The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-05-13

senting Indiana, won the first prize.
The subject of his Grafton was THE
Heir Apparent.
AT Pittsburgh, Pa, three hundred
and fifty journeymen plumbers went on
strike on the Sth. The strike was
precipita;ed by the working rules pre-
sented by their employers.
l. NEWTON KLEIN, senior member of
the firm of Klein, Goodhart & Koch,
clothing manufacturers, shot himself
through the heart at his home in Cleve-
land, o., on the Sth, and soon after died
from the effects of the wound
FIRE in the wholesale lumber yard Of
Bennett Bros, at Lakeside, Mich, on
the sth, destroyed 100000 feet of lum-
Der, estimated to be worth 10000; fully
insured. Origin unknown.
AT Chicago, on the Sth, the jury in the
case of Paul Holz, charged with killing
his father, Carl Holz, last December,
brought in a verdict of guilty and fixed
the punishment at fourteen years in the
penitentiary.
BUSINESS failures during the week
ended the sth numbered for the United
States 2l2 and for Canada 80, total OF
242, as compared with 255 the previous
week. For the corresponding week OF
last year the figures were 2O9.
A SEVERE shock of earthquake was
felt at San Francisco on the Sth. Build
ings were shaken but no damage is re-
ported.
AT New York, on the Sth, many small
shops had yielded to the housesmiths'
eight-hour demand, but there were still
about 5000 men out. Several OF the
bosses of the larger shops have in
formed the strikers that they will yield
II the others will.
AT indianapolis, Ind, Minnie Whit
aker, young country girl who came to
that city to secure money to aid her
father, sentenced to the penitcntiary
for theft, committed suicide on the Sth
by taking morphine. She was Is years
of age.
THE cordage works of G. W. Law
renee & Co., at Greenpoint, L. l., were
burned on the sth. Loss, 100000.
THE st-bound Canadian Pacific
train from Boston for Minneapolis met
with a serious accident near Saulte
Ste. Marie, Mich, on the sth. The
sleeper and dining car were thrown in
to Il ditch and twenty persons were
more or less injured. The accident was
caused by spreading of the rails.
WILLIAM WRIGHTMAN, living near
Middletown, Ind, who has kept sew
eral hundred bushels OF wheat stored
in his barn for year, while removing
the wheat for market, found in the
grain an old pocketbook containing
S11,5OO in gold and paper currency,
How the money came there is a mys
| terry.
THE Massachusetts, State board o.
health reports that there were seven
teen deaths from hydrophobia during
the past year. This is the highest mum
ber of deaths from this disease ever re
corded in that state.
A STATEMENT prepared at the pension
Office shows that during the month o
April last there were issued l,545 pen
sion certificates of all classes, the frs
payment on which aggregated 1854,
sl5 The average first payment to eacl
pensioner was Sl22S3 OF the tota
number of certificates issued 11,lG
were under the general law, and 20,37
under the act of June 81, 1890.
The Philadelphia granite cutters
strike was settled on the sth by tn
bosses acceding to the advance o
twenty cents per day asked for by tn
men.
GEN. B. Il. BUTLER's property a
Lowell, Mass, has been attached TO
sl2,OO by the Prescott National ban
Of that city. The attachment is TO
money due on personal note di'
counted by the bank four years ago.
LOCK EzELI, United States maj
shal, was waylaid and killed at poir
few miles south of Russelville, Ala
on the sth. II is supposed to have bee
the work of "Wildcatters."
The Western Farm Mortgage Con
pany at Aberdeen, S. d., assigned on th
Sth. The authorized capital was $3.50
OOO over $3.50 600 Of which was paid il
President Wilson says the assets eNcee
: the liabilities.
The National Stove Manufacturer
association concluded its business &
Philadelphia on the sth and adjournet
A resolution TO maintain the prices {
stoves at the same figures as last yea
passed.
Ar ST. Louis on the sth %, 900 Sunda.
school children inaugurated uniqu
crusade. Divided into eighty parti,
they made complete canvass Of th
city for the purpose Of ascertaining no
many children do not attend Sunda.
school or church, and extended an inv
tation 10 all such to visit places Of wo
ship.
THE large livery barn of Augu
Huntzman at Manson, Ia, burned G
, the 9Th. Nineteen horses, includir
two thoroughbred stations were or
| mated. The loss will be over $40, 900.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.