The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1890-11-12

AT Doylestown,, 4, Pa, on the 9th two
men named Daniel Taylor arl Samuel
Riegel were instantly killed and Will
ian Petit seriously injured by the
crashing OF pier at the Swartley -four
mills. ts
NEARLY forty buildings, including
the entire business portion OF Truckee,
CAL, were destroyed by fire on the
9th, which started in Stolls brewery,
and is believed to be of :noendiary
origin.
The new iron steamship Howard
Cassard, +" constructed on the Fryer plan
for the Arrow Steamship Company, was
successfully launched at Locust Point
on the 9th. 1t is claimed that this ves-
sci is capable OF making thirty-hye
miles an hour and will .revolutionize
shipbuilding; also that she is fire proof
and unsuitable.
A FIRE at Philadelphia on the 9th
destroyed the Philadelphia Cooperage
Company's building on otsego street, a
soap factory and spice mill owned by
p. c. Thompson, and storage ware
house and contents owned by the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company, entailing
an aggregate loss Of $1S5, 900.
The International Brotherhood OF
Railway Employees has been organized
at Boston. The announced object is
primarily to secure legislation and 1t is
not intended to infringe upon the terri
tory OF the distinctively trades brother
hoods, such as engineers, firemen and
brakemen.
THE Comptroller of the Currency has
declared first dividend Of twenty per
cent in favor Of the creditors OF the
Gloucester City IN. J.) National Bank
on claims proved amounting to S27 45e.
The bank failed May 1, 1900
THE Treasury Depar tment is issuing
new one dollar notes at the rate Of 1000
q day. This issue will continue until
the stringency in the market for small
notes is overcome.
On the 7th the bursting Of boiler In
Baker Bros. cotton gin at Dyersburg,
Tenn, killed two negroes and wrecked
the gin.
By the accidental explosion Of she'll
in a casemate at Fort Wadsworth, S. l.,
on the 7th, one workman was killed and
four others injured.
BUSINESS failures occurring through.
out tho country during the seven days
ended November number 215, as COM
pared with 21s the previous week. For
the corresponding week of last year the
figures were 267.
A FmE broke out on the 7th in the
store OF II. Sour & Co., at Shreveport,
La, and before 1t could be controlled
destroyed that and several adjacent
buildings, entailing loss of SS5O,O00.
Fully insured.
DURING the two days stay in Phils-
delphia OF Dillon and 0'Brien, the Irish
Nationalist leaders, they collected over
SIG, 900 for the cause.
THE Omaha Pullman sleeper Sarma-
tia, from Minneapolis, was thrown from
q trestle at Duluth, Mimi, on the 7th
and, falling twenty feet, lighted on its
side in three feot OF water. The car is
complete wreck. Twelve persons went
down with tho car and all were more or
less bruised
COLONEL PRICE, who was shot few
days ago by Judge Higgins, died at Sc
dalia, Mo-, on the 7th. Higgins veas
released on SO, 600 bonds. His plea
will be self-defense.
WHILE Mrs A. +. Nickerson, Of Ban
gor, Me-, was out shooting with her hus-
band few days ago, she was instantly
killed by the accidental discharge OF
her rife.
MRs. LILLE HMDB URGm, wife OF a
prominent insurance agent on the 7th
threw herself from the third story win
dow OF her residence in Now York and
was instantly killed. She was insane
from long illness
JAMES A. LAYTON, aged eighty-one
years, was remanded to Jail at San
Antonio, Tex, on the 7th in default Of
bail for counterfeiting. Layton is a
historical character and is perhaps the
Oldest counterfeiter in America. His
first conviction for the offense was in
1873, for which he served two years.
The Mutual Fire Insurance Company
OF Chicago made a general assignment
in the Cook County Court on the 7th.
The liabilities amount to Sj7,G04 and
the nominal assets are placed at sls7, 06O
A SLEEPING car on the north-bound
limited express on the Cincinnati South
ern railroad was run into by a Louis
vile &c Nashville freight train at Ju nc
tion City on the 7th. The tracks OF the
two roads cross each other at this point
The sleeper was sh altered to fragments
and seven persons were more or less in.
jured, among them being B. n. Austin,
general passenger agent of the North
ern Pacific road at St Paul, and w. T.
Hardee, general freight agent OF the
Savannah, Florida & Western road
Two Japanese students OF the Michi-
gan university have created quite a SEN
sation by clipping with two American
girls from Ann Arbor. The Japs are
both OF noble families, and graduates OF
the law department The girls are
young, handsome and Of good families
The elopers we're traced to Windsor,
Cam, where all trace OF them was lost.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
GOVERNOR GEORGE L. SHoUP on the
ith took the oath Of Office and issued