The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1890-04-09


railroad. A northbound freight train
struck the obstruction and was badly
wrecked. Three people were slightly
injured,
DIR, FREDERICK BURDETT MERRELL,
Chicago dentist who was married five
weeks ago to the daughter OF North
Side millionaire, has been sued for $685.
900 for breach of promise by Cora d.
Davis.
The entire plant Of the Fresno water
works at San Francisco has been sold to
the Municipal Investment Company, of
Chicago and London, the price being
S5OO,OOO. The water supply is derived
from eight wells which yield daily
5000, 900 gallons.
THE business failures occurring
throughout the country during the
seven days ended April number 20S,
as compared with 243 the previous
week. For the corresponding week OF
last year the figures were 222.
The liquor license at Rome, Ca, has
been placed at $1,000 per annum, the
entire sum to be paid in advance. Ten
dealers paid the fee while three went
out Of business.
AT the De Gabolda collection sale in
the American art galleries in New York
on the Sd, jewel casket presented to
Christopher Columbus by Ferdinand
and Isabella OF Spain was sold for 81, l25.
The relief fund for sufferers by the
tornado at Louisville, KY, now amounts
to about Sl35,OO0. There have been
about eight hundred applications for re-
lief Of losses of all kinds. For loss OF
furniture there are 472 applications,
twenty OF which are not in the city.
A SYNDICATE is being organized in
Boston, Mass, for the purpose OF build
ing twenty iron steamships to engage in
q general coastwise and foreign trade as
soon as the Farquhar tonnage bill is
passed by Congress.
The strike OF the switchmen on the
Pacific division OF the Union Pacific
was declared of on the Sd, the company
having acceded to the demands OF the
switchmen for ten per cent advance
in wages.
THE annual meeting Of the American
Society of Microscopists will be held in
Detroit August IL to 10. Louisville was
originally designated, but owing to the
recent calamity in that city other ar
rangements had to be made.
IL. NJ. MCKINLEY, OF the firm Of Aver,
Mckinley & Co., Of Philadelphia, has
purchased in Denver the Richtof herd,
100 head OF st. Lambert Jerseys, for
$40. 900 cash. The herd will be shipped
70 Pennsylvania.
AT Jefiersonville, Ind, on the 18th,
John Aldridge and w. NJ. Gleason, aged
sixteen, both employed in the car works,
quarreled and Aldridge hit Gleason with
piece OF iron, killing him. Aldridge
is in jail.
SEVENTY negroes from Halifax Coun-
ty, n. c., have arrived at Pittsburgh to
work in the coal mines of W. p. Rend
& Co. The negroes are to be paid from
81 TO $3.50 per day at the start The
, miners say there will be trouble II the
. new men work for less than the scale
rate.
Mrs. CARRIE YoUNG, aged forty years,
was found dead in her rooms, in Pater-
son, N. j., on the 4th. She was an in
valid and in kindling an oil fire upset
the stove and was fatally burned, dying
without making her condition known
The worst crevasse yet occurring on
tho Mississippi side Of the river was
made on the 4th by tho breaking Of the
leyeo at Catfish Point, ten miles below
Bolivar Landing. The bend, containing
some very valuable plantations, is com.
bletely submerged. A number Of cattle
we're drowned but all the residents es.
capped.
AN explosion occurred on the 4th in
the Hardison & Stewart Oil Company's
tunnel near San Paul, Cal Two men
were badly burned, one dying soon after.
While workmen were removing the
wreckage another explosion buried them
In the collapsed tunnel. Five were
taken out dead.
THE FIRE In the Cameron collery, ai
ShamolCin, Pa, is now beyond control,
and the entire mine, comprising twenty
, ave miles OF galleries, will have 10 be
flooded. Three creeks will be turn ID
/. into the mine, and 1t is estimated that
Il will take sixty days TO food II, and
nearly year TO repair the damage.
The loss is estimated at 500, 200.
Six revenue officers have recently
been ambushed and shot at by moon
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