The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1890-04-23

| Tor the St. Louis expOSlIlon from OaH-
ada, Mexico and the other American re-
publics.
The River and Harbor Appropriation
bill has been completed by the House
committee. The bill provides for the
expenditure of about s24,OOO,OoO
WILLIAM THoRNE, a fruit dealer, COM
mitted suicide in Albany, N. Y, on the
18th by jumping from the Senate stair
case in the capitol to the floor below, o
distance OF seventy feet.
THE st. Joseph (Mo.) waterworks
system has been sold to the Kuehn syn
dicate for So, 100000.
! A. II. Hubbard, the owner Of Hubbard
Bros. publishing houses in Philadel-
phia, is financially embarrassed. The
liabilities amount, 1t is said, to $l4O,-
600, and he places his assets at about
$3.50, 200.
JAMES s. CAswELI, now serving a
sentence OF Imprisonment for life at
Montpelier, Vt, for the murder OF
George Gould, was married on the 18th
to Mrs. Louisa Gould, widow of the MUIR
dered man. The marriage took place
through the bars OF Caswelps cell.
Four Pittsburgh capitalists have pur-
chased the Cream City passenger rail-
way Of Milwaukee for 100000. The
line is twenty-three miles long and is
the main street railway in Milwaukee.
II is the intention to change 1t at once
into an electric road.
NINE cases OF smallpox we're found
on board the bark Sarah, from Fayal,
detained at quarantine in Boston on the
18th.
A FIRE in the New Hampshire State
prison at Concord on the 18th destroyed
the entire upper portion OF the main
building, causing damage OF S25, 600.
There was much excitement, but none
Of the prisoners were injured.
LOUIS FRANKE & Co., dealers in raw
silks and manufacturers Of thrown
silks, New York City, have failed. Liza
bilities estimated at $1,000 900, and
nominal assets about 81, 100000.
ELEVEN horses were cremated in a
fire which destroyed William Connolly's
livery stable on West Thirty-eighth
street, New York City, on the 18th.
Loss, $4,000.
MRS. CARRIE VANDERGRIFT, one OF the
most prominent women of Burlington,
N. j., has been indicted by the grand
Jury for attempting to poison her son,
Frank C. Norman, aged twenty-three.
THREE convicts of the Kentucky peni-
tentiary made their escape from train
on the 18th while in charge OF guards.
AT its meeting in Pittsburgh on the
18th the Western Cut Nail Association
decided to advance the price Of nails TO
the 50 base, less ten cents for carload
lots.
BUSINESS failures occurring through
out the country during the seven days
ended April IS number pa, as compared
with 200 the previous week. For the
corresponding week Of last year the
figures we're 246.
ALL the employees Of Castle Garden
have been discharged, the Government
having ceased TO use the place as an
emigrant landing station. The first
immigrant was landed at the Garden
August s, 1855, and the last April Is,
1890.
The house OF 2. Z. Tells, Of Berla-
mont, Mich, burned on the 18th, and
Mrs. Tells and two children we're con-
sumed. There arc suspicious Of foul
play.
FIRE destroyed the stock barn Of N. p.
Clark, at Broclsway, Mimi, on the 18th.
Twenty-one imported breeding mares,
valued at $1,000, were cremated. The
barn cost $500.
LEE f. WILSON. member Of the In
diana Legislature, with his father, was
arrested at Indianapolis on the 18th
charged with pension frauds. 1t is
charged that by fraudulent means they
have secured the annulment OF mar
iages entered into by soldiers widows
and having them reinstated on the pen.
sion rolls.
THE Jury In the case Of ex-Presideni
Henry w. King, Of the blind institution,
Philadelphia, who was charged with
criminal immorAi practices with q num-
ber OF the pupils Of that institution,
rendered verdict on the 18th OF guilty.
Sentence was deferred.
ROBERT KURTz, Jr., on trial at Easton,
Pa, for the murder OF John Weidman,
by hitting him In the head with o beer
bottle, was convicted on the 18th OF
voluntary manslaughter and sentenced
TO six years imprisonment dI
| CONDUCTOR JOHN HoUGHTALING, who
ran the Lake Shore train that was
wrecked at East Hamburg, N. Y, has
been indicted by the grand jury for
nanslaughter in the second degree and
for ''the crime OF willful violation and
omission OF his duty as railroad con-
duotor, by which human life was en-
dangered." ,p."r W
THE city council Of Kansas City, Mo-.
has passed an ordinance providing that
eight hours shall constitute o days
work on all city contracts and for all
city employees. va..
FARMERs living In the eastern half OF
Of Atchison County, Kan, report that q
sort OF wire worm is doing great dam
age 10 the wheat. The worm is about
an inch long, and the thickness Of fine
wire, and Of q dark brown color. Where
ever IL works the wheat soon withers.
TBE premature explosion Of blast in
the limestone quarries at Cementville,
Ind, on the 18th, killed Thomas James,
fatally hurt Robert Livingstone and
seriously injured Samuel Clark
The President has granted pardon
In the case Of Samuel Woodson, con-