The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-07-02
DOMESTIC.

A PARTY OF eleven persons ate ice-cream
in Coal Bluff (Pa.) saloon the other
night, and within two hours all were taken
with pains, vomiting and convulsions.
Two of the party had since died, and
three others were very low. 1t was sup
posed that the vanilla favoring poisoned
the cream. '..oHW 9ral 3gj M
HEAVY rains on the 26th overfowed the
creeks and rivers in Western Maryland.
At Union Bridge the water was three feet
deep in the principal hotel; and In Hagers-
town many houses were invaded by the
waters. In Double Pope Creek houses
wereisuhmergedi and thepeople made mar
row .tescspes.o q The principal damage,
reaching $i9o, 900, was in Carroll County,
wherA csppR, lumber and other property
were swept ptsaway and cattle drowned. a
SEoRETkayF FoLGER on the ,26th issued q
call for SIC, ,000, ,0001of bonds.9m e}l 10 5itQs
A ,RAIN-sToBM con. the Goth in Southern
Pennsylvania levsled thousands of acreS
of grain in Bucks, Montgomery, Berks and
Lancaster counties, and lalongi the lineiof
the Northernw Central Road, batwsen
Wr;ghtsviAsi and York, neatly two huns
dred houses were washed away, and three
children were drowned. gHaA yaI1 y
In the Harvard Yale University boat
race at New London, Conn.,, ON the 26th,
the latter won in 20:31, the best four-mile
time on record. Harvard was seventeen
seconds behind. aiqs. Et ranii.fg.
A BRIDGE over the Wabash River at Lo-
gansport, Ind, gave way on the 26th, let.
ting Vandalia construction train into the
water. Engineer Grace and Fireman
Scott were instantly killed, and brake
man was fatally injured. ts At,
| A FIRE at New Orleans the other even
ing destroyed property valued at $780,
600. Three firemen were injured.
STOUT & Co., bankers, of New York, sus-
pended payment on the Goth, with liabili-
ties estimated at $1,000,000. soi .aH.
THE Comptroller of the Currency has
called for statement of the condition Of
the National banks at the close Of business
on the goth Of July. '..a ..
THE st. Petersburg Bank, Of Clarion
County, Pa, which was considered a very
strong institution, closed its doors on the
26th. gf' m
THE damage by the recent storm In
Maryland was on the 9th placed at $780,
900, the heaviest disasters occurring in
Carroll, Cecil, Frederick and Washington
Counties. The Mccullough Iron Com
pany's rolling-mills at Rowlandville alone
were damaged 100000, and Christie & Lo
gan's canning establishment, in Ceci
County, with its machinery, was sweep
away, together with $4,000 cans of goods
A GENERAL order was issued on the 27tl
by the manager of the Pacific Express
Company, forbidding agents or messen
gers to receive intoxicants Of any kind fol
shipment to Iowa when the Prohibitory
law goes into effect, July4 aFiH gr
Six lives were lost on the 9th By thu
sinking of the schooner Babcock, neal
Barnegat, N. j.. ,als 9$% . ii 'Nla,t
The Bay State Casket Company, Of Bos
ton, has failed for 100000. ,lo1aisa
JOHN g. HILL, a retired clothing mer
chant of Dover, N. H., during a fit Of in
sanity the other day killed his aged wife
THE boiler in Won Behren's saw-mill q
Striker, o., exploded the other afternoon
injnring eleven men, some Of them fatally
The boiler-house and factory were demol
ished. ns
| DocK. WALKER was hanged on the 27tl
at Texarkana, Ark, for the murder 0
Lucas Grant. Two thousand citizens wer
permitted to witness the execution. u,i
FRANCIS MURPHY closed his temperanc
crusade in Chicago on the evening of th
9th. It was announced that over elevei
thousand persons had donned the "blu
1 ribbon" during the meetings. F II
Two HORSE thieves named Ed. Owen
and s. Nickerson were killed recently nea
Helena, MT, by cowboys, who recapt
ured several horses. Nais
!. The Belvidere Iron Company, of Easton
Pa, has suspended. About 120 men wer,
thrown out Of employment in consequence
A TERRIFIC storm swept over portiol
Of Kansas on the 9th. At Corning
church and several houses were destroyed
at Barnes Station houses were unroofet
and crops leveled; at Frankfort ffteei
houses were torn down and destroyed
while six others were unroofed, and 1
other sections much damage was done. N