The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-10-24
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Conkling Senatorial contest, was acquitted
on the 18TH
THE African Methodist Episcopal
Church Conference, embracing several
Western States, in session at Denver, Col,
the Judges of the United States Supreme
Court on the Civil Rights bill, and de-
nounced it in the strongest terms. Several
incendiary speeches were made A Bishop
declared that IL the negroes rights were
thus trampledupon, a revolution would be
the result.
CHARLES H. HYRANmUs, the man
who was buried alive at the bottom of q
dfty-foot well at Dayton, o., after an inn
prisonment of twenty-four hours, was
rescued alive on the 18th. 1t is thought his
lower limbs will be paralyzed from nom
circulation of the blood.
In the neighborhood of Milton, N. c.,
diphtheria has been raging lately with
fatal effect. Children have died by dozens.
One man, James Paul, lost all of his chill
dren, seven, in twelve days, which caused
him TO lose his reason. On the night of the
18th he was found in graveyard trying to
disinter his children with his hands. On
being approached he cried: "I'm trying to
get my darlings out"
The National Convention of Loco
motive Engineers began at Buffalo, N. Y,
on the 17th. All the British and American
provinces and every. State ewererepresented.
The First National Bank of Chicago
has notified its clerks that they must all
procure bonds, which will range from
5000 to 5000 each and aggregate over
$4,000.
THE centennial celebration of the dis
banding of Washington's army at New
burg, N. Y, October Is, 1888, occurred
at that place on the 18th and 18th.
SIX houses at New Orleans were
burned on the 18th.
THE boiler of a freight train engine
burst near Oskaloosa, Iowa, on the 17th,
piling nineteen cars thirty feet high in a
space of 145 feet. The engineer, Edward
Bagley, was instantly killed, and brake
man, Elmer Blanchard, and a fireman
named Charles fatally injured.
CHARLES HYRANIMUs was imprisoned
at the bottom of fifty-foot well at Day
ton, O., on the 18th. The fall of the earth
caused the curbing to come together over
his head and prevented him from being
crushed. Air, food and drink were conveyed
to him through an opening in the curb. He
was imbedded to his armpits in quicksand
and begged for a revolver to end his misery.
A fellow-workman named Charles Derr
was killed by a second cave-in while dig
ging to release Geronemus. After remain
ing at the bottom of the well twenty-four
hours he was taken out, but it is thought
his lower limbs will be paralyzed from
non-circulation of the blood.
MAC GAINS, a colored man employed
in a stone quarry near Dayton, o., drilled
into a hole charged with dynamite on the
18th, and the explosion which followed
tore his right cheek away, destroyed his
eyes and inflicted internal injuries which
viii prove fatal.
ERNE ST AsTN, postmaster at Mi
nooka, Pa, was arrested on the 18th for
tampering with the mails.
Mrs. THEODORE DAVIS, Flora Mob
lett and boy named Dave Morton were
drowned near Joplin. Mo-, on the 18th,
while crossing a swollen stream in a car
riage.
ABOUT one o'clock on the morning
of the 18th the Sheriff removed Jacob Neil
ing, the murderer of Ada Atkinson, from
Fowler, Ind, to Lafayette, having heard
that mob was being organized at Oxford
to lynch him.
THE city of Weston, w. T., was de-
stroyed by fire on the 18th. A few brick
stores were the only buildings saved.
STELLA, the only daughter of G. G..
Arnold, sat on a stove in which was a fire
at North Solon, o., on the 18th, and her
clothes caught fire and were entirely con-
sumed, except her shoes, before assistance
reached her. Her flesh was burned to a
crisp and her features marred past rec
ognition.
A PASSENGER train running forty
miles an hour jumped the track near Van
dalia, H., on the 18th, ditching the engine,
tender and mail car and piling them on
one another. The engineer and fireman
were killed.
ACCORDING to the report of the
Bureau of Statistics, immigration to this
country from Ireland and Germany con-
tinues to fall of, while the number from
England and Wales has slightly increased.
The most notable decrease among the ma
tionalities is in the case of Germany, where
the falling of is nearly twenty per cent. OF
what it was last year, due TO the repressive
measures adopted by the German Govern
ment-
THE values of exports of domestic
provisions, tallow and dairy products from
the United States for September, 1888, was
S, $50 ,421; for the same month of 1882,
81, ,453, ,7S4; for the nine months ended Sep
tember 30, 1888, $50, ,11S, ,64S, against S73,-
$40, $50 for the same period of 1882. Pro-
visions and tallow for eleven months end
Ol.r
same time in 1882, Ss1, ,943, ,76s. Dairy pro.
ducts for the five months ended September
30, 1888, $10, ,232, ,697, against SS,4IS,511. for
the same period Of 1882.
THE Society of the Army of the Ten.
nessee held its sixteenth annual reunion al
Cleveland, o., on the 17th and 18th. Gen
erals Sherman, Logan, Belknap and about
a hundred other officers of the Army Of the
Tennessee were present. A visit to the
tomb of Garfield was among other feature:
of the meeting.
ALRA II. DoAN, clerk in the pension
office at Washington, has invented q
method Of displaying weather signals IN
the country for the benefit of farmers
Service Bureau. It provides for a system
of signal flags to be displayed from tn,
sides of United States mail cars which
pass over the country on the great net
work of tracks. The signals can be ordered
up from Washington by telegraph.
A DISPATCH has Just been received a
New York to the effect that J. W. Mackay
and James Gordon Bennett signed a con
tract at Paris for the construction of two
Atlantic cables, the first 70 be opened K
the public about June and the other a fen
weeks later.
THE eleventh congress of the Asso
was held at Chicago on the 18th. A larg,
number of distinguished women from al
parts of the country were in attendance.
THE frequent calls for bonds being
made by Secretary Folger is taking away
the securities for the National Bank circu
lation. The Secretary of the Treasury In
his annual report, it is said, will make
some Recommendation providing for new
securities. Washington correspondent,
say there will be q very stringent money
market before six months.
BURGsARs raided the village of Es
telle, Gratiot County, Mich, on the 18th
blew open the safe and stole 81 800 from
Drake g. Tucker, and also fuckers hors,
and buggy, with which they made theil
escape
THE Signal Service Bureau is nego