The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1890-10-01


Ex-President r. b. Hayes, president OF
the Congress, responded in brief ad-
dress which was warmly applauded.
A SUIT for Ssl6, 345 was begun at Phil
adelphia on the 25th against the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company by Louis j.
Levick under the anti-discrimination
law Of 1883. 1t is claimed that the COM
pany charged Levick thirteen cents o
barrel more for oil shipped from the
Pennsylvania oil regions to the seaboard
than it charged rival shipper, under
stood in this case to be the Standard
Oil Company.
MRS. j. f. HEADIFIN, mother-in-law
Of Mike Kelly, manager Of tho Boston
Players League team, committed sui
eide at Paterson, N. j., on the 25th by
jumping from the Market street bridge
into the river. She had been i'll from
malaria for some time, and 1t is be-
lieved was mentally affected by the
large quantities Of quinine she had
taken.
AT Philadelphia on the 25th John
New suicided by shooting himself as he
stood over the body Of his dead wife, .
few hours previous to the time set for
the funeral He was crazed with grief
over his loss ....
w. H. ScHRIEBEB, formerly book
keeper OF the First National Bank OF
Columbus, Ind, who on November 2s,
1883, stole about $500, 900 in cash and se-
curities from the vaults Of the bank and
fed to Canada, visited Detroit, Mich,
on the Goth and was arrested by de-
tective who has been on his track for
two years.
The Capital Base Ball Park at Wash
ington has been purchased as site
for the new Government Printing Office
at cost OF s243, ITS.
THE House Library Committee has
authorized q favorable report on the bill
appropriating $4,000 for the purchase
Of the manuscript papers and corre-
spondence Of Thomas Jefferson, now in
possession of his descendants.
DURING the seven days ended Septem-
ber 90 the number OF business failures
occurring throughout the country were
219, as compared with 100 the previous
week. For the corresponding week Of
last year the figures were 192.
The j. r. Davis Lumber Company's
plant at Phillips, Wis, was destroyed
by Hre on the 26th, entailing loss Of
several hundred thousand dollars
THE act to discontinue the coinage Of
three-dollar and one-dollar gold pieces
and the three-cent nickel piece has been
approved by the President. -.
The Knights Of Labor and the Ma
tional Progressive Union Of the coke
regions have 'amalgamated and will
hereafter be known as District No.
United Mine Workers The coalition
OF these two mining crafts organiza-
tions means combination Of about
20, 900 members.
SEARCH OF the home Of Joseph Kee-
ner, who was arrested at Pittsburgh re-
Gently for counterfeiting, revealed
veritable mint There was magnih-
cent electric battery for silver and gold
plating, besides table, worn and
marked by years use, for cooling hot
dimes, quarters, nickels and dollars.
The heavy dollar plates we're perfect
THE cotton mill OF A. T. Pierce, at
Norton, Mass, was burned on the 26th,
together with storehouse and two
story tenement house. Loss, $4,000.
The main building was erected in 1910
for the manufacture OF cotton cloth, and
was one Of tho first cotton mills in
Massachusetts.
The entire edition OF the Cincinnati
Weekly Volksireund was seized by the
postal authorities at that city on the
Goth, on account OF containing an ad.
vertisement OF the Louisiana lottery.
Hon. s. j. RANDALL, who died last
April, failed to execute will, and on
the Goth letters OF administration were
granted to his widow, Fanny w. Ran
dali. The entire estate left by deceased
is valued at SIS, 900 and consists entirely
OF personal effects.
At meeting OF the prominent brew
ers OF Pittsburgh and Allegheny held on
the Goth 1t was decided TO form trust
The business OF the concern will be con-
Quoted on the same plan as that Of
similar association in st. Louis.
THE passenger conductors OF the Chi
cago & Northwestern railroad on the
Goth presented demand TO the manage
ment for an increase in salaries Of from
IS TO SIS per month. II Is thought an
increase will be granted, though not TO
the extent asked. ......
THE total purchases Of silver by the
Treasury Department up 10 October I,
under the new law, was 1871, 900 ounces
A PECULIAR distomper has broken out
among the, horses in Manchester N
H., which battles the veterinarians II
begins in slight lameness and culmj-
mates In swollen limbs and running
sores.