The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-11-21

and his feet placed iuto it until they were
burned almost to q crisp. The robbers then
went back to the house and found 5000,
which they took.
The Department of State at WASH
ington has received large number of let
ing great interest in the Worlrs Exposi-
tion at New Orleans next ys>1 md desiring
to make exhibits.
The business failures throughout the
whole country for the week ending the
10th numbered 235, against 215 the previous
week.
The New Castle Pa.) paper mill
was destroyed by fire on the morning of
the 10th. Loss estimated at $4,000; in
sured for $4,000.
A FREIGHT train crashed through the
two rear coaches of a passenger train
standing on the main track waiting for q
| coal car to be removed near Streater, Ill,
| on the 10th, killing l.. g. Peare, Mrs. Alex
! ander Henderson and daughter, a man
named Halberton, Louis Greener and Rev.
Crootover. Four others were probably
fatally injured.
A FREIGHT train on the Perkimen
Railroad was wrecked on the 10th by the
falling of mass of rock from the roof Of
the tunnel near Vera Cruz, Pa
NJ. MAxwELL's sawmill in jackson
township, Lycoming County, Pa, was de-
stroyed by the explosion of boiler on the
10th. James Huff, Charles Riggs and Nathan
i Rideout were killed and James Campbell,
NJ Reed, Grant Huff and L. Meyer seri-
ously wounded.
AT Fontiel, q mining town near Terre
Haute, Ind, boiler at the Coal Bluff mine
exploded on the 18th, scaIding to death
James Hurst, John and William Kyle, and
| seriously injuring ten others.
The fiange of q wheel on one of the
cars Of an excursion train broke and pre-
cipitatad the car down a fifteen foot en-
bankment, turning over twice, near James
town, Mo-, on the 18th. Adam G alzain, a
| well-known Sunday school superintendent
of St. Paul, Mimi, was killed and his wife
and daughter seriously injured. Mac
Smith, wife and son, and several others
were also injured.
| Four hundred men were thrown out
of employment by the burning of the Bos-
ton & Providence Railroad shops at Boston
on the 10th.
The Philadelphia Iron and Steel As
sociation on the 18th gave the number Of
furnaces in blast on the 1st Of January as
All; on the 1st of November, 331. On the
1st of January there were 3S3, ,655 gross tons
of pig iron in the hands of the makers and
agents. By the 1st of July the quantity in
Der i there were 2s3 ,364 tons unsold, against
$3.50 on July i.
IT is reported from Washington that
It Is almost certain that a progidious effort
will be made at the coming session of Con
gress to abolish the internal revenue sys
tenn The proposition will have strong
support from the tobacco and whisky pro
ducing regions of the South. The high pro
tectionists will advocate 1t and the Ma
tional bank interest viii support it.
In scalding hog at Erie. Pa, on the
18th, Judd Young accidentally pushed hi.
eight-year-old son into a caldron of seeth
ing fluid, and It was scalded TO death.
JOHN ANsLEY, a former prominer
citizen of Cincinnati and Dayton, Ohio
was arrested for embezzling funds of tn,
postmaster at La Sale. III, on the 18th.
THIEVES choked to death Mrs. May
be, seventy-one years old, and her daughter
aged thirty-seven, and beat Garrett Maybe
husband and father, to insensibility with
club and robbed their house at Oyster Bay
L. l., on the Eth. Mr.. Maybe had beel
paralyzed for fourteen years and blind 10
eighteen months.
Two passenger trains collided a
Bradford, Tenn, on the 18th, killing lin
repairer named Coburn and colore'
porter. Several passengers were injured
but none fatally.
ABOUT three hundred masked mel
rode into Fowler, Ind, on horseback Of
, the night of the l7th, hitched their horses
stationed guards to watch them, proceeds
to the jail, broke the doors with sledge
and took Jacob Melting to Oxford anC
hung him. Melting is the man who muir
dered Ada Atkinson at Fowler about
month OF six weeks ago.
THE steamer S. H. Parisol, loade,
with 1854 bales of cotton, 1900 sacks of oi
! cake and 800 barrels of oil, burned at Bul
lett's Bayou, eight miles above Matches
Miss, on the 18th. The passengers wer
landed in cane-brake, having left the boa
r in their night clothes, carrying their othe
, garments and abandoned all their baggage
One of the crew was drowned.
AT midnight on the 18th larg
number of the citizens of Romney, Ind
e went to the drug store of C. e. Sutton
e bound him, and then destroyed his stoc
!, | and totally wrecked the building. Suite
I sold whisky and the destruction of hi
. property was made on that account.
T. SEVEN frame tenement houses burne
in South Chicago on the 18th.
OWING to the continued decline il
'
v Pottstown, Pa, employing several hundre
hands, announces a reduction of wages c
/ ten per cent, beginning December l. Othe
:, mills in the Schuylkill Valley contemplat
. a similar action.
THE American Line Steamship Com
pany's wharves at Philadelphia, a lare
. amount of freight awaiting shipment an
y | the building covering the wharves burne
8 on the 18th. Loss 100000
4 HALF of the square on Main Street
Harrodssurg, KY, burned on the night {
"a the 17th.
It ERNEST BULLARD, of Springville, Pa
y was arrested at Scranton, Pa, on the 1St
I, while trying to dispose of large quantit
y of postage stamps. He confessed that the
were the proceeds of tine robbery OF Il
n Laceyville, Pa, post-office.
]. OK the night of the 18th Willial
10 Stevenson, during quarrelin a Gallipoli
(O.) saloon about the payment for drink
70 shot and killed James Black, colored.
il EIGHT hundred to a thousand strikir
miners paraded the streets of Ludingto
Ie Mich, on the 18th, and after beating NJ
,e Stockbridge, superintendent of the mine
ID compelled him to accede to their demand
THE body of Robert Fellows. of Ne
7 York, broker, missing since the 10Th
Is October, was found in the North River {
es the 18th.
IN PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.