The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-04-11
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
A General Summary Of Events at Home
and Abroad.
Compiled from Daily Reports up to the
Hour of Going to Press.
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
COLONEL ANDERSON d. NELSON, u.
8. A. (retired), was appointed on the 4th
Deputy Governor Of the Soldiers Home at
Washington by the President, vice Major
Milton Cogswell, deceased.
FROM reports received at the Treas
ury Department at Washington the gliding
and passing of the five-cent nickle piece for
gold is growing more general every day.
A prominent Secret Service officer stated
that parties had been arrested in California,
st. Louis, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Louisville,
Nashville, New York, Boston, Kansas City,
Dubuque and other places for that offense.
EX-SENATOR ALLEN G. THURMAN
slipped and fell from the steps Of his resi-
dence to the ground below at Columbus,
Ohio, on the night of the Sd, and broke his
left arm between the elbow and shoulder.
He sustained other serious injuries. He
was picked up in an insensible condition
and carried into his house. Owing to his
extreme age and the shock to his system
serious results were agprehended- The
Senator is in his seventieth year.
Four prisoners attempted to escape
from the Chester Prison, Randolph County,
H., on the Sd. William Mccormick, who
was serving out five years. sentence for
the OF the WAS for saSs sS
same ofense, was severely wounded in the
shoulder, and another slightly wounded in
the arm All were speedily captured and
placed in solitary confinement.
j. S. DAVIDSON, an old and we'll
known citizen of Steubenville, Ohio, died
at his residence In that city on the 4th, in
the eighty-fifth year of his age.
THE Western Iron Association head
its annual meeting at Pittsburgh on the 4th
and reelected their old officers. Reports
from all sections indicate an unsatisfactory
condition of trade with the futJs,e outlook
unpromising. The card rates were re-af-
frmed-
AUGUSTUS o. BoURN, Republican, was
elected Governor of Rhode Island on the
4th over Ex-Governor Sprague, the nominee
of the regular Democrat, Independent-Re-
publican and Equal Rights parties, by a
majority of 2, 140.
THE Board of Control of Allegheny
College, at Meadville, Pa, elected Rev.
David h. Wheeler, of New York, on the
4th, to all the vacant Presidential chair
of that institution. Rev. Wheeler
was United States Consul at Florence,
Italy, under President Lincoln's admins
tration. Since his return from that place
he has been editor Of the New York Meth
odist.
THE Pennsylvania State Senate passed
the bill finally ON the 4th providing for the
enforcement Of the provision of the Con-
stitution, prohibiting the issuing Of free
passes except to officers or employees Of
railroad companies. The House had passed
a similar bill through second reading.
A LARGE number OF armed men broke
into the jail at Hastings, Neb., on the night
of the 4th and took three prisoners, Green,
Ingraham and Babcock, therefrom, and
after binding and gagging them carried
them to railway bridge a half mile dis
tant and hung two of them, Green and In
graham, from q beam. Babcock was re-
turned to the authorities, as he promised to
make a statement giving the existence of
oners were arrested for the robbery and
murder of Cassius NJ. Millet, a merchant of
Hastings, recently.
A TELEGRAM received at the War De-
partment at Washington on the 4th reports
that Chief Spioche and the Greek Indians
who recently left their reservation had gone
into camp with the Comanches thirty miles
west of the Sac and Fox reservation. The
peaceable Greeks intended holding a coun-
| ell with the seceders, and II the latter refuse
to return to their reservation and are sup
ported by the other tribes, all the available
military force at Forts Reno and Sill will
be needed The dispatch also states that
| the Twentieth Infantry, to call ON the com
manding officers at Forts Reno and Sill for
troops IL necessarily.
DAVID ToRCHENER & Co., wholesale
hatters, of New York City, made an assign
ment on the 4th. Liabilities 100000.
JENNIE. PATrEN, Edna Murphy and
Lula Hewitt, three children, Were drowned
while playing on the ice at Valalie, Colum
Il HE Cauptv m, tha lfl
Rev. SAMUEL STAPLES, an aged divine
eighty-six years old, and at one time one o.
the most noted preachers in Western New
York, slipped from his chair at his homo il
Erie, Pa, on the 5th and broke his thigh
he died from the shock few hours after
wards. Mr.. Staples wis the father of tn,
present Sheriff Of Erie County.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR, Secretary Chand
ler and Mr.. Miller, of New York, left Wash
ington for Jacksonville, Fla, on the 9th.
BRIGADRR GENERAL JOSEPH K
BARNES, the lately retired Surgeon Genera
of the United States army, died at his resi-
dence in Washington on the 5th, of Bright
disease.
THE President made the foIlowin.
appointments on the 5th: A. w. Sheldon
of Maryland, Associate Justice of the Su
preme Court for the Territory Of Arizona
vice W. W. Hoover, suspended; s. E
Snyder, Indian Agent at the Fort Peel
Agency, Montana, vice Nathan 8. Porter
resigned; William b. Carter, Collector o
diana; Davis B. Russell, United State
) Marshal Eastern District of Arkansas
Henry Ward, Indian Inspector, vice Will
lam J. Pollock. resigned.
THE estimate labor bill passed tn
Wisconsin Legislature on the 9th. The bill
imposes a fine and imprisonment in the cas-
Of the employment Of children under foul
teen years of age. 1t will throw nearl
| 5000 children out Of employment in Mi
waukee alone. The cigar manufacturer
I | that age and several hundred have been er
gagged as sorters in the rag and junk shopI
GRANGER CENTER, Assistant Post
master at State Center, Iowa, was arreste
on the 4th for robbing hepostoffice of vall
able registered letters. He made a full col
: fession and the money was recovered
3 A BILL exempting those who observ
the seventh day of the week from penaltit
: of the Sunday laws Of 1874 was defeated
| the Pennsylvania House of Representative
. on the 5th by a vote Of 1SO nays TO 81 yea
+ THE residence of John A. Wilson
s near Hartwick, Otsego County, N. Y, wa
r destroyed by fire on the night of the 5ti
A Mr.. Wilson, his wife and two daughter
were burned to death.
JOHN M. MORTON, proprietor of th
y Morton House, New York City, died SUI
denly on the morning'of the 9th, of congo
,f tion of the brain.
g A BILL was introduced in the Ne
Is York State Senate on the 5th, and imm
n diately ordered to a third reading, to pr
vent any attempt to personate or represel
Jesus Christ by any show, play or dramat
representation, whether free or an admi
sion fee, and declares a violation of its pr
visions a misdemeanor, punishable by
fine of not less than 500 and imprisonme
not less than six months.