The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1890-01-22

! mail matter. In addition 3,022, 107 reg.
I istered pieces were handled. The ag'
gregate business Of the money order de.
! partment was S9,0O4,253. The Office re.
ceipts we're nearly $6,Oo0OOO.
! Captain Ritty of the steamer Saratoga,
from Havana, and Isaac Lomm, a pas.
senger, were arrested in New York on
the nth on charge of smuggling
$1,000 worth of diamonds into that port.
Peter Henderson, the florist scotsman,
is dead in Jersey City, N. ].
According to the report Of the secre-
tary of the International Union Of Ma
sons and Bricklayers the present mem
4 bership of the order is 5S,82S, an in
crease over last year of 1924 The
number OF unions is now 1917. The
number of employed members is put at
32,9s5 and the number Of unemployed 10
25,s37.
Representatives of the Steam Railroad
Mems Protective Union of North America
and the organization Of the Knights Of
Labor on the Vanderbilt system and
connecting lines met at Albany, N. y,
on the 18th to adopt articles of fedora
ton. The session was productive Of
results satisfactory to both organiza-
tions and the articles OF federation were
drawn up and signed by representatives
of both to complete the organization Of
railroad employees from ocean to ocean.
Jay Westinghouse, president OF the
Westinghouse Agricultural Works and
brother of George Westinghouse, the
inventor, died at his residence in Sche-
nectady. N. Y, on the nth, aged Atty
three years.
At Morrellville, Pa, on the 18th the
limited express on the Pennsylvania
railroad struck and killed Edward Gal
lagher, aged seventeen, Michael Gala
/ CHER, his brother, aged fifteen, and Mrs.
Kate Stockhouse, married sister, aged
twenty-five.
On the night OF the 18th burglars en-
tered the jewelry factory Of Mockridge
& Sons at Newark, N. j., blew the safe
open and got away with $500 worth Of
plunder.
The State asylum for the insane at
Worcester, Mass, was seriously damaged
by fire on the 18th. The roof of two OF
the wings was destroyed. All the In
mates we're removed in safety. The
fire was caused by the carelessness Of
an attache.
On the 18th an explosion Of molten
metal in the Etna rolling mill at New
Castle, Pa, fatally burned George e.
Cox and seriously injured two other
workmen.
The Locust Spring Reliance, Burn
side, Potts and Funnel collieries at
Shamolkin, Pa, operated by the Phila-
delphia and Reading Railroad Company,
shut down on the 18th throwing 1000
men out Of employment. Dullness in
the coal trade was tho cause,
Five Of the children OF William and
Mary Boyle, OF Fall River, Mass. all
lied recently in one week from pneu-
monia superinduced by la grippe, sss
At Pittsburgh on the 18th Alderman
W. II. Porter, convicted OF conspiracy
md blackmail, was sentenced TO eighteen
months in tho Western penitentiary and
to pay $500 fine. Constable Sheppard.
found guilty OF the same offense, was
sentenced TO fifteen months in the work.
house.
A Buffalo IN. W dispatch says that
George H. Pugsley, notorious swindlor,
whose fraudulent operations extended
over many OF the Eastern and Middle
States, has been captured at Goderich,
Ont. He was formerly located at Lock-
port, N. Y, where he began business as
herder of Shetland ponies and fancy
fowls. He defrauded many customers
whose orders he failed to fill but appro-
priated their money.
The New York weekly bank state
ment. issued on the 18th, shows the fol :
lowing changes: Reserve increase,
l,765, 425; loans increase, s3,214, 400;
specie increase, 81, 704, 200; legal tenders
increase, S1,430, 300: deposits increase,
$500, 200; circulation increase, $1,000.
The banks held s7,7s1, 1876 in excess OF
the twenty-five per cent rule.
At New York City on the 18th the jury
in the suit Of Caroline Cammerer against
Clemens Muller for 100000 damages
for breach Of promise Of marriage, re-
turned a verdict in favor Of the plaintiff
for Sl2, 900,
Mrs Lydia Bacon died at Sudbury,
Mass, on the 18th at the ago OF 1O2
years. Her ancestors we're noted for
their longevity. Her grandmother lived
TO the age Of 1oS.
Thomas Crehan, aged seventy, father
Of Oliver Doud Byron, the actor, fell
dead In a Justices court in New York
City on the 18th. He had been taken TO
court TO answer a charge OF habitual
drunkenness preferred by his son.
Hon. Frederick Chase, treasurer Of
Dartmouth College, probate Judge Of
Grafton County, N. H., and local his
torian OF note, died on the 10th Of infiu-