The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-03-26

sufferers and found wild rye contain.
ing twenty times more ergot than was ever
before known in feed. II was claimed that
the feet Of the cattle froze because the
ergot contracted the blood-vessels and re-
tarded the circulation.
The slaughter-houses In Jersey City and
Hoboken, employing about two hundred
butchers, have beon forced to close on ac-
count Of the competition of dressed beef
from Chicago. The workmen were on the
22d organ zing for concerted movement
against their Western rivals.
j. B. JOHNSON, who robbed drug house
In st. Joseph, Mo-, Of q large amount Of
goods, killed himself with revolver near
Denver on the 22l, while on his way to
make restitution to the firm.
FORTY masked citizens Of Marysville,
Kan, on The 22d forced the jailer to deliv-
er TO them Samuel Prayer, who had been
convicted Of tn, murde of John Penning-
ton aud wife. The offender was taken to
the wagon bridge and hanged, after he had
made full confession of his crime.
FIRE was still raging on the 22d in the
Pocahontas coal mine in West Virginia,
where one hundred and fifty three men re.
Gently lost their ! YES by an explosion.
Engineers had been seat there to locate
fire chambers, when corps of oil-well
dtillers would be set at work to penetrate
the mountain from the top, in order to
flood the mine through the borings.
THE steamer Thetls, purchased at Dun
dee, Scotland, by the United States Gov.
'nment for the Greedy relief expedition,
arrived at New York on the 23d.
A SLIGHT fire at the capitol in Washing.
ington on the 22i created great excitem mt,
but it was extinguished before much dam.
age was done.
A TRAIN Of thirty.one cars of corn, given
to the Ohio River sufferers by the people
OF Sedgwick County, Kan, arrived in Gin
cinuati on the 22d, aud would be sold at
auction.
FIRE in the Newcastle coal mine, In
Washington Territory, has been raging for
eighteen months. The fact that 1t obtained
mastery over the management had boeil
concealed up TO the 22d.
AT Baltimore on the 22d fire destroyed
the Flamingo guano works and the chem
ical works of p. s. Chappell & Sons. The
total loss was estimated at S2O0,0N.
In collision between an emigrant and
passenger train, near Red Wing, Mimi, on
the 22d fifteen persons were injured 1.-TWO
fatally and two coaches and a locomotive
were wrecked.
AFTER a short run on Sthe 2sd the State
National Bank at Boulder, COL, suspended.
The concern owed depositors about $780,
600.
A COWBOY shot an Indian at the Tongue
River Agency, Montana, on the 22d, and
the red men retaliated by burning ranch
and threatening further trouble.
THE factory Of the Electric Candle Com
pany, at the foot OF West Fourteenth
street, New York, valued at $4,000, was
destroyed by fire on the 22l.
In a banking. house at Augusta, Ca, two
men engrosssd the attention OF a mes
senger on the 22d and took $500 from his
sachel without his knowledge.
The ship Bombay, from. Philadelphia to
New Orleans, was on the 22d supposed To
have foundered. There were nineteen per.
sons on board.
THREE men were seriously burned the
other day by an explosion in the fireworks
establishment Of Diehl & Co., at Cincin.
natl, and the roof fell upon them and held
them until help arrived.