The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-05-20
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Gathered from All Quarters
DOM ESTIC.

n HORklBLE Cdot VI pONSIVy, 5pudioi'
degradation and death came to the at
tention of County Physician Wrightson,
of Essex county, N, j., on the 18th. 1t
was the discovery in foul smelling
hut in Montclair of the body of wo-
man, who had evidently been dead sew
eral days, and her S-year-old son, who
for nearly week had innocently slept
beside the corpse.
LEVY Bros & Co., wholesale clothing
manufacturers of New York, were
closed by the sheriff on the 18th. The
failure is thought to be disastrous one.
The liabilities will reach $500 and
perhaps more.
SECRETARY FOSTER has ordered a re-
duction of the force in the appraisers
office at Boston, Mass, together with a
decrease in the salaries paid.
The American Bible society cele-
bratcd its seventy-ffth anniversary at
New York on the 18th. A large num-
Der of distinguished clergymen from all
parts Of the country were present.
The towboats George Roberts Eagle,
and Twilight, lying at the Mononga-
hela wharf in Pittsburgh, were burned
on the 18th. Loss, S2j, 900; insured.
A DISPATCH from Sprague, Wash, on
the 18th stated that over hundred of
the Indians in the Okanogan country
had died of the grip. The Indians are
leaving for Idaho and elsewhere to es-
cape the epidemic.
Ar Akron, O., j. Park Alexander,
who has held the oil trade in that city,
for years, on the 18th sold out to the
Standard Oil Company. Akron has been
The only city in the United States where
the oil trade was not controlled by the
Standard.
AT Noblesville, Ind, on the 18th Q
destructive fire occurred, consuming the
opera house, two dwellings and two
barns The loss is estimated at $40, 600
insurance about $4,000.
TnE strike which was recently insti
tuted on the work of the new federal
building at Brooklyn, n. Y, ended on
the 18th, and the demand Of the union
men were acceded to. None but union
men are now employed. The situation
Of the housesmiths' strike was practi-
cally unchanged.
OSH million and fifty-eight thousand
barrels Of flour have been exported from
the port of San Francisco during the
6rst ten months OF the crop year 1890.
81, as against sos. 900 during the same
period In the previous crop year.
AT Harrisburg, Pa, on the 18th an
order was issued withdrawing the last
of the troops from the coke region,
Sheriff Mccormick having notified the
governor Of his ability to preserve order.
BY the explosion of boiler in G. w.
Wilson's sawmill, at Wilson's Station
near Cumberland. Md, on the 1Stf
three men and a boy were instantly
killed and two others seriously hurt.
TIE Harvard college semitic museum
was opened at Boston, Mass, on tn,
18th. This new departure is gift o
$4,000 from Mr. j. H. Schiff, of New
York, for the purchase of casts, manu-
scripts and other objects illustrating
semitic history and literature.
AT Bellefontc, Pa, on the 1871
Moore's photograph gallery was burne'
and the establishments of Mckee 4
Bros. and W. & w. c. Kiplingcr wer
badly damaged by smoke and water
Loss, $4,000; insured.
AT Mcpherson, Kan, c. A. Ilegelund
president of the Second national ban
OF that city, who was shot on March
last just before his bank failed, was NJ
rested on the 18th on complaint Of tn
representatives of the Dunkard college
charged with embezzlement of 5000.
AT New Yorl, City on the night of tn
18th FIRE was discovered in tenemen
house and Bridget Clark, II years old
servant, was burned TO death and thre
9th er persons were slightly burned
All the tenants escaped.
AT Stanford, H., on the 14th j. A
and Samuel Riley and Berry Fovle
took drinks from q bottle supposed I
contain whisky but which was file
with aconiie. In a short time j. A
Riley was dead and it was believed IN
other two would die.
A FIRE which started in the ChristiA
Moerlein Brewing Company's mai
building at Cincinnati, on the l4th, di
sl5O,0OO damage. Loss covered by In
surance. Spontaneous combustion wa
supposed to have been the cause Of tn
fire.
AT New York City, on the 18th rt
ceiver was appointed for Daley, Bling
ham & 0Hara, manufacturers Of print
ters' rollers, owing TO dissensions In tn
firm.
A SERIOUS freight wreck occurred o
the Northern Central railway near MI
hontonga, Pa, on the 18th, caused by
broken axle. No one was hurt, butovC
half the train, composed Of oil and graz
cars was reported burned
NINE buildings in the heart Of the bu
mess part Of Hardy, Neb., were d
stroyed by FIRE on the 14th. Loss $50
900; insurance one-half.
AT Philadelphia, on the 14th A,
tanks containing many thousand barre
Of oil, the shipping house in which
was stored, the cooperage and stor
house and 5000 empty barrels we
burned at the Belmont oil works. Los
estimated at $4,000.
AT New York, on the 14th there we
ninety-two lumber dealers banded I
gether in the lumber trade associate
and nearly all shops had Joined the &c
eral lockout. The combination Of strik
seems to have paralyzed the buildiI
trade.
A GENERAL meeting Of the trainm,
of the Chicago & Northwestern ro
was held at Chicago on the 14th 10 co
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