The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-10-21
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Gathered from All Quarters.
DOM EsTlc.

with burning the court mousse, nhrpino
confessed the crime and implicated Au.
ditor James II. Lavelle and ]. b. Hawes,
a prominent farmer, both Of whom have
been arrested. Harbine claims that
Layelle hired him to burn the court
house for $500, only s. Of which has
been paid.
THE Methodist Ecumenical council,
in session at Washington, adopted
resolution on the 14th protesting against
opening the worlds fair on Sundays.
A SHORTAGE of $4,000 and possibly
more has been discovered in the ac-
counts of Thomas H. Stout, an employe
Of Kennett, Hopkins & Co., New York
brokers' Stout has disappeared.
The explosion of boiler in Dolman's
barrel-headfng factory at Upton, Ind,
on the 14th wrecked the building and
caused damage of $4,000. The fifty
employees in the building were more or
less injured, two probably fatally.
On the 18th locomotive boiler In the
Kansas City railway shops at st. Paul,
Mimi, exploded, injuring eleven men,
two or three of them seriously.
ATTORNEYS for the relatives OF Presi-
dent James X. Polk have filed bill in
the chancery court at Nashville, Tenn,
contesting the will of the late Mrs,
Polk, widow OF President Polk
THE stockholders Of the Pullman
Palace Car Company met at Chicago on
the 18th and authorized the issue oi
S5, 900, 900 of new stock.
AN express train on the Baltimore q
Ohio road jumped the track at Hicks
Vile, O., on the 14th, killing two pas
sengers, wounding ten fatally and about
forty others less dangerously. Tht
wreck occurred on sharp curve.
A GRANITE monument to the memory
of Red Jacket, the famous Indian CHIEF
of the Six Nations, was unveiled on th'
l4th. The monument is located on thu
shore of Seneca Lake, near Waterloo
N. Y, the spot where Red Jacket wa
born in $780, 1t represents the trunl
of hemlock tree from which the limb
have been Topped of, and is surrounded
by six hugh bowlders, typifying the si'
Nations.
! SECRETARY RUsK has number o
samples of sorghum sugar, manufacture
by the alcoholic process" by which h
says about 200 pounds Of sugar is oh
tanned from ton Of sorghum cane.
THE Chicago creditors of s. V. Whit
& Co. on the 18th accepted his proposi
ton to pay fifty cents on the dollar.
The Kentucky court of appeals ol
the 14th affirmed Judgment OF 500
and costs assessed by the county cour
Of Green county against the Louisvill
& Nashville Railroad Company for vic
lating the Sunday law by repairing II
tracks in that county on Sunday.
MAJ. CHARLES b. THRoCKMoBToN, Q
s. A., commander at Fort Schuyler, \
Y, has been placed under arrest an
relieved Of his command pending invei
tigation of charges OF issuing WORTHLESS
checks and duplicating his pay voucl
ers.
THE Michigan crop report for octoot
shows that the yield OF wheat, as IND
Gated by the data at hand, Is 2O,4ll
730 bushels The total product hi
been exceeded only in 1879, 1880 al
1882, and the average yield an acre h
been exceeded only In 1885.
A SPECIAL train OF twenty-six ca
loaded with raisins left San Francis
ON the 18th for New York. This max
$50 carloads Of raisins shipped Ea
from California so far this season.
UP TO October Is $50, 14s,650 four-ar
a-half per cent. bonds have been
deemed, leaving outstanding IS, $780,
Ar the annual session Of the Anne
can board OF commissioners for forei
missions in Pittsfeld, Mass, on I
18th, Rev. DIR. Storrs was re-elect
president. In response TO a call for
Young men who had volunteered
foreign work, fifteen came forwa
most of them from Yale college.
The assistant treasurer at Bost
having recently refused TO give 81
coin in exchange for a $1,000 treasr
note when requested TO do so, has bt
informed that his action Is not approx
by the treasury department inasmr
as such notes are there held TO be pr
erly redeemable in either gold or sill
coin.
A FIRE at Viroqua, Wis, on the /
destroyed the east half OF Main sire
involving loss Of $4,000
AT Scranton, Pa, on the 18th Stepl
DAyala shot and killed his wife at
Nav House, where the couple resi-
with the wife's father. The murde
then attempted TO escape, and in
scufie which ensued the father
badly hurt DAyala was afterw
lodged in jail. The tragedy was cat
by jealousy.
THE fy-wheel Of No z mill, An
keag corporation, burst at Manches
N. H., on the 18th, tearing through
floors of the first and second stoi
Samuel Bunker, the engineer,
killed and dozen girls injured, two
tally.
+. j. SMITH, who operates a Mer
thaler linotype type-setting machin
the Toledo Commercial, has beaten
worlds record for machine compost
setting 1890 ems corrected matte
exactly eight hours. He took the
lar run Of copy.
WHILE driving across the tracks o
Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul rail
at Bensonville, Ill, on the 10Th
Dinah Nessman and her two chill
we're struck by train. The wo
and one child were instantly killed
the other child fatally hurt
WHILE riding on a locomotive OF
a E..A.u.. IIitn oils ,-atlrOad