The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1889-10-09
WEST AND SOUTH.

Probably the largest coal company ever
organized in West Virginia was incorpor-
ated at Charlestown on the 4th. Among the
incorporators are Abram $, Hewitt, Of New
York, and Levi P. Morton. The company
have leased the property Of Hawks Nest
Coal Company in Fayette County.
The Chicago grand jury have returned in
dictments against James e. Moore and Will
lam Wright for selling lottery tickets.
In the United States Court for the West
ern district OF Texas judgements have been
recovered for 81, 900 each against the Rio
Grande & Eagle Pass Railway Company
and w. L. Giddons individually, on the
charge of importing aliens from Mexico
under contract 10 labor in the San Tomas
coal mines.
On the 4th traction engine and threshing
machine, while being moved across q small
stream at Janesville, Ind, broke through a
bridge and landed In the water some thirty
feet below. John Sparks and Henry Wright
were pinioned beneath the boiler and before
they could be rescued had been scalded To
death by escaping steam.
In freight wreck at East st. Louis; ILL.,,
on the 4th four men were injured and the
trotter, Lady Gay, valued at $4,000 was
killed. Two Of the injured men were host
lers and two were trainmen. The trotter
was owned by George Mcfarland, Of Boone,
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Joseph M. Marcus and Napoleon White,
two well known New Orleans gamblers,
suicided in that city on the 4th-the first
named by shooting himself and White by
poisoning. Dependency brought about by
the closing Of their gambling houses by the
authorities led them TO self-destructlon.
A fire In the business portion Of Vinita,
!. T., on the 4th destroyed $4,000 worth Of
property, on which there was $4,000 in
surance.
A rear end collision occurred on the 4th
on the St. Louis & San Francisco railroad
near North View, Mo-, in which five persons
were injured, one fatally. Engineer Savage
had his skull fractured and one leg broken;
he will die. Brakeman Cartright and En-
gineer William Dyer each had leg broken.
Owing TO an error made by legislative
bill clerk, section 10 Of the new high license
liquor law Of Michigan Is void. This section
compelled druggists 10 secure permits and
10 make annual statesments Of their sales.
This, II is considered, will not invalidate
tons from druggists.
At Charleston, W. Va, on the 9Th Felix
Kampf In drunken frenzy stabbed TO death
his two children, son and daughter, who
had refused him shelter. He was arrested
The strike Of the window.light glass
blowers, which began last June and has
seriously Affected manufacturers and 5000
employees In the business, was settled at
Baltimore, Md, on the 9TH. The demand Of
the blowers was an advance Of ten per cent
but compromise Of 81 per cent. was agreed
upon. The scale goes into effect immedi-
ately.
Rt. Rev. Thomas Vail, d. D., LII. d.,
Bishop Of Kansas, died at Byrn Mawr, Pa,
on the 9th, after two weeks illness.
On the 9th Mrs. Il. G. Cook and Mrs.
Samuel Abbey were In the act Of crossing
the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railway
track at Sandwich, Ill, when their buggy
was struck by an express train and thrown
considerable distance from the track
When picked up both ladies were alive, but
died In short time.
Charles Davis, aged only nineteen, but
one Of the boldest desperadoes In the Indian
Territory and the leader OF a noted band Of
horse and cattle thieves, was shot and
killed on the 9th near Fleetwood, 1T.
A freight train on the Rome g. Decatur
railroad was wrecked near Rome, Ca, on
the 9th. Fireman Sproule and a negro brake.
man were killed. Bob Btl, famous for his
many miraculous escapes in various other
railway accidents, wsv probably fatally
injured.
Lofts two-story restaurant at Winona,
L.. H.. A.