The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1890-12-24

The Pottstown (Pa.) Iron Company
has posted notices OF reduction OF
twenty-five cents per ton in the wages
Of puddlers and proportionste reduc-
ton in the wages Of all employees in its
plate and puddle department The new
rate goes into effect December 90.
NELSON c. JENNINGS, cashier Of the
Chicago branch of the Sunday Creek
Coal Company has absconded with
$3.50 belonging to the corporation.
Speculation in stocks is supposed to be
the cause OF the defalcation.
In Joint session OF the Idaho Legisla-
ture on the 18th, Governor Shoup, w.
J. Mcconnell and Fred 7. Dubois we're
elected United States Senators, Shoup
and Mcconnell with short terms ending
March 4, 1891, and March 4, 1898. Du-
bois gets full term, six years from
March next
THE residence Of Senator German at
Laurel, Hill, Md, burned on the night
of the 10th. The Senator's wife and
daughter and other members of the
house escaped in their night clothes
Loss, $4,000.
THE total collections OF internal
revenue for the first five months Of tho
, current fiscal year were S69, 40, an
increase of 81, 725, $50 as compared with
the collections for the corresponding
period Of the last fiscal year.
FREDERICK ALBREcHT. OF the Chicago
firm OF Albrecht & Co., furniture manu-
facturers, has disappeared and it is
charged that he has taken with him
about $4,000 in cash and notes. He
left the factory few days ago telling
the foreman he was going to the bank
to draw money with which to pay the
men, who, it seems, had not received
any wages for nearly three weeks. This
was the last seen OF him.
THE Thomson-Houston Electric Com.
pany, Of Boston, has sold since last
February $500, 900 worth OF securities,
and its net earnings this year will be at
least $40 900, 900.
THE failure OF Sultsbach, Wenigo &
Rotker, silk manufacturers OF College
Point, N Y, is announced. Liabilities
estimated at sl5O,OO0, and nominal as.
sets in excess of that amount
THE liabilities OF s. A. Koan & Co.,
the Chicago bankers, whose failure was
announced q few days ago, are estimated
at S400, 900. II is said the assets will not
amount to one-fourth Of the liabilities.
President Kean and George Warner, OF
the defunct bank, were arrested on the
18th and placed under heavy bonds on
tho charge Of receiving deposits when
they know the institution to be insolv.
ent
AT St Louis on the 18th Miss Mabel
Ismond was fatally shot by her sister.
in.law, Mrs. II. A. Ismond, who mistook
her for burglar.
AT Fresno, CAL, on tho 18th DR.. f. o.
Vincent called at tho residence OF his
wife, from whom no had recently sepa-
rated, and shot her dead. le was ar
rested and taken to Jail where he fell
into Inconsistencies and soon died,
having apparently taken poison.
THE White Star steamer Majestic,
which arrived at New York from Liver.
pool on the 18th, brought several mil.
lion dollars in gold to New York bank
ers, over 1900 passengers and 1000
sacks OF mail.
T. CURRIER & Sons hve-story brick
shoe mandatory at Havcrhill, Mass,
was gutted by fire on the 18th, causing
a loss OF $50, 900, and throwing 500 hands
out OF employment
MAYOR GLEASON, OF Long Island City,
n Y, has been indicted on the charge
Df being interested in the pool rooms
recently opened in that city.
PRESIDENT HARRISON Is not satisfied
with the sufliciency OF the financial
guarant OF the Worlds Fair directors
and will defer issuing his proclamation
announcing the fair to the world until
the finances necessary for Its complete
success are assured.
ELMER SHARKEY and Henry Popp
were hanged in the Ohio penitentiary
on the 18th. The former beat his aged
mother to death with a maui at his
home in Preble County in January, 1889.
The latter killed saloon.keepor at
Canton. Isaac Smith, who was to have
been hung at the same time, was res
pited by Governor Campbell. This is
the eighth time Smith has been respited
since his conviction.
AT Batavia, N. Y, on the 18th, Mrs.
Dimbler, widow aged eighty.one, liv-
ing alone, was filing a lamp on tho
stove hearth when the oil ignited. In
an instant she was enveloped In flames
and fatally burned. Mr.. and Mrs. Dor
sey, who came to her assistance. we're
terribly burned in their efforts to extin.