The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1890-12-17

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the jury in the case OF Joseph f. Young,
OF Philadelphia, on trial for the murder
OF his wife in hotel at Atlantic City by
shooting her on the discovery OF what
he believed to be convincing evidence
OF her unfaithfulness, returned verdict
OF not guilty after being out nearly
twenty-four hours.
A TERRIBLE tragedy took place at the
Jennie Lind mines, twelve miles north
Of Fort Smith, Ark, on the 11th.
Charles Joplin was charged by DR..
Stewart with having betrayed Lou
Miller, the daughter Of John Miller.
Maddened by the outcry against him,
Joplin then armed himself and seeking
his victims one after another shot and
killed John Miller, Mrs. John Miller,
Lou Miller, the daughter; DR.. Stewart
and man whom he met on the prairie
five persons in all. He then shot and
killed himself
AT Rockport, Ind, on the 18th Miss
Anna Brown assaulted Miss Bette Love
with an improvised slungshot, intiicting
injuries that will probably prove fatal.
Jealousy over a lover was the cause Of
the trouble.
THE Peninsular & Oriental Steamship
Company's mail steamer Nepaul
stranded at the Plymouth breakwater
during dense fog on the night OF the
10th. The passengers we're landed by a
tug which went out to the vessels re-
lief. The vessel sank in few hours.
By the fall OF scaffold at New
Duluth, MINI, on the 11th four carpen-
ters were precipitated thirty feet One
was fatally and the others seriously in
jured.
THE Federation OF Labor in session
at Detroit on the 18th reelected Samuel
Gompers as president and selected Birm-
ingham, Ala, as the place for holding
the next convention.
HoN. T. w. PALMER president OF the
Worlds Fair Commission, waited on
President Harrison on the 18th and sub
mitted to him documents showing that
the Worlds Fair had reached the point
in organization that proclamation re-
questing foreign countries to participate
in it should be issued.
THE Postmaster General has issued
an order intended TO exclude from
United States mails circulars and adver-
tisements of Mexican lotteries.
TIE Druid Mills Manufacturing Com
pany OF Baltimore, Md, has assigned.
The concern is one of the largest cotton
duck manufacturers in the country.
The Baltimore banks will be tho prin-
cipal loser1. The company has given
employment to $50 operatives
THE Senate bill to revive the grade OF
Lieutenant General OF the army has
been ordered 70 be favorably reported
by the House Committee on Military
Affairs.
ENGINEER MORGAN TINDALL and
Brakeman Dick Ray we're killed and
Fireman Ferris probably fatally injured
on tho 18th in an accident on the East
Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia railroad.
A freight train which they were run
ming left the track at curve outside Of
Atlanta, Ca, wrecking the train.
BUSINESS failures occurring through
out the country during the seven days
ended December l2 numbered 874, as
compared with a total OF 3i2 the pre-
vious week. For the corresponding week
last year the failures we're 300.
THE Irish Parliamentary Fund Asso-
citation at New York has issued docu-
ment declaring against Parnell The
paper is signed by the members OF tho
executive committee, including the best
known and wealthiest Irishmen OF New
York.
The grand jury at Chicago on the 18th
returned bills OF indictment against
Banker Prettyman, whose bank went to
the wall short time ago, and against
his cashier, c. S. Johnson, on charges OF
embezzlement Tho basis OF tho indict-
ments is the receipt Of money from de-
positors after insolvency OF the bank
was apparent
WILLIAM s ELLIOTT veteran postal
clerk in the indianapolis Qnd. post-of-
fee, who has been twenty years in the
service, was on the 18th detected steal
ing packages by Post-offlco Inspector
Vickery. When searched jewelry val
ued at several hundred dollars was
found about him, the harvest Of a
months continuous pilferings.
MRS. Lucy FAYEBwEATIER, widow Of
the deceased millionaire who by will
decided over 81, 900, 900 TO various educa-
tional and charitable institutions, has
obtained leave TO withdraw her consent
to the probate Of the will and will con-
test the instrument
THE Baltimore & Ohio railroad strike
has apparently ended at Pittsburgh
Full day and night crews nre at work in
the Glenwood yards.
DELAMATER & Co., the Meadville
(Pa.) bankers who recently made an as
signment, have proposed to their credit
ors that they be allowed TO compromise
by paying fifty cents on the dollar.
JUST before the death Of an unknown
man at Tennyson, Ind, few days ago,
he mado the startling assertion that he
was the murderer OF John r. Bilden-
bach, near Fort Branch, twenty years
ago, for which crimo Thomas Camp was
hanged while asserting his innocence.
PETER s. STEUBESRAcH, who has been
indicted on two counts charging him
with taking $4,000 belonging to the
/ Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific rail-
way OF which he was cashier, was placed
in Jail at Peoria, Ill, on the 18th, having
failed to secure bonds.
The jury in the case OF Horny C.
Kemp, the Reading railroad brakeman
charged with criminal negligence in
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