The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-08-02
General News Summary.
Interesting Home and Foreign News.
DOMESTIC.

the treasury, then $1S9, IA, ia, has he
come about $246.OOO, ,OOO-the highest
figures in our annals.
The agricultural department is in re-
ceipt of information of a threatened
invasion of grasshoppers in North
Dakota and Minnesota. These are of
migratory species and breed in the
Turtle mountains. 1t is probable the
department will cooperate with the
state authorities in dealing with the
insects in case they prove damaging.
The business portion of Donaldson,
town six miles north of Stephen,
Mimi, was burned recently. The stores
of Lund and Solum, the post office a
large hotel and a blacksmith shop
were destroyed. Estimated loss S;5,-
600.
1t has been decided to discontinue
the use Of coal as fuel on the New
York, New Haven & Hartford road and
to substitute coke for it on all loco
motives. Experiments with coke
have been tried for a year. They
have proved that it is the cheaper fuel,
lasts almost as long as bituminous
coal, and has other advantages over
it.
The bodies of two white men, sup
posed to be father and son, have been
found in the brush by the Tahlequah
road, four miles from Fort Gibson. l..
T. Officers believe they were murdered
The secretary of the interior has de-
cided case involving what is known
as Bacca Float No. 3, embracing about
100000 acres of land in Arizona, in
favor of the Grant claimants. The
case grew out of an old Mexican grant
ITO Louis Maria Bacca.
Chicago delegates to the annual en-
campment of the United Veterans Le-
gion to be held at Baltimore, Septem-
Der 13 to IS will present Capt. A. d.
Spooner, of that city, as candidate
for the Office of national commander.
Assurances of support have been re-
ceived from all over the country. Chi
cago is after the national encamp-
mcnt of 1900.
The committee on plan and scope of
the Dewey reception committee, held
meeting at the city hall, New
York City, on the 9th ult.
1t was decided to have display of
fireworks in all of the five boroughs at
points to be designated with an cleo
trical display for three nights at the
New York and Brooklyn city halls.
Replies from IA governors accepting
the invitation to take part in the pa
rade have heen received.
On the 30th ult. fire at Tupper lake,
in the Adirondacks, destroyed hotel
and 10 buildings.
William o. Smith, son of the late
Col. Smith, of the quartermas e, ;
partment, has been appointed a sec
ond lieutenant in the regular army
subject TO examination.
The Red Cross society of Philadel-
phia has resolved to address commu
nication to the secretary of war, the
governor of Pennsylvania and to the
mayor of Pittsburg, offering the serv-
ices of uniformed trained nurses TO
60 to San Francisco to receive the sick
and convalescent of the Tenth Penn
sylvania volunteer infantry. returning
from their campaign in the Philip
pines if train be provided.
At mass meeting of the Women's
Christian Temperance union held at
Beaver Falls, Pa, on the 27th ult reso-
lutions We're unanimously adopted
protesting against Attorney General
Griggs' decision in reference to the
canteen system and appealing TO
President Mckinley to carry the anti
canteen law into full force.
Bert Kimball, of North Adams
Mich, an aeronaut, was drowned at
Baw Rees park, Mich, on the 9th
ult. His parachute dropped in the
middle of Baw Rees lake
The navy department has ordered
a battalion of marines, 3js in all, TO
proceed to Manila and take station at
the Cavite navy yard, to reinforce the
small contingent now there. The de-
partment will furnish transportation |
for the marines, carrying them on
steamers leaving San Francisco on the
Sth and 18th of August.
At Fort Smith, Ark, on the 2Sth ult. |
the superintendents of the Western
Coal and Mining Co. and the Central
Coal and Coke Co. were arrested,
charged with violating the screen law
which was passed by the last legisla-
ture. The companies, it is said, con-
tinued to weigh the coal after it had
passed over screen. Fourteen in
dictments were returned by the grand
jury.
Assistant Comptroller Mitchell has
decided that men who enlisted i'm the
temporary force of the navy during
the war with Spain for one year and
who subsequently had their enlist
ments changed to three years gem
eral service are not entitled to the
extra pay provided for by the act of
March 3, 1899. The comptroller holds
that as condition precedent to the
payment of the extra pay there must
be discharge from the government
service between the two enlistments.
James NJ. Darlington, alias Darling
Ton, was hanged at Fort Worth, Texas,
on the 2sth ult. darlington was the
leader of the band who on the night
of July 81, 1898, robbed Santa Fe
train near Saginaw and killed Fire
man Whitaker and Engineer Will
Jams.
At New York City on the 2Sth ult.
the anthracite companies announced
that all orders for coal at prices prior
to July not filled on July 81 will be
and the advance of 25 Der
cent. per ton will then go into gem
eral effect
Howard r. Ransom, an emissarv
seeking miners for Missouri and IN
dian Territory coal fields, was fatally
stabbed in the coal fields at Branlwell l.
W. Va, on the night of the 2sth ult. I
f. w, Wheeler, of Bay City. Mich.
has purchased individual holdings of
pine in Luce and Chippewa 7
aggregating 115.OOO,OO0 feet, t
'or about $4GG,O0O. He expects to /
mt it at the rate of 21j,OOO,OOO feet It c