The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-11-26
THE EAST.

The well-known reaper inventor, Walter
Mass, aged seventy lone years.
WILLIAM p. SHEFFIELD has been appoint
ed United States Senator by Governor
Brown, OF Rhode Island, TO succeed Senator
Anthony until the assembling of the Legis-
lature in January, when Senator will be
elected.
LOUIS GUELD shot his brother fatally
and killed himself in New York few days
ago. They had come from Canton, o.,
were returning to France, and had been
drinking heavily for two or three days.
The eighth annual convention of the
American Humane Association met on the
9th at Pittsburgh, Pa.
UPoN being arraigned the other day for
interfering with non-union workmen, forty
coal-miners, at Washington, Pa, made no
defense, and were each fined one cent and
costs.
THE death Of Rev. Jabez s. Swan, the
noted revivalist, occurred on the 10th In
New London, Conn, at the age Of eighty
four years.
In the neighborhood Of Hicksford, Green
vile County, Pa, forest fires were burning
on the 10Th, and considerable quantities Of
timber and several houses had been de-
'stroyed.
IN the apartments Of Mrs. Rosa Murtha,
in Williamsburg, N. Y, kerosene lamp
exploded n few evenings ago, and the
burning oil was scattered over Mrs. Murtha
and her daughter, aged twenty-four. Be-
fore the flames could be extinguished they
were fatally burned.
AT Haverhill, Mass, n fire destroyed q
hotel and several stores recently, involv-
ing total loss of about 5000. A girl was
fatally injured in jumping from the hotel
windows, and the inmates generally ex-
perienced very narrow escapes.
AT the convention in Pittsburgh on the
Goth of the American Humane Association
John g. Shortall, of Chicago, was elected
President for the ensuing year.
THE official report Of the Connecticut
Board of Canvassers gives the vote at tho
recent election as follows: Cleveland,
6I,199; Blaine, 05,923; st. John 1906; But
Ter, 1,CSS; scattering, .. For Governor
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2,12S; Cnrtis, 1873; scattering, IL. Sum-
ner's (Dem.) plurality for Lieutenant-Gov-
ernor Is 205.
A MEETING Of clergymen Of various sects
was held recently at New Haven, Conn.,,
and IL was agreed TO hold congress Of
American churches In that city next May.
The suit of the Lamar estate against tho
Secretary Of the Treasury to recover $780,
900 for cotton taken during the war was
dismissed in the United States District
Court at New York on the Goth.
The firm Of Carr & Hobson, agricultural
implement manufacturers at Bergen Point,
N. j., have failed. In January last the
concern owed $4,000, with assets Of $751;
900.
THE other day George T. Adee, an aged
capitalist Of New York, dropped dead In
the Bank OF Commerce from heart disease.
IN the twenty EIGHT ingram carpet mills
I'm Philadelphia the wages Of the Eve thou.
sand employees were on the Goth reduced
from sixteen TO twenty per cent.
THE other day Arthur Clark, sailor,
was found dying in New York boarding.
house Of yellow fever. No other persons In
the building were Ill.
SEVERAL powder cartridges exploded
recently while being warmed by workmen
at Worcester, Mass, one Of the men being
killed, two injured, and all tho windows In
the vicinity wrecked.
In Central Park, New York, a statue,
representing the landing Of the Pilgrim
a. n IN