The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-11-18
rHr yillage q Hobart, Ind, wa

ton, Ave miles distant Several houses
were wrecked and thousands OF panes
Of window glass were broken. At
Miller's nothing was visible OF the pow
der plant Loss $4,000.
THE report OF tho committee ap-
pointed at the last session Of the general
assembly of the Knights of Labor to In
yestigate the books Of ex-Treasurer
| Turner, shows balance Of $Sl, 600 un-
accounted for.
THE California National bank, OF San
Diego, CAL, suspended payment on the
18th.
WILLIAM HUTcHINs and Dick Joy
were blown to atoms in the Brush Heap
mine at Kingston, N. NJ, on the 18TH
Both men were 80 years old and were
the sole support Of aged mothers
THE big strike among the coal miners
at Fort Dodge, Ia, inaugurated last
spring, is ended The Carey Coal Com
pany has conceded every point de-
manded by the strikers and the men
have returned to work, signing con-
tract by which they will receive 81 per
ton for mining all the year round
AT Little Rock, Ark, the jury in the
case of ex-State Treasurer Woodruff,
on trial for embezzlement, reported on
the 18th that they were unable to agree
upon a verdict and they were dis
charged The jury stood six for con-
viction and six for acquittal
BY the will Of the late William b.
Spooner, Of Boston, Mass, Oberlin col
lepe has received for the endowment
fund the sum Of SOL, ,61S in cash. The
University Of Kansas gets ike
amount.
CHARLES BETHERs, his wife and their
three children were burned to death
while asleep at Columbus, o., on the
18th, by fire which destroyed the ten
ement house in which they lived.
THE Edgar Thomson steel works at
Braddock, Pa. recently produced 1907
gross tons Of steel rails in twenty-four
hours, thus breaking all previous rec
ords
A horrible double murder was COM
mitted at Chicago on the 18th, the vic
tins of which are Mrs Gretchen Len
zenhager, who keeps a saloon, and her
15-year-old son George The woman
was choked to death by unknown rob
, bers, who then beat and choked the boy
until life left his body.
The worlds convention OF the Ma
tional W. G 7. U. opened in fremont
Temple, Boston, on the 18th, overflow
meetings being held In two churches
There were 5000 delegates present
} BUSINESS failures occurring through
l out the country during the week ended
November IS number for the United
4 States 253 and for Canada Ss, or tota
1 of POI, as compared with total OF 2e'
, for the preceding week. For the CORE
!. spending week Of last year the fgure
4 were 268.
: The bank Of Kloman & Arnold n
o Broken Bow, Neb., suspended on tn
' 18th. The county aud city officials, par
3 ticularly the treasurer, are caught II
| the failure, as the bank was used as
T depository, bank at Anselmo, Neb-
6 owned by the same parties hasalso sus
pended
Q ARrHUR W. BoYISroN, postmaster O
II Highland Park, a suburb OF Chicago
a was arrested on the 18th for embezzle
n ment. His shortage Is estimated a
y $4,000. He admitted his guilt and wa
z held in $1,000 bail TO the federal gran
Q Jury.
PRESIDENT HARRISON issued procla
e nation on the 18th fixing Thursday
10 November %, as day of nations
n thanksgiving.
,r 1T was announced at the state depar
N ment on the 18th that there had bee
no correspondence between this govern
In ment and that Of Italy in regard TO th
IN New Orleans lynching affair sine
Is spring, and consequently the dispatc
re from Rome stating that this goverl
r. ment had acknowledged liability for u
's affair and would pay indemnity is Il
correct
N. TIE chief Of the bureau OF statistic
M reports that the total value OF the e
10 ports Of domestic mineral oils from u
le- United States during the month
ly October, 1891, was SO. $40, 10l.
A FIRE in the lumber yards Of Ko'
at & Bills at East Toledo, O., on the 13
ng destroyed nearly soO,oOO worth of luI
m Der.
he JAMES A. DUNoNT. supervising
H. spector general Of steam vessels repor
that during the past fiscal year his OF
r GERS inspected 7,404 steamers and
Is censed s5, ll6 officers. The total nul
ais Der OF accidents was 38, In which
~ lives were lost, the largest number
vi any one accident being in the disast
10 the Sea Wing on Lake Pepin, Loui
sx- ana II Is estimated that 6O0,00o,t
,rk passengers were carried during I
n, year.
cd. THE Michigan supreme court has
es, clared unconstitutional the indeterr
nate sentence law passed by the leg
he lature OF 1885, The act permits
fer courts TO sentence n criminal In q g
ZEN eral way, leaving Il TO the discretion
Of the board of control Of the prison
ty. which he Is sent as TO the amount
nn- time 10 be served.
THE wholesale cloaking house
md Louis Adler, at Chicago, was seized
,rk creditors on the 18th TO satisfy chat
les mortgages
the THE national convention OF mar
and granite sawyers, polishers and n
I'M bers adjourned at Baltimore on
en- 18th, after electing the following 0
ce. GERS: President Owen Loughrau,
New York; vice president II. Hogan