The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-10-14
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Gathered from All Quarters,
DOMESTIC.

of the recent frightful disaster on the
Chicago river, the coroner's jury found
that the explosion Of the tug Parker
and the loss of nine human lives were
due TO the foulness of the river water.
THE accounts OF ex-treasurer Morgan,
of Baltimore county, Nd, have been In
yestigated and deficit of S24, 900 found.
A CONFESSION has been made by M.
T. Trumpbour, assistant treasurer Of
the Ulster County S .ags bank at
Kingston. N. Y. He says the bank was
rotten to its core and had been robbed
from the time it was incorporated, forty
years ago. He alleges that trustees of
the bank used it simply as political
machine to boom themselves and their
henchmen. s
THE malt house Of the Manhattan
distillery at Peoria, Ill, was totally de-
stroyed on the 18th, including $4,000
bushels of malt stored therein. Total
loss, $4,000; insurance, S1E,6o0.
FIVE Of the leading RAILROAD coal op-
orators in the Pittsburgh district con-
ceded the demands Of their miners on
the 7th and will pay the 81 cents rate.
Work has been resumed In these mines,
giving employment to about 1900 mon.
Two track walkers were killed out
right and three probably fatally injured
by being run down by Western Mary
land railroad train In tunnel at Balti-
more on the 7th.
THE tugboat McCaldin Brothers was
sunk In New York harbor on the 7th
by collision with the tug Conqueror.
The engineer and boy were drowned
AT Detroit, Mich, on the 7th George
8. Duncan and S. A. Burlingame were
putting burner into an oil stove,
when Burlingame lighted match and
the oil in the stove exploded. Burning
oil was thrown over the two men and
their clothing was at once ablaze. Bur
lingame was burned TO death and Dun
can can not survive. f
SECRETARY TRACY is Of the opinion
that the 1000 and 5,000.ton unprotected
cruisers are OF little value as fighting
ships; as they have no defensive quail
tiles, their steel sides are as easy to
penetrate by modern guns as those Of
the old wooden hulks In his annual
report the secretary will recommend
that 6,oO0-ton gunboats be quickly con-
structed ut n cost not TO exceed $500, 600
each.
THE official speed Of the Patrick tor
pedo boat No. 3was made off Newport,
r. J., on the 7th. The boat was run
only once and developed speed Of two
minutes 2SK seconds for a mile. The
speed was the fastest ever attained by
torpedo or by any other submarine
boat
Gov. CAMPBELL has fled suit for
libel against the Cincinnati Commercial
Gazette. He asks damages in the sum
Of $4,000 for recent publication In
that paper, taken from the New York
Recorder, rejecting upon his financial
condition
EDWIN SHAFFER, John R. Tate and
Thomas Downing. the three Beaver
county pa congressional delegates
charged with bribery, who were re-
Inanded into the custody OF the sheriff
TO undergo four months imprisonment
for contempt OF court In not testifying
in the case at New Castle, delivered
themselves into the custody Of the sher-
IN on the 7th in accordance with the de-
cision Of the supreme court, and are
now In jail.
The German government has recent
ly placed an order in the hands Of their
agents in the United States for eighty
Eve tons Of pure aluminium for army
purposes The amount placed In the
hands Of the agent is sl10, ,000 As yet
the order has not been accepted and
probably will not for some time.
THE case of Detective o'Malley, who
was indicted on the charge Of bribing
the jury which acquitted the Italians
accused OF assassinating Chief OF Police
Hennessy, came up for trial at New Or
leans on the sth. The state was unable
10 offer admissible evidence and the ac-
cused was set at liberty.
A FIRE at MayHeld, KY, on the sth
destroyed the Newport News & Missis-
.sippi Valley freight and passenger de-
pots the Western Tobacco Company's
warehouse and 600 hogsheads Of tobacco
and number Of residences
CASHIER JoNEs, Of the Phillipsburg
pa Banking Company, has issued q
statement Of the banks affairs, which
shows assets Of s45o, 900 and liabilities
of $685. Mr.. Jones Is confident that
all claims will be paid in full.
In the circuit court at Topeka Kan,
on the sth Judge johnson rendered a
decision 10 the effect that an arrest
made on the strength Of letter or tele-
gram is not due process Of law.
TWENTY leading cigar manufacturers
Of New York are perfecting plans for
the formation Of gigantic cigar trust,
TO include all the prominent cigar man.
ufacturers In the United States. The
combination will have capital Of $685.
100000, and II Is proposed TO decrease
the cost of production and rid the trade
OF number OF middlemen.
PARKER, WEBB G. Co. s pa' king house
at Detroit. Mich, was damaged $780,.
900 by fire on the sth. Joseph Keefe
was burned 10 death and about dozen
others were or less seriously burned OF
injured The FIRE started from an ex-
plosion in the paint room.
AT the general conference Of the
Evangelical association Of the United
States, held In Philadelphia on the sth,
Bishops Bowman and Esher were ex-
PEELED from the church and Bishop Dubs
was restored TO all the rights and privi-