The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-01-28

| editor OF the New YORK weekly lnhes,
took place in New York on the 22d and
the remains were taken to Cleveland,
O., for interment.
In the Superior Criminal Court at
Boston on the 22d Judge Sherman SEN
fenced William Crotty to twenty-five
years in State prison for breaking into
Morses jewelry store. Crotty was taken
to Boston from New York on requisi-
ton, was indicted under the habitual
criminal law and pleaded guilty
The National Stonecutters' and
Quarry Mems Association at st. Joseph,
Mo-, elected officers for the ensuing
year as follows: President, A. George
Dugan, Kansas City; Vice Presidents,
A. Schulz, Omaha and w. Sargent, To-
peka; Secretary, w. Ewing, Kansas
City; Treasurer, Henry Kauer, st. Paul.
THE run on the South Omaha branch
of the Nebraska Savings Bank con-
! tinued two hours on the morning of the
22d, and as depositors were paid in full
confidence was restored and the run
ceased.
DAVID SKIwINsKI, n New York sales
man, was engaged to a Huntingdon, Pa,
girl On the 2lst she wrote him break
ing the engagement, and the next day
he went to Huntingdon and hanged
himself.
THE jury in the case Of j. o. Vervais,
the st. Paul (Minn. census enumerator
who was charged with making false re-
turns, on the 2Sd brought in verdictof
not guilty.
JAMES L. OWENS and his wife, aged
respectively seventy. nine and seventy
four years. were run over and killed by
Baltimore & Ohio train at Washington
on the 23d The couple were crossing
the track in a milk wagon and did not
hear the approaching train.
BUSINESS failures throughout the
country during the seven days ended
January 23 number $50, as compared
with All the previous week. For the
corresponding week of last year the
figures were 33S.
STEPHEN L. SHERMAN, of the late firm
Of Sherman Bros & Co., Buffalo, who
was convicted of grand larceny in con-
nection with grain transaction, was
on the Esd sentenced to five years in
Auburn State prison.
A FIRE at Buffalo, n. Y, on the 2Sd
destroyed the ive-story brick block
known as the Clothing Exchange, cor
ner of Pearl and Terrace streets, caus-
ing loss 100000. A falling wall killed
two firemcn and injured several others.
DURING the trial of an opium snug
gler at Seattle, Wash, recently, Collec-
tor of Customs Bradshaw, of Puget
Sound district, testified that during his
entire term not a single can of prepared
opium had been entered for duty at the
custom house. This statement shows
TO what an alarming extent opium
smuggling is carried on.
THE young stallion Certainty
owned by William Simpson, of New
York City, and valued at 100000, is
dead
GEORGE KENDALL. a young English
farm hand OF Arlington, N. j., was
bitten in the lip two months ago by
pet skye terrier belonging TO his en-
ployer. On the 23d Kendall died in
New York hospital, a victim Of hydro
phobia in its most horrible form.
The formation OF n glass tableware
trust, including most Of the Pittsburgh
tableware manufacturers, has been com
pleted and is in working order. The
combination, with one or two excep-
tions, includes the Pittsburgh, OIio and
West Virginia factories.
Or the 23d wreck on the Georgia
Central railroad, near Atlanta, seriously
injured Engineer Walter House, Fire
man Wright, and Conductor Ennis.
JOHN NJ. EGAN, president and general
manager of the Kansas City road, and
c. II. Holdridge, general agent, have
been indicted by the grand jury at Min
neapolis, Mimi, for violating sections
Of the Interstate Commerce law pro-
hibiting discrimination in rates.
In spite Of the announcement that the
Chicago Gas Trust is abo t TO be dis
solved, Mayor Creiger has instructed
the Corporation Counsel TO push the suit
begun by the city against it. lie is en-
deavoring 10 force the companies to re-
duce the price Of gas.
On the 23d the burning of the fan
house OF coal mine near Evanston,
Wyo, destroyed the means Of supplying
fresh air to the 200 men working be-
meath the surface. The camp was in
panic at once The mine lamps were
extinguished and the men scrambled for
the opening. All escaped.
AT Richmond, Ind, on the Esd the
jury in the case Of James A. Woods, the
attendant at the Eastern hospital for
The insane, charged with kicking T. Jay
Blount, patient, TO death, returned
verdict Of guilty of voluntary man
slaughter, fixing the penalty at twenty
one years in the penitentiary.
AT a meeting of Chicago cigar makers
on the Esd II was decided to advance
the price OF domestic cigars ten per
cent on February next. They claimed
that this was necessary owing to the in
creased cost Of the i'm orted wrappers
under the Mckinley law.
Bon FORD, the slayer Of Jesse James
recently got in n shooting scrape at
Walsenburg, Col, and was arrested
with his antagonist.
PERSONAL AtSJ POLITICAL.
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