The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-12-10
WEST AND SOUTH.

The stables of the Hull's Springs Passen-
ger Railway Company, at Baltimore, Nd,
burned on the 4th. or the eighty-six
horses in the stable at the time only seven
teen were rescued, and they were badly
scorched. Ten cars were burned. Loss
$4,000. %.~..-a-
The house of Jacob Hurley, farmer in
Dorchester County, Nd, was burned on the
4th, and in the ruins was found Hurley's
body, but no part Of the head could be dis
covered. There is suspicion of foul play.
Twenty buildings in the heart of Breck-
enridge, Col, including the Grand Central
hotel, and several business blocks, were
destroyed by fire on the 9TH. Loss $4,000.
The convicted polvgnmists at Prescott,
I Arirono nnIuUn' NJ Tenny, Bishop l.. =.
Christoffsrson and c. I. Kemp-were on
the 9th sentenced by Judge Howard to pay
a fine of 500 each and be imprisoned three
and one-half years in the United States
House Of Correction at Detroit, Mich.
A mass of papers has been presented to
Governor Hamilton, of Illinois, accom-
panying n petition for pardon for John
+. Burrill, the embezzling Grand Secretary
Of the Masonic Grand Lodge Of Illinois,
confined in the Chester penitentiary on q
five years sentence.
| A German iron molder named John
Purscht, of New York, after quarreling
with his wife on the 9th, committed suicide
by shooting himself in the head with re-
volver, swallowing n quantity Of oxalic
acid, cutting himself with an AK, and was
about TO use razor when he expired.
The crop report for December of the Ohio
State Board of Agriculture, based on about
six hundred township returns from all the
counties of the State, give the following
State averages: Area sown compared with
1sSi-wheat, % per cent; rye, 0s per
cent. barley, 03 per cent Condition COM
pared with a full average-wheat, 90; rye,
50; barley, 81; farm ANNALS, 81. The fol-
lowing are the prices paid by local buyers
and shippers, averaged for COO localities all
over the State: Wheat, per bushel, "A
cents; corn, 40 cents; rye, 90 cents; oats, 20
cents; barley, q cents; buckwheat, 90 cents
potatoes, ~ cents; leaf tobacco, cents
hay, per ton, S96G; sorghum molasses, per
gallon, 40 cents; winter apples, per barrel,
Sl.56; good steers, per hundred weight, live,
Sl.3s; for hogs, live, S3.03
At meeting OF the Citizens Committee
at Chicago on the 9TH II was decided to Of
fer reward Of 5000 for the detection OF
the perpetrators of the election frauds In
the Second precinct Of the Eighteenth ward.
The well-known banking house of Ray
mer a. Seagrave, of Toledo, Ohio, have sus-
spended.
Rev. j. NJ. Arnold, editor Of the Michigan
Adcocdte, aged sixty, dropped dead on the
He was formerly in charge Of the Book
Concern at Detroit and was n prominent
Methodist clergyman.
Mrs. Catherine Snyder, OF Darrtown
Butler County, Ohio, held u mortgage on
her son Georges place. She visited him
some weeks ago and collected Sl25 on ac'
count, since which time she had not beer
seen or heard from. A few days ago her
grand child, aged twelve years, stated that
his father, the old lady's son, killed hei
with n shovel and buried her back Of
q hay-stack In field, first TAX
ing the money away from her that he hat
given her. An nvestigation substantiated
the boys statement, and the body Of th'
woman was found as described. When ar
rested for the crime, George Snyder claimet
that two robbers attacked his mother OF
the road and made him help bury her, ant
the next day he saw one OF her feet sticking
out OF the ground and he reburied her HI
kept the crime quiet because they threat
ened TO kill him II he breathed a word abou
tho murder. But when the corpse was dis
inferred IL had nothing but night-gowr
on, which, with other circumstances, indi.
cate that the woman was killed In the
house. Snyder has been taken 10 Hamil'
ton, where he now Is In Jail.
Governor Hoadly has refused TO commute
the sentence Of John b. Hoffman, sentenced
TO be hanged in Cincinnati December 10. A
reprieve had been granted from October u.