The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-07-01

and the rest Of his property is disposed
Of under the laws of descent.
AT Little Rock, Ark, on the Goth the
grand jury of Pulaski county returned
an indictment against ex-State Treas
urer Woodruff for rembezzlement OF state
funds. Woodruff was Immediately placed
under arrest
THEODORE SMITH, of Agency, q vii
lage fourteen miles from Kansas City,
on the Santa Fe road, was shot and
instantly killed on the 25th by three
unknown men just as he was closing
his store. No clew to the murderers
had been discovered
DR. JOHN L. NoRrHRUr, instructor
in zoology in Columbia college, who
was so badly burned by the explosion
of cask of alcohol in the basement OF
the college building, died in New York
City on the Goth.
The body of an unknown flood victim
was found at Johnstown. Pa, during
baseball game there on the Goth.
MRS. G. f. HANEY and Mrs. A. M.
TatrO attempted to cross the railroad
track at Grafton Neb., on the Goth in
front Of IN approaching train. They
were struck by the engine and both in
stantly killed, the bodies being badly
mutilated.
AT New York City on the Goth James
A. Simmonds, Of the wrecked Sixth Ma
tional bank fame. was sentenced in the
United States circuit court by Judge
Benedict to six years Imprisonment ut
hard labor. Pending an appeal his bail
was fixed at $4,000.
BUSINESS failures during the seven
days ended June 26th numbered for the
United States 22T, as compared with 235
the previous week. For the correspond
ing week of last year the figures were
l65.
AT Chicago on the Goth the stevedores
employed in unloading and loading
through freight steamers were out on
strike for an increase of pay from
twenty to twenty-five cents an hour.
The strike affects the Western Transit,
Union and Anchor lines.
ELIZABETH McvEy, the wonderful
faster of Rose Fill, died at Wabash,
Ind, on the Goth. forty-three days after
any food whatever had been taken.
Dr. Tanner, the celebrated faster, was
with Mrs. McVes day before she died
and diagnosed her case carefully, but
could not determine the nature Of the
malady.
THE Diamond plate glass works at
Elmwood, Ind, the largest plate glass
factory In the world, burned on the
26th. Loss, heavy.
The Amalgamated Association Of Iron
and Steel Workers adjourned at Pitts
burgh on the Goth, after being in ses-
sion twenty-five days. All the old Off
GERS except the vice president Of the
fifth district were reelected. John
Martin, of Anderson. Ind, was elected
TO fill that position. The delegates
elected 10 the federation convention are
William A. Carney, Jeremiah Doherty
and Reese W. Prosser.
Work upon the first Of the worlds
fair buildings was begun on the Goth.
The structure is the woman's building,
TO be erected according TO the plans Of
Miss Sophia G.. Hayden, of Boston,
Mass II is TO be 200 by 400 feet in size.
and three stories high,
The sixteenth annual four-mile eight
cared strnightaway race between the
Yale and Harvard university crews was
rowed on the Goth over the Thames
course from Winthrop Point to Gales
Ferry, and was won by Harvard by
eleven lengths. Time, 2l:23. Yale's
time, 21:5Z The record now stands:
Yale, nine victories and seven defeats;
Harvard, seven victories and nine de-
feats. Yale holds the time record
J. A. PARHAM, the attorney for State
Controller Colg an, has advised him not
TO pay the $500, 900 appropriated by the
legislature for California's exhibit at
the worlds fair on the gronnd that the
appropriation is unconstitutional.
NEAR Galveston, Tex, on the Goth
the powder house ofthe American Pow
der Company, containing 1000 kegs Of
powder, was struck by lightning and
exploded The conclusion caused the
Hazard & Dupont and Latin & Rand
powder bouses TO explode and the fire.
works magazine of Victor Cortinas
Buildings within radius Of three-quar-
ters OF mile were wrecked and num-
ber of persons seriously hurt. The
Offices OF the stock yards were badly
wrecked and fourteen head Of cattle
and other stock were killed The total
loss Is $4,000.
AT Willkesbarre, Pa, on the 2cth, Ed
win Mcmillan was convicted OF murder
In the first degree. Mcmillan was
charged with having murdered HIS wife
by burning her about ce rtain portions
J Of the body with red-hot irons, after
ward pouring live Goals into the wounds
thus made. The crime was committed
while both husband and wife were
maudlin with liquor.
THE followin , ,fourth-class post offices
have been raised to the presidential
class: Mound City, Ill; Walnut Ia f;
North Abingdon, Mass; Moant Vernon,
, Mo-; Red Lodge, Mont; Ashland, N. II.
Yellow Springs, o.; Norman, o. r.; Me-
chanicsville, Pa: Buena Vista. Va; Al
derson, W. W., and New Cattle, Wyo
IT is stated on the authority OF an Off
Ger OF the New York Life Insurance
Company, that new shortage Of $l25,-
900 has been discovered in the accounts
OF the spanish-American department
This deficit Is also due 20 the peculiar
business methods Of Agent Merzbackcr,
and, added 10 the former shortage In his
accounts OF S79.OOO, brings tue total
amount OF his defalcatioa up TO nearly
half million.