The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-05-03
MEsr AND soIrrn.

TEE st. Louis Post Dispateh published on
the 18th report Of the condition of the grow
| ing crops Of winter wheat in Missouri, Kansas,
Kentucky and Tennessee. In Tennessee the
prospects are very fine. The crop is for
ward, the yield being from fifteen to twenty
five bushels per acre, win be harvested from
May Is to June Is. Tho. Kentucky acreage is
about the average and viii be in the market by
June Is and turn out from fifteen TO twenty
five bushels per acre. The Missouri acreage
is from five to ten per cent. above the average
Harvest May 25 to June 3. The prospects ex-
ceedingly good. Kansas prospects were never
better. Harvest about June 10. II nothing
happens, the largest crop In several years past
win be harvested.
THE Tennessee Republican State Convention
was held at Nashville on the 9th. A platform
was adopted, which, among other things, de-
clares the bonded debt OF the State valid OBJ
legation. Governor Alvin Hawkins was unani-
mously renominated by acclamation.
TIE tobacco factory of J. Schriber S Co..
at Cleveland, was destroyed by fire on the
morning Of the 2sth ult. Loss $3.50 600 Over
one hundred employees are thrown out of
work. ..-, . r..
A CASE of trichina was reported from
Clyde, Kansas, on the 23d- Adam Bollinger
killed hog. Of which the entire family ate,
and during the night all were seized with
vomiting, aud all. the symptoms Of trichina.
A son aged twelve years died during the night
and the rest of the family were dangerously
III, but hopes were had OF their recovery. The
movements of the trichina In the raw pork
could be seen with the naked eye. g..
n THE anti-Chinese convention at San Fran
cisco on the 27th ult. adopted plan of action
which includes scheme to divide the Pacific
coast into districts which shall be notified to
remove the Chinese withir specified time,
falling TO do such action. the district is to be
proclaimed dangerous. Peaceably disposed
citizens are warned to abandon It, and IL the
Chinese are still harbored in the districts the
league is to remove them by force, using as
little force as necessary until the country is rid
OF them. The convention then elected an Ex-
ecutiye Committee and adjourned sine de-
A PARTY of masked men went to the Mime
aPolis, MINI, jail on the morning of the 2Sth
ult., and after making the Sheriff prisoner,
took Frank MeManus, who the day previous
rayished and brutally mutilated the four
year-old child, Nina Spear, and hanged him
to tree inlfront Of the high school build
ing.l McManus confessed his crime. He was
tramp and stated that he came from Bos-
ton. . arsl lu.tsiF i ei
The thirteenth meeting Of the Grand Lodge
of the Knights of Pythias of Ohio will as
semble at Columbus on the Esd and oath of
May. 4eT, a.,.
TEE Denver Tri6ssne's Santa Fe special says
that couriers from Gila River report that two
hundred Indians were In the vicinity OF Clifton,
and were preparing to advance on Guthrie. The
couriers were after arms. Governor Sheldon
has ordered Captain Black with q company of
militia to Guthrie hI
THE Forestry Congress which had been in
session at Cincinnati for four days adjourned
on the 29th ult. Aresolutiou was adopted that
It was the judgment Of this congress that the
Congress of the United States should take
steps to establish at the State and National ag-
rfcultural institutions experimental Forestry
stations. Provision was made for publishing
the names OF members, and a catalogue of the
papers written for this congress. A commit
tee was appointed, consisting of Professor |
Leue, of Cincinnati; V. Colvin, of New York;
T. B. Hough, of Washington, d. c.; J. A. |
Warden, Of Cincinnati, and Doctor Mohr, of |
Mobile, Ala, to prepare reports to be sent TO |
various State Legislatures. A committee was |
also appointed TO prepare report and present |
It to the Congress of the United States upon.
The practicability of appointing State Forestry |
Commissioners. Memorial trees were planted |
nLincoln Paikin the afternoon with the usual |
ceremonies.
The first new wheat Of this years crop was |
received at St Louis on morning of the 29th |
BY 8. w. Cobb & Co., and sold at four dollars
md half per bushel. the highest price ever
paid there. 1t consisted OF one hundred sacks,
vas a little damp but plump and bright and
graded No. 2. Itwas raised in johnson County,