The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1890-10-15
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Gathered from All Quarters
DOMESTIC.


Grande railroad was thrown from the
track on the 7th noar Sargent, Col.
One man was killed and several
wounded.
Ar Rosedale. near Kansas City, Mo-,
on the 7th, q robber entered the store oi
William Mann, when the store was full
OF customers and leveling revolver at
the proprietcr's head, ordered him to
hand over the money In the cash drawer
and safe. The request was complied
with, Mann handing over the cash, $3.50
in all The robber then escaped and
has not been captured. .''4''.'.'
THE committee on revision OF the con-
fession OF faith of the Presbyterian
church, appointed at the last General
Assembly, held their opening session at
Allegheny, Pa, on the 7th, and organized
by the election OF DR.. William G. Rob-
etts, president Of Lake Forest College,
Illinois, president and DR.. William s
Moore, OF Columbus, o., secretary. The
s6ssions will be held with closed doors
i TIE Comptroller OF the Currency has
authorized the following named Nation
u banks to begin business: The Ma
tional Bank OF Sioux City, Ia, capital
$1,000, 900; the American National Bank
ofSalt Lake City, Utah, capital $780,
900; the First National Bank OF Vienna,
H., capital $4,000. .l i..''D
The first pension certificate, number
5s2, under the act of June 81 last, was
issued on the Sth to George &. Dyer,
Company +, Fiity-ninth Ohio volunteers,
at $40 per month from July Q, 1880.
NATHAN WnLET, a farmer living near
Norfolk, CAL, has been arrested on q
charge Of murder, he having killed Il
B. Woodward in Anderson County,
Texas, seventeen years ago.
ABOUT one hundred and thirty shoe
manufacturers, representing all parts Of
the country, met at New York on the
sth and decided that there must be an
advance in the price Of shoes. This
decision was reached 6ply after long
discussion. 1t was said that the advance
YSuld be from twenty-five to fifty cents
q pair.
AT Normandie, Ga, J. Q. Forsythe,
treasurer OF the Normandie Lumber
Company, was shot and killed by an un-
known person on the 7th. The assassin
approached the house In his bare feet
and putting the muzzle Of gun against
the parlor window shot Forsythe rs he
sat inside.
WILLIAM SPRAGUE, JR., grandson Of
Salmon P. Chase and only son Of ex-
Governor Sprague, Of Rhode Island,
committed suicide at Seattle, Wash, on
the sth by inhaling chloroform. De-
ceased was in the employ Of the Seattle
Journal Dependency prompted the
suicide.
THE Acting Indian Commissioner has
Issued modification Of the circular Of
March, 1Set, in regard TO the removal OF
stock from Oklahoma, extending the
time for the removal 10 November /.
A BATTERY OF boilers in the Ducey
Lumber Company's sawmill at Muske-
gon, Mich. exploded on the sth, wreck
ing the mill and injuring six mon, one
fatally. The cause OF the explosion was
low water.
DR. CHARLES I. MCDONALD. who had
charge Of the execution OF Kemmler,
sent his official report to Governor Hill
on the sth. DIR. Mcdonald is Of the
opinion that Kemmler's death was in
Simultaneous, and argues that death by
electricity is far moro humane than by
hanging.
The six-story buildings Nos. 257 and
$50 State street, Chicago, were gutted
by fire on tho 7th, causing a total loss
OF $3.50, ,00O
The eighty-frst annual meeting OF
the American Board OF Foreign Mis-.
sions opened at Minneapolis, Mimi, on
the sth. All missions were reported
in fourishing condition. Tho whole
number OF church members received
since the board began work, eighty-one
years ago, is ll4,953.
THE special committee OF the Terro
Haute lind city council, which has
been investigating the books and 40
counts Of excity Treasurer Fitzpatrick,
has reported . total shortage Of SIS, 522
Fitzpatrick has turned over all his. real
estSte TO his bondsmen. but It win fall
$500 short Of paying his deficit IN
JosEPu 7. CAPPLE and his three
brotherA all four men living at Trenton,
". j., say they have received informa-
tion leading them 10 believe they arc
heirs 10 tho estats OF James Wood, do.
ceased, Of England, who left property
worth $4,000, 900. 4, rt,arE
THE Manufscturers' Record reports
the closing Of 9 coptract recently for
the construction Of large steel works
including three furnaceS rolling mifi.
etc, atTredaas, Calhoun County Ala.
70 employ, whoa completed. over 5000
hands, . large tin plate mill TO be built
at bayernake, Va; $500, 900 rolling
mill at Cardiff. Tenn; and si,loO, 900
company 10 establish manufacturing
enterprises at Roanoke, Va SOD
The steamship Kansas, which arrived
at Boston from Liverpool on the 9th, re-
ports that on October 5 She passed an
iceberg90o feet high and 600 feet long.
The surveys Of the Pennsylvania ship
canal ARE practically finished and the
commission appointed by the Legisla-
ture will ask the State TO complete the
canal. The commission hnd the scheme
feasible and favor a route along the
Beaver river TO Lake Eric. ,L94
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