The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-07-09

The public-debt statement issued on
the 1st makes the following exhibit: Total
debt Gnclu9ing interest of Sill ,507,24O, ST..
$40 2,036, 1853. Cash in Treasury, 1891 1886, 1923.
Debt, less amount in Treasury, 81, 45O, $780,.
2S5. Decrease during June, $9,217,256.
Decrease since June 81, 1888, 1O1, 1,O4O,97.
A DESTRUCTIVE wind and rain. storm
aged in the district between Washington,
D. c., and York, Pa, on the night of the
1st. Houses were wrecked, bridges swept
away, and grain and corn-fields almost
ruined. The damage was very great.
THE failure is announced of the Golden
Age FIGURING. Mill Company, Of San Fran
cisco, with liabilities of 100000.
FREIGHT trains on the Kentucky Central
Read were telescoped the other day near
Cunningham, and Mr.. Gillian and Mrs.
Hastings, of Berea, KY, passengers, lost
their lives.
FIVE cotton-duck mills in Maryland,
owned by William E. Hooper & Sons, in
which twelve hundred men were employed,
have shut down for the summer on account
of a glut of goods.
THE pork-slaughtering house of J. 6 F.
Schroth, at Cincinnati, was destroyed by
fire few nights ago, and one hundred and
twenty-five hogs were burned to DEATH
COLONEL ROBERT M. GOODWIN, impris-
oned in the Jelfersonville Qnd.) State
Prison for killing his brother, DR.. John
Goodwin, committed suicide on the I'd by
taking poison.
RICHARD HELLER, widower, was mar
ried at Fonda, N. Y, on the I'd, thereby
forfeiting $125,OOO left by his first spouse
on condition that he should not remary.
THE Plymouth Savings Bank Of Plym.
outh, Pa, and the Savings Bank at Glouces'
ter City, N. j., closed their doors on the
End.
WHILE laborers were digging we'll on
the I'd near Silox, Lincoln County, Mo-.
they struck oil, the gushing fluid com
pelling them to quit work.
Two BOYS named Wood and Dempsey
were killed by lightning few days age
while standing under tree at Latonia, O
The oldest daughter of Hope Wheat
stone, prominent colored planter, was
waylaid near Bastrop, La, on the evening
of the I'd, and shot dead.
In an Albany IN. " bank thief on thu
I'd took from teller's window book con
tanning $4,000 and mysteriously disap
peared. .'a ec
HODGES, HERsEY & Co., of New York
manufacturers Of straw goods, have failed
for 100000. WAg a- aieIiH .G
In the United States and Canada ther,
were 1855 business failures during the sew
en- days ended on the 3D., against 173 tn,
previous seven days. The distribution
was as follows: Middle States, AZ; New
England States, 1S; Western, Al; South
ern, 27; Pacific States and Territories, 70
Canada, 10.
A wND.sToRM at Sioux City, Ia, ant
its suburbs on the afternoon Of the 4tl
wrecked the Episcopal Mission School, th,
plow factory and Booge & Co.'s packing
house. Glass. fronts and weak walls wert
demolished, structures unroofed, and tree
leveled.
WHILE filling o torpedo-shell with nitro
glycerine at Clarendon, Pa, the other even
ing Patrick Connolly was blown to piece
by its accidental explosion.
LEIB, Treasurer Of Washington County
Tex, was arrested on the 3D. for LOO
defalcation.
The Silver & Deming Manufacturing
Company's buildings were burned th
other day at Salem, o., the loss being es
timated at $4,000
THE thirteen-year locusts have mad
their appearance in st. Helena Parish, La
SPONTANEOUS combustion on the 3D. re
suited in FIRE which destroyed the Rever
,(Mass.) Rubber Works, Occupying thre
acres, entailing Q loss Of 500, 900.
THRTEEN business buildings at PembeI
vile, O., were burned on tho Sd, causing
Toss Of $4,000.
THEaP President issued proclamation o
the 9d warning people who contemplate
settling In the Oklahoma district, In India
Territory, that they would BE- ejettad b
Nho military,