The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-01-07

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increase over 1889, being 81sp, ,00O, 900, az
against s14s,OoO,0oo, an increase OF SAL
900, 900.
DURING 1890 Colorado mines produced
500, ,ss1, 1884 divided as follows. Silver,
$40, ,9O6; gold, $4,512, ,3l6; lead, s4,74s,-
65s; copper, SS59,440.
AN engine on the Baltimore & Ohio
Southwestern road, on which there were
five trainmen, collided with coal train
near Parlersburg, w. Va, on the 1st,
wrecking the engine completely and
seriously injuring all the men.
The old Wilkinson & Green mill at
Providence, R. l., was gutted by fire on
the list. Loss, sl25,oOO. The mill was
built in 1918 and has lately been run by
the Dexter Yarn Company.
The schooner Mortlight, of Calais
Me-, from Portland for Calais with a
cargo of grain, left Portland December
2, and as she has not been heard from
since, she has probably been lost. The
vessel carried crew Of six beside the
captain.
The Thermometer at Fort Fairfield,
Me-, on the 3lst ult registered sixty de-
grees below zero, beating the record at
that point.
The Milwaukee Street Railway Com
pany has executed a $40, 900, 900 mort
gage to the Central Trus- Company, of
New York. The mortgage covers all
the Willard interests in Milwaukee rep
resented by the property and various
franchises of the recently consolidated
Cream City and Milwaukee City Railway
Company, and the two electric light
companies.
VICE PRESIDENT MORTON has sold
Fair Lawn" his summer residence at
Newport, r. l., to Isaac T. Barden, Of
New York, for s1SO,OOO.
THE fremen on the Western New
York and Pennsylvania railroad have
been granted an advance of over ten per
cent. In wages.
THE threatened strike Of the Monon-
gahela river miners was inaugurated
on the I'd. The strike involves 5000 to
10000 men and the indications are for
long fight. The advance demanded is
one-half cent per bushel and has been
authorized by the chief officers of the
United Mine Workers.
GOVERNMENT receipts during Decem-
Der past aggregated S31, ,37O, ,O39, against
1886, ,5O4 in December, 1889.
THE business failures occurring
throughout the country during the seven
days ended January number 34S, as
compared with total of 1888 the previ-
GUS week. For the corresponding week
OF last year the figures were 322.
PENSION payments during the past six
months aggregated 500, ,001, $40, against
SOL, $500 during the first half of the
preceding fiscal year.
The reduction in the public debt dur
ing December was s11,O95, ,397. The
total debt January 1, less cash in the
treasury, was Ss62, 430, ,541, and Of this
amount S319, ,O19,74O is interest-bearing
debt.
THE office Of the county treasurer of
Wright County, Mimi, was robbed OF
$500 on the 3D. AS the money was
being put in the vault, two masked
robbers entered the Office, fred one
harmless shot, and knocked the treas
urer senseless. Then they gathered up
the money and fed.
THE Peoples National Bank Of Fay
etteville, N. c., closed its doors on the
I'd. An ugly feature in connection with
the suspension is that the bank not only
received deposits up TO the moment Of
closing its doors, but checks were paid
up to that time. Several large failures
have followed the suspension.
The large manufactory of the Ohio
Buggy Company at Columbus was nearly
destroyed by fire on the I'd, entailing a
loss of sl75, 900; covered by insurance.
THE Avenue Hotel at Corsicana, Tex,
burned on the night Of the 1st. The
charred remains Of four persons-a man,
two women and a boy were found in
the ruins. They could not be identified.
GOVERNMENT expenditures during the
past six months aggregated in round
numbers s20O,0OO,OOO, or twenty-five
millions more than expenditures during
the corresponding months of 1889.
NEAR Irwin, Pa, on the I'd Mrs.
George Balm drowned herself in a well.
Three weeks ago her young daughter
went crazy. This drove her husband
insane and he died in a madhouse AT
Pittsburgh, December 30, and now the
last. Of the family have suicided, all
within three weeks.
GEORGE Z. DANA, vice president OF
the Whitman q Barnes Manufacturing
Company Of Syracuse, N. Y, which has
joined the American Harvester Com.
pany, in a recent interview denied that
their works would be shut down, and
pronounced the report that 10000 men
would be discharged by the new com.
pany canard.
THE tow boat Anna Roberts, bound
for Pittsburgh, exploded her cylinder
head, opposite Portsmouth, o., on the
I'd, instantly killing Frank Perry, Ben
James Swail, j. b. Shaw and
James Gray. Engineer Rens was Sc.
verely injured. The boat was damaged
10 the extent Of 81, 200.
THE wholesale dry goods firm OF Allan
Sheldon a. Co., of Detroit, Mich.
founded nearly half a century ago by
lachariah Chandler, on the LIST ceased TO
exist, having been dissolved by mutual
consent.
On the I'd passenger and express
train on the Baltimore g. Ohio railroad
'ollided near Harper's Ferry, instantly
killing Engineer Rufus Gosnell, OF Bal.
timore, and two fremen. Seventeen
persons were more or less injured and
leveral IN 70 dan,oliahod