The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1886-04-21

case Of McMullen VS.. the Penn Bank direc-
tors found for the plaintiff in the sum OF
S2469S.41. This was an action in deceit,
plaintiff claiming $6S,0OO because directors
had induced him to leave his money In the
bank when they knew it was insolvenA
As result of personal inspection rel-
ntive to the allegations charging gross mis-
management in the Pennsylvania soldiers
orphans schools and the abuse and neglect
OF the scholars, Governor Pattison on the
10Th demanded the resignation of Rev. X.
L. Higbee, State Superintendent OF Public
instruction, and summarily removed Rev.
J. W. Sayres, male inspector Of soldiers
and orphans schools, and Mrs. e. e. Hut
ter, female inspector. The Governor says
the examination has established the sub
stantial truth of the allegations of abuse
and mismanagement which were made
against the schools.
The National Association OF Wool Man
ufacturers at their session at Boston on
the 10th, resolved that the tariff bill now
before Congress is unjust to that industry,
and that millions OF dollars worth Of Amer
ican wool has been displaced by foreign
woods in the last few years owing to the
reduced tariff.
Mrs. Hogue and lady visitor were
standing at the door of the formers resi-
dence near New Castle, Pa, watching
storm on the nth, when sudden stroke OF
lightning killed Mrs. Hogue instantly and
injured the other lady so severely that she
died several hours later.
In the New York Assembly on the 18th
the bill granting a charter for an under
ground arcade in Broadway, New York
City, with space for double-tracked rapid
transit railways, telegraph and telephone
wires, gas and water pipes, etc, was
passed.
The Governor of New York on the 18th
signed the bill making twelve hours days
work on all the horso-car lines in New
York and Brooklyn.
Hon. Cornelius V. Dearborn, National
Bank Examiner and Treasurer Of the Bos-
ton e. Lowell Railroad Company, died at
Nashua, N. H., on the 18th, aged fifty-four
years.
At New Brunswick, N. j., on the 18th the
bodies of Mrs. Bridget Howe, aged forty
seven, and her daughter, aged twenty-six,
were found in an advanced state OF decom-
position in the corner of field. They were
dissipated women, and it is supposed they
were frozen to death on the night Of Janu
ary while on their way homo to Wood
bridge from New Brunswick.
Michael McCourt, Michael Melia ant
Nellie Healey, employees Of the AllyI
House at Hartford, Conn, went rowing or
the Connecticut River on the 18th. The
boat was carried into the current and cap
sized. McCourt and Miss Healey wer'
drowned, but Melia was rescued by thu
crew of a barge near where the accident
happened.
Stephen N. Clifford, the venerable Clerl
, Of the Massachusetts, State Senate, die'
/ suddenly on the 18th OF pneumonia, age
seventy years. He was serving his twenty
a ninth consecutive year as Clerk OF the Son
ate.
The weekly statement of the New Yor
!. associated banks, issued on the 18th, show
: the following changes: Loans increase
!, $4,000; specie decrease, $S0l, 900; leg'
tenders increase, SS55, 400; deposits II
n crease, $3,54s, 100; circulation decreas
s23,4OO: reserve decrease, $s33,226. II
r. banks held sl4,722,65O in excess OF Il
ig twenty five per cent. rule.
ne Joseph Schmidt, clerk in the Pittsburt
IS IS City Treasurer's Office, has been miSsii
d. since the 18th, and is believed to have goi
ef TO California. An examination OF his
~ n, counts shows n shortage Of $1,000 II
IN city will be reimbursed by his bondsmen.
io The funeral of the late George l.. Lor
a. lard, who died at Nice, France, took pla
from Grace Church, New York City, on t
18th, and was largely attended by maj
prominent citizens delegations from clul
. sporting men, etc.
On The exchanges at twenty-six leadl
he clearing houses throughout the count
during the week ended the 18th agsregat
ed SSsl, ,596,O ,OS4; an increase, as compared wi
I'm the corresponding week Of 1885, of lI6 /
"S cent. II,
ICE The Maine Republican State Convent
Id has been called to meet at Lewiston Jun'
10, The record OF life insurance in the Unit
Tas States for 1885, as given in the Bos'
in Globe Of the 10Th, shows that all the &C
tai panies paid 10,245 families more than :
100000. Besides this over SS,OOO,OOO '
md paid on endowment policies. Since
I'M the companies have paid TO the peo
esi- S5lS, S,2G3 452. The total number OF polit
now in force is sl4,G9l, representing an
nd. grcgate of S2,023, ,5l14IS of insurance.