The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-03-12
DOMESTIC.

DESPITE the opposi ion to American pork
abroad the quantity of bacon exported last
year was 56,0OO,0OJ pounds greater than in
1882; hams 10 per cent greater, pork 2,C00,-
600 pounds greater, and lard 100000 O..
The value of hog product exported has in
creased nearly $lO,OOO.O00 the past year.
DURING the seven days ended on the 7th
the business failures throughout the
United States and Canada numbered 264,
against 274 the previous week. The dis
tribution was as follows: New England
States, 20; Middle, 51; Western, n;
Southern, 81; Pacific States and Terri
tories, 81; Canada and the Provinces, 43.
NOAH JACKSON (colored) was executed
ON the 7th at Lake Providence, La, for the
murder of his wife; Harrison Williams
was hanged at Corsicana, Tex, for ling
his sis or-in-law; and David McClain was
executed near Traders Hill, Ca, for the
murder of William Saxton.
The explosion of the boiler in Dearborn's
mill at Bryant's Pond, Me-, the other
morning killed four men.
The principal bus ness block in Memphis,
Scotland County, Mo-, was burned on the
18th, falling walls killing three persons and
wounding seven others, three mortally.
TEN towns in Ulster County, N. Y, on
the 7th voted mo license" Ellenville
women threatened to boycott merchants
who suppor ed the whisky interest.
A PROPELLER which reached Milwaukee
on the 7th reported Lake Michigan COM
pletely frozen over, with occasional ice.
bergs twenty-five feet high.
AT Blackfsh, Ark, the Mississippi River
was over forty miles wide on the 7th. Ed.
ward Lee was drowned there in the flood.
WILLIAM RILEY, aged sixteen, and his
sister Mary, aged thirteen, we 9 on the 7th
indicted for the murder OF their father at
Adrian, Mimi.
ALL the gambling establishments at Hot
Springs, Ark, were closed on the 7th, and
the sporting fraternity had evacuated the
town.
In the Hooking and Sunday Creek (Ohio)
Valleys 1900 miners were idle on the 7th
because of the haulers strike against re
duction.
A CLOUD burst over Florence, A. T., on
the morning OF the 7th, waterrunning four
feet deep in the street, occasioning $4,000
damage.
THE Consolidated Paper Company of
Chicago, with liabilities Of $4,000, made
an assignment on the 7th.
w. H. G. GEsTERN, of Omaha, Neb., q
civil engineer, blew out the gas in room
at the Palmer House, Chicago, the other
night, and was suffocated. .
FRED DAVIS, hard character, brutally
assaulted Mr.. and Mrs. Terry at East
Hampton, l.. l., on the 7th. It was
thought their injuries would prove fatal.
Robbery was the motive for the crime.
The Treasury Department at Washing.
ton on the 7th issued statement giving in
detail the exports and imports during the
year 1888. It shows the exports to have
been $I77,0OJ,OO), against $3.50, 100000 in
1882, and the imports $6S7 100000 in 1888,
against $752, ,00O,0J in 1882.
FIVE men employed in the construction
of a railroad in Pyle Canyon, Union Coun-
ty, Ore, were caught under mass of
earth and rock on the 9Th and instantly
killed. GF
The leading glass.works at st. Louis aid
Alton resumed operations on the 9Th, and
others would soon follow, after an idleness
extending over eight months.
A SERIOUS break in the levee, fifteen
miles above New Orleans, occurred on the
9th, fl loding plantations and submerging
the Texas Pacific and Morgan Railways.
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9verhowed and railroad traffic in that vi
cinity was interrupted.
WILLIAM HAYDEN, of Paterson, N. j.,
died few days ago of pneumonia, and
seven minutes later his wife died OF. en-
largement Of the heart.
FAST mail service between New York
end Chicago was re-established on the 9Th