The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-09-19

the 18th, and many employees are tempo
rarily idle. At the Central Pacific Mill 600
employees were idle, and at the Pemberton
and Everett mills several hundred were
waiting.
G. A. WARNER, an aeronaut, who had
been making balloon ascensions from the
Pittsburgh Exposition grounds, had a mar
row escape from death on the 18th. When
the balloon had reached an altitude of
eight thousand feet above the earth the
canvas collapsed suddenly, and, although
the rapidity Of the descent at first was
frightful, Warner was able to gather the
cordage In his hands and convert the can
vas into shape resembling huge UNI
brella. The air caught this, and the de-
scent of the last five hundred feet was so
gradual that when terra firma was reached
there was no unusual jar. Warner esti-
mates the time of the descent ut nine min
utes.
The total paper circulation outstand-
ing on the 18th was SS31, ,757 ,O69; total coin
circulation, S743, 1873. Grand total,
81 ,575, ,lO4 ,642. Assuming the total popula-
tion to be 100000, the per capita will be
5000.
GUsTAvE GRossENBACHER was fatally
injured in the Cleveland (O.) steel works
on the 14th. He was at work near furnace
of molten steel, and by slight explosion
aquantity of the red-hot metal was thrown
upon him, burning him terribly about the
AT Fort Wayne, Ind, on the 14th,
Pedro Richards, recently divorced from
his wife, entered her room and Drained
her with a flat-iron. He is in jail.
Mrs. BAGLEY was met on the road
near Wellsville, o., on the 18th, by two
masked men, who robbed her of her purse,
containing about 800, and made their es-
cape before help arrived. Mrs. Bagley
nlaCa tomb
stone over her late husbands grave.
| WILLIAM RUNYAN, farmer, and
wife were found dead in bed at their resi-
dence in Millville, Columbia County, Pa,
on the 14th, with their throats cut from ear
| to ear. They had, apparently, been dead
about a week. The case is shrouded in
mystery.
THE Cincinnati, Washington & Balti-
more Railway train struck wagon while
| crossing the track east of Cozaddale,
| near Cincinnati, on the 14th, and killed
i the two horses, shattered the wagon, and
mortally wounded Peter Smell, the driver.
Two New York thieves led Jepson
Smith, aged seventy, into hallway, on
the 18th, knocked him down and robbed
him of $325, his gold eyeglasses and gold
| plated false teeth, and were taking off his
clothes when interrupted by two detectives
/ who were on their trail.
| GEORGE HACKErT, while riding in a
buggy near Taunton, Mass, on the 18th,
was caught by q atelegraph wire lying across
| the way The wire struck his mouth, lifted
him off his seat, slipped out of his mouth,
| and carried away the top of the buggy.
/ Hackett lost two teeth, and his mouth was
/ badly cut.
II. MOORE attacked his companions,
J. 81. Wengel and James Knight, with an ak
while sleeping in a wagon on the prairie
near Cheyenne, W. T., fracturing both their
| skulls, and then shot Wengel four times.
His object was to rob them.
A DISPATCH from Hazleton, Pa, says
fearful riot took place there on the 18th,
at a coal mine on the Upper Lehigh. A
number of miners were discharged and
threatened to destroy the company,S prop .
| and a terrible fight with pistols occurred.
| A woman named Harding and young
girl of six years were instantly killed. and
a number of men and several officers
| wounded
BARBARA MILLER (coloreO was
hanged at Richmond, Va, on the 14th, for
completely in the murder Of her husband in
February last.
THE United States Express Com
pany,s office at Muncie, Ind, was robbed
of 5000 on the night of the 18th.
On the 14th Postmaster General
Gresham issued an order to all postmasters
not to forward any registered mail or
money orders to N. A. Dauphin, treasurer
of the Louisiana Lottery Company.
AT Dayton, O., on the 14th, Cyrus
c. johnson was found dead on the floor of
his cellar by his wife, where he had gone
for a drink of milk. He took a lighted
lamp with him, and it is supposed he fell in
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clothes. His person from his waist up was
burned into crisp and the features unrecog-
nizable.
THE post-office at Junction City.
Perry County, O., was burglarized on the
night of the 18th and its safe robbed of all its
postal notes, numbered consecutively from
Z to 500. The thief also took the punch and
office equipment for issuing the postal
notes.
DURING q game of base ball at
Wabash, Ind, on the 18th, John Noftsinger
was run into by another player named
King and sustained injuries from which he
died on the 14th.
ABOUT one o'clock on the morning
of the 14th: a fire broke out in the filing
room of the Standard Oil Company at
Rock Station, near Milwaukee, Wis.,, and
the filling-room, cooper-shop, six freight
cars and 20,0 900 new barrels were destroyed.
One tank of oil was also burned. The loss
will reach 500, 900. with no insurance.
AT Greenfield, Iowa, on the 18th, q
fire broke out in Benton's bakery, and be-
fore the flames could be checked ten build.
ings, including the Adair County Court
} House, were burned. Horace Spooner,
editor of the Transcript, sustained fatal in
juries, and Mrs. Randolph was killed by a
falling timber. Charles Smell, prominent
| business man, was arrested, charged with
. setting fire to the bakery.
AT Shelbyville, IL, on the 18th, Mrs.
Mary Quigley tried to persuade heI
daughter Lucinda to bleed her two days
old child to death. The mother refused
, | whereupon the grandmother took the child
and beat its brains out She was arrested
A CoPIoUs rain fell at Springfield,
, H.. on the 10th, being the first rainfall in
that vicinity for nine weeks.
ANDREW SHANNON, a carpenter,
twenty-five years of age, while clamoring
. around the precipitous face of Mount
Pleasant, at Lancaster, o., on the 10th
fell distance of fifty feet and was killed
!, instantly.
THE body of a man named Butler, a
, ringleader among the fence-crtters, was
found near Henrietta, Texas, on the morn
: ing of the 10th, perforated with bullets
The body was lying near Where a renee or
Sherwood's ranch had been cut for several
miles
PROF. SWIFT. director Of Warner OBJ
servatory, Rochester, N. Y, discov
, cred a comet on the evening of the
10th, in the constellation of Draco. II
is a significant fact that the only
two comets discovered this year are in the
same constellation and so near each other,
Prof. Swift receives the Warner prize OF
500. The wonderfully brilliant northern
i light prevented extended observation, but
the motion of the comet is southwesterly
A MEETING of prominent Germans
of Washington was held on the 18th tc