The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-04-09
DOMESTIC.

The largest and most influential meeting
Of cotton manufacturers ever held In the
South took place at Augusta, Ca. on the
3D.. A Cotton Association was formed.
and II was unanimously resolved that the
interests Of the trade demanded curtail.
ment Of production.
In the vicinity Of Lynchburg, Va, ter.
rife wind-storm on the 3D. blew down
houses, uprooted trees, and did considera-
BILE other damage.
TWENTY-FIVE persons were seriously in.
jured by railway accident at Belleville,
ILL.,, ON the Sd, caused by a train being
thrown down an embankment by an open
switch. IL was said the switch was left
,pen by an employe. who was in a neigh.
boring saloon drinking.
A TES.YEAR-oLD boy, who killed farm.
er by hitting him with a stone, pleaded
guilty to manslaughter at Washington, D.
c., a few days ago, and was sentenced to
the Reform School for eleven years.
THE United States Marshal at Salt Lake
closed the London Bank Of Utah on the 3d
on an attachment for $4,000.
FINANCIAL embarrassment caused the
suicide a few days ago OF Major c. g..
Thurmond, a leading cotton operator at
Shreveport, La.
THE Chicago, st. Louis & Pacific and
Chicago & Indiana Central Railroads have
flied articles OF consolidation, the joint
capital being S0O,OOO,OOo. The combina.
tion will be known as the Chicago, st.
Louis & Pacific.
DURING March $s,25O,OOO worth OF prop.
erty was destroyed by fire; and for the
first quarter Of 1884 the loss was 81, ,2jO, 900,
S3,0OO,0OO in excess OF the record for the
corresponding period Of 1888.
BUFFALO gnats were OH the "a killing
mules n Western Mississippi. Deer were
fleeing to the high lands Of Arkansas TO
escape the pests.
THE Mississippi River was falling slow
ly on the Sd from vicksburg to the gulf,
but was still very high. Planters in the
inundated parishes were hopeful that the
overflow water would run off in time to
permit the planting Of full crop. In some
sections Of Northern Louisiana land was
beginning TO be seen in spots.
The steamer Rebecca Everingham was
burned 20 the waters edge in the Chatta.
hoochee River at Fitzgerald's Landing,
Co., early on the morning OF the 3D..
Thirteen persons lost their lives, and Of
the passengers who escaped in their night
clothes, many were severely burned. The
boat was loaded with cotton, and was
valued at $4,000.
THE mining bosses in the neighborhood
Of Shenandoah, Pa, have discharged all
the Hungarians in their employ.
FIVE Polanders who arrived at Scranton,
Pa, on the 3D., looking for work, were
struck by an engine and instantly killed.
TRIcHINIAsIs caused the death of Mrs.
Gale aud daughter at Loyal Hanna, Pa,
on the 3D., and Mr.. Gale and another
daughter were not expected to recover.
THE murderers executed on the Sd were
George Jones, a negro lad OF Pittsburgh,
Pa, and John and George Stephenson, Of
Regina, Northwest Territory.
THERE were l7S failures In tho United
States and thirty.four in Canada during
the seven days ended on the ith, against a
total Of 2Oi for the two countries during
the previous week.
ADvIcEs Of the 4th state that many
small craft had been wrecked by gale
which swept Chesapeake Bay the previous
three days.
WILLIAM A. HALL, ex-Chief Clerk OF the
Comptroller's office In New York City.
was on the ith sentenced TO twelve years.
imprisonment for forgery and embezzle-
ment.
THE Government relief steamer General
Barnard left several thousand rations at
Tiptonville, Tenn, on the 4th, aud would
distribute supplies at all points between
vicksburg and the mouth OF tho Red River.
THREE persons were executed on the 4th
for murder-Henry Rose at 0sceola, Ark;
Joe McGeo at Conshatta, La. md Andy
Roland, at Spring Place, Ga.