The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1890-02-05
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commissioners for wrongful detention.
Miss Bisland, who has made trip
around the globe in the interest of the
Cosmopolitan Magazine, having left New
York on the same day as Nellie Bly, but
going in the opposite direction to that
lady, arrived at the starting point on
the SOth ult. on the steamship Bothnia.
Her time was 761S days.
The Lenox Hill Bank, of New York,
suspended payment on the SOth ult. The
failure was caused by the closing of the
Sixth National by the bank examiner.
The knowledge of the relationship be-
tween the two institutions caused run
on the Lenox which it was unable to
meet.
D. B. Merrill, proprietor of four -four
mills at Kalamazoo, Mich, valued at
100000, has given an option to an En-
glish syndicate for the purchase Of the
property.
George William Curtiss has been
chosen chancellor of the University OF
New York.
Ann Devine, 105 years old, was in a
Newark IN. W court on the 3Oth ult.,
charging the theft of sSOO-her all. She
says she is relative OF Daniel 0'Con-
nell.
On the Slst ult. train was derailed
near Lancaster, N. H., and Engineer L.
N. Crouch was crushed to death.
Counsel for Thomas B. Kerr and James
A. Richmond, indicted for bribery in
connection with the Broadway surface
railroad franchise, appeared before Re-
corder Smythe at New York on the 31st
ult and moved for the dismissal OF the
indictments. District Attorney Fellows
did not oppose the motion and the Re-
corder took the papers.
An English syndicate is said to be
negotiating for the purchase of all the
principal sash and door factories in the
country. Options have already been
secured on about thirty-hve different
plants, for which the syndicate will pay
between twenty and twenty-five mil
lions Of dollars.
David Alexander, the young man who
recently attempted to assassinate Bishop
Whitaker at Philadelphia, pleaded guilty
in court on the 31st ult DR.. Butcher, OF
the county prison, testified that Alex
ander was insane on prohibition. Sem
tence was deferred.
Edward Scully and wife were arrested
at Oneida, n. Y, on the 3lst ult. on
charge Of numbering Mrs. Scully's
father so they would not have to sup
port him.
At New Brighton, Pa, on the 31stult.
Frank B. Wilson and Benjamin Town
send-the latter son Of Congressman
Q. G. Townsend-were engaged in hand
ling 3s-caliber revolver at the Town
send residence, when it exploded in the
hands of the last mentioned young man,
and the bullet entered the forehead OF
Wilson, instantly killing him. The
boys were sixteen years Of age.
At New York City on the 3lst ult
Florence Donoghue, the florist who was
convicted of manslaughter in stabbing
TO death his landlord, Peter Reynolds,
last July. was sentenced TO State prison
for twenty years.
Governors Island will soon replace
Castle Garden, New York, as the land
ing place Of immigrants arriving in
this country at the port of New York.
A fire at Boston, Mass, on the I'd de-
stroycd the Sears building, an elegant
five-story marble structure, and one of
the finest business blocks in the city. 1t
was valued at S2O0,OOO and insured for
$4,000. The building was occupied by
banking and other concerns and yielded
a yearly rental Of $4,000.
At a recent meeting the bricklayers Of
Philadelphia decided to demand an in
crease OF twenty per cent. in wages next
season. The proposal to demand the
eight-hour day was rejected as mad VISA
BILE.
Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler has resigned
the pastorate Of Lafayette Avenue Pres
byterian church Of Brooklyn, N. Y,
which he has filed for thirty years.
Declining strength and failing powers
are the reasons given for his retirement.
DIR. Cuyler is sixty-nine years old, and
his fame as a writer and orator is world
wide.
Alfred Brown, professor OF medi-
cine" at West Chester, Pa, was rece. tly
fined seventy dollars and sentenced to
three years imprisonment for practic-
ing medicine without diploma and
using incantations and "hoodoo" meth
DDS to effect cures.
A fire at Danbury, Conn, on the I'd
destroyed Hull & Rogers furniture
store and number Of buildings adjoin-
ing, causing loss Of nearly $500, 900.
Peter Wise, the labor leader Of Scott
dale, Pa, jointly charged with Master
Workman Powderly with conspiracy, by
Hon. Edward Callaghan, was given a
hearing at Greensburg Pa, on the LIST
and bound over 10 court in the sum OF
$500.
WEST AND SOUTH.