The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-03-18

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EIGHT HUNDRED weavers employed at
the Atlantic mills, Providence, r. l.,
have gone on strike on account Of al
legged excessive fines.
THE levee at Conley's Lake, thirty
miles south of Memphis, gave way on
the l2th, and the water poured onto the
little village, completely flooding every
thing.
THE funeral tram bearing the remains
of the late United states Senator George
Hearst arrived at San Francisco on the
18th.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY SPALDING has
instructed the collector Cy customs at
New York to admit free of duty a case
of paintings from Germany impcrted by
Mrs. Leland Stanford, of California, for
presentation to the cathedral at tscra-
mento.
DENVER, Col, is without mayor
The supreme court has denied a re-
hearing in the mayoralty case. The
present mayor, Wolfe Londoner, was a
few weeks ago declared to be illegally
elected after holding the Office nearly a
year.
BUSINESS failures occurring through
out the country during the seven days
ended March 13 number 273, as COM
pared with a total of 265 the previous
week. For the corresponding week OF
last year the figures were 252.
AT Jeannette, Pa, on the 18th, wind
storm blew down the east wall OF the
Fort Pitt glass works and many persons
were injured by falling timbers and
bricks.
TIE first application for repayment
of the direct tax under the act of the
last congress was received at the treas
ury department on the 18th. 1t was
from Gov. Hill, Of New York, and the
amount of money called for was about
g., 222OO0.
A DISPATCH from Omaha, Neb., says
that $50 soldiers at Fort Omaha are
down with la grippe. The hospital is
filed with sick men and the matter is
becoming serious in the barracks.
A FIRE broke out in the male wing Of
the Central insane asylum near Nash
vile, Tenn, on the night of the 18th,
and before it could be controlled the
wing was entirely destroyed and six Of
the twenty-three patients were burned
to death.
E. p. ScHUNEMAH and John Clark
were arrested at Syracuse, N. Y, on
the 18th, charged with stealing letters
containing checks, drafts and money
from mail boxes in the streets Of that
city. The peculations extend over a
period of several months. The men
were held in "a, 500 bail each.
The hearing in the case of Thomas
Louden, Coke Operator Rainey's pit boss,
against the different labor leaders,
charging them with assault, was tried
at Uniontown, Pa, on the 18th. The
four labor leaders were held in the sum
of 5000 each for court, on charge Of
melting riot and preventing hainey's
men from working.
AT Logansport, Ind, on the 18th the
family of John Geppinger, after par
taking of some moldy cheese at supper,
were taken violently sick. Miss Lizzie
Woods, one OF the family. died the next
day in horrible agony. The remaining
four members Of the family are not out
of danger.
THE lower branch of the Missouri
legislature has passed a bill reducing
freight rates % per cent. on grain, cat
tie, farm machinery and building mate
rial.
THE first big steel steamship ever
built upon the lakes was launched at
Chicago on the 14th. She is the Marina,
3Os feet long, and will be used for car
rying ore.
THE fight between Jake Kilrain, OF
Baltimore, and George Godfrey, Of Bos-
ton, for 5000, took place at San Fran
cisco, on the 18th, and was won by
Kilrain in the forty-fourth round.
JOSEPH p. CLossEY, for seventeen
years the trusted clerk OF Arthur Ken
ny, wholesale shoe dealer Of New
York, was arrested on the 18th, charged
with swindling his employer by means
OF forged checks and notes. The sums
embezzled amount to several thousand
dollars.
THE unknown steamship wrecked off
Start Point, near Dartmouth. England,
few days ago, was the Maroma, OF
Liverpool. The crew attempted TO
reach shore in their boats, but were
swamped and only four Swedes reached
land, one OF whom died Of exhaustion
soon afterward
For the ninth time Isaac Smith, under
sentence OF death for the murder OF
Stephen Skidmore in Pike county, o.,
In 1888, was respited on the 18th by Gov.
Campbell. The execution Is fixed now
for May 2S. This is TO enable the legis-
lature TO consider the special bill now
pending concerning Smiths case. He
would have been executed next Friday
morning.
The Graf hotel, three-story frame
structure at Duquesne, Pa, and several
adjoining buildings were destroyed by
an incendiary fire on the 18th, causing
loss Of $4,000. twenty-five guests In
the hotel barely escaped with their
lives, some jumping from the second
story windows.
THE Baltimore a. Ohio western ex-
press ran into landslide about twelve
miles out from Washington on the 18th.
The engine was wrecked and several
cars left the track. The engineer was
badly hurt and some Of the passengers
injured, though not severely.