The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1890-06-04

VT That the total Liabilities OF the com.
are about $54, 900; assets $40 to $50.
toe annual session Of the Ameri-
..aptist Educational Society in Chi
| cago on the 2Sth, announcement was
made that the society had raised the
$40O, 200 necessary to supplement- the
$500, 900 given by Mr.. Rockefeller, Of
Cleveland, for Baptist university in
Chicago.
The Andersonville prison stockade
has been purchased by the Georgia En-
campment G. A. R., acting for the ma
tional body.
AT Buckhannon w. Va, the other
day, sawmill boiler exploded, killing
Russell Hyre, fatally injuring Floyd
Wilson and slightly injuring several
| others.
JOHN S. WADswoRTH, of Erie, Pa,
was on the Ssth elected Grand Comman-
der Of the Grand Commandery, Knights
Templar, Of Pennsylvania. Erie was
selected as the place for holding the
next annual conclave.
BY the breaking Of rope in the Daily
mine, near Salt Lake City, Utah, on the
2Sth, Il. b. Greenleaf, James Wheeler
and Isaac Smell were precipitated 400
feet down a shaft and instantly killed.
In the United States Court at New
York on the 2sth, the jury in the case Of
P. ]. Claasen, on trial for appropriating
funds of the Sixth National Bank
while its president returned verdict
of guilty. A motion for new trial was
entered and sentence was deferred.
THE boycott recently instituted by
the Farmers Alliance against the busi-
ness men Of Warren, Ind, has been de-
clared at an end, and now all interests
are harmonious.
In the case Of Francis M. Charleton
against the Chicago Gas Trust, Judge
, Collins on the 2Sth sustained the bill OF
the plaintiff for receiver for the trust,
and enjoined the defendant and the four
gas companies composing it from trans
ferring any stock, money or assets to
any person.
MANSFIELD KING, the man who robbed
President Moffatt, Of the Denver (Col.)
bank, Of S21, 900, has made proposition
in writing to the bank officials to return
the money and pay all the expense they
have incurred in the matter providing
they agree not to prosecute him.
THE Reading Company's tunnel col
liery at Ashland, Pa, has resumed work,
giving employment to 800 men and boys.
All collieries Of the Reading Company
will now work nine hours day.
HENRY JACKSON and Thomas Thomas,
undergoing sentence Of thirty years in
the New Jersey penitentiary for arson,
escaped from that institution on the
2Sth. While most Of the keepers were in
attendance at the night school for con-
Victs these two sandbagged Doorkeeper
Charles Parker and bound and gagged
him, robbing him Of $500 which he had
on his person, and in clothes belonging
to deputy keepers made good their es-
cape.
THE reunion Of the blue and the gray
at Vicksburg, Miss, on the 2Sth was
complete success, thousands Of people
being in attendance. In the parade the
Grand Army held the post Of honor, fol-
lowed by the Confederate veterans.
Speeches we're made by Governor Stone
OF Mississippi, aid others.
]. G. TARBELL, Of Pittsburgh, has en-
tered suit against the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company for $50, 900 damages
for the death Of his wife and two chill
dren, who we're on the day express the
morning Of the Johnstown flood.
A SUIT has been begun in the Federal
Court at Jackson, Miss, by Levy &c Ford
against the Delta and Pine Land Com
pany to settle the title of 100000 acres
OF land. Over dozen OF the best law
yers in the State are engaged. The
lands are worth millions Of dollars.
CHARLES SnvERMAN, the first 'orig-
inal package" man in Pennsylvania,
who was arrested at Leechburg a few
days ago, has petitioned the United
States District Court at P ittsburgh for
writ Of hsbeas corpus, cl aiming his ar
rest was In violation of and without
authority of law.
THE Laclede -four mills at st. Louis
we're destroyed by fire on the goth ult,
entailing loss Of $3.50 The prop
erty is owned by Keller Bros, and was
fully insured. t,tfEE AfFtfb .
THE Jefferson City (Mo.) grand jury
has returned three indictments against
Ed. T, Noland, ex-State Treasurer Of
Missouri. Two indictments charge him
with embezzlement and third with
lending $40 900 Of the States funds TO J.
S. Fleming, one OF his bondsmen.
AT st. Paul, Mimi, on the Goth ult
Gerhart Thaden, one Of the three princi-
pals In the celebrated real estate for
gerry case, was sentenced to the peniten-
tiary for seven years. Partello, SEN
fenced last March, received eight years
and FIVE months. ]. b. Tall, the third
Of the trio, received sentence of eight
years.
THE engine and one coach of passen-
ger train went through an open draw
bridge at Oakland, CAL, on the 30th ult.
At least twenty-five persons we're either
killed or drowned, and many others in
iured. The accident was caused by the
carelessness Of the bridge tender.
The Texas Spring palace, at Fort
Worth, was burned on the SOth ult.,
while an entertainment was in progress.
Russell B. Harrison, the Presidents
son, was among the guests. Two per-
sons were killed and fifteen or twenty
injured.
AT least dozen persons at Smithfeld,
ILL.,, were bitten recently by supposed