The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1889-07-03

The various societies Of New York pro
pose to erect a monument TO christopher
Columbus in one Of the parks. The fnonu-
ment is To be l50 feet high and TO cost $50, 900
or over. Some Of the famous sculptors Of
Italy are now preparing designs
At New York on the 9th ult. application
was made to the Surrogate for an order di.
recting the executors Of the will Of Louis
c. Hammersley to pay to the Duchess Of
Marlborough $1,000 from the accumulated
income Of her late husbands estate, she be-
ing in need Of the cash.
The New York Marine Exchange has re-
ceived a dispatch statingthat the steamship
Marmari, from Hamburg for New York,
has been wrecked at Schulan.
On the 2Sth ult the steamers Eolus and
Bay Queen came in collision five miles of
Narragansett, r, l., and went ashore on
Gould Island. Both boats were badly dam
aged and the cook Of the Eolus was severely
hurt. The steamer Mount Hope took the
passengers of.
At New York City George B. Deane, the
'1ightning calculator" who was convicted
Of swindling Rev. George II. Chapelle out
OF $500 in game Of faro, was on the 2Sth
ult. sentenced to State prison for five years
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and six months
The directors Of the Vanderbilt roads met
at New York on the 2Sth ult. and declared
the usual quarterly dividend of one per
| cent. on New York Central, two per cent.
semi-annual on Lake Shore, two per cent.
semi-annual on Michigan Central, and one
and one-fourth per cent. semi-annual on
Canada Southern.
Business failures occurring throughout the
country during the seven days ended June
20 number for the United States 1884 and for
Canada 81, or O total Of 2l5, as compared
with 200 the previous week, and 20l for the
corresponding week Of last year.
On the 2sth ult. examinations for admis-
sion TO Harvard College were in progress ct
Cambridge, Quincy and Andover, Mass. (;
Exeter and Concord, N, H.; New York, AL
bany, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Chicago,
st. Louis, San Francisco and Bonn, Ger.
many The total number Of candidates Is
about 700, a greater number than In any
previous year.
A warrant was issued on the 2Sth ult. for
the arrest Of G. W. Wright, Of Philadelphia,
supreme treasurer of the Order Of Tonti,
who is reported TO be 1900 short in his ac-
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also prominently connected with the Order
Of Pente, and the Order Of Iron Hall, and Is
the secretary and treasurer Of the North
western Storage Company. His bondsmen
are good for the shortage
The bodies Of four women and two men
were found in house Of ill-repute at Pater-
son, N. j., on the 2Sth ult. Death had evil
IDENTIFY been caused by asphyxiation. All the
victims were persons Of disrcputable char.
acter. The coroner and the police are inves.
tigating the case.
The total number OF bodies Of victims Of
the Johnstown disaster recovered up the
2Sth ult., as recorded by the chairman Of the
committee on morgues, was 2253, 10 which
must be added about fifty that have been
found at points along the river, Of which no
accurate list has been secured.
THE Naragansett mill weavers, who have
been out OH strike, voted on the 2sth ult.
10 return TO work. Long, the man whose
discharge caused the strike, will not be
taken back.
Marie Mitchell the noted astronomer,
died at Lynn, Mass, on the 25th ult., aged
seventy years. She discovered her first
comet in lS47 and received therefor gold
medal from the King OF Denmark. She
subsequently discovered eleven other com
cts. She was professor OF astronomy at
vassar College for twenty-five years, re-
signing January l. 1888.
The fourteenth annual four-mile straight.
away eightoared race between the Yale
and Harvard crews was rowed over the
Thames river course on the 2sth ult. Yale
| won by six boat atlenRths,