The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-11-11
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Gathered from Ali Quarters.
DOM EsTIo.

killing Henry Williams and Robert
Jones, laborers
THE census office has issued a bulletin
giving the complete population statis-
tics of Missouri by minor civil divi'
sions The population Of the state in
1890 was 2,679, 1855, an increase OF tlo,So4
over 1880. OF the 115 counties in the
state only ten show decreases, most OF
which are very small
AT Pitts burgh on the 4th fire dam
aged Godfrey & Clark's paper ware
house to the amount of $4,000; Meyer,
Arnold a. Co., upholstery house, $s2,o 600
and A. Walker & Sons, paper bag manu-
facturers, $4,000. Losses nearly Gov
cred by insurance.
EDWIN A. WooD, postmaster and clerk
Of election, was placed under $1,000
bonds on the 4th for smashing ballot
box at Menoken, N. d. Wood charges
fraud in the county commissioners
election, and claims that he smashed
the ballot-box in fit Of madness.
SIGFRIEp GoscH, a German in South
San Francisco, Cal, hacked his wife and
infant son to death on the 4th with a
hatchet and then hanged himself. No
cause is known for the tragedy.
AT Galesburg, Ill, on the 4th, the fac
tory OF the Acme Railway Signal Com
pany was burned to the ground AT the
time of the fire there were twenty peo-
pie at work in the building Avrilla De-
gerald, a young woman OF "a, was
caught in the flames and burned 70
death.
The treasury department has directed
that lottery matter seized in violation
of the postal union convention shall be
held as illegal importations and, for the
present, treated as unclaimed merchan'
disc, but excluded from sale until fur
ther notice.
THE New York Presbytery on the 4th
acquitted Prof Charles A. Briggs oi
the charge Of heresy, based upon the
language used by him in his inaugural
address in the Union theological semi
nary. The matter may now be taken
before the New York synod.
The car stables Of the Rapid Transit
Company at Newark, N. j., wert
burned on the 4th, causing loss oi
$50. 900.
The British ship Strathblane, from
Honolulu, stranded on the 4th twenty
Ave miles north Of Astoria, Ore. The
captain and five others of the thirty-ont
persons aboard were drowned.
THE Moore desk factory at Indian
apolis, Ind, including Eve buildings
much valuable machinery, and 2oO(
feet Of hardwood lumber, burned on the
4th. Loss, $4,000; half insured.
AT Milwaukee, Wis, on the 4th AL
bert Kohis, aged 10, was sentenced u
life imprisonment the first five TO bt
spent in solitary confinement for tn,
murder Of Annie Kodatz, Is years o.
age.
B. +. BARRETT, q former piano dealer
Of Cleveland, o., against whom severa
indictments are pending in that city
charging him with forgery and embez
element was arrested at Charleston
w. Va, on the 4th.
WHILE returning from the theater a
Lebanon, Ind, q few nights ago, Carrie
Neese, 1s years old, was persuaded BY
her escort TO smoke cigarette. She
became Ill shortly after and soon died
Doctors say that death was caused BY
nicotine poison.
A BROKEN wheel on an eastbound fas
freight train on the Pennsylvania rail
road piled up seventeen loaded cars a
Longfellow, Pa, on the 4th, and de
layed traffic several hours. Brakeman
Yost, of Harrisburg, had his leg broken
No one else was injured.
AT Bridgeport Conn, on the 4th
william Downs, local pugilist, wen
upon the railroad track and stood Will
an express train approached. The en-
gineer was unable TO stop and Down
was killed He was Respondent becaus
of defeat in the ring.
THE safe OF the bank at Caledonia
Mimi, was blown open on the night o
the 4th by burglars and $4,000 In casl
besides notes and other papers secured
The robbers also stole team Of horse
and a carriage from Asa ID. Sprague
the head OF the bank, and made thei
escape.
THE men at Charles b. Febbett's sho
factory at Lynn, Mass, have voluntari
ly offered TO accept lower wages in eacl
branch II Mr. Febbett will return hi
bottoming shop TO Lynn and give tn
work TO Lynn worlrmen. The offer vii
be accepted.
STENGER & FRINK, millers at Wape
koneta, o., failed on the 5th. Their lis
bilities are estimated at $40, 900, with n
assets.
REV. A. Q. SUTHERLAND, Of Hazletor
Pa, who was convicted last July fc
sending obscene publications throug
the mails, was sentenced in the Unite
States circuit court at Pittsburgh to pa
fine OF 5000
AT Buffalo, N. Y, on the 9TH the bod
of Mrs. Barbara Luber, aged 81 year
was found in the room Of the house o.
cupied by herself and daughter who
insane. The daughter stated TO th
coroner that on August 81 last she foun
hermother lying on the door and as sf
was too heavy for her to lift TO the be-
covered her up and had been waitin
ever since for her TO wake up
W. r. STRONG g. Co., Of San Fral
cisco, one of the heaviest fruit shippin
houses on the Pacific coast, wit
branches at Fresno. Los Angeles, Rive
side and various eastern cities, made
assignment on the bth for the benefit
IL creditors
AT Hartford. Conn. Judge Taint'