The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1886-01-20

Three masked men appeared early on the
morning Of the 18th at the house Of Samuel
Robinson, farmer living near Ligonier,
Pa, and demanded admittance. Upon
being refused they shot several times
through the windows, forced an entrance,
and after beating Robinson with clubs
until he was insensible, ransacked the
house for money which they supposed he
had concealed about the premises They
left without securing any plumber. 1t was
believed Robinson would die.
Walters -four mill at Butler, Pa, was
wrecked by boiler explosion on the 10th,
seriously injuring two boys who were In
the mill at the time.
The bill of Undertaken Merritt, Of New
York, amounting to $14, 1875, for services
in connection with the funeral Of General
Grant, has at last been approved and q
requisition upon the Treasury for that
amount sent him.
The National Convention Of Journeymen
Bakers adjourned at Pittsburgh on the
18th, after electing Charles Bloch, Of New
York, national secretary, and adopting q
resolution to boycott all proprietors who
refuse to reduce the hours Of labor to
twelve hours per day. The next conven.
tion will be held in Chicago, January Is,
1887.
The total exports Of specie from the port
of New York during the week ended the
10th were s1,4O0,795. or this amount th 9
exports to Europe were $500, 900 silver and
$656,s7s gold. The exports to Havana we're
1900 silver and S3l4,O0O gold. The total
imports at the port during the week were
S35,7n.
Mrs. Hausmeyer died at Tarentum, Pa,
on the 10th from the effect of eating raw
pork, producing trichiniasis. This makes
four deaths in the family from the same
cause. The only remaining son, Joseph,
was lying very low and the three daughters
were growing worse daily.
The cigar manufacturers Of New York
City on the 10th decided on general lock-
out because the employees refuse TO accept q
proposed reduction Of wages This closes
sixteen factories and disemploys 1000 per-
sons. Theworkmen claim that the Inter
national Union will back them up with
$50O00O II necessary.
Two distinct shocks Of earthquake were
felt in every part of Rockland County, N.
Y, on the night Of the 18th. In Nyack,
pictures were shaken from the wall and the
ice in the river along the shore broken.
W. e. Plummer & Sons international
starch factory and barrel heading works at
North Buffalo, N. Y, burned on the 18th,
entailing loss Of 100000.
It was generally believed at Boston on
the 18th that the Captain and entire crew,
fourteen souls, of the wrecked bark julia
A. Brown, which left Perth Amboy for that
port on the 9th inst, were drowned.
The exchanges at twenty-six leading
clearing houses in the Un:.ed States during
the week ended the 10th aggregated $929,-
800, 162, against Sl,035, ,s52,2 245 the previous
week. As compared with the correspond
ing week OF 1885 the percentage Of increase
amounts to 1870 per cent.
The statement of the New York asso-
ciated banks, issued on the 10th, shows the
following changes: Loans decrease, $751;
800; specie increase, So, 900, 100; legal tenders
increase, s2SOl,1OO; deposits increase, So
505,0O0; circulation decrease, S50,s00; re-
serve increase, SUCCESSES. The banks held
sss,sll, l,943 in excess of the twenty-five per
| cent rule.
While crossing railroad track near
Elmira, N. Y, on the 10th Mr.. and Mrs.
Daniel Bennett, Of Horseheads, that State
were struck by a train. Mr.. Bennett wa
instantly killed and his wife fatally injured