The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-08-26
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Gathered from All Quarters
DOMESTIC.

OSWEo ttA'
WILLIAM CHRISTIAN, president o. X.
Caldwell, cashier, and w. H. Robinson,
director of the wrecked Citizens bank
OF Nevada, Mo-, have been arrested and
each held in S5, 200 bonds for trial in the
circuit court for receiving deposits
when they knew that the bank was In
solvent.
AT Carbon, Wyo., on the 18th the
Union Pacific depot, express and tele-
graphic offices were destroyed by fire.
The remains of John Crompton, the
company's agent, with a revolver lying
near, were found in the ruins. Cromp-
ton had been drinking hard, and 1t Is
supposed he set fire to the depot and
then shot himself.
A CARRIAGE containing II. G. Multi
gan and J. F. Hickey, delegates to the
fremen's convention at Herkimer, with
John Lawton, of that village, as driver,
was struck by an express train while
crossing the tracks a short distance
from the depot at Utica, n. Y. Multi
gan and Lawton were instantly killed.
Mr.. Hickey was so badly hurt that he
will die.
ALBERT BRYANT, brakeman, was
killed and Conductor Ruby and Brake
man Thompson probably fatally in
jured by a rear-end freight collision on
the Baltimore & Ohio railroad at the
Viaduct bridge, Baltimore, on the 10th.
Several cars were thrown sixty feet
into the ravine.
THE White Star steamship Teutonic,
which arrived at New York on the 10th
from Liverpool, made the passage in five
days, sixteen hours and thirty-one min
utes, which beats the record by one
hour and thirty-dve minutes
EDWARD LAMBERT, JR., bookkeeper
Of the San Juan Smelling and Mining
Company, at Durango, Col, is short
$4,000 In his accounts Lambert is
mayor of Durango and has absconded.
The ninth annual reunion of the ex-
Confederate association Of Missouri was
held at Kansas City on the 18th. Three
thousand veterans took part In the
parade.
THREE children Of John Armitage, Of
Ewotah county, Ala, were drowned on
the 10th. Willie, aged 0, while bathing
ventured beyond his depth. Two sis
ters, aged 10 and Is. hearing his cries,
went to his rescue. All were drowned.
AT Kane, Pa, on the 10th, freight
car loaded with bark started down a
steep grade on the Campbell lumber
railroad and plunged into locomo-
tive at the foot OF the grade. The fire.
man OF the locomotive was instantly
killed and the engineer fatally injured.
Two women inmates of the jail at
Buffalo, N. Y, committed suicide on
the 10Th. Anna Gossoworska sup
posed to be insane, was found hanging
by rope made from her clothing and
was dead when removed. Within q
quarter Of an hour afterwards Mrs.
Catharine Smith, committed for at
tempting TO murder her deformed son,
was also found dead, hanging by her
skirt, which she had twisted into rope.
AT a sewer excavation in Minneapolis
on the 10th, blast which failed to &c
of on time exploded after the worlmer
had returned 10 the spot and terribly
mangled c. Larson and c. Pierson, the
former II is thought fatally.
VIOLENT storms prevailed through
out central Indiana on the 10th, accom-
panied by the heaviest rainfall Of tn,
year. In indianapolis the electrica
display was simply terrific. Two ma
chinists at 0lsen's bolt works wer'
stricken, Charles Levin suffering so sc
verely that he may die.
A NATIONAL convention Of railwa.
postal clerks met at St. Louis on tn
10th. Delegates from nearly ever.
prominent city in the country wer
present II is proposed TO petition con
gress to grant an increase of salaries +
railway postal clerks
THE Elberon hotel at Elberon, N. j.
including the Garfield cottage, wher
Mr. Garfield died, was sold at auctiol
on the 10Th for $4,000. The price a
which the property was sold Is abou
half its actual value.
THE boiler makers OF the United State
have notified their employers that tn
union will demand an eighthour wor
day on and after May /, 1892, and tn
employers are preparing to resist the d'
mand.
TowY MARSHAL WILL SANDERS she
and killed police Judge A. NJ. Egbert q
Crab Orchard, KY, on the Goth. Tn
men quarreled over conflict OF ar
thority.
FRANK G, ALNY, the murderer {
Christie Warden, was captured near th
scene Of his crime at Hanover, N. II
on the goth. He took refuge in q bar
and made desperate resistance befoi
he was overpowered, firing fifteen sho
az his captors and wounding one.
Two masked men held up freigl
train on the Kansas City, St Joe
Council Bluffs railroad on the Goth an
robbed the conductor Of his watcl
They then shot the rear brakeman an
escaped.
GEORGE RUSSELL, an old resident I
Cumberland, Wis, and his grandse
were both drowned while fishing
Beaver Dam lake on the Goth.
ED BLAIR was hanged In the penitel
tiary at Columbus, o., on the 2ist i
killed Arthur Henry, station agent,
Harrisburg, o., In March, 1890.
THE American Wheel Company, ha
ing works throughout Indiana, Obi
Michigan and other states, failed on Y
e0th The assets are 81, 100, 900; liabi
Ties about 100000. Judge Blodge'
Of the federal district court at Chicag
his appointed q receiver.