The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-11-11

out Mountain, Tenn, together with
seven cottages, burned on the 9th, the
work of an incendiary.
WHILE a train OF two cars was COM
ing down the Mount Penn gravity rail-
road near Reading, Pa, on the 9TH, the
rails were so slippery at steep grade,
owing to the rain, that the cars could
not be held and they jumped the track.
Ira Houck, conductor, was killed, An
thony Kelley brakeman, fatally In
jured, and three passengers more or
less hurt
JAMES s. FRENCH, director OF the
Maverick bank ut Boston, has been un-
able to procure sureties in $4,000 salts
factory to the United States commits
sioner, and was on the 9Th committed
to Jail. Thomas P. Beel has been ap-
pointed receiver OF the bank
ABouT fifty Of the Tennessee convicts
recently released by the miners at
Briceville and Oliver, have been cap
tured in Kentucky and returned to
Tennessee.
A TERRIBLE accident occurred on the
9Th near Leadville, Ool, at the head
ing of the Rusk tunnel where eight
men were at work drilling. A shot
of giant powder had failed to ex-
plode and one Of the men attempted
TO remove it A terrific explosion tol-
lowed. Bob Wilkinson was nearest the
hole and was instantly killed, being
literally torn TO pieces. Five others
were seriously hurt, two Of whom Will
probably die.
Two Italians, giving their names as
James Ferro and Ricci Rocco, have been
arrested on suspicion of numbering John
King, whose body was found on the
railroad track at Niagara Falls, N. Y,
on the 5th.
BUSINESS failures during the week
ended November 9 numbered 223 for the
United States and 43 for Canada-a total
Of 28e, as compared with total OF 255
for the previous week. For the corre-
spending week of last year the figures
were 2l5, representing 1S2 failures in
the United States and 33 in Canada
THE Berkley phosphate works at Ash
ley Junction, S. c., were destroyed by
fire on the 9Th. The loss is about $50
900; fully covered by insurance.
I AT Long Prairie, Mimi, on the 9th,
the jury In the Bender case returned a
verdict OF manslaughter in the first de-
gree. Limit Of the law under this ver-
dict gives the prisoner twenty years
Imprisonment Bender was convicted
| for the murder OF his wife In July last
, The remains Of ex-President Jeffer-
I son Davis are TO be inferred in Holly
wood cemetery, Richmond, Va The
monument to Mr.. Davis will not be
placed over the grave, but upon some
site in that city to be selected hereafter.
WHILE Clayton Haines, his wife and
two children and a Mrs Sutton were
driving near the railroad track at Al
tona, Ill, on the 5th, the team took
, fright and ran away, colliding with a
} tree and throwing the occupants OF the
buggy 10 the ground. Mrs Haines was
instantly killed and the others badly In
, jured.
THE iron firm of Jones & Laughlin, oi
, Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 9th reduced the
I wages Of the 500 laborers employed by
IL from sL50 per day TO sLS6 There
r was much grumbling by the men over
the reduction, but they say they are
powerless, having no organization and
being unsldlled hands.
MRS JULIA TAYLOR, aged rs years
committed suicide at her residence In
| Brooklyn. N. Y, on the 9th by hanging
, herself TO the bedpost She Is supposed
, TO have been insane
; M. B. GoBLE. an extensive lumber
dealer OF Catlettsburg, KY, failed OF
: the 9th with liabilities Of $500, 900. II Il
said the assets will be nearly the sam'
I amount
: The Bank Of Florence, at Florence
/ Ala, closed It's doors on the 9th. Th'
banks officers refused TO make a state
D ment and the assets and liabilities car
|. not be learned
AT Lyon Mountain. N. Y, on the otl
, while Mrs Robare. q widow, was tenn
I porarily absent from home, the chill
e dren set FIRE TO the house, which wa
= destroyed, and the youngest, 3 year
s old, perished In the flames. Two men
e boarders at the house, lost $500 In casl
which they had laid away in their trunks
; THE giant powder works at Clippe
4 Gap, Cal. blew up on the 9th, killing
b three men and seriously wounding |
i. boy.
s THE appraisers of the estate of tn,
J, late Mrs Theresa Fair, Of San Fran
T cisco, have fled their report PLACING
the total value Of the estate at 5000,
e 900. The property consists Of railroa'
+ bonds, real estate and money loaned.
b THE celebrated United Brethren
q church case, involving the ownership o
e large amount Of property in Wayn'
u county, Ind, and indirectly all tn
church property in the United States
y was decided by the Indiana suprem
y court on the 9th. The dispute aros
o over the revision Of the confession o
faith, the church dividing into two fac
], tions, liberals and radicals The rndi
II calls were in the minority but they de
b manded the church property, including
q the s250,OO0 book plant at Dayton, o
y The supreme court decided in favor o
the liberals, holding that the matte
y had been properly adjudicated in tn
5, ecclesiastical courts Of the church ant
c. there was no need for the interference,
is OF the civil courts