The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1890-10-29
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Gathered from All Quarters.
DOMESTIC.

AT meeting Of the local board OF di
-ectors OF the Worlds Fair on the 22d
Z was ordered that the work of fillinJ
md piling the lake front should begiI
Is soon as contracts can be let Abou
'ixty acres Of the submerged lands will
be used. The cost Of the work is esti
mated at 100000.
CHARLES M. BURTIs and Oscar e
Ioag, formerly in the employ Of Henry
lews & Co., bankers, we're arraignet
n the Tombs police court at New Yorl
IN the 22d charged with the theft O.
lbout $1,000 worth Of postage stamps
3urtis, who was superintendent Of the
mailing department. confessed and wa.
leld for trial Hoag was discharged.
HENRY w. SAGE has given an addi
ional 100000 to Cornell University
making his gifts to this institution ag'
yregate more than S1,O0O,000. Cornell
now has 1874 students.
A GRAND church congress of the Uni.
yersalists of the United States opened
1t Rochester, N. Y. on the 22d. Nearly
overy State in the Union was represented.
The congress is called for the discussion
important questions relating to re-
igion, morals and education.
THOMAS BOWER, proprietor Of hotel
1t Wichita, Kan, suicided on the 22d
" shooting himself In letter found
n his room he stated that he had been
lifted twice and that was enough for
lim.
The monument to commemorate the
leroic officers and men OF the United
states navy who perished in the unfor-
runate Jeanette Arctic expedition will
no unveiled on the grounds Of the Naval
academy at Annapolis, Nd, October 80.
NEAR Litchfeld, Mimi, on the 22d
he boiler OF a thresher engine burst,
;illing Dennis Kelly, aged twelve, and
njuring twelve persons, one fatally.
A soUTH-BoUND passenger train on
he Chattanooga, Rome & Columbus
'ailroad dashed into q covered wagon at
crossing near Chickamauga on the
I'd. In the wagon were j. w. jenkins,
1is wife and baby, and Mrs. James
Bowman, all OF whom were instantly
dlled.
The remains Of another victim OF the
syracuse IN. Y hotel fire, supposed to
5e the body Of Mary Padden, domes-
JIG, have been found. This increases
she number TO six
AN incendiary fire at York, Pa, on
.he 22d destroyed the carpenter shop OF
the Pennsylvania Agricultural Works,
owned by the A. B. Farquhar Company,
limited, and four brick dwellings. The
loss exceeds S50,000
THE Davis-Chambers white lead works
in Pittsburgh we're damaged by FIRE on
the 22d to the extent Of $500 Two
aremen were seriously hurt by falling
walls.
AT Providence, R. l., on the 22d
Jerome Sweet was convicted Of the MUIR
der Of his wife by saturating her body
with kerosene and firing it, and was SEN
fenced to prison for life.
FRANK HoULA, OF Milwaukee, Wis, q
contracting carpenter, has disappeared,
leaving sub-contractors in the lurch to
the amount Of $4,000.
THE SEVENTEEN general council OF the
Seventh Day Baptists Of the United
States was opened in Chicago on the 22d.
JOHN HOPE, who was implicated in
the robbery OF the Manhattan Savings
Bank with his father, Jimmie Hope, the
famous bank robber, was liberated from
Sing Sing prison on the 22d upon par
Ion from Governor Hill. Hope received
A sentence of twenty years by Judge
Cowing in July, 1879. He served nine
years, eight months and twenty days
REPoRTs made at the recent annual
national convention OF Phi Gamma Delta
n indianapolis, Ind, show that the
fraternity has about forty-Hve chapters
row and is strongest in New York,
Pennsylvania Ohio, Indiana Illinois
and Kansas
THE total population Of Florida, as
announced by the Census Bureau, is $780,.
i45, an increase Of 120,9
THE Treasury Departments monthly
tatement Of foreign commerce places
he value Of merchandise imports dur
ng September past at s75,9l5, 100,
'gainst s63,os5, s4S during September,
$50.
The annual convention OF the Ameri-
an Inter-seminary Missionary Alliance
pened In Allegheny City. Pa, on the
Sd. One hundred and fifty delegates
sere present
AT the barge ONCE in New York on
ne Esd there we're 107 Mormons landed
rom the steamer Wisconsin. An in
fectual effort was made TO detain
hem.
The cornerstone OF the National
Vomen's Christian Temperance Union
'uilding In Chicago will be laid Novem-
or /.
The bronze statue Of Major General
'tark, the hero Of the battle OF Bon
ington, was unveiled in the State
iouse yard at Concord, N. H., on the
I'd.
IMPORTS for the twelve months up to
eptember 80 past were valued at Ssia,-
1914, and exports aggregated In value
500, 18l, ,45s.
On the ED William Galow, a German
'aborer, Of Oshkosh, Wis, killed his
'ife and then committed suicide. Do
nestle infelicity was the cause. Both
rere fifty years old and leave eight
hildren.
IT was reported on the 2Sd that trouble
= brewing among the employees of the
tackey railroad system. An adjust
lent Of the wage scale is demanded.
The funeral Of the late Alfred B.
'lullett took place In Washington on