The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-09-09
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Gathered nom All Quarters
DOMESTIC.

anu attempted improper hoerbicS WIN
Susie, the l0-year-old daughter OF Tins,
when the girl picked up shotgun and
fred at the intruders. She missed both,
and the charge entered the head OF her
7-year-old brother, and he is fatally.
injured Both men escaped.
"SHEENY GEORGE" king Of the silk
thieves, well known in criminal court
fame by the police and burglars OF the
United States, is now under arrest at
Kansas City for robbery.
FIVE THOUSAND acres OF hay land
studded with stacks, near Grand Forks,
N. D., was swept clean by prairie fire
on the 1st The fire is supposed TO have
caught from Northern Pacific locomo-
tive.
The Richmond & Danville Railroad
Company has offered reward Of sle,-
900 for the arrest and conviction Of the
person who opened the switch or mis-
placed the rail which caused the fearful
loss OF life near Statesville, N. G., re-.
Gently.
RICHARD NASH, engineer on the fast
Reading express, while on the lookout
near Oreville station, Pa, on the I'd,
was struck by some obstruction and his
head severed from the body. The body
hung out of the cab window some min
utes before the fireman discovered what,
had occurred.
A FIRE caused by lamp explosion in
the Willows hotel at Willows, Cal, on
the ed destroyed that building, together
with the Union hotel, the Crawford
house, Hocheimer & Co.'S store and a
number of other business houses. Losses
aggregate s15o,oOO
JACOB BANEY, well known horse
dealer OF Myerstown, Pa, has failed
with liabilities aggregating nearly
100000
The cotton manufacturers associa-
ton held a meeting at Fall River, Mass,
on the I'd and voted almost unanimous
ly to reduce the wages Of operatives
The amount of reduction will probably
be 10 per cent
FIRE at The Dalles, Ore, on the I'd,
destroyed sixteen business blocks, caus-
ing loss OF from $3.50, 900 TO 81, ,0OO, 900.
A CIRCULAR was issued by Secretary
Foster on the I'd extending indefinitely
the time for the presentation Of ~ per
cent bonds for extension at Q per cent.
WHILE holding ropes attached TO a
balloon which was being inflated at the
fair grounds at oswego, N. Y, on the
I'd, John r. Woods was carried up 100
feet by the air ship. His feet caught In
the ropes and turned him over and he
fellto the ground, being instantly killed
WHILE a train was running at full
speed near Denison, Ark, on the I'd, q
car Of powder blew up, instantly killing
z IL White, brakeman, and August
Beckman, stoclSman in charge Of a
car Of household goods The powder
car and the adjoining car were blown TO
pieces.
MAILS from China and Japan which
left Yokohoma on August 10 on the
steamer Empress of Japan. and were,
landed at Vancouver, B. G., on August
90, arrived in New York on the I'd, hav-
ing been carried across the continent in
eighty-eight hours, breaking all records
for speed.
Ar Sheepshead Bay, N. j., on the Sd.
@. E. Smiths two-year-old colt King
Cadmus won the Sapphire stakes Mr..
Smith is the plunger widely known rs
Pittsburgh Phil" and his winnings on
King Cadmus are the largest that have
been recorded on the American turf In
several years, amounting to over $780,
900.
SECRETARY RusK on the Sd received
Official notice that the German govern
ment had raised the embargo on Ameri-
can pork
THE large barns Of N. P. Valerius g.
Co., at Watertown, Wis, were destroyed
by fire on the Sd, together with their
contents, consisting of thirty-two Clyde
stations and several other horses Loss
SIS, 900; insurance $40, 900.
A DEADLY epidemic Of typhoid fever
is raging in Wheeling, w. Va Over 100
deaths have occurred and there are now
nearly $50 cases Of various shades of
severity. The epidemic Is attributed 70
the use OF impure water from wells
The steamer w. w. Corcoran was de-
stroyed by fire on the Sd while lying at
her wharf in Washington, D. @. A col
ored boy whose escape from the boat
was cut of jumped overheard and was
drowned.
THE monuments erected by the state
Of Illinois to the Eighth and Twelfth
Illinois cavalry and the Eighty-second
Illinois infantry were dedicated at. Get
tysburg, Pa, on the Sd.
REPoRTs reached Duluth, MINI, on
the Sd that @. r. Sturth, the well-known
land explorer, and two companions
were drowned In Vermillion lake, near
Tower They were crossing the lake in
canoe which upset.
THE Lake Erie & Western railroad
strike Is of and the men resumed work
on the 3D.
AT Amesbury, Mass, on the Sd George
Ellis, 10 years old, capsized boat on
Lake Gardner and was drowned. James
Higgins, aged 90, who went 10 his aid,
was seized with cramps anu was also
drowned.
AT Pittsburgh on the Sd Judge Ewing,
OF the county court, handed down de-
cision In the litigation arising from the
Penn bank failure Of eight years ago.
The Judge decides that directors arc
not liable TO depositors for money
placed In the bank.
The Georgia Legislature has passed a
bill disqualifying physicians addicted
10 drink from the practice Of their pro-
fcssion.
A cARRrAeE containing four persons
was struck by train at Peekslsill, N.