The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-07-08
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Gathered from All Quarters.
DOM MEsTIc.

OF all labor matters in connection with
the construction of buildings for worlds
fair purposes
A BULLETIN issued by the census
bureau on the subject of schools for the
blind shows that the total number of
these schools in the United States in
1890 was 9,0S1, while in 1850 the number
was 2,041, an increase in the decade Of
800. The average annual cost per pupil
in schools for the blind from 1880 TO
1890 was $2SS.
THE public debt statement issued on
the 1st shows that the interest and
non-bearing debt decreased 50, 9ls, 666.21
during the month of June.
THE East Liverpool TO- } Crisis pottery
report for July 1 states that the annual
midsummer shut down of the Ohio
valley potteries will average about two
weeks. The stocks on hand are large.
Considerable complaint is made by the
manufacturers that English ware is
shipped as ballast in cotton ships to
Texas, and that the railroad companies
discriminate in the shipping ofthe ware
over the country, thus running the
southern pottery trade for the north,
AT Greenville, Pa, ON the 1st William
Miner, wealthy farmer of West Salem
township, was buncoed out of $1,000 by
two confidence men who succeeded In
getting him to play three card monte.
THE flood in the Missouri river at
Kansas City reached its highest stage
on the 30th uh The water is now fall
ing, and all apprehension OF further
damage is set at rest.
DELEGATES of labor organizations
met at Bangor, Me-, on the 30th ult and
decided to issue n call to all organiza-
tions in the state to meet at Lewiston
in October for the purpose of forming q
state organization.
A RUNAWAY freight train on the
Louisville & Nashville railroad crashed
into another train at Wilders, Ky.,' on
the 1Bt. Two brakemen, Thomas j.
Powers and Sam Strain, were badly In
jured.
Four hundred coal miners in the Col
linsville, ILL.,, district are idle and the
mines were shut down on the 1st The
trouble is over demand for weekly
payment of wages and may spread to
adjoining districts.
THE government lighthouse board
has recommended that the bid Of f. W
Wheeler & Co., Of West Bay City. .dich.,
for the construction Of four lighthouse
tenders at slso, 800 be accepted.
THE president issEed proclamation
on the LIT granting copyright privileges
in .,.e United States to citizens and sub.
jects of Belgium, France, Great Britain
and Switzerland
GEN. FISHER, the receiver OF the
Spring Garden National bank at Phila-
delphia, said on the 1st that the esti-
mate made by him some time ago that
the assets Of the institution would pay
50per cent. appears TO be well founded.
AT New York City on the LIST Alexan-
der Weiz, aged 10, an agent fOr the
Deutch Herald, shot a woman named
Marie Hodig and then attempted sui
eide. Very little hope is entertained'of
their recovery.
AT Goshen, Ind, on the LIST eighty
feet of the bank Of the Goshen canal
went out, entailing heavy loss and
necessitating a shutdown Of the fac
tories along the canal bank. The rush
ing waters undermined c. II. Hawks
furniture factory, carrying away part
of IT.
THE first license TO a sugar producer
under tho. bounty clause of the new
tariff law was issued on the 1st TO Ed
ward II. Cunningham, OF Sugar Land,
in the Third district of Texas His ap-
plication was made on June 5 and the
license is good for year.
AT a meeting Of the executive com
mittee of the G. A. r. eneampment at
Detroit, Mich, on the 1st, the finance
committee announced that 100000 had
been subscribed TO defray the expenses
of the encampment This insures the
success Of the encampment without en-
barrassment 10 the committee, notwitb-
standing the failure of the state appro-
priation.
JUDGE BARNARD, of the New York
supreme court, has enjoined the Ameri-
can Sugar Refneries Company, formerly
known as the sugar trust, from paying
any dividend before July II, when .
hearing will be given on making the
injunction permanent
THE final volume of the eleventh cen
sus report on mines and mining has
been received by the superintendent OF
census. The report shows that the
total valne Of the mineral products OF
the United States at the eleventh CEN
sus amounted 10 $3.50, sss, 45o, the great
est total ever reported for any country.
The total number OF industrial mining
establishments is given as $4,000. The
number Of persons who find employ
ment in mining industries is stated at
512, IA, and the annual wages paid them
aggregate si.175,o ,ooo,0 900.
AT Wurtemburg, Pa, on the LIST q
portable engine and shanty was being
taken over a small stream when the
floor gave way and horses, men and all
fell into the creek, distance OF four
teen feet John, Byron and Charles
Shaffer and Charles Newton sustained
injuries which may prove fatal The
machinery was totally wrecked.
ALL the men In the railroad mines In
Belmont, jefferson, Guernsey and Har-
rison counties, Ohio, numbering over
1000, struck on the LIST for nine hours
q day and the Columbus scale.
EDWARD Y. ELToNHEAD, who until
recently was president Of the Fidelity