The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1890-07-02

important business. President William
Weihe was reelected. Stephen Madden
was elected to succeed William Martin
as secretary. 1t was decided to hold the
next convention in Allegheny.
THE committee OF wholesale liquor
dealers who conferred with the presi-
dent of the whisky trust reported to the
dealers on the 25th that the conference
was not satisfactory. The dealers there
fore appointed committee to canvass
the trade for subscriptions for erecting
distillery.
IN the Federal Court at Chicago on the
25th Judge Blodgett rendered decision
In the case OF the United States against
certain executive officers OF the Michi-
gan Central railroad for violating the
interstate commerce law in carrying
grain from New York at cut rates.
Messrs. Nichols and Somers were found
not guilty and were discharged, and A.
W. Street, formerly assistant general
freight agent, was fined SO, 900 and given
sixty days In which to pay his fine.
By tho fall Of scafiolding at St. Louis
on the 25th Ave workmen were precipi-
tated to the cellar. All were severely
injured, though none fatally.
THE seceders from the order Of Rail-
way Conductors have organized an in
dependent order and have chosen Q. s.;
Wheaton grand conductor. A meeting.
will be held in New York July IS. The
trouble grows out Of the elimination Of
the non-striking clause In the constitu-
tion. .. d.
THOMAS KELLAR, warden OF the Ar
kansas penitentiary, whipped James
Fitzgerald, convict at Oracle camp, in
Jefferson County. 30 severely few days
ago that he died Of his injuries Kellar
escaped. A reward OF $500 has been
offered by the Governor for his arrest.
The Secretary OF the Interior has re-
ceived telegram stating that the Pot
tawatommie Indians in the Indian Ter
ritory, in council on the Goth, signed
the agreement with the Cherokee oom-
mission, ceding TO the government the
surplus lands Of the reservation.
OK the Goth the north-bound train on
the Ohio River railroad struck and in
gtantly killed Charles and James May,
both children under ten years Of age.
The little follows were playing on the
track near Point Pleasant, w. Va,
while their father, who Is well-to-do
farmer, was at work in the field near by.
THE Attorney General has ordered
District Attorney Hay, Of Minneapolis,
MINI, 10 begin Immediately the prose-
eution for conspiracy to defraud Of the
three enumerators OF census who have
been accused OF making false returns Of
the population Of Minneapolis.
LUcrEN w. SPEBRY, formerly one Of
New Haven's most prominent citizens,
suicided on the Goth by shooting him
self. He was seventy years old and had
served the city as mayor and represented
IL in the Legislature.
AT Jackson, Miss, on the Goth ex-
State Treasurer Hemingway was found
guilty Of embezzlement by the jury.
The court overruled the motion for a
new trial and septsnced him to hvo
years Imprisonment
AT orbisonia, Pa, on tho Goth Mrs.
Adam Wise tainted while filling a lamp,
dropping the oil can on q stove. She
and little son who was standing at
her side were drenched with the burn
ing oil and fatally burned.
AT Manchester, VT, on the Goth
Charles Seymour struck his wife and
five-year-old son and Charles Harding
with fatiroR. He then cut his own
throat and stabbed himself in the abdo-
men. Seymour and Harding can not
live and the others are in o critical con-
dition. -
EXECUTIONS 10 the amount OF SOL, 900
were issued on the Goth against the
Philadelphia hrm OF John ]. GlaEier,
Bros. & Co., manufacturers OF hosiery.
AT Uniontown, Pa, on the 9eth Pay
master Atkinson, Of the Wynn Coke
Works, was seated alone in his office
counting the money to pay the en-
ployes, and had just placed 81, 200 in en-
yelopes. when suddenly . masked man
covered him with revolver and ordered
him 10 throw up his hands Atkinson
run out OF the Office and gave an alarm,
and the robber seized the money and
fed. The yard boss hit tho thief with q
stone, causing him to drop his hat and
part Of the money. He was recognized
as Perry Donaldson, a former employe
OF the company.
THE Cornell University crew won
their race on the 2eth with the Univer-
sity oiPonnsylvania crew by six lengths,
over three-mile course, in the fast
time OF fourteen minutes and forty-flye
seconds.
NINE Indians we're on the Goth gradu-
ated from the Government Indian school
at Haskell, Kan. The instrumental
music was furnished by the Indian band,
and there we're several vocal selections
by the pupils. The salutatory was de-
livered by Frank Eagle, Ponca.
OK the 26th DIR. George Langfitt, Of
Bellevue, Pa, while insane from tho
excessive use OF liquor and opiates,
jumped from the third story window Of
his residence and was instantly killed.
lie was one OF the best known physicians
In Western Pennsylvania.
THE strike OF the Philadelphia car
penters, which has been in progress
since May l, is virtually at an end, and
the men who have been holding out for
thirty-hye cents an hour will take work