The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-04-16
DOMESTIC.


by the Washington Agricultural Depart
ment there we're 27,6OO,OOO acres in the
United States under winter wheat This
area was about 100000 acres more than
last year.
THE Gloucester (Mass.) fishing schooner
Nelson Y. Mcfarland and its crew Of six
men were lost at sea in recent gale.
The exposition Of the Reely motor was
again postponed on the 10th, as the "work
of perfecting the graduation" was not
finished.
HENRY s. RosENTHAL, New York cat
tie merchant, failed ON the 10th for $50,
900.
1T was announced on the 10th that
twenty-five breaks had occurred In the
levees OF the Arkansas River, in Tensas
and Concordia parishes, and large area
Of land was overflowed.
THE Secretary Of the Interior at Wash.
ington has given notice that the forty.nine
thousand acres Of land in the southwestern
part Of the Omaha (Neb.) Reserve, thirty
FIVE miles southwest Of Sioux City, will be
open for actual settlers to file claims on
April 30 next. Filings can be made at
Bancroft, Wisner, or at the United States
Land Office at Neigh, Neb. Terms, one
third down, and two annual payments at
five per cent. Prices range from five dol
lars 10 ten dollars per acre.
THE frmof Davis & Taylor, the leading
-four and grain house of Boston, Mass,
failed on the 10th for 100000.
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ago at stone quarries near Franklin, N. c.,
killed Dock Robinson and Edwin Strong
and wounded four men, all colored.
JOHN ROE, farmer near Carrolton, Mo-,
was shot and instantly killed few even.
ings ago by Henry Baugh In quarrel
over a note.
WILLIE BLACK, aged six years, was
killed by the kick Of man named d. w.
Brett, at Philadelphia, few days ago.
The lad accidentally ran against the man,
while playing, and the kicking followed.
A BANK Of sand caved in at Pittsburgh,
Pa, the other day, hurying two men, who,
yhen recovered an hour later, were dead,
heir bodies being badly crushed.
ADvIoEs Of the 18th state that heavy
rains had fallen in California, and the
rivers were swollen, and there had been
many washouts. IL would take four or
five days to repair the damages done to
railroads by the floods.
A STATEMENT by the First Assistant
Postmaster-Ge shows that during the
nine months ended March 81 last the post
Office receipts were $4a, ,2G2, ,440, falling of,
as compared with the previous nine
months, Of $2,246,246.
AT Fresno, CAL, a cyclone on the 18th
demolished several buildings.
THE body Of an aged woman, Mrs. Cece-
lia Murphy, was found on the 18th near
fredericksburg, Md, with the skull crushed
in and throat cut. Her premises had been
robbed, and there were evidences Of ter.
rible struggle.
JOSEPH AGATE, a retired New York mill
ionaire, committed suicide by shooting
himself in hotel in that city on the 11th.
Dependency over failing health was said
TO have been the cause.
AN express train on the Pan. Handle
Road went through bridge near Dayton,
o., on the 11th, and the engineer, fireman,
baggage-master and express messenger
were killed. The accident was said to have
been caused by train-wreckers.
AT the Westmoreland and Pennsylvania
coal mines, near Irwin Station, Pa, If
teen hundred coal-miners struck on the
18th against reduction Of twenty per
cent. in wages.
SIXTEEN mutilated bodies were on the
11th taken from the reopened Pocahontas
mine, near Lynchburg, Va, but only six
Of them could be identified.
In the United States during the seven
days ended on the 18th thore were 175
business failures, and In Cana Ia thirty
nine, against total Of 212 thu previous
week.
SEVENTEEN firms engaged In the manu-.
facture OF vapor stoves, with capital Of
Sl,5OO,0O0, have formed combination to
equalize prices.
WHEAT seeding was In progress In South.
ern Minnesota and Dakota on the 11th, a
week In advance OF last year. There viii
be a substantial increase in the acreage.
IT is announced that meat and Ice COM
pany, backed by Eastern capitalists, will
be established at Columbus, Tex, which
win ship dressed beef TO New York, via
st. Louis, and will also manufacture oleo,
oil and butterine. It was said similar es-