The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1889-03-27
THE EAST.

The jury In Engineer Majors trial. thu
third and last OF he Lehigh Valley railroad
employees indicted for having caused the
Mud Run (Pa.) disaster. on the 2lst rem
dered verdict OF not ilty.
Robert Sge, son OF General Franz Slgel
who pleaded guilty 10 forging pension
checks, was on the 2lst sentenced In the
United States Court at New York 10 siI
yeas Imprisonment in the Erie County
penitentiary
The feather workers strike at New York
City has ended in complete failure. Miss
Ida Van Etten secretary OF tho Working
Womens Association has sent letter 70
the IsidUr Cohnheld Company acknowledg.
ing that the girls were defeated and de-
ciaring the strike OF.
A frgittul explosion OF dynamite oc.
cured on the 2lsl in the mixin; rooms at
the works OF the United States Dynamite
Company near Lakewood, N. J. Thomas
Haggerty and vii IAN Nicholas, the only
occul ants Of the room, were killed. Nicho-
las was blown 10 atoms and Haggerty died
in less than an hour. The shock was per.
cepiib,ein all the towns and villages within
fifteen or twenty Iilcs.
The Connecticut legislature has passed q
bill prohibiting the selling or giving tobacco
in any fo,m TO persoB under sixteen years
OF age. The bill also prohibits such minors
from using tobacco In cigarettes, or in any
other form.
IL hag been ascertain'd that the shortage
IN III ac cunts Of Robert traven, secretary
and treasurer Of tho Philadelphia VIII
miugt'n & Baltimore Railroad Company,
will amo ut 10 ab ut 600. II Is said he
will make good the los TO the surety com.
pany and thus escape pro ,ecution.
The businfs, failures occurring through
ont the country during the week ending
March % number f,r the United States
22O and f'r Canada ~; or t,tal OF 249. as
compared with total OF 26l the previous
week, IN 2i3 for the corresponding week OF
last year.
On the 22d q general suspension OF work
at the Pennsylvania Coal Company mines
was ordered. Fifteen largo collieries have
suspended operations, throwing 1900 per-
sons out OF work
The liabilities Of w. M. Browne q Co..
wool dealers Of Boston. are tli5,934, OF
which E5,4l9 arc secured. The assets for
unsecured creditors are 9, ,448 The credit
srs have decided on settlement through In.
solvency proceedings.
The receiving ship Franklin, which was
sent 10 Yorktown at the centennial celebra-
Ton 10 1881. viii be sent TO the centennial
celebration In New York. Together with
ue MINI sofa, now ~ New York, she Is 10
represent the old navy In striking contrast
10 he new steel cruisers Boston aud Chi.
caxo.
Mrs Nary Helm, OF Ellicottyille, N. Y,
who has been on trial for murder In the
second degree, was acquitted on the 22d.
She was charged with having killed her
husband with boot-jack last winter
In the trial at Brooklyn, N. Y, Of Moses
Btinson for the murder OF H. w. Adams,
who isl or was thrown from stable door
and killed duriDg the recent street railroad
strike in that city, the jury on the 22d re-
ported failure TO agree and were dis
cha ged.
Miss Bessie Rockefeller, eldest daughter
OF John Rockefeller president Of the
Standard Oil Company, was married at tho
family residence In New York City. on the
22I, 10 Charles A, Strong OF Rochester.
John Sars1eld, who was recently placed
, % trial at Dover, N. H., for wife murder
and who pleaded guilty TO manslaughter,
was on the 22d sentenced 10 FIVE years In
DtAte prison with hard labor and payment
M costs.
A hre at Dover, N. H., on the 20d de-
stroyed tho city hall building and opera
honse and damaged two churches near by,
causing loss OF s75,000 Several fremen
uese seriously injured.
Dr. Thomas Fitch Perloy, q noted en-
tDmologist, died at his home In Portland,
u4a An, tho 00d aoed eavantv.ttua vaara