The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-07-08


THE president left Washington on the
I'D for Cape May, N. j.. and for the next
five or sly weeks will transact all pub
lie business requiring his attention at
that place. The white house will under
go extensive repairs during the summer
and will not be habitable.
THE employees of the Union and Lake
Erie rolling mills ut Cleveland, o., to
the number of 65U, went on a strike on
the 1st, owing to the refusal Of the COM
panies to sign the Amalgamated associ-
alton scale.
AT the cabinet meeting on the I'd 1t
was decided to extend the ~ per cent.
bonds at per cent
The supreme council of the Fedora
ton OF Railway Employees adjourned at
Terre Haute, Ind. on the I'd. Grand
Master Sargent, OF the firemen, was re-
elected president of the council, and
John A. Hall, secretary of the Switch
mems Mutual Aid association, was
elected secretary and treasurer to sue
,ceed Sheehan, of the brotherhood OF
Trainmen, whose order was expelled
from the federation.
THE large Cooke locomotive works,
of Paterson, N. j., employing 1000
men, will close down in a few days
owing to dullness in the business.
THE Minnesota supreme court has
sustained the decision awarding S25, 900
to Fred A. Hall, engineer, against the
Chicago, Burlington & Northern rail-
road. The court charges the road with
being guilty of negligence, which might
almost be characterized as wanton and
criminal. Hall is now almost help
less cripple and invalid for life.
JOHN SMITH and Mary Damson, who
were soon to be married, were killed a
few days ago by a runaway accident
near Franklin, Ky.
ABOUT $50 employees of the Allegheny
bessemer steel mills of Carnegie Bros.
& Co., at Duquesne, Pa, struck on the
I'd. There was no question of wages
in the strike, the men simply demand
ing that the Almalgamated association
be recognized. The firm refused to
sign the scale and stated that the mill
always was and always will be run in
dependent of any organization.
ROBERT P. REEcE, mining operator,
committed suicide at Seattle, Wa, on
the I'd, by cutting his throat while
temporarily insane. Reece formerly
lived in Fairfield county, o., where he
practiced law. He was twice elected
member Of the state senate. He had
extensive mining properties in the
Northwest.
G. NJ. LOWRY, who has been taken to
San Antonio, Tex, on reqpisition
from Oakland, Cal, proves TO have been
n much more extensive embezzler than
the case showed on its face. The in
dictmeRt against him is for defrauding
the New York Life Insurance Campany,
of which he was local asont, of 50, 900.
II now appears t'ss his shortage will
reach $50, O,O00
TIE Illinois secretary of state on the
l.o2 issued a license TO the North Chicago
Elevated Railway Company, capital
stock $4,000, 900, TO construct and oper-
ate elevated railways in Chicago to va
rious suburbs.
AT Stockton, Cal, on the I'd the ther.
mometer registered l0s degrees. There
were four deaths from sunstroke.
AT Manchester, N. H., on the I'd re-
ceivers for the National Benefit Associ
alton and the American Endowment
Association were asked for by the su'
preme court The court ordered the
last mentioned company to disburse
some $4,000 of its funds which still re-
main in its possession.
JOSEPH BAUM & Co., wholesale shoe
merchants at St Louis, Mo-, on the I'd
confessed Judgment in the circuit court
for sS7,3l9. The creditors are mainly
St Louis, Boston, New York and Gin
cinnati firms
Two sections Of freight train on the
Boston & Hartford railroad passed over
brakeman Timothy Costello at East
Thompson, Conn, on the cd, cutting
him TO pieces
AT Denver, Col, on the I'd in the dis.
trsct court Cecil Dean was given $780,.
600 damages against s. w. French for
the alienation of the affections OF Deans
wife. All the parties in the case are
prominent and wealthy citizens OF Den.
yer.
AT Sturgis, S. D., on the I'd the Jury
in the case Of the three white men
charged with the murder of Few Tails,
brought in verdict Of not guilty.
on the night Of the list awell-dressed
middle-aged man who had small trav
cling satchel in his hand jumped over
board from the steamer Dean Rich
mond, on the Hudson river, while the
boat was near Poughkeepsie. The boat
was stopped but no trace Of him could
be found.
DR. RICHARD GoTTHEIL, professor oi
Syriac languages at Columbia college,
sailed on the I'd for London TO consult
DR.. Paul Friedman, a wealthy Hebrew,
respecting the founding Of colonies In
Palestine with exiled Russian Jews
HENRY BRABHAM, the negro who &C
brutally murdered John Mocco, an Ital
ian, on the night Of April II last, was
hanged at Charlotte, N. c., on the I'd.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
THE president has appointed Charles