The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1889-06-19

Business failures occurring throughout
the country during the seven days ended
June Is number for the United States 226
and for Canada "a, or total of $50; as COM
pared with total of 225 the previous week,
and ess for the corresponding week Of last
year.
On the night Of the l4th fire broke out
In refinement honse on Norfolk street, New
York, containing twenty-two families. All
the inmates escaped without serious injury
except an old lady named Kirsbaum and her
two-year-old granddaughter, who were
burned to death.
Rev. William N. Scholl, d. D., Of Canaio-
harie, n Y, said TO be the Oldest English
Lutheran clergyman in this country, died
on the 14th, aged eighty-nine years. 1t is
mentioned as singular fact that his first
call to preach was at Johnstown, Pa, and a
few days after the destruction Of that place
by the food he was stricken with paralysis,
which caused his death.
James II. Graham, the colored bootblack
who stabbed and killed bartender John
Moeller, OF Brooklyn, N. ", about three
months ago, has been sentenced to hard
labor for life at Sing Sing prison.
The Rochester IN. " grand jury, which
has been investigating DR.. Bowers action
in concealing the manner Of Taylor Coomb's
death at the insane asylum from the author
ities reported on the 18th that they could
find nothing criminal In the doctors action
in connection with the matter.
The United States man-of-war Kearsage
sailed from the Brooklyn navy yard on tho
10th for Port au Prince, Hayti.
The exports OF specie from the port OF
New York during the week ended June 10
amounted to $500, ,493, nearly all Of which
went 10 France. Imports Of specie for the
week amounted TO S34, ,S55.
A slsiff containing two young couples cap
sized in the Ohio river near Pittsburgh on
the 10th, from the swell Of a passing
years, Yves drowned but the others were
rescued.
At the election held by the Odd Fellows
OF the Atlantic and New England States OF
philadelphia on the 18th, General James q.
Woodward, Of Albany, N. Y, the Grand
Commander of the order in New York, was
elected Major General commanding the di'
vision Of the Atlantic.
The handsome granite and bronze memo
rial erected at the grave of the late Presi
dent Chester A. Arthur in the cemetery al
Albany, N. Y, by some Of his personal ad
mirers, was unveiled on the 18th. There
were no formal exercises.
The weekly statement Of the New Yorl
associated banks, issued ON the 18th, show
the following changes; Reserve decrease
s452, $50; loans increase, $2,3S4, 400; specie
decrease, 81, 1884, 900; legal tenders increase
81, ,466, 900; deposits increase, S2,589, 800; cir
culation decrease, s27,90O. The banks hell
SIC, 0,603, ,2925 in excess OF the twenty-five pei
cent rule.
Captain L. Howard Dassel, who con
Quoted large subscription book business
In Boston, Mass, has disappeared leaving
large number Of creditors, and several war
rants are out for his arrest. He was promi
nently connected with d. Appleton & Co. II
his subscription business. -
Detectives are securing the Pennsylvania
coal regions for james Ferry, Clan-na
Gael man who first warned Or. Cronin o
his impending fate. Ferry Is book agent
A severe hailstorm in the vicinity o.
Martinsburg, W. Va, on the 10th causet
great destruction Of growing wheat on sur
rounding farms.