The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-10-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
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were wrecked and several freight cars
destroyed Two passengers were fatal
ly injured.
BLACK diphtheria is spreading at an
alarming rate in Norwegian settle
ment in Harrison county, la. Fourteen
persons recently died Of the disease.
One family Of ten lost si> members. |
The place has ecOn quarantined.
I T.-- - a,
.hE Denver express on the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy road ran into an
open switch at Monmouth, Ill, on the
night of the Goth. Four persons were
killed, four others seriously injured
and dozens Of passengers received Sc
we're cuts and bruises
THE two famous PAGERS, Hal Pointer
and Direct, met at Nashville, Tenn, on
the 2lst for a purse Of $4,000. Direct |
won all three heats with comparative
ease. Ten thousand people witnessed
the race.
AT Allegheny, Pa, two colored men
named John Banks and George Parker,
employed as hostlers by A. j. Arm
strong, went to bed on the night OF the
Goth, after neglecting to turn off the
natural gas completely. When discov-
cred the next morning both were
asphyxiated
A FIRE at Minneapolis, Mimi, on the
21st destroyed the warehouse OF Bard
well, Robinson & Co, sash, door and
blind manufacturers, involving a loss OF
S1OO, O,OOO The warehouse was four
stories high and stored with valuable
material.
STATISTICS read at the meeting OF the
National Carriagemakers association in
Cincinnati on the 2lst showed that
$3.50, 900 vehicles were built in the ten
largest manufacturing cities Of the
Union during 1889, OF which 115,-
900 were made in Cincinnati, where
1000 hands are employed in the busi-
ness. The election Of officers for the
ensuing year resulted in the choice OF
II. Hooker Of New Haven, Conn, as
president, and II. M. Clear, Of Whining
ton, Del, as secretary and treasurer.
NEWS has been received at New York
that the sailing ship Hecla, which left
japan September IS Is lost The vessel
was bound for San Francisco and had q
cargo of general merchandise weighing
2,sO0, 900 pounds, inclusive OF l,7oo, 900 OF
tea which was consigned to American
merchants.
Two miners named William Davis and
S. Lock were overcome by foul air
while descending shaft near Monarch,
u a.. "a al af
bucket TO the bottom Of the shaft fifty
feet below, and were crushed 10 death.
THE customs receipts at New York
for the first twenty days in October
were s5,554, 202, against sl1, 4SS, 27S for
the corresponding period last year.
SYLVESTER +. WILSON, the manager
Of the female baseball team, was on the
21st sentenced at New York City TO five
years imprisonment and 30 pay fine
Of $1,000 for abducting Libbie Sunder'
land
A GANG Of pickpoclIets followed Gov
Hills party TO Richmond, Va, on tn,
2ist, and ten or twelve we'll known per
sons had their pockets picked Among
them was Senator Voorhees,, who wa
relieved Of his pocketbook containing
about S70O In drafts and about $50 II
money. .....
The boiler Of threshing engine ex
ploded near Mayville, N. d, on tn
22d, killing four men outright ant
wounding two others so badly that the.
died within an hour after the accident
Two others were seriously injured.
A FIRE which originated in the mea
packing establishment of T. 8. Elkin
& Co., at Lancaster, KY, on the 22d
destroyed most of the business part O
the town The total loss will aggrC
gate 1000; 10th insurance about s25
OOa.
TIE Hurst Ordnance Company, O
Alexandria, W. Va, organized to man
ufacture rapid firing guns, re-enforce
cartridges, etc, has been chartered
with a capital stock Of $1,000, 900.
CARA, the Mexican insurgent VIII
tried TO make the state OF Durango free
and led its people to bloody fight, ha
been arrested and lodged in jail q
MaryTille, Nodaway county, Mo.
FOREST Inn, the largest and principa
hotel mt the famous Natural Bridge o
Virginia, was destroyed by fire on th
I'D. The loss on hotel and furniture
$4,000, on which there is small insui
anee-
The post Office at Croohston. MINI.
was robbed on the 22d of $500 !
stamps, etc, and 800 In cash. Tn
stamps taken were afterwards found
an alley.
SECRETARY NOBLE has received dii
patch from David II. Jerome, chairma
of the Cherokee Indian commissio
now ut Ponca, Indian Territory, Stain
that an agreement had been signe
with the Tonawae Indians ceding eight
thousand acres TO the United States, th
money consideration being $4,000.
SECRETARY NOZZLE has refused TO er
5ertsin n motion for review Of decisio
rendered by him rejecting the claim {
the so-called Kaweah Cooperative Co
,ny, sometimes called the Bellam
colony, for land situated in the Sequel
National park.
SMALLPOX has made its appearance
IN the Italian quarter OF Trenton, N. J
and the health officer fears IL will b.
,ome epidemic. II Is now known thi
here are seven cases and II is feare
that many Italians have been expose
10 infection.
A HEAD.END collision Of freight trair
occurred at Roundbottom Station o
Tho Pittsburgh, McKeesport & Yougl