The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-07-15

was dismisseE by Jddge mayer IN tnS
United States court at St. Paul, Mimi,
on the 9th, that official instructing the
clerk to draw up a verdict OF not
guilty" to which he instructed the lore
man Of the jury to attach his name
ABoUr twenty-four years ago J. +.
Cash was killed in fight at dance
near Paris, I'll. c. w. Perry and Bruce
Raw were tried for the crime and ac-
Quilted A few days ago Perry died.
and among his papers has been found
letter confessing that he committed the
murder.
AT Jersey 0ity, N. j., on the 9ch
Harry Spears Thomas Trotter, Joseph
III. Buckridge ana Oscar Freiberg were
sentenced to eighteen months each In
state prison for ballot-box stuffing in
the general election Of 1880 Bail was
ixed at So, 500 each pending an appeal
The treasury department has decided
that copper contained in silver ores In
excess Of per cent, is dutiable at the
rate of one-half cent per pound
MRS. M. j. CoNNoR, of San Raphael,
Cal, while shopping in San Francisco
on the 9th, left q sachel containing
81, 900 in bonds and checks in cab. On
returning for the valnables few mo-
ments later the sachel was gone
There is no clue to the thieves
The treasury department, under the
recent copyright law, will issue a list
weekly, furnished by the librarian OF
congress, Of title entries under the copy
right law. This list will be furnished
subscribers at the rate of s. year. The
list will be furnished collectors OF Gus
toms and postmasters at ofhces receiv-
ing foreign mail.
ARTICLES Of incorporation have been
prepared at Milwaukee, Wis, for the
organization of the Interstate Elec-
trie Railway Company. The new COM
pany proposes to build and operate
an elevated electric railway between
Milwaukee and Chicago. The capital
stock is fixed at S10,0O0,0 900 The road
will be double tracked and tits expected
that the electric trains will make the
distance between Milwaukee and Chi
cago, eighty-five miles, in an hour.
THREE Italians were fatally injured
and one killed in a powder explosion on
the railroad ten miles south OF Vance
bug, KY, on the 10th.
JOHN PUTERBAUeH, a well-to-do farm
er residing near Ellis, Neb., shot and
killed his wife and four children on the
10th. He then committed suicide. No
cause can be assigned for the deed save
insanity.
THE grasshopper pest in New Mexico
and Arizona is becoming serious. The
grasshoppers have stripped many
ranches Of nearly every vestige OF veg
citation and have done great damage.
The strike of the South Penn OH
Company in its well at Motz, W. Va, is
causing great excitement Experienced
operators place the product of the well
at 800 barrels per day, and leasers are
} rushing into the territory. Property
has more than quadrupled in value.
, WHILE attending a church picnic a
} Oak Point, o., on the 10th aman named
Brockman, his wife and two children
3 were drowned
THE Falls City national bank, o
Louisville, KY, suspended payment OF
, the 10th. Liabilities are said TO b
5 about 5000, 900, while the assets are owe
: 81, 900, 900, but not available at present
! DISPATCHES from Northfeld, Fari
a bault and adjacent towns in Minnesot
3 report that a very strong wind struc
4 that locality on the 10th, unroofed build
: ings, blew down trees and signs and lev
9 eled the crops in many places. seriou
e losses are reported by damage TO ol
= chards. II is feared the hurricane wa
more severe in the country and advice
d are anxiously awaited from points
; the path of the storm.
;, THE Citizens bank Of Nevada, Mo
e closed It's doors on the 10th and with
II three other banks in the county. III
Bank Of Sheldon, Bank Of Walker ar
t. Bank Pronaugh, all under its contrc
r passed into the hands OF receiver.
er JOHN SPACKMAN, aged 20; lsah
in Henderson and her sister Ella Hends
II son, aged 90 and 12 years respectivel
at and Florence Chenowith, II years G
be were drowned in the lake at Oak Gro'
near Cleveland, o., on the 10th. Tn
IS were in attendance at church picI
is from Cleveland, and ventured out
ed the lake In ,iff which wa cnpsiz
er by the heavy sea.
en- CHARLES BROWN, Of PHI. .phia,
In iail at New York charged w
NJ wholesale petty thefts from messen(
rt- boys. His plan was TO give the boy
al message TO deliver, promising to 7
he them ten cents and holding their pa
IA ages until they returned. He would
In gone when the boys got back II
CO, said his thefts aggregate $4,000.
en- BUSINESS failures occurring throu.
out the country during the seven di
~ s1 ended July 10 numbered 247, as CO
ne pared with total of 2S7 the previ'
week. For the corresponding week
W last year the figures were 1917.
ins The July report Of the department
agriculture makes the acreage as cC
81, pared with breadth harvested last y
'ao Of corn, 1888; potatoes, 1923; tobac
on 1O2.a Condition: Corn, 92s; win
lea wheat, 9as; spring wheat, 941; !
e'e $50; oats, $40; barley, 900; potato
95.3; tobacco, Oil
w The immense company stores OF
wi Cambria Iron Company at Johnsto
'ur- Pa. at which thousands OF their we
'ca men traded, have been sold TO pa
eeN Of unknown capitalists for ne;
tins q, nna onn The Ioxv a0ainat comm