The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-08-13
The East.

FoRTY.FIvE persons had up to the 9th
been killed by accidents in the coal regions
near Scranton, Pa, during the present
year.
. GENERAL BUTLER sent q letter to the
New York Sun on the 9th stating that he
intended to stand by the nominations oi
the Greenbackers and Anti-Monopolists
for President, and hoped everybody would
vote for him who thought it was the best
thing to do.
In Fauke's dyeing works at New York
benzine explosion on the 9th blew the
structure to fragments and caused the
burning Of q stable, two horses and a So
loon. Two men were fatally burned.
, AT the session Of the National Conven
tion of the Amalgamated Association on
the 9th at Pittsburgh John Barrett was
indorsed for chief )f the new Labor Bu
reau, and President Arthur was requested
to sign his commission at ON early day.
j. d. PATTON has been nominated fol
Congressman by the Republicans Of the
Twenty.fifth Pennsylvania District.
THEODORE T. MowRY fatally shot Elmer
e. Mowry at Manville, r. l., recently, be
cause Of an old grudge, and then sent
bullet into his own brain.
JAMES MASON, in quarrel with his wife
at Troy, N. Y, a few days ago threw G
bolt at her, and the buckle struck their in
fant child ON the head, inficting q wound
from which IL died.
The Republicans Of New Jersey met In
State Conventional Trenton on the 6tb
and nominated candidates for Presiden
tial election.
A FEW days ago two brothers, David
and Solomon Slusher, were suffocated by
fre-damp near Wilkesbarre, Pa.
THE Democrats of the Twenty-hrst
Pennsylvania District have renominsted
c. Z. Boyle for Congressman.
BY the fall of twenty-five tons of top
coal In collery at Shenandoah, Pa, 0
few days ago two miners were killed and
O third was fatally injured.
INFORMATION was received on the 7th by
an American railway company operating
in Mexico that diplomatic relations be-
tween that country and England, which
were suspended on the death Of Maximil'
ian, had been fully restored.
AT Pittsburgh on the 7th the iron mills
were employing 1000 men less than last
year, and the depression was greater than
for several years.
WILLIAM L. ScoTT has been nominated
for Congressman by the Democrats Of the
Twenty.seventh Pennsylvania District
OK the sth the Bear, Thetis And Alert, OF
the Greely expedition, arrived at Gov.
ernor's Island, N. Y, and were received
by Secretary Lincoln, Generals Sheridan
and Hancock, and other officials, the forts
firing funeral salute. The bodies Of the
dead would lie in state in the hospital un.
til removed by friends.
A CARRIAGE containing five persons,
who were returning from a funeral, was
bit by a locomotive on the 9Th at Connors
Station, Pa, andjfour persons were killed
and the twol horses and the vehicle de-
molished.
GEORGE H. CAsHINGToN, Of Chicago,
was elected President of the National
Dental Association at Saratoga on the sth.
On the sth John Jourdan, the notorious
burglar who robbed the Middletown
Comm Savings Bank Of $4,000, was capt
ured In New York.
JAy.EYE-SEE, in an attempt to beat his
record on the 9Th at Buffalo, trotted with
out skip in 2:10K.
In Pennsylvania coke operators are loud
In their complaints about the dullness Of
the trade. over-production Is the cause
Of the present depression.
PLEURo-PNEUMoNIA..an and Texas fever ap-
peared on the sth among the herds in the
vicinity Of Lancaster, Pa. The infected
herds had been quarantined.
The failure is reported Of Holmes, Laf
ferty & Co., dealers in live stock at Pitts
burgh, with liabilities Of 100000. The
Penn Bank suspension caused the failure.