The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-12-16

sessions and the first Wednesday after
the second Monday In each year as the
time.
THE executive committee Of the Penn
sylvania worlds fair commission on the
10th adopted resolution recommend
ing the closing Of the fair on Sunday,
They ado pied three plans submitted BY
the subcommittee for the Pennsylyania
building at Chicago. The first choice Is
areproduction of Independence hall
"A NATURAL gas explosion caused Q
$40, 900 FIRE at Frankton, Ind, on the
10th. Half score Of business houses
were burned.
THE governor Of Pennsylvania has Is
sued proclamation announcing o re-
duction of the state debt during the
year Of S2,bSs,352
Ar Edwardsville, ILL.,, the jury In the
case against George Starkey and John
Brown for the murder Of ex-State Sen.
ator d. R. Gillham, returned verdict
on the 10th, finding the defendants
guilty as charged and fixing their pun
ishment at thirty years in the peniten-
tiary.
THE residence OF George zimmerman,
at Port Matilda, Pa, burned on the 10th,
and two OF his children, aged and 4
years respectively, perished.
EPPINGER & RUssELLs creosote works
at Long Island City, N. Y, were de-
stroyed by fire on the 10th. Loss $4o,-
600.
JOHN HERBERT PHILLIPS, the man
whose picture was identified by Russell
Sage as the dynamiter, is in Chicago,
alive and we'll
JAMES WEEKLY and Joseph McNevins
were arrested at St Louis on the 10th
for $3.50 robbery. On November Is
last a sample trunk containing $4,000
worth Of diamonds and jewelry belong
ing to drummer for A. Peabody & Co.
wholesale jewellers OF New York was
stolen from the Union depot at St
Louis. The robbery was traced to
Weekly and McNevins through articles
which they had sold and pawned.
REVENUE officers have made a raid
Ou Juc HOOubniucIo on ohO AShhSSooO
and Alabama line. They captured two
large distilleries, together with several
thousand gallons Of beer and other ma
terials
THE bark General Butler, together
with 1000, 900 feet Of lumber and nine
men, was lost about 100 miles south
west of Cape Arago. Ore, On the 11th.
A boat contai ing Capt Parker and five
men was picked up, but another in
charge OF Second Mate John Wlloughby,
containing nine men, was lost.
The Texas supreme court has reu-
dered decision declaring the alien land
lay enacted by the last state legisla-
ture unconstitutional
OVER 200 Of the 1000 steerage passen-
gers who arrived at the barge Office,
New York, on the 18th have been de-
tanned on suspicion Of being contract
laborers Seventy-fve laborers stated
that they were bound for Pennsylvania
THE New England Homestead esti-
mates the hop crop of the country for
1891 at 29S,3o bales, against 2O4,s $40
bales the previous year.
ROBERT RUsToN and wife were instant
ly killed at Erskine Station, Ind, on
the 1lth by an Evansville & Terre
Haute engine. Ruston tried TO drive
across the tracks ahead of the locomo-
tive.
THE missing men supposed to be in
the ruins at tho candy factory at Louis
Vile, KY, have returned 10 their homes
and the record closed with eight lost at
Menne's and four at the Boone Paper
Company. The search has ended. The
total loss is now placed at $500, 900
ARTHUR SLOAN, who murdered his
stepfather and stepbrother at Fonta-
nellie, Washington county, Neb., two
months ago. and who was afterward
captured in Iowa, broke jail at Blair.
Mob, on the 11th and made his escape.
ATTORNEY GENERAL MILLER has de-
cided 10 test the right Of railroad COM
panies under the interstate commerce
law 70 issue free passes over their lines.
The suit will be brought against rail-
road In New Hampshire.
TIE business failures during the week
ending December II number for the
United States $50 and for Canada 40, .
total OF 800, as compared with totals Of
$50 the previous week For the cor
responding week Of last year the figures
were S74. representing s47 failures In
the United States and 81 in Canada
EXTRA engine No 50 and work train
engine No. SO on the Mobile & Ohio
road, collidcd near Mountain Glen, Ill,
on the 11th. Engineer Flippe and train
men Simon Olson and J. M.llcr were In
stantly killed. A dozen laborers on the
construction train were badly injured
ALBERT HOPE, actor and poet who
has been ON trial at Memphis, Tenn,
for forging q draft on the National
Broadway bank, was found guilty On
the llth and sentenced 70 serve four
years In the penitentiary. Six years
ago Hope inherited $50, 900 from his IA
ther and went TO New York. where he
lived like q prince.
Directors Of the worlds fair decided
on the ilth TO ask congress to take S.
600, 900 stock in the exposition, instead
OF lending that amount TO the fair.
JOSEPH MANLEY. one Of the most
noted burglars In the country, who was
under arrest, walked unobserved from
the criminal court room at Pittsburgh
on the llth and made his escape.
PERSONAL IND POLITICAL.