The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-12-12
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plate mill and bar mill at Reading, Pa,
within a few days has thrown COO men out
of work.
THE remains of Mile. Iitta, the gift
ed songstress, which had been lying in a
vault since last July, were buried in the
cemetery at Bloomington, ILL.,, on the 9Th.
On the 9th it was ascertained that
the pilot boat run down by the steamer
Alaska off Fire Island recently was the
Columbia. She had four pilots on board
and crew Of six, all Of whom drowned.
AGIGANTIC land swindling operation
has been unearthed in West Virginia, car
ried on by the Real Estate, Loan and Trust
of some townships in the interior of the
State have been sold four times over. The
sale OF one small piece of land in Webster
County has been made the basis of 300
notes of 500 each, all Of which are believed
TO have been worked of on the public.
THE Deputy Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue at Washington says that
the internal taxes collected for the present
fiscal year are at the rate Of S123, 600, 900
per annum. He estimates that the collec-
tions for the entire year will amount to
S130, ,OO0,0 900. This estimate includes be-
tween six and seven millions to be col
lected for special taxes in April and May,
pated from spirits forced out by the law.
THE Secretary Of the Treasury has
transmitted to Congress the estimates for
appropriations for the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1885. The amount estimated and
required for all the expenses of the Gov
ernment Is SIS, 125 ,3O5, which is 81, ,323, ,2S3
less than the aggregate appropriations of
the present fiscal year, and S5I, 81, ,S57 less
than the sum called for in the estimates
ofrhraftfad last Tho v-faffa
for the present fiscal year, including de-
fciencies and miscellaneous, are 500, ,44S,-
5S7, the estimates on which these appro-
priations are based calling for $40, ,sSo, ,l62.
THREE negro children were burned
to death in Columbia County, Ga, on the
4th. The parents went to church and
locked the children in the house.
NEWS reached Tombstone, Arizona.
on the 9th that band of Apaches attacked
two Americans and seriously wounded
them near Fronteras, n. NJ. The news
created considerable excitement at Tomb
stone, and General Crooks policy of har-
boring the women and children and leaving
the fighting bucks to raid Is strongly con-
demned.
JOHN j. JOHNSON and Coleman
Hawkins, itch farmers of Anderson, Ind,
quarreled about a ditch on the 9Th and
Hawkins shot johnson and committed
suicide.
AT Lynchburg. Va, ON the 9th, Har-
rison Crews, colored, was convicted Of in
cendiarism and sentenced to the peniten-
tiary for twenty-six years.
SEVEN shocks of earthquake at
Rouenden Springs, Ark, on the 9th lasted
forty minutes, broke crockery and glass
ware in stores and houses and loosened
large rocks in the cuts of the Kansas City
& Memphis Railroad, which fell on the
track. The shock was accompanied by a
loud noise and violent jar of the earth.
The design for the Worlds Industrial
Cotton Centennial Exhibition building has
been accepted by the Board of Managers.
The building will be the largest exposition
building ever erected, except the one in
London in 1862.
CLICK Brothers fertilizing tanks at
the Chicago stock yards exploded on the
night of the 5th, wrecking the entire build
ing. There were fourteen men and two
boys in the building at the time and it was
thought several were buried In the ruins.
Two men are known to have been fatally
hurt and five more seriously injured.s
A HEAVY snow and wind storm on the
9Th blew down a large number of telegraph
poles and wires at Denver, COL, ,blockading
many OF the streets;
THE Dover Silk Company, of Pater-
son, N. j., has failed. Liza bilities SlO2 900
assets 10000. The mills in Paterson and
Dover employed one hundred and fifty
| hands.
AT Baltimore, Mrs. Laura Ryall, who
murdered her twp children recently and
then cut her own throat with suicidal in
tent, died on the 9Th.
A SPECIAL dispatch from Helena,
| Mont, on the 9Th stated that during the
month of October a man repres enting him.
| self as Postoffice Inspector Stedman, and
afterwards as Inspector Henderson, visited
the postoffices between Miles City and
Helena, swindling officials and banks of
sums of money. He was arrested recently
and proved to be a man named = w Scott.
THE mortuary reports Of Pittsburgh
for the past year, compared with other
cities, shows that city to be the healthiest
in the United States. On the 9th, with an
eettmated Population of lIo,OO0, there was
not one death.
The first railway engine crossed the
new cantilever bridge at Niagara Falls on
the 9Th.
THE Governor of Pennsylvania on
the 4th vetoed all the appropriation bills
passed by the Legislature except that re.
lating to the pay of employees. The bills
| were afterwards passed over the Governors
/ veto.
LEVI BROTHERS & Co., clothiers of
New York, on the 7th fled schedules in
assignment with liabilities at S2,740, $3.50;
assets Sl,7l2,242.
A SLEEPING car attached to an ex-
press train took fire about one o'clock on
Me morning OF the 7th when near Castle