The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-09-07


there, was caught by decoy letters
DEXTER & DANA's store Mt Munns-
vile, Madison county, N Y, was bur
glarized on the night Of the 81st ult.,
and 5000 in cash and S7OO in checks and
accounts were stolen. Four suspicious
persons were arrested at Oneida on sus-
picion.
A SUSPECTED case Of cholera was dis
covered In the heart of the tenement
house district at New York City on the
1st, at No. 95 Orchard street The In
spector found man suffering from all
the symptoms Of cholera, and who had
arrived there recently from Hamburg.
AT Homestead, Pa, on the 1st Patrick
Moran, q non-union heater was as
saulted and robbed by drunken gang,
who decoyed him into the woods. The
men held him, took off his hat and
shoes, which they appropriated with
s25 they found in his pockets The
gang then fell upon Moran and beat
him into state of insensibility.
THE national debt on the LIST, less the
s129, 152, ,344 surplus cash in the treasury,
amounted to ss3S,074,O76, Of which
amount s5s5, 5,O81, ,OsO is interest bearing
debt
AT Des Moines, Ia, the old brick
state house was destroyed by fire on the
1st The flames originated in the sem
ate chamber. The state house was
built in 1856 and was vacated eight
years ago.
DURING the temporary absence OF
Postmaster Tice on the Slst ult the
post office at Perth Amboy, N. j., was
entered by thieves who got away with
s175 in cash and 81 600 worth Of postage
stamps ..
The collection Of tolls on Canadian
vessels passing through the canal at
Sault Ste. Marie, Mich, began on the
I'd. The first boat to pass was the pro-
peller United Empire, which paid into
the custom house s114 All Of the reg
ular Canadian boats will continue to
use the canal and pay the toll.
THE number Of business failures oc-
curing throughout the country during
the week ended September were for
the United States 14s and for Canada
2S, total Of 178, as compared with $50
the previous week and 2l7 for the cor
responding week of last year.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY LYONS has entered
suit in the United States court at Pitts
burgh on behalf of the government
against Feeney Bros, quarrymen, to
recover penalties nggregating s11, 900 for
violations of the alien contract labor
law in importing italian worbmcn.
The city authorities Of Chicago in.
augurated new and unexpected move
on the I'd in their war on the Garfield
race track. Just after the first race had
been run the police arrested the starter
and his assistants, the Judge and thir-
, teen Jockeys
, AN additional reward Of $4,000 has
, been offered by Mrs. McWhirter, Of
Fresno, Cal, for the arrest and convic-
: ton Of the murderers Of her husband.
, Her family have added 5000, so that
the total reward now offered is $4,000.
\ The Nebraska State bank, Of Crete,
: Neb., closed its doors on the I'd. Tho
bank Is capitalized ut $4,000 and was
q recently reorganized. George d. Steph-
ems, the former cashier, held the con-
trolling interest He left for Chicago
!. August 20 and has not been seen since.
n His present whereabouts are unknown.
= TALroS HALL, who II Is said had COM
Z mitted more than thirty murders dur
!. ing his career as IN outlaw and desper'
q ado, was hanged at Wise Court House,
Va, on the I'd.
, MATTHEW For, charged with murder
I Elmer E. Bales, conspiracy, and Oscar
n Colflesh, aggravated riot and conspiracy
were arrested by Pinkerton detectives
n at Homestead, Pa, on the I'd. This Il
4 the second time Foy and Bales have
4 been arrested
a IT was learned at Chicago, ILL.,, on thu
i I'd, that the entire packing interests o
a the Armour family, representing a capi
o tai Of $50. .000, 900, will be harmoniousl,
united on October 1. Under the new
a order Of things many expenditures will
Il be saved.
n A SPECIAL from Buffalo says that tn
y first train out on the Philadelphia
a Reading road on the I'd, made tn
"a phenomenal run of nine miles In 81.
n minutes. The train consisted OF an en-
CINE and two heavy passenger coaches
b. and all through to Rochester the rul
Il averaged mile minute.
y AT Brooklyn, N. Y, on the I'd the re
!, tail coal dealers decided to raise tn
= price of coal fifty cents ton, from asa
y 10 S5.75. The New Jersey coal ex
= change notified all dealers in Newark
N. j., that the price Of Lehigh ha
a been raised TO $500 and free burnin
coal to S575.
AN epidemic OF hydrophobia threat
"a !. ened the city Of Anderson, Ind, on tn
~ I'd. Mad dogs were numerous an
many persons have been bitten by an
mails supposed or known TO be rabit
One fatal case Of the disease has alread
u been chronicled.
ie AGNES and lillian Morse, aged 81 an
IN Il respectively, were drowned In III
IN Rideau canal at Ottawa, Ont, on II
e night OF the 1st by the upsetting
- their canoe.
" THE steerage passengers Of the stear
IN ship Gallia, in quarantine at New Yorl
:" were put aboard the steamboat Fletch'
and transferred TO Hoffman's Island {
n1 the2d.
m THE new stables Of the Belt line raI
s. road were destroyed by fire at Was
ed ington, d. G., on the I'd. Sixteen hors
en- were roasted in the flames, togeth
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