The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-10-22
THE EAST.

fHoDUCR exports from New York during
the seven days ended on the 14th reached
s5,651, 900, against $7,1lO,OOO the previous
seven days.
SAMUEL B. LATHAM aud Silas B. Latham,
two brothers, with their wives, celebrated
their golden weddings at Noank, Conn, q
few days ago. The two couples were the
parties to a double wedding in 1884.
Ina number Of the glass factories In
Pittsburgh, Pa, the boys struck on the
14th for an advance OF from three TO ten
cents per day in their wages. The facto.
ries were closed.
A CYCLONE on the 18th swept over Au.
burn, Me-, destroying numerous barns,
unroohng several houses, and blowing
down trees and fences. No lives wero
lost.
OK the 18th Justin s. Morrill, was re-
elected. % the United States Senate by the
Vermont Legislature.
A SUSPENSION Of mining one week In No
vember and two weeks In December has
been ordered by the Pennsylvania coal
combination.
A FEW days ago coke trains collided
near Monongahela City, Pa, wrecking an
engine and twelve cars, killing fireman,
and fatally scalding an engineer.
THE mills at Fall River, Mass, decided
on the 10th to close for week, rendering
ten thousand persons idle II there were
no Improvement in prices the mills would
probably remain closed for an indefinite
period.
A BRONZE statue of John Harvard,
founder of Harvard University, was un-
veiled at Boston on the 18th.
AT He'll Gate, near New York, the light
house was illuminated on the evening Of
the 10Th by nine electric lamps, which
were said to be visible for fifty miles.
NEAR Somerset, Pa, two Hungarians
were killed fewi days ago by the explo-
sion which followed their attempt TO drill
out dynamite cartridge with a crowbar.
THE firm Of James Legg & Co., pro-
prietors Of the Mapleville Mills at Bur.
rellville, r. l., made an assignment re.
Gently, their liabilities being 100000.
THE house of Nelson Helfrick, near st.
Boniface, Pa, was robbed few nights
ago by four masked men Of Sl,70O in gold.
THE trotter Mayblrd, for whom Il, 900
had been refused, dropped dead at Mystic
Park, Boston, tho other day, after trotting
in the 1923 class.
The Democrats OF the Third New Jersey
District have nominated r. s. Green for
Congressman, and the Peoples party in
Massachusetts, has made the following
nominations: First District, 7. D. Stow;
Eighth, w. X. Eastman; Ninth, Henry
Lemons.
CONGRESSIONAL nominations were made
on the 10th as follows; Republican
Pennsylvania, Fourteenth District, Frank
NJ. Bound. Prohibitionist--Mas sachusetts,
Tenth District, W. II. Earle.
On tho 10th seventy acres Of cedar tim
ber had been destroyed by fires in Big Egg
Hsrbor Swamp, N! j., and an extensive
cranberry bog was threatened
In tho Central Pacific Mil ct Lawrence,
Mass, gas exploded few days ago, do.
stroying the naptha house, shattsring I'D
windows and fatally injuring two mon.
A yIRE recently destroyed tho station Of
the Pennsylvania and Reading Roads iu
Tronton, N. J. The fire caught from gas
jet. hi. ,,
MISS Lrzzru WALLACE stepped from the
cars ut Harrisburgh, Pa, on the 10th In
front OF q moving train. Harry Foster
rushed 10 the rescue, but both were cut In
pieoes.
In various parts Of New Hampshire
snow fell on the 10th TO tho depth OF four
| inches. ...r.
A zw evenings ago three young mon
were run over and killed by the. cars at
Elizabeth, N. J.
AT meeting OF the directors In New
York on the 10th John King was elected
President OF the Erie road.
In the woods and swamps In Atlantic
County, N. J., fires continued on the l7th,
tho Lake cranberry bog and 27b acres Of
the Atlantic Company's bog having been
burned. 't'
THE carpet factory Of James MoAds, In
Philadelphia, was destroyed by hre few
days ago, causing loss Of $4,000.
D. w. JANIS has been nominated fol
Congressman by the Republicans Of thu
Third Pennsylvania District
A yARxKR named william MoMaster, ol
stratford. W. whose drinking habits had