The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-04-23
DOMESTIC.

ALL tine lrOn-wOrkerS at Newcastle. Pa,
struck on the 10Th against reduction of
wages.
THE Secretary Of the California Agri-
cultural Soci ty estimates the growing
crop Of wheat at sixty per cent. more than
last year.
WASHINGTON advces Of the 18th say
that the exports Of cotton goods continued
to show decided increase over all previ-
Gus periods. The excess OF the exports for
the first three months Of this year over the
exports for the corresponding period of
last year was 5000 packages.
CHARLES SHENToN, an aged and promi-
nent farmer Of Cambridge, Nd, attempt
ed to kill his wife with knife few days
ago, when his son Frank seized a club and
struck him on the head, killing him in
stantly. A Coroner's Jury exonerated
Frank, declaring that the act he commit
ted was justifable. o.,
UP to the 18th over twenty-e' ght hundred
licenses had been issued to Chicago salo IN
keepers for the new municipal year, In
suring an annual income of more than
81, 100000.
THE following executions took place OH
the 18th: Theodore Hoffman, at White
Plains, N. Y, for the murder OF Jewish
peddler; Willis Hodges, at Eastman, Ca,
for killing colored girl, and dabe Turner,
at Greenyille, Ga, for taking the life of
John Schuttler.
A RISE in the river on the 18Th flooded
the lower portions of Rome, Ca, doing
much damage.
In portions Of Maine and New Hamp.
shire foods were on tue 18th doing great
damage.
GEORGE COATES, q colored man, went TO
the house Of Jere Green, near Gadsden,
Ala, few nights ago, while Green and
his wife were at church, and deliberately
set fire to the house, and four of Green's
children sleeping there perished in the
flames. No cause was known for the deed.
COLORADO mining towns were greatly
excited on the lSsh over the alleged discov.
cry of gold near Pixies Peak. Hundreds
we're flocking TO the scene, and freight and
passenger lines had been established.
TEN moonshiners" arrested in Casey
and Clay Counties, KY, by United States
officers, arrived at Louisville on the 18th.
MRS. NADER, Of Harrisburg, Pa, fatally
shot he's niece, Annie Wagner, on the 18th,
while playfully swapping a revolver which
she thought was unloaded.
On train near Poplar Bluff, No., pas.
senger named Telford was robbed Of ST..
500 on the 18Th, but one Of the secret-serv.
Ice men Of the Gould system soon captured
the thief and recovered the plumber.
WINTER wheat in Illinois, Ohio, Iowa
and Indiana was reported in excellent
condition on the 18th, injury by frost hav.
ing been confined exclusively to scattered
points in the two former States.
A TERRIFIC thunderstorm visited Atchi.
son, Kan, on the 18th, the rain falling in
torrents. White Clay Creek overfowed,
and several houses and bridges were car
ried away. The damage to property would
be heavy.
A CYCLONE on the 18th destroyed a
school.house in Dallas, Tex, and wounded
several children, one fatally.
1T was feared on the 18Th that break In
the levee Of the Fan joaquin River at La.
throp, CAL, would result in the destruction
Of ten thousand acres Of wheat.
ADvICEs of the 18th stated that since
January $25,OO0,O 900 in gold had been ex.
ported from the United States.
DURING the seven days ended on the 18Th
there were 155 business failures in the
United States, against 1876 the preceding
week and 100 in the corresponding week of
last year. Canada had % failures, de-
crease of IA from the previous week.
Tue Excise Commissioners Of New York
on the is h refused new license to Harry
Hill, the celebrated sporting man, who had
sold liquor for thirty years.
1T was announced on the 18th that snow
and rock slides In the mountains OF Col
orado were Of daily occurrence, and sew
eral persons had been killed.
UP TO the 10Th Chicago packers had
slaughtered $4,000 hogs since March /,
against 2i7,0OO hogs during the correspond.
ing period Of last year.
A JAPANESE waiter on the 10th shot and
fatally wounded Mrs. Gudgell, the land
lady Of a hotel at Ogden, Utah. The muir
derer was lynched soon thereafter.
ON the goth four hundred and fifty Nor
mon emigrants arrived at New York.
Three hundred were from Great Britain,
and the others from Norway and Sweden.
IT was reported on the Goth that the