The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-06-15
DOMESTIC.

The pay department of the army is
seriously embarrassed by the lack of
a sufficient number of paymasters to
perform the duties of compensating
the troops.
Nearly rs per cent. of the appli-
cants for enlistment in the regular
army are rejected at the recruiting
offices in San Francisco. The princi-
pal causes of rejection are impaired Vi
sion and defective chest expansion.
Leonatus, the famous running horse,
died On the 18th at Runnymede stock
farm, near Lexington, KY. He was
16 years old and was the sire of mlny
stake winners, besides himself win.
ming the Kentucky Derby in 1888.
Preliminary returns of the spring
wheat acreage, with the two Dalotas
subject to revision, indicate total
area seeded of 100000 acres, which
added to the area IN winter wheat, &c.
100000 acres, makes a total wheat
acreage of 43,O00,000, or over 100000
acres greater than last year.
The final reports of the agricultural
department on cotton planting make
the area planted 22,46O,334 acres,
against 24,091,304 acres last year, a
reduction of 1851 ,0G0 acres, or 6.S per
cent.
The war department has given out
an official list of the transport ships
thus far hired. The list shows 80
ships chartered along the Atlantic
coast and ten on the Pacific.
Corn exports during the present fis-
cal year will be double those of any
year in the history of the country.
The expectation will exceed 210,0O0,-
600 bushels.
The president has authorized
canned salmon to be added as one of
the meat components of the army ra-
tions. Ordinarily fresh beef will be
issued to the troops six days in ten,
salt meat three days in ten and canned
salmon one day in ten.
The members of the Sixteenth Penn
sylvania regiment, now at Chicka-
mauga, are having a terrible time as
the result of vaccination, nearly 400
men being disabled with sore arms.
1t is charged that the points used
were imperfect and the officers of the
Fourth Pennsylvania have refused to
allow their men vaccinated with the
same class of points. BY subscrip-
ton funds were raised with which
fresh points are to be bought for use
of this regiment.
Fire at Detroit on the 18th destroyed
the Case power building, with all it's
contents, and imminently threatened,
and in some cases damaged some of
the finest business structures in this
city. The total damage is upwards of
100000. Six fremen were severely
burned and cut by glass.
Steady progress is being made upon
the ships under construction by the
government at the several navy yards.
On the battleships the Newport News
people are ahead, having the Kear-
sarge and Kentucky SO per cent. ad-
vanced toward completion.
A bad wreck occurred on the West
Shore railroad near Clyde, n. Y, on
the 9th. Engine No. "a jumped the
track, and was badly demolished.
Nothing was attached but caboose,
which was also wrecked James Call
aban, of Newark, n j., fireman, was
Killed, and five men were badly in
jured.
TIE imports of diamonds at New
York from January 1, to April 80,
1898, amounted to $2,0S5,43 as COM
pared with $241,175 for the same
period in 1897. This enormous in
crease of nearly 900 per cent. is said
to be almost entirely due to the re-
duction of the customs duty, which
has operated to prevent smuggling.
Postmaster General Smith says that
al reports indicating that postoflice
inspectors or other officials have been
authorized to open letters within the
mails are untrue. The privacy of the
nails at no time will be Invaded dur
fn9 the war.