The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1889-09-11
TINE EAST.

The Massachusetts Prohibitionists met In
State convention on the 4th and nominated
Or. John Blackmer, Of Springfield, for Gov
srnor.
An unknown woman committed suicide at
Niagara Falls on the 5th by jumping into
the rapids 200 feet above the falls and was
swept over the cataract She was dressed
in black, had red hair and was nearly six
feet tall.
In train wreck near Webster Station,
Pa, on the 9Th, Robert Carney was killed
and his two brothers, Charles and Samuel,
were seriously injured.
The Pottstown (Pa.) Iron Company an
nounced an increase In the wages OF the
puddlers in its three mills from S25 70
$3.50 per ton To take effect September 10.
Over 800 men are effected.
After three months suspension the fur
nace Of Peacock & Thomas at Lancaster,
Pa, started up on the 4th.
"Chaos," q two year-old horse owned by
ex.Congressman W. L. Scott, Of Erie, Pa,
won the Futurity stakes and $4,000 in the
races at Sheepshead, N. Y, on the 4th.
Mayer G. Cohen, cloak and Jersey manu-
Iacturer Of New York, has failed with La
bilities Of about $4,000.
The State convention Of the New York
Prohibitionists met at Syracuse on the 9Th
nominated Jesse H. Grimm for Secretary Of
Btate; Joseph w. Bruce, State Treasurer;
Benjamin L. Rand, Comptroller; Colridge
A. Hart, Attorney General; Prof. Alpheus
B. Kenyon, Engineer and Surveyor; Walter
@. Harrington, Judge Of Court OF Appeals.
In the New York Supreme Court on the
Nh Justice Mayham handed down q de-
dsion revoking the charter Of the Broad
way Railroad Company, OF Brooklyn. he
holds that the company has surrendered all
The corporate privileges and franchises
granted To II by the Legislature. The COM
pany is perpetually barred from exercising
, any Of its corporate rights.
Six laborers employed at Braddock, Pa,
went out into the woods at Beaver Falls on
the 5th and engaged In drunken carousal
with several kegs Of beer At night ave Of
The men were found dead drunk and the
other one with bullet hole through tho
heart. Officers were summoned, but the
mon In the meantime made their escape.
General Legitime, ex-president Of Hayti,
arrived at New York by steamer Manhattan
ON the 9TH en- route for France.
In fight with tramps near Pittsburgh
on the 9th, Foster Cox. Pennsylvania rail-
road brakeman, was fatally shot and John
Nicholas, another brakeman, beaten and
seriously hurt. The tramps escaped.
Business failures throughout the country
during the week ended September6number
e01, as compared with total Of 2l1 the
week previous. For the corresponding week
last year tie figures were 22l
Henry w. Genet, the "Prince Hal" Of the
famous Tweed ring, died at his home in
New York on the 9th. He had been III OF
cancer in the throat for three years.
During recent thunder storm, five head
OF thoroughbred horses belonging 70 l.. b.
Franklin, living near Fall River, Mass, were
killed by stroke Of lightning. The animals
when struck lay upon the ground as u
asleep, with the mark OF the stroke upon
the right side Of each one.
John L. Sullivan publishes letter In the
Boston Sun announcing himself ~ candi-
date for Congress on the Democratic ticket
II the nomination IL rendered him.
Three men whose names are unknown
were drowned by the cspsizing Of theil
rowboat In the heavy surf on Rockaway
Beach, N. D., on the sth. Another boat con
tanning four men capsized and the men ,wer'
saved with great difnculty. q,
Itis said that steve Brodiecn The nh sue
cessfully accomplished the perilous feat o.
foing over Niagara Fails clad IN An infiates
rubber suit He uHs tskcn out Of the waite
hslew the falls IN IN unconscious condition
6ut coon recovered and was found not q
Rsvs sustained serious injuries.
yshn O'Bricn, the we'll known circus man
a. u Philadelphia on tho sth.