The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1889-04-24
WEST AND SOUTH.

ON the 18Th two boats with sevon ana
eight men respectively were crossing tho
Chattanooga river at the AlabsnA, Midland
crossing, when one Of the boats commenced
sinking and the mon jumped 10 the other
boat and capsized both crafts. Five men
were drowned. All were hands working
for O. A. Alexander. breaking rock for the
Alabama Midland bridge
A package containing $4,000 in gold has
mysteriously disappeared from the ofioe Of
the Northern Express Company. at Brain
ard, MINI.
Governor Foraker, OF Ohio. has issued q
proclamation designating Tuesday, April
80. as legal holiday, and urging suitable
patriotic and religious observance.
Charles W. Waldrou, the banker OF Hills.
dale, Mich, who ran awsy some months ago
with sloo, 900 Of his partuer'S money and Mr..
Bidwell's wife, and subsequently went 70
Europe, was brought back TO Hilsdale on
the 10Th, having been arrested upon his ar.
rival at New York.
In the Federal court at Indianapolis, Ind,
on the 18th, In the case against ex-senator
Carpenter, Of Shelby County, indicted for
bribery at the hast election, the jury re-
turned verdict Of acquittal without leav-
ing the room. Carpenter was expelled from
the late Legislature on the charge Of which
be has been acquitted.
John II. Nmple, OF Ohio, has been ap-
pointed principal examiner OF claims and
contests 10 the General Land Once.
Judge Linder +. Frisby diei at his resi-
dence ia Milwaukee, Wiz, on the l9th, aged
sixty-four wears. He was q prominent Re-
publican, and was Attorney General OF the
State from 1882 until 1887.
Marshal Jones, OF Kansas, and Needles,
OF the Indian Territory, who are In author
fly over the Indian Territory and Oklahoma,
have instructed their deputies 10 conascate
all liquors brought into tho Territory.
These instructions are based on ruling Of
| tn Attorney General that Oklahoma is
within the limits Of the Indian Territory.
and that laws per aiming 10 the sale OF In.
toxicating liquors within the Territory ap-
| ply 10 this section. tr
The Federal grand jury at Little Rock,
| Ark, has returued indictments against
eighteen persons for interfering at the
Plummerville polls, In the November cleo
ton.
Willie Butterhal. aged eight, and Johnny
Beadle, aged ten, were drowned while boat
ing In mill pond at Rockville, Ind, on the
10Th .U-rt
Mrs. A. II. Lucas, OF Carthage, Mo-, sc-
cimpanied by her two daughters and hired
man, were attempting 10 ford swollen
creek near that city in wagon on the 10th,
when the waters carried the whole OUTFIT
down tho stream and all the people as well
rs the horses were drowned.
A cyclone swept through Hinckley. ILL.,,
on tho Goth, unroohing and tearing down
eya-y bnilding and tree 10 It's course. II
tock path 100 feet wide and lasted only
hft, en- seconds. There were no fatalities.
Rondon Darden aud Thomas Dansby, two
OF the men convicted by the United States
Circuit Court ut Little Rock Ark, for vio-
lutlng the election laws ut the election last
November, have been sentenced by Judge
Brewer, the hrst named 10 i've years In the
penitentiary aud tho last TO pay fine Of $500
The liquor tax BILL which has Just passed
the Michigan legislature, requires retailers
TO pay t,OIa 4 year. Jistillers $1,000, brewers
600, wholesale liquor dealers $50, whole
sule bser and wine dealers t50j, and pro
vents druggists selling liquor except upo'
written application which must DO recordet
IN public book. The law will not becolni
effective until next year.
The steamer Umatilla arrived at San
FrarcbcO ou the 10th, having on boar
Lieutenant Ripley and twenty-nine iniprs'
men Of the Yapdalia and Trenton. tNt