The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1889-11-06
WEST AND SOUTH.

Hon. James Edward Calhoun, Of Abbe-
vile, S. c., cousin and brother-in-law Of
John c. Calhoun, died on the 31st ult,
aged ninety-three years. At his death
| he was the largest land owner in the
State, with homestead of $4,000 acres
rich Savannah lands and 1876, 900 acres Of
mountain land in Pickens and 0conoe
counties.
L. J. Newald, who absconded from
Chippewa Falls, Wis, several months
ago with 100000 has been located in
Brazil.
Az Denver, COL. on the 31st ult. Judge
Campbell heard the habeas corpus pro-
ceedings in the case Of C. w. Hatch, of
Boston, who is charged with the murder
OF his uncle. The prisoner was admitted
to bail in the sum Of $4,000.
An investigation OF the charges Of
opium smuggling at tho port Of San
Francisco has revealed the fact that
during the past six months the Govern
ment has been defrauded Of $500, 900 in
duties, through the operations Of gang
Of smugglers.
Harry Durand who was arrested at
Port Huron for opium smuggling over a
year ago and afterward escaped, was re-
captured on the 31st ult, at Royal Oak,
near Detroit, Mich.
A San Francisco dispatch reports the
loss in the Arctic ocean OF the whaling
steamer Lucretia OF New Bedford, Mass.
She was valued, with outfits, at s45, 900.
A dastardly attempt was made near
Big Rapids, Mich, on the 1st to wreck
Grand Rapids & Indiana passenger
train. Several cars were derailed but no
one was injured.
A south-bound passenger train on the
Forth Worth railread, which was snow.
bound near Easton, Col, was run into
by freight train on the 1st and Engi.
neer Hickey, Fireman Flanagan and a
passenger from Illinois we're killed.
The snow storm which prevailed re-
Gently in the vicinity Of Denver, Col,
was the worst ever experienced in that
region. Reports from the south say that
thousands Of cattle and horses have been
drifted of their ranges int the south.
east, and that hundreds Of the weaker
animals have perished in the blizzard.
A Cheyenne (Wyo.) dispatch says that
the 1900 Indians occupying the Wind
River reservation, Just south OF the Vel.
lowstone National Park in that Terri
tory, are actuallyin want and many will
die Of starvation before spring.
A Chicago dispatch says the Pitts
burgh -four mills and all the property
connected with them and the w. ID.
Washburn mills and appurtenances have
been absolutely purchased by syndi-
cate Of English capitalists The price
paid was IS, 900, 900. The Star elevators
Of Minneapolis, Mimi, and seventy-five
Of the @. W. Vandusen elevators extend
ing along the Chicago & Northwestern
railway have also passed into the hands
Of an English company.
On the 2Sd Edwin Cooper, town treas
urer OF Greenfield, Wis, shot and in
stantly killed his brother Peter at the
breakfast table. The brothers quar-
relied over the management of their
fathers farm, who is an old man and
had turned it over them. The fratricide
Is in jail.
The premature explosion Of blast in
q quarry on the Grafton & Greenbrier
railroad in West Virginia on the I'd
killed George and Frank Wiseman, and
fatally injured Alexander 0ldacre.
The Brotherhood OF Locomotive En-
gineers, at their session in Denver, Col,
on the I'd, created central grievance
committee and located the headquarters
OF the order for the next ten years al
Cleveland, o.
BY the explosion Of boiler at Phelps
sawmill near Frenchburg, KY, on the
cd, three men were killed and two others
probably fatally injured. Among the
victims were Mr.. Phelps, proprietor Of
the mill, and his son John.
A fre at Key West, Fla, on the Sd
destroyed Del Pine Brothers cigar fac.
tory, containing one million cigars and
. large quantity Of Havana tobacco.
Loss, $4,000.
At tho anniversary exercises Of the
womep's Home Missionary Society In
Indianapolis, Ind. on the I'd, abstracts