The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1889-11-20
WEST AND SOUTH.

President C. c. Bonney, Of the Ma
tional Law and Order League, has issued
call for an annual convention Of the
organization, TO be held at Toronto, Ont,
commencing Saturday, February22, 1890.
1t is estimated that the Egyptian cot
ton crop will reach 5000, 900 bales. ~
The general strike Of the journeymen
bakers Of London, which threatened TO
take place on the 10th in the event of
the failure Of the masters to reduce the
number OF working hours to ten per
day, has probably been averted, owing
to the compliance Of several large firms
with the bakers demands.
Recent adyices from the Transvaal
represent the previous reports Of famine
and drowning throughout that region as
by no means exaggerated. Suffering
prevails In all directions and the author
tiles are making every effort to provide
for them.
Sixty-fve persons are on trial at
Wadowice, Galicia, charged with swim
ding large number Of Galician. peas
ants by inducing them TO emigrate TO
America by false statements and then
obtaining commission on their passage
money. Among those implicated are q
number Of government officials.
Gill's livery stable at Clarksville,
Tenn, burned on the 18th. Fifteen
horses were cremated, among thom the
racer, Singlewood, valued at $1,000.
A West Point dispatch says that the,
recent mysterious illness among the,
cadets at the military academy was
caused by the eating OF unripe apricots
stewed in milk. The number OF cadets
affected has been exaggerated. Only,
sixty required medical treatment, and
all but six have completely recovered.
Miss Adeline Hord, aged twenty years,
daughter Of the wealthiest man in
Fleming County, KY, suicided on tho
18th by taking morphine. Opposition Of
her parents to q matrimonial engage.
ment was the alleged cause.
The National Farmers Congress ad-.
journed at Montgomery, Ala, on the
18th, to meet In Iowa next year. Among
the resolutions passed was one favoring
schemes for improving the Mississippi
and Missouri rivers, and for ship canal.
across Illinois, connecting the Miss
issippi and Lake Michigan. The farm.
ers' institute was indorsed and national
aid recommended, and national board
Of agriculture demanded. r. +. Kolb,
OF Alabama, was reelected president;
b. +. Clayton, Of Illinois, was elected
secretary, and Mr.. Lawrence, OF Ohio,
treasurer. Chicago was indorsed as a,
place for the worlds fair.
All the schools at Elkhart, Ind, have.
been closed owing to the prevalence OF
diphtheria. Several deaths have oc-
Cured. Mr.. and Mrs. Z. N. Bullock
lost within few days all their children,
four in number, and on the 10th four
other members Of the family we're down
with the disease.
At st. Paul, Mimi, on the 10th the
jury in the Stensgard case returned a
verdict Of not guilty. He is the first to
TO be tried Of half dozen men charged
with the extensive forgery Of real estate
titles in that city.
Two men arrived at Viroqua, Kan, on
the 18th from the Kenyon ranch for five
collins in which TO bury the bodies OF the
Fem family, consisting OF father,
mother and three children who perished
In the recent terrible blizzard.
Miss Berda Hoffman was arrested at
Chicago on the 10th, charged with OBJ
tanning several thousand dollars worth
OF goods from number of Chicago mer-
chants under false pretenses. Her plan
was to tepresent herself 10 the pro-
prietors as the daughter OF som wealthy
and well known citizen and purchase
goods on her alleged faith er's credit,
When arrested by detectives she con-
fessed, and over 5000 orth Of the
goods were recovered. She is about
Twenty-Five years old and pos sessed OF
great beauty.
Captain A. ]. Warner died at his home
near Centralia, ILL.,, on the 10th, aged
seventy-fve years. During the war OF
the rebellion he was quart ermaster At
Libby prison In Richmond, Va.
The schooner Fidelity was wrecked
on the California cost on the 10th and
eight lives we're lost
Near cynthiana, KY, on the nth