The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-02-04

OF the Su1IcrerS III JndU oLuIc'
WINsLow, WHHLocK & Co., New York
brokers and bankers, are under attach
ment with declared debts of SG9, 900.
BY the collapse of the building of the
Western Art Association at Omaha,
Neb., few days ago, the Bougereau
picture, "The Return of Spring, valued
at S20,000 and many other valuable
works on exhibition were ruined.
ABOUT 200 letters, all of which had
been opened, were found in lumber
yard in st. Louis on the Goth ult. Checks
to the amount of $1,000 were scattered
about. 1t is believed the letters were
stolen from postal car at the depot.
= In collision between a freight and
work train near Honeyville, Utah, on
the Goth ult, twenty Italian laborers
were more or less seriously hurt.
COLONEL c. d. ARNOLD, who was
charged with having filed q fictitious
affidavit in pension claim as captain
of Missouri regiment while in the late
war, was on the Goth ult. acquitted in
Judge Hamer's court at Washington.
On the 3Oth ult. the Cincinnati South
ern express, south-bound, collided with
freight train on forty-foot trestle
Just below Lexington, Ky. The engine,
tender, baggage and smoking car of the
passenger train were demolished and
the sleeping car thrown several feet
from the track. The passengers were
badly shaken up, but none seriously in
jured.
On the 3Oth ult. extra freight train
No. "a. east-bound, on the Pittsburgh,
Fort Wayne & Chicago railroad, ran
into a large rock lying on the track at
the east end Of Cork Run tunnel, near
Pittsburgh. The engine and three cars
were wrecked, and Brakeman F. 7,
Gray was fatally injured, and Fireman
Mahon sadly hurt
BUSINESS failures occurring through
out the country during the seven days
ended January 80 number for the United
States, 27s; Canada, AZ; total, 800; as
compared with total Of $50 the previous
week. For the corresponding week OF
last year the figures were POI.
I THE supposed suicide Of fourteen-year-
old Mary Ann Dolan at the home of her
foster father, John Moran, Nashville,
Tenn, has developed Into a case of
murder. Moran struck her with a
hatchet
CHARLES MILLER, clerk in the mail
ing division of the st. Louis post-ofiice,
was arrested on the 3Oth ult. on the
charge OF robbing letters. Four letters
and about SO in marked money were
found in his pocket lie acknowledged
his guilt and said it was his first offense.
WILLIAM II. BUTTNER and his partner,
Hughes, the fraudulent divorce lawyers,
were sentenced at New York City on
the 30th ult. Buttncr was sent to prison
for seven years and Hughes for five
years
KATIE KoPnEF, eight years old, was
hit over the eye by stone thrown by a
small boy at Pittsburgh on the 30th ult
and died in terrible agony. The name
of the boy is not known.
AT Meadville, Pa, on the 30th ult,
at the instigation of G. W. Witter, de-
positor TO the amount of S615, the men,
bers of the assigned banking firm of
Delamater & Co., and Victor NJ. Della
mater, cashier, were again arrested on
the charge OF embezzlement. They
were released on $1,000 bail.
THE village of Cygnet, an oil town
fourteen miles from Findlay, o., was
swept by fire on the 3Oth ult. Six
blocks of buildings were destroyed.
The fire started in the millinery store
of Mrs. Leon Maloney. Her husband,
daughter, and boarder named Michael
Slattery, who occupied rooms above the
store, were burned to death. Six other
persons were badly injured. The finan'
cial loss is 500, 900, with little insurance,
THOMAS REAGAN, Of San Francisco,
who has been Lucky Baldwin's turf
representative in the East for some
time past, has disappeared with about
$4,000 In his possession, $4,000 of which
belongs TO the California millionaire.
There are suspicious that Reagan has
met with foul play.
AT Fort Worth, Tex, the jury in the
case OF Rev. DIR. William Mitchell, the
minister charged with forgery, on the
3Oth ult. brought in verdict of guilty,
fixing his punishment at two years in
the penitentiary.
THE test of the air ship at the Chicago
Exposition building ON the 30th ult.
proved satisfactory. To all appearances
II was thoroughly demonstrated that air
craft has at last been invented that per.
mits OF aerial navigation never before
accomplished-propelling and steering.
The ship is the one invented by William
! Pennington, of Mt. Carmel, Ill.
THE famous Arctic explorer, Lieuten.
ant SchwatlSa, was seriously II not
fatally injured at Mason City, Ia, on
the 3Oth ult. by fall.
On the 30th ult. q rescuing party
headed by Mr.. McNaughton, succeeded
in reaching the miners imprisoned in
the burning Chaplin mine at Iron Noun
tain, Mich. The party was lowered II
a bucket to the eighth level, where all
the men were found alive except two
Jerry Bennett and Thomas Edwards
who were dead.
A SITE for the Federal exhibit at tn,
worlds fair in Chicago has been SC
lected by the government board Of con
troll. The building is to be placed on ,
, plot OF fifteen acres on the lake shore II
, jackson Park, opposite Fifty-nintl
street. The main building will cove
four acres The structure will be o
stone, iron and glass, and in architec
ture will be elaborate and ornate. II