days ago, will, according to instru
tions from the Secretary of War at Wasl
ington, be deposited in the hall of Il
cemetery at Havana until cold weathe
when it will be brought othe United Stats
for interment-
MARTIN MCKAY discovered the hea
of a petrified child while excavating in
quarry at Mill Village, Erie County, Pa
. | ON the Ist. Its features are perfect an