The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-07-15
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Gathered from All Quarters,
DOMESTIC.

six big brewer1es. Ihelr capacity as W
be $50, 900 barrels each per annum. The
latest improvements are to be intro
duced and beer is to ibe sold at $3.50 per
barrel As the present price is 80, the
old companies will have some lively
competition.
The national committee of the Co
lumbian exposition has sailed from New
York City for Europe. The commission
will confer with the commissions ap-
pointed by the various governments sof
Europe and will visit the leading cities
of the old world
RICHARD BREEzo, confidential clerk
Of the law firm of Trimble & Braley,
Kansas City, is a fugitive from justice,
having embezzled from the firms safe
bank stock valued at 81, 900 and other
valuable papers
THE Banner tobacco warehouse at
Clarlssville, Tenn, owned by Merri-
wether & Co., with 1.50O hogsheads OF
tobacco, and Draper Bros stable and
TWENTY-FIVE mules were totally de-
stroyed by fire on the Sth. Loss esti-
mated at S17O,0Oo; insurance $50, oO0
AT Red Bluff, Cal, Charles II. Brain
ard and William Nagle, attorneys en-
gagged in conducting case before JUS
tice Of the peace, had dispute in a
court room which resulted in Brainard
drawing revolver and shooting Nagle
four times. The wounded man will die.
A long standing feud had existed be-
tween the parties.
THE Boutelle Grocery Company, OF
st. Louis, the largest retail grocery
house in that city, has made an assign
ment
AT Chicago on the sth the final de-
rision of the indictments against ex-
Secretary Gibson of the whisky trust,
was postponed until the August term OF
court. All the counts were quashed
except four for attempts to commit
arson, etc. These will be argued at the
August term of court
An explosion Of gas in the Green
Ridge colliery at Mt Carmel, Pa, ig-
nited the inner workings and fatally
burned John Dorsey and John Pick
monti and seriously injured Christopher
shoffstall. The fire is now burning
fercely The mine is one OF the largest
and most valuable in the anthracite re-
yion.
EDWARD MATHEW, conductor on the
indianapolis Qnd) electric street car
line, fatally shot his wife at their home
On the sth and then shot himself, dying
almost instantly. Jealousy was the
sause
SECRETARY Foster has authorized the
acceptance Of the offer Of the Itata 70
pay $500 fine for violation Of the navi-
cation laws. This does not affect the
.harges Of kidnapping an officer and
violating the neutrality laws
CHARLEs MULLEN, who organized the
gang OF South Chicago bank robbers
and planned the attack on the Mer-
chants bank last December, pleaded
guilty in court at Chicago on the sth
and was sentenced to six years in the
penitentiary. Harry Featherstone and
John Corbett are now serving ten
year sentence in Joliet for the sam'
crime Frank Bennett, another OF The
band, is in Jail awaiting sentence, hav
ing pleaded guilty
MITCHELL Bros planning mill, yart
and eight dwellings, together with Is,
100000 feet of lumber, at Jennings
Mich, were burned on the 9th. Tn
loss Is placed at s2Oo,o0O The cause
the fire is unknown.
THE bureau Of engraving and print
ing has commenced the work OF prepai
ing the new bonds bearing two pc
cent. interest, which are to be issued
continuance OF the four and one-ha
Der cent loan, and 1t is intended this
the first installment OF them shall b
ready for delivery on the Esd inst.
THE war between the Cline and De
kins clans in Logan county, W. Va,
still raging. All the parties are arme
with rifles and are firing at each oth'
across Tug river Three men have bee
killed within the pastweek
ONE Of the most valuable public doc
ments issued by the government depar
ment at Washington, is the statistic
abstract Of the United States" ~
thirteenth number OF this public
ton, which has been prepared with u
usual dhre by the bureau Of statistic
treasury department has just be-
issued.
THE suit Of Phoebe Couzins again
the worlds fair commission and q
board OF lady managers, was decided
Chicago on the 9th by Judge Blodge'
The decision was against Miss Couzi
and she was defeated at every point.
A FREIGHT train on the Pittsburg
Cincinnati, Chicago & ST Louis railro
was wrecked near Rock Creek, Ind,
the 9th. Fireman John Boos was Kill
and the engine and thirteen cars we
demolished.
AN English syndicate, TO be kno'
as the Atlantic and Great Lakes Ma
CATION and Trading Co., limited, p
poses TO open direct water communi
ton for freight and passenger busin
between Chicago and Great Brita
The syndicate will build and oper
it's own vessels, for which purpose
capital Of s5,OO0,0oo has been s
scribed.
J. II. BEsns, principal owner OF
jefferson (Tex.) Lumber Company,
failed with liabilities approximat
si,ooo,oOo The company has for ye
done the largest lumber business
Texas
The superintendent Of immigra'
atNew York reports that 4o5,eo4 i'm
grants arrived at that port during
past 9scal year as compared with 3
opf during the previous fiscal year.