The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-02-28

aduicted to the use OF laudanum, Wnicni IL Is
said, he used in large quantities. DR.. Peters
Was about fiftyy wears VI age snd during the
war served as surgeon In the army. He leaves
. wife and two children in New York City.
j. S. RHODES, his wife and two children
and two men were drowned in the Ohio River
at Wolf Island on the22d. They were return
ing from Clinton, KY. With the remains OF their
ep-daughter, Miss Jones, who had died the
day previous, and were crossing In Skin
A RICH silver discovery was recently
made in the sants Rita Mountains, twenty
miles south Of Tucson, Arizona. The ore
crossing is 100 feet wide and over a mile long,
with an average value Of S275 per ton.
MOTHER BAPTIsTA, Order of the Sis
ters of st. Joseph, and superi ress Of the Or
phan Asylum, Brooklyn, n. Y, died on the
22d.
The funeral services over the bodies
of fourteen of the eighteen victims of the
terrible accident at the Parochial school, New
York City, on the 9th, took place in the
Church of the Most Holy Redeemer on the
22d, when solemn requiem mass was cele-
brated. The coffins were taken to the
church in fourteen white hearses and car
ried through two lines OF the Independent
rife companies at ached to the church TO the
altar rail, in front of which the coffins were
laid. Twelve little girls dressed In white and
wearing black Grape scarfs stood at the head
of the collins Twenty six girls, similarly
services were most impressive and q touching
funeral sermon was preached by Rev. Ftaher
Schaefer. The streets through which the
funeral procession passed was thronRed with
eople. The bodies were buried In Calvary
Cemetery.
SECRETARY CHANDLER, on the 22d,
received the following telegram from Captain
J. s. Kerrett, commanding the United States
steamer Richmond, dated Hong Kong, Feb
ruary 81: "The Ashuelot is a total loss on
Lamock Island. Eleven enlisted men were
lost, the remainder are on the Richmond.
Admiral Clitz is in Monocacy at the wreck. +"
She was q paddle-wheel, thin plated iron ship
OF $50 tons displacement and was what is
known as q double-ender. She was built in
1853 for the purpose OF river navigation during
the war and was used in the blockade.
WAsHINGToN's birthday was generally
observed throughout he whole country. At
Washington the District militia were out and
were reviewed by President Arthur and Gen.
eral Sherman. The Oldest Inhabitants Asso-
citation held q meeting at which an Grafton
was delivered and Washington's farewell ad-
dress read. At New York, Philadelphia, Pitts
burgh, Cleveland and other cities the courts,
banks and postoffices were closed and appro-
pirate services held.
A NEWCASTLE, Pa, special of the 22d,
SAYS that the Wampum Iron Company's works
at Wampum, Pa, were closed on the 21st by
the Sheriff on a confessed Judgment of $20,-
900. The failure was brought about by the
recent financial difficulties of Kloman Bros,
Pittsburgh.
Hon. JAMES GAMBLE, exJudge of
Lycoming County, Pa, and one time Con-
gressman from that district, died at Williams
port on the 22d.
Two-THIRDs of the town of Lawrence
burg, Ind, was out OF water on the 23d. A
careful record of the loss of buildings showed
that. eight manufac' uring establishments,
two business houses, forty dwellings and three
stables had been swept away, while li9 houses,
thirteen barns, nineteep shops, six business
houses, the Il raj hall at the fair grounds, and
outhouses without number had been moved
from their foundation and scattered about
town. At Hard ntown, few miles below,
all the grave-stones in the cemetery were
swept away and the graves obliterated
MANUEL LENHART, who was confined
in the Grand Rapids, Mich, jail, charged with
the murder Of an old man named Baldwin 6
few weeks since, was found dead in his cell or
the ed. There was a dance in the Brooks
House, adjoining the Jail, and it is thought
that Lenhart mistook the noise for prepare
tions of lynching and died from fright.
BoUGHMAN BROTHERS, stationers and
printers at Richm nd, Va, made an asst n
ment on the 23d. Liabilities 1000; assets
cons sisting OF stock, fixtures and bills receiv-
able, So, 600. The embarrassment Is attributed
to the losses sustained in New York, where
two years ago, they established branch
house.
The jury in the case of Craft, who
was on trial at Grsyson, Carter County, Ky.
for the murder OF the Gibbons children
81 A
motion was made for q new trial.
A FIRE at Georgetown, s. c., on the
2Sd, destroyed a cotton warehouse, severa
stores and dwelling. Loss $4,000.
Rev. DIR. PAUL A. CHADBoURNE
President of Williams College, died at New
York on the 23d.
CoRPoREAL punishment has been pro
hibited in the Paterson, y. J., schools
A MUTINY broke broke out in the JEFF
ferson City penitentiary, the State penal in
stitutiou Of Missouri, at noon on the 23d. Tn,
couvicts had just returned to the shops from
| dinner when at a preconcerted signal the fore
man of the collar-shop was seized by four con
viets, who, holding knives to his throat, or
dered him to be quiet; The Inc c1nvicts tU OF IN, IN,
resisted and was badly beaten. John B
/ johnson, q safe blower, under twelv,
years sentence, sprang to the command
/ OF the mutineers and melted them Il
| fire the building. Straw was piled up agains
1 the WOO ,en pa. tition in the collar-shop AMI
| fired, and in a few moments the whole shop
| which was the properly OF a st. Louis firm
| was ablaze. When the guards came with hos
to extinguish the fire they were met by tn
4 convicts who, with hammers and such othe
implements as they could command, cut tn
hose and drove the firemen back. The guard
| oyerpowering the mutineers locked ], 10
out OF / 100 of them in their cells. TIL
| mainder were trusted to aid In the work o
/ controlling the fire. The flames communicate
| rapidly o the Sta machine shops, the build
ing where the clothes for the prisoners I
made, the broom factory, the building occu
pied jointly by the Geisecke and Meysenberl
shoe manufacturing companies, which wer
| q / destroyed. The heroic exertions of volun
teers and convict prisoners saved the hospita
the prisoners seriously, and SINE, perhaps
fatally burned. The loss to the State amount
to fully 500, 900, on which there was no insur
ance, and the loss to private firms will reac
nearly the same amount.
The Iowa Butter and Cheese Stat
Association held meeting at Marshalltowr
that Staie, on the 23d. The sessi n was OF
cupIed with reading papers and discussing III
methods OF making cheese and butter. com
parative value and breeds of cattle, etc. The
adopted a resolution asking Congress to pas
the Hatch bill bearing upon contagious cattl
diseases
The executive committee of tn
knights Templar OF California passed q resc
lutiun at their meeting at San Francisco o
the 23d, that commandries of that State sh ,ul
rot compete for the trophies offered for th
coming conclave, and that the trophies sha
become the actual property OF the winner, no
subject to challenge
THE business failures throughout tn
country for the week ending the 23i numbere
2S0, as compared with 254 the previous weeE
OF these the Western States furnishe 6s
Southern, 81; Middle, 35; New England, .
Pacific Coast AMI Territories, 49,; New Yor
City, 8; Canada and the Provinces, 2S-
The Senate confirmed the nomination
OF G. NJ. Lan,bertson as United States Attol