The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-11-04

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place. Total loss $50, 900; insurance only
81, 200
THE passenger steamer Oliver Bierne
was burned at the landing at Milliken's
Bend, La, on the mopning OF the s9th
ult Twelve lives were lost Several
hundred bales OF cotton were burnei.
| The boat was on her way to New Or
leans There were ITO passengers on
board
THE town OF Franklin, the county.
seat of Williamson county, Tenn, was
visited by disastrous fire on the 29th
ult. Most of the business portion OF
the town was destroyed before the fire
was brought under control Loss $780,
| 900; insurance unknown.
The gross earnings of the Atchison,
Topeka e. Santa Fe railroad, including
the st. Louis & San Francisco for Sep
tember were 81, 266, 75S an increase over
September, 1890, of S560,59 Net earn
ings were 81, ,671, $50, an increase Of $685.
600.
EIGHTY OF. the one hundred mon en-
ployed in the press rooms Of the Werner
printing works at Akron. o., members
of the local Pressmen's and Press Feed
ers' unions. struck on the Goth ult They
demanded the discharge of non-union
man and President Werner refused the
request
The savings banks of New Hamp-
shire in their returns up to September
80, show deposits OF S6953l, O0N; the
trust companies have deposits OF Sl,527,-
900, making total of s71, ,95s, 900, gain
during the year of 5,2s5, 900. The total
number OF depositors is 166,2G4 an in
crease OF @, ,4S2 over last year.
AT Milwaukee. Wis, on the 3Oth ult,
the jury in the case Of Virgil j. Muggley,
charged with the murder of his wife, re-
turned a verdict of murder in the first
degree.
THREE bills Of Indictment were found
against the FIVE suspended mercantile
appraisers OF Philadelphia by the grand
jury on the 3uth ult
CHARLES BEARDsLEY, a motor man,
met frightful death at Minneapolis,
Mimi, on the 30th ult. He was driving
car on the Lyndale avenue line and
the car "bucked" or run backwards a
! few feet, then started forward, Boards
| lev was thrown over the front OF the
car, which ran over him. He was dead
when picked up.
DURING the week ended October 80
business failures for the United States
numbered 207 and for Canada 4S-a
total Of 255, as compared with total
Of $50 for the previous week For the
corresponding week of last year the fg-
ures were 2ls, representing 100 failures
in the United States and 2s in Canada
WHILE torchlight parade was pass
ing a reviewing stand at Baltimore,
Nd, on the 30th ult, portion Of the
stand collapsed and United States Sem
ators German, Kenna and Morgan and
others were precipitated Zen feet TO the
ground. Senator German and Congress-
man Compton were underneath and
were at first supposed TO be badly in
jured When released II was found that
neither had suffered seriously, but each
had lame leg.
WHILE an employe of the Excelsior
Slate Company was tending a gate at
head of the quarry, at Bangor, Pa. on
the 3Oth., and while trying to haul in
stone weighing about ton, severe
wind storm started the derrick, which
struck the man and dashed him head
first into a pit seventy-fve feet deep.
He was instantly killed.
JOHN R. WALDEN. said TO be the son
OF Wyndham Walden. the well-known
horse trainer, was shot and killed by
his wife In New York City on the 3oth
ult The couple had only been married
two months, but Walden seems 10 have
been OF fclSle nature. and recently de-
serted his young bride for young
woman named Harris.
The grand jury at st. Louis has re-
turned indictments against John Fitz-
gerald and Michael Walsh, Jail guards,
for conniving in the recent escape of
prisoners from the county Jail
PERKINS, GOODWIN g. Co., who sued
G. p. Huntington for Sl5,627 for paper
furnished TO the old Star Publishing
Company, were non-suited by Justice
Truax, Of the New York supreme court
on the 8Oth ult A judgment secured
against the defunct company could not
be satisfied.
A HEAVY snow storm accompanied
by furious wind prevailed throughout
the Dakotas on the 30th ult A number
OF prairie fires caused much damage TO
grain stacks and other property.
BIDS were opened at the treasury de-
partment on the 30th ult for construct
ing the public building at Detroit,
Mich. z F. Gobel was the lowest bid
der at s247,3i1.
The southern college convention
closed It's sessions at Charleston, s. c.,
on the 30th ult, after organizing the
Southern Collegiate Monumental
association for the purpose Of erecting
a monument TO jefferson Davis
THE postmaster at Elkton, N. C., was
shot and killed in his Office few nights
ago by an unknown person.
THE Stronger Automatic Telephone
Exchange Company, of Chicago, filed
articles OF incorporation at Springfield,
Ill, on the 30th ult, with capital Of
s5,0O0.OOO The object Of the company
Is 10 introduce a system Of telephone
communications which will do away
with the famous central" Office. II Il
be successful the telephone girl must