The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1890-12-03


$3.50, 900; fully insured.
COMMISSIONER RAUM estimates that
the pension deficiency for the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1891, would amount
to about s32, 900, 900.
SENATOR WADE HAMPTON, OF South
Carolina, was accidentally shot by his
son, McDufiie Hampton, while hunting in
Washington County, Miss, on the s7th
ult The Senator was wounded in the
head, one Of the shot striking his eye.
His injuries, however, are not thought
to be serious.
JOHN @. MORSE, trusted employe Of
the Jesse French Piano Company, OF st.
Louis, is in Jail in that city on the
charge Of having embezzled $40, 900 from
his employers. The accused is we'll
connected. Business speculations and
gambling have wrought his ruin.
AT Chicago on the 27th ult a Ave-
story building in process Of erection on
Wright street collapsed and the walls
fell on adjoining buildings, completely
demolishing them. No one was injured.
Loss, Sl0O,0
SUIT has been brought at West
Chester, Pa, against John R. Baker,
the stock operator who recently disap-
peared, to recover $4,000 belonging to
the estate OF Charles II. Baker, which
is alleged to have been appropriated by
him. The sheriff visited Bakers house
at Devon for the purpose Of serving the
summons, but found 1t closed
THE championship football game be-
tween Princeton and Yale, which was
contested on Easton Park grounds, New
York, on the 27th ult, was won by Yale
by score OF so to o. The game was wit
messed by $4,000 persons from all parts
OF the country.
THE militia forces OF the United States
aggregate 100, 469 men, as shown by an
official report presented to Secretary
Proctor by Captain d. NJ. Taylor, in
charge OF this branch Of the service.
Mrs. Lucy PARSONS, the Anarchist
charged with melting riot in Jersey
City, N. j., few weeks ago, was on the
2sth ult placed on trial in Judge Kill
patrick's court, and after the examina-
tion OF the police who made the arrest
the jury returned a verdict Of not guilty.
AT a recent meeting in New York Of
the sales agents Of the coal producing
companies, it was decided to make no
change in the price OF coal during the
month OF December.
The sixteenth annual convention Of
the Railway Passenger and Freight
Conductors Mutual Aid and Benefit AS
sociation WAS opened at Chicago on the
2Sth ult The presidents report stated
that 101 members died during the past
year and s4l, 900 was paid out in benefits.
The building, machinery and stock of
the Lewis Jones hosiery mill at Bristol,
Pa, we're damaged SIG, 200 by fire on the
2sth ult; fully insured.
BUSINESS failures occurring through
out the country during the seven days
ended November 80 number 249 as COM
pared with pa the previous week. For
the corresponding week OF last year the
failures were 249.
SCHEDULES in the assignment Of the
Arm OF John 7. Walker, Son & Co, i'm
porters, filed at Now York on the 2sth
ult, show liabilities oas2, O94. 2Os, nomi-
nal assets 81, 4SS, 352, and actual assets
81, ,009,5 $40.
WILLIAM BLYTHE and Harlow Ben
nett OF Wolcott with James Ferguson
and Calvin +. Campbell, OF 0swego,
went hunting in boat on Sodus Bay,
sixteen miles from oswego, N. Y, on
the 27th ult Two days later their boat
was found on the beach and the men
are missing.
AT Jersey City, N. j., on the 2sth ult
John Whalen, Joseph G. Mulrain, David
Gordon and Martin j. White, recently
convicted OF ballot-box stufilng, were
sentenced by Judge Lippincott to one
year and six months hard labor in
State prison.
The accounts OF the postmaster at
New Orleans for the first twenty-five
days OF November have been received
at the Post-otiice Department They
show that the receipts for the period
were 81, ,124. against s33,552 for the first
twenty-five days Of last year, when the
lottery law was not In force.
AT Lincoln, Neb, on the 2sth ult.
John Barlow accidentally shot II. II.
Bliss, prominent business man Of
Steele City, killing him instantly.
BENJAMIN WRIGHT, aged eighty-two,
died at Trenton, N. j., on the 2sth ult
He had eaten nothing for five months
on account OF stomach trouble, and was
reduced TO skin and bone.
THE failure OF B. X. Jameson & Co.,
bankers and brokers, was announced on
the Philadelphia stock exchange on the
2sth ult No statement OF liabilities or
assets were made.
MARTIN ID. LoPPY, who was convicted
OF murder in the first degree for killing
his wife on July 4tb last was on the
2sth ult sentenced to death by electro
cution within the week beginning jan
uary 3, 1891, at Sing Sing, N. Y.
LYMAN MowRY, an attorney OF San
Francisco whose principal clientage Is
among the Chinese, has just returned
from China where he went In the inter.
est Of the Tehauntepec railroad. At
Canton he contracted for 5000 men to
work on the railroad. They will be
shipped direct to the field of labor.
B. r. BRocKISGToS, the loading mer-
chant OF Hillsboro, Tex, has made an
assignment, with liabilities amounting
TO over 500, 900; assets not known.
THE officers Of the Brazilian squadron
visited the Executive Mansion on tho
2sth ult and were received by the Pres
ident and Cabinet The Brazilian Ad-