The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-04-29
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Gathered from All Quarters
DOM MEsTIc.

only the plumbers and plasterers at
work.
HENRY PARKERsoN aged II years, at
Chatham, N. Y, shot Mr.. and Mrs.
Peter Seible on the 22d, killing Mr..
Seible instantly and then shot himself.
The trouble was over the division OF
some property. The murderer will die,
but Mrs. Seible will probably live.
SEVERAL hundred carpenters quit
work at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 22d on
buildings where the stonemasons are
locked out The other trades had taken
no action, but it is likely they will
adopt the policy Of the carpenters be-
fore May l.
AT Louisville, KY, on the 22d Revenue
Agent Hawkins and posse returned
from moonshine raid through Letcher,
Leslie and Laurel counties. They cap
tured and destroyed six stills, 100 gal
Ions of whisky, 10000 gallons Of high
and 500 gallons of low wines. Fifteen
moonshiners were arrested.
For the third time within six months
the post Office at Greenville, Del, was
robbed on the morning Of the 22d and
the thief was caught in the act Two
men are serving terms for robbing the
same Office.
FIRE destroyed ]. B. Wiggins & Sons
brick block at Rome, N. Y, on the ed,
occupied by Virgins & Sons furniture
store; T. & II. Barnard, harness dealers,
and j. NJ. Sturtevant, restaurant. The
adjoining block, the Farmers hotel and
the Pritchard block were also burned.
Loss about S10O, O0O insurance S5O,0O0.
For the nine months ended March 81,
1891, the immigration into the United
States was 316,237, against 254, 403 for
the same period last year. OF the total
immigration about 26l, 900 were landed
at New York.
AT Burlington, Ia, on the 22d labor
ers at the Gilbert, Hedge e. Co. lumber
yards drank freely of water from an
old well in the vicinity and as result
of poison from sewage five of them are
dead and several others are not expected
to live.
A coURT-MARTIAL has been ordered
by the secretary of the navy TO meet in
New York to try Lieut.. Commander G.
A. Biclsnell, charged with undue negli-
gence in allowing the United States
steamship Galena and the tug Nina TO be
stranded on the coast of Massachusetts,,
near Martha's Vineyard
A FAST trotting horse en- route from
Buffalo to Philadelphia leaped from
moving Lehigh Valley freight train at
Rockdale, Pa, on the 22d, fell against a
passing coal train and rolled under a
freight train. A wreck ensued, and
Brakeman Henry Wessler, Of Weisport
was killed. The horse and several sheep
and hogs were killed, and five freight
and twelve coal cars derailed and
wrecked.
CHEF JUSTICE GREEN, sitting as dis
trict judge at Guthrie, Oklahoma, has
rendered decision that women are
eligible TO public Office. Miss Cora v.
Diehl was elected register of deeds, but
the former register refused TO surrender
the Office on the ground that woman
could not hold such an Office. The judge
held that Miss Diehl was entitled TO the
Office and further. that woman may in
the absence Of statute hold any Office
not incompatible with her sex
The will of the late Bishop Gilmour,
Of Cleveland, o., was filed for probate
on the 22d- By its provisions the i'm
mense Catholic estate is left in trust
with the archbishop of Cincinnati and
the bishops of Louisville and Fort
Wayne until another bishop of Cleve
land shall have been appointed.
The twentieth annual convention OF
the Woman's Presbyterian Board Of
Foreign Missions assembled at Peoria
Ill, on the 22d with between 800 anC
400 delegates in attendance.
ABOUT 100 Italians stone masons en-
gagged in building the station of the New
Haven railroad at Port Chester, N. Y.
struck on the 23d because the company
refused TO concede their demand that
eight hours should constitute day q
work.
AT Detroit, Mich, on the 23d there
was not wheel moving on the lines o.
the City Railway Company, and every
line in Detroit save that of the Fort
Street Company was tied up.
At Minneapolis, Mimi, on the 22d 100
plasterers went out on strike. They de
manded $3.50 day instead Of So and
every boss in the city except one was
willing TO grant the demand. The
union declared a general walkout in
order oforce that one boss TO cspitulate.
AT Louisville, KY, on the 22d, Mrs
Samuel s. Hite died in great agony
making the third victim Of the poison
at the wedding at Lyndon. Mrs. B. F.
Guthrie and Mrs. Hobson are also ex
pected 10 die.
The strike OF laborers at jackson
park, Chicago, ended on the 28d. ovei
400 men were at work and not an idle
was TO be seen within the worlds fair
enclosure.
WHEN the fast line on the Fl Wayn,
road reached Pittsburgh, on the 23d, Tn,
doors Of the express car failed TO opei
as usual. They were burst In and J
II. Robinson, q messenger for thirty
years, was found sitting in his chat
paralyzed, unable TO move or speak
He can not recover. Robinson's nc
counts were perfectly made up as fa1
as Salem, o.
DANIEL J. BURNS, employed as aclerl
by the Long Island Railroad Compan,
at Brooklyn, N. Y, and who disap
peared with nearly $1,000 Of the com
pany's money, was indicted for CRANE
larceny on the 24th and pleaded guilty
AT New York, on the Gath, a coroner