The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1889-07-03
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A DISASTROUS fire occurred at Durango,
Col, on tho 1st, destroying eight business
blocks, which includes all the principal
business houses and three churches and
part OF the residence portion OF the town.
The loss is estimated at s300, 900, with light
insurance. The origin OF the fire is sup
posed to be incendiary.
The creditors OF y. Robbins & Sons, the
recently failed iron manufacturers OF Phila-
delphia, have accepted seventy-fve per
cent Total liabilities, sl28, 1856; assets $62,-
721
AFTER delay Of twenty-eight years the
trial Of j. T. Logan Signan for murder
committed at the beginning OF the war took
place at Mt Vernon, KY, last week. II
was concluded with verdict Of acquittal.
GENERAL SMITH, superintendent Of the
Virginia military institute since It's found
ing in 1889, has sent in his resignation to
the board Of visitors to take eject January
next. Governor Fitzhugh Lee will prob
ably be his successor,
WILLIAM ScHITz and Charles Schroeder,
two sixteen year-old boys who were attend
ing the picnic at Riverside, near Chicago,
on the 1st, were drowned while boating on
the picnic grounds
THE total number Of mercantile failures
throughout the United States reported dur
ing the past six months show gain Of 6A
over the first half Of 1888. The figures are
as follows: Number Of failures, 5,9lS; esti
mated assets, 81, ,SO3, ,940; total liabilities,
s6L411, III; per cent. of assets to Liabilities
51.0.
RALPH GRAVES professor Of mathematics
at the State University In Raleigh, N. c.,
attempted to commit suicide on the 1st by
cutting his throat. III health was the
cause. He will recover.
MAJOR GARRETT J. LYDECKER, Of the En-
gineer Corps, who was recently tried by a
court martial for neglect of duty In super
intending the construction Of the Washing
ton aqueduct tunnel, has been ordered 10
Vancouver Barracks, Washington Terri
tory, for duty in the Department of the Co.
lumbia.
THEODORE d. WooLsEY, ex-President Of
Yale University, died at New Haven, Conn,
on the lst, aged eighty.eight years.
The immense plant Of the Reading Iron
Works, which failed four months ago for
over sl,0OO,0OO, was sold at auction on the
1st for $50, 800, subject to a mortgage Of
$1,000 1t was purchased by William P,
Bard, of Reading, for the Philadelphia &
Reading Railroad Company, and the works
will resume operations at an early day.
THE coal miners Of the first and second
pools on the Monongahela river are on a
strike for three cents per bushel for min
ing. The miners In the third and fourth
pools are still at work, but the strikers hope
TO have them all out in few days. About
$500 men are idle.
MALTBY GLANE, well-known capitalist
and railroad man, died suddenly Of heart
disease on the lst in the Office Of his lawyer
at New York City. he was seventy-four
years Of age.
A combination Of the knit goods manu-
iacturers in the territory west Of the Ale
ghenies and north OF Memphis, Tenn, was
effected recently at Chicago. The trust will
be known as the Western Knit Goods Man
ufacturing Association. at.
The schooner Annie, which left San Fran
cisco February on hunting and fishing
trip TO Behring Sea, has not since been
heard from and believed 10 have been lost.
The Annie carried crew Of eleven men.
At Rochester, Mimi, on the 27th ult., the
Jury in the trial OF Beclrman and Patterson,
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uie on inc Soth ut Inc 1oVernor signeo
tne Local Vpuon oiil; also the graoeo iare
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