The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-03-19
LATER NEWS

NEWS has just been received Of q
disastrous snow slide at Carey, small
mining camp in Conundrum Gulch, Col,
seventy miles north of Leadville, in which
five miners were killed. Their names are
]. F. Fate, Millar Thorn, s. E. Steele,
George Morris, j. p. Steele. The ava
lanche was several hundred feet wide and
fifty deep.
On the 10th placards we're posted
about Skibbereen, County Cork, Ireland,
announcing the outbreak of civil war in
March. The police removed them.
THE reports of destitution among
the families of the victims of the rece mt
Virginia mine disaster are denied by q
representative of the company. The killed
were nearly all single men, there being
only eight families in Pocahontas sufferers
by reason of the explosion and not many
away.
A FIRE at South Chicago on the 18th
destroyed the Calumet Block with twelve
adjoining buildings. All the buildings
were two-story, the upper portion occupied
as dwellings and the lower part as stores.
Loss $4,000.
THE celebrated Holstein COW, ''Mer-
cedes," owned by 7. B. Wales, Secretary
of the National Holstein Breeders Associ.
alton, died at Iowa City, Ia, on the 18th
of milk fever. The COW and her calf,
which also died, were valued at $4,000.
Mercedes had the greatest milk and butter
record in the world, and took the Breeders
Gazette cup at Chicago last fall. Her last
calf sold for $4,000.
ST. PATRICK's DAY was generally OBJ
served throughout the country. At New
York it was estimated that there were TO-.
600 men in line. Masses were seid in all
the churches. The procession at Chicago
was headed by the Clan. Ma. Gael and t6e
Ancient Order of Hibernians. There was
no outside display at Ottawa, Canada,
owing to feeling regarding festivities of
a sectional nature. The day was clear at
New York, but at Chicago, st. Louis and
other places was damp and cold.
PETITIONS were presented inthe SEN
ate on the 18th from various public CONNER
cial bodies, asking repeal of the law author
izing the coinage OF the silver dollar. Messrs.
Mcmillan, Palmer and Henderson presented
petitions from the citizens of their respective
States, praying that Congress prepare !
Sixteenth amendment, prohibiting the dis
franchising of citizens on account of sex.
The Joint resolution appropriating
$4,000 for the suppression of the foot and
mouth disease among cattle, was then taken
up, On motion Of Mr.. Plumb the amount an.
| propriated by the resolution was increased 10
$4,000, and after debate the resolution passed
yeas "a, nays 10. The bill extending the Court
Of Alabama Claims until December 1894, was
| passed. Adjourned In the House Mr.. Hewitt
introduced a bill to suspend for two years
! the coinage of silver dollars, and making Il
unlawful for the Secretary Of the Treasury
10 print and issue Treasury notes Of the de
nomination OF one dollar aud two dollars;
| referred. On motion of Mr.. Randall. the rules
| were suspended and tho special uohciency
bill for the appropriation OF $l.6 QQ0 nassed-
/ lB7 to 10. A resolution npDYofff6lIft 1000
out OF the contingent fund to tra |H BIN.
| mittee on Naval Affairs tQipCosecu U In
I yestigation previously ordered cUdcerning tae
! Jeanette was adOrted. Adiourned M g'