The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-03-18
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Gathered from All Quarters
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
A FIRE at Pittsburgh on the 18th de-
stroyed the five-story building corner
of Diamond and Wood streets, occupied
by the Germania bank, chamber of
commerce, custom house, board of trade,
and Weldin & Co., stationers, causing
an aggregate loss of s5OO.OOO The fire
started from a gas explosion; which
blew out the entire rear portion Of the
building.
TIE anti-Pinkerton bill passed the
New York assembly on the 11th by a
vote Of 10l TO 12.
Col. +. A. GALE, widely known in
financial circles in South Dakota, sui
cided at Sioux City, Ia, on the llth by
shooting himself He had lost all his
fortune, 100000 speculating on the
board Of trade in Chicago
A CALL for one Of the most important
conventions OF miners and mine opera
tors ever held has been issued from the
executive Offices of the United Mine
Workers at Columbus, o. 1t calls con-
ference Of miners and mine operators to
meet at Pittsburgh April to consult
upon questions of wages, etc.
OVER fifty men employed by the Pitts
burgh & Lake Erie railroad company
in its general Offices and on the main
line have been temporarily suspended.
The cause Of these dismissals is said to
be the coke strike, which has greatly
reduced the roads enormous traffic.
A PASSENGER trim on the Richmond
& Danville railroad was derailed near
Danvillc, Va, on the 11th. The train
was u double-header and ascending a
grade when the accident occurred. Both
engines were ditched, the baggage and
postal car wrecked, Engineer Robert
son was killed and FIVE other men were
injured.
The Capital bank of Macon, Ca. with
500, 900 capital, suspended payment and
went into the hands Of n receiver on the
1lth.
WILLIAM BR0wERToN has left Napa,
Cal, for New York trundling wheel
barrow The trip is the result Of a
wager Of 81, 900 on his ability TO accom-
plish IL within six months Two years
ago he made similar trip from Los
Angeles to Cincinnati in FIVE months
and two days
The United States grand jury at Dead
wood, S. d., has found indictments
against the Sioux Indian, Plenty Horse,
for the murder of Lieut.. Casey during
the late uprising, and one against
Leaves lIis-Woman for the murder Of
Isaac Miller, n ranchman.
THE American Bell Telephone Com
pany has declared dividend Of So per
share.
john WILDER, n notorious desperate,
was shot and instantly killed by dep
uty marshal's posse at Cumberland Gap,
Ry., on the 18th.
BELLA PREUscH, Of Virginia, New,
a fifteen-year-old girl, was recently sus-
pended from school for misbehavior.
She went home and fatally wounded
herself with revolver.
PROFESSOR +. w. GOODWIN, of the
Greek department at HGrvard college,
has received n copy Of the new manu-
script of Aristotle, the treatise on the
constitution Of Athens, recently dis
covered and sent 20 the British museum.
LA GRIPPE of an aggravated type has
appeared in Fort Wayne, Ind, and
vicinity. One hundred and thirteen in
mates Of the Catholic orphans home
are dangerously affected DIR. II. S.
Myers, prominent young physician, is
insane as the result Of an attack, and
several deaths are reported.
By order OF General Manager Clark,
OF the Union Pacific, all telegraph
operators of that line in Colorado have
been notified Nhat they must sever their
connection with the order Of Railway
Tele4raphers or leave the service OF the
company at once.
THE Oil well supply company Of Oil
City, Pa, has purchased the Elba iron
works and Continental tube works OF
McKcesport for Sj50.OOO These mills
ha e an equal capacity Of 800 tons daily,
and hereafter the supply company will
make its own tubing.
REPRESENTATIVE OF fifty OF the larg-
est furniture factories in the United
States met at New York on the 18th and
organized national association for the
purpose OF holding semi-annual exposi-
tions Of the products Of the furniture
facto les Of the United States The
first is 20 be held at the American Insti-
tute, New York, from July 9 10 August
8 next.
DURING the past four months 10000
pounds Of prepared opium, valued at
81 800, 900, have been legally imported
into San Francisco.
w. j. CHAMBERS, cashier OF the Barn
hart Mercantile Company Of St Louis,
is missing. Investiga ion Of his accounts
shows shortage Of s., 200.
IT is said at the navy department that
the official report Of the trial board on
the gun-boat Bennington, not yet sub
mitted. will show that the vessel failed
10 develop the horse power required by
the contract by nearly 900 horsepower.
AT New York Judge Lacombe has
granted murderers Smiler and Slocum
until March 23 TO appeal to the United
States supreme court against the sem
tence by which they were to have been
put 10 death by electricity during the
week beginning March IS. This 'oper-
ates rs stay Of execution.
THE Massachusetts, senate Judiciary
committee to-day reported adversely on
the petition asking that law be passed
TO prevent fraud in spiritualistic mani
festations.
A TRAIN on the Bellaire e. GAINESVILLE
ran of the track near Cald-
well, W. Va, on the night of the 18th,