The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-09-13
A WEEKS RECORD
ALI the News Of the Past Seven
Days Condensed.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
News of the Industrial Field, Personal
and Political Items, Happenings
at Home and Abroad.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
Presid.nt Mckinley and party ar
rived in Washington from the grand
army encampment.
Thirty-two rioters at Darien, Ga, were
convicted and sent to the chain gang
for year.
Fifty persons were injured in rear
end collision on the b. d o. railroad at
Connellsville, Pa.
Extreme heat has done considerable
damage to the corn crop in Nebraska,
Iowa and Missouri.
An open switch caused n wreck on
the Erie railroad at Miller's Station,
Pa, in which four men were killed.
In a freight wreck on the Norfolk &
Western road near Williamson, w. Va,
two brakemen, fireman and four
tramps were killed.
John d. Rockefeller has contributed
S25O,OOO to the $2,OOO,OOO endowment
fund now being raised at Brown uni
versity in Providence, r. |.
Fire at Marble Rock, Ia, destroyed
six business blocks and contents.
At the grand army encampment in
Philadelphia Chicago was chosen as the
meeting place next year, and Senior
Vice Commander johnson was elected
commander-in-chief, to serve the uneX-
pired term of the late Col. Sexton. The
total membership of the G. A. r. is
1s7,Osl, and during the past year $780,
955 was expended for relief.
Admiral Dewey will be given his real
homecoming welcome at Washington
on the night of October2 ..
Unanimous action urging speedy
congressional Legislation for the gold
standard was taken by the American
Bankers association in convention in
Cleveland, 0.
There has been plan arranged to
form railway system which will Gre
ate a trunk line consolidation greater
than any now in existence in this coun-
try.
The first national convention of the
Young Peoples Christian Temperance
union will be held in Chicago Septem.
Der 81 and %.
Joe Patchen won the free-for-all pac
ing race in New York from John r.
Gentry and Star Pointer, his two ca
nous rivals, going the mile in 2:02A
Col. Gardeners Thirtieth United
States volunteer infantry left Fort
Sheridan, ILL.,, for the Philippines.
Five men were struck by lightning
near Brandon, Mimi, and tive were
killed.
\ storm at Winfield, W. Va, wrecked
the courthouse, & large brick building,
and did considerable other damage.
The United States transport Sheri-
dan, with the Minnesota and South Da-
kota volunteers on board, arrived in
San Francisco from Manila.
The Garden City hotel at Garden
City, L. l., owned by the 4. T. Stewart
estate, was burned, the loss being
$23O,OO0.
The thirty-third national encamp-
ment of the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie came to an end in Philadelphia after
the election of Col. Albert ID. Shaw, OF
Watertown, y. Y, Commander-in-chief
Fully 10000 persons attended the
opening Of the eleventh annual season
Of the Western Pennsylvania Expo
sition society in Pittsburgh.
The eighteenth annual encampment
of the SonSof Veterans, L. S. A., began
in Detroit, Mich.
A tornado near Bowling Green, o.,
wrecked 80 oil derricks, unroofed sew
eral barns, injured several persons and
killed a number of borses and cattle
The American Bankers association
in session in Cleveland elected as presi-
dent Walker Hill, of st. Louis.
On the fair grounds at Camargo, ILL.,,
Robert Myers and Spencer Bromfeld
were killed and George Adler and John
Griest fatally injured by lightning.
Ned Copeland, for years receiving
teller OF the Nebraska national bank in
Omaha, was accused of embezzling $lO,-
900.
Fire destroyed 16 buildings in Cen
tralia, Mo-, including o. G. Byram's liv-
cry stable, where 10 horses and 30 bug
gies were burned.
Five vessels were burned and loss
of $2jO,OOO was entailed by fire which
destroyed large building of the Brook,
lyn IN. " Storage & Warehouse com
pany.
Three miners, Fred Hamilton, CIar'
ence Hardesty and Eliza Powers, LOST
their lives in mines near Fairmont, W
Va, bya -wier explosion.