The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-04-02
DOMESTIC.

DURING the past elRht months OF the
present fiscal year the internal revenue re-
ceipts were S7S,OOO,32), decrease of $i4,.
4sI ,96O as compared with the correspond.
ing period Of 1888. The aggregate receipts
for February we're S2,03O,s62 less than In
February, 1888
WHILE a party Of five men were cross.
ing the river on the 9Th near Clarion, Pa,
the boat was capsized and three Of them
were drowned.
NEAR Ansonia, Conn, a few afternoons
ago three dams gave away, the surging
waters devastating large tract Of coun-
try, involving total damage Of 100000.
TELEPHONE communication was on the
27th established between New York and
Boston, and II was said that the faintest
whisper at one terminus could be heard at
the other.
AN express train on the Maine Central
Road struck landslide near Yarmouth q
few days ago, wrecking all but the passen-
ger-coaches, but no one was seriously hurt.
HENRY c. CHURCH, in whose accounts as
Chamberlain Of Troy, N. Y, there was a
deficiency OF 1000, was arrested in New
York on the 9th,
A HURRICANE at Kansas City, No., on
the 9th unroofed three dwellings and tore
up the sidewalk for a distance Of two
blocks. At Denver, Col, q wind.storm
unroofed the city hall and some Of the
finest blocks in the city, while signs and
awnings were scattered In all directions.
Several persons were seriously injured.
ORRIN s. ToDD, q farmer OF Tolland,
Conn.,, died recently Of glanders, commu-
nicated from a sick horse.
AFTER meeting In Cincinnati on the
evening Of the 2sth to denounce the verdict
Of twenty years. imprisonment In the case
Of William Berner, who confessed to hav.
ing murdered and robbed William II. Kirk,
a mob OF ten thousand persons or
ganizsd and went TO the jail, and
effected an entrance, for the purpose
Of lynching Berner, but found he
had been taken to the penitentiary. This
so enraged the mob that they determined
10 lynch the twenty-three murderers con
fined in the Jail. The militia was called
out, when riot ensued, during which II
was reported that sixteen persons were
killed and many others were wounded.
THERE were l72 business failures in thu
United States during the seven days end
ed.on the 2Sth, and 32 in Canada, making 4
total Of 2Oi, against 2l3 the previous week
DAN DowD, James Howard, o. W. Sem
pie, william Delane and Dan Kelly, ban
dts, were hanged at Tombstone, A. T., OF
the 18th; William r. Mcdonald and Fran
cisco Peres we're executed In California
and Joe Howard paid the extreme penalty
at Columbia, s. Call for murder.
The machine shops and two locomotive
OF the Charleston Railroad at Memphis
were burned the other night, involving
loss OF $4,000.
The food In the Merrimac IN. H.) Val
ley was on the 2Sth the greatest for years
The water was rising rapidly at Concord
and at Nashua had submerged the lo'
lands. The freshet In the Cocheco Rive
threatened several bridges above Dover.
AT La Porte, Pa, lila. Brooks, Carri
Mitchell aud Mary Hoskins were fatal
injured on the 2sth by the fall Of porcl
upon whica they we're seated.
ABOUT eight hundred coal miners nea
Pittsburgh, Pa, struck on the 18th agains
n rcduc ion of one-quarter Of cent pc
busl,el.
LESLIE LAVENDER, aged sixteen, a
tempted 10 rob AL xaldsr Owens near 81
leu, Va, on the 18Th, and then shot hin
Mrs. Owens ran out upon hearing the pii
tol report, when Law nder also shot hei
and t,len tried to kll Owen' mothor Lay
eilder escal ed, but Mr.. and Mrs. Owen
were fatally woundcd.
SHEEP we're ontls 18th dying In gres
numbers in the vicinity OF New Conner
town, o., from disease called "grub y
worm whici la ;ches out IN the nose an
bunrow to tAe brain Of tho animal. .tf
. LUDWIG shoLrIEs and four members
the Goliea amily, living in Westmorelan
County, Pa, were fatally III on the 2sl
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FoRrY Sioux Indian boys arrived at 5
, Paul, stinn., on the, 2Sth, being. the first 4
7 ,tailmont Of pupils for tho GovernmeI
T, scsool ocaiei at that point, and conducts
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