The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-02-03

sticks of dynamite, which had been
placed near the stove, exploded, blow
ing the shanty to fragments. Two of
the men were instantly killed, and of
the other thirteen not one escaped In
jury and several will die.
"KID" II HARRIs, the notorious criminal
whose latest exploit was the looting OF
the West hotel in Minneapolis, Mimi,
was captured at Chicago on the 2Sth
ult and will be returned to Minneapo-
lis
A FEW days ago FIVE peddlers came to
Ottawa, H., from Chicago On the
2sth ult two of them were found in
their hotel dead from the effects Of gas
escaping from defective fixture. They
were Abdallah Malouf, aged 40, and his
nephew, 1S years old One of the
women in the hotel tainted when she
saw the dead bodies, one Of whom was
her son and the other her brother.
AT Gettysburg, Pa, in the case OF
John Tafferty, farmer charged with
beating a seven-year old bound boy
to death, the grand jury has returned
true bills against him for manslaugh-
ter and aggravated assault and battery.
BILLS have been favorably reported
by the House committee on library APP
propriating s25, 900 for a monument at
Putin-Bay, o., commemorative of Com
modore Oliver Hazard Perry and the
battle of Lake Erie, and S25, 900 for a
monument to William Henry Harrison,
the grandfather of President Harrison,
at North Bend, o.
MARTIN MoHLER, secretary Of the
Kansas State board OF agriculture, es-
Inmates the amount of wheat raised in
that state in 1891 at 5S, $40, 900 bushels.
This is nearly five millions greater than
the estimate made by Government Sta
tistician Dodge.
THE report that Whitelaw Reid, min
lister TO France, would resign that posi-
ton and return TO the United States to
re-enter the field Of journalism was con-
firmed at the state department on the
2eth.
REV. ROWLAND BAILEY HOWARD, ID.
D., secretary of the American Peace as
sociation, died at Rome few days ago,
after an operation for the removal Of an
abscess He was brother Of Maj Gen.
o. o. Howard.
THE Manhattan club rendered re-
ception and banquet TO Senator Hill at
its club house in New York City on the
Goth. It was magnificent affair and
there were a large number Of distin-
guished guests In response to the
toast, "a Democrat" the senator
made brief address.
SOLOMON HANKS, pioneer Of Au-
glaize county, o., died at his home in
New Hampshire township on the 25th,
aged 92 years. He was a cousin of
Abraham Lincoln and had been a resi-
dent Of the county more than half a
century.
THE New York assembly has passed
q bill allowing newspaper representa-
tives to witness electrical executions
DIR. WESLEY NEwcoAlB, aged s4 years,
died at Ithaca, N. Y, on the 27th, after
a fortnights struggle with the grip
He was one Of the leading conchologists
Of the world.
THE Indiana Democratic state com.
mittee have changed the date of holding
the state coPyention from April "a to
KpfnoL
THE National Farmers Alliance con-
vention, in session at Chicago on the
2sth ult, elected officers as follows:
President, d. f. Ravens, Washington;
secretary and treasurer, Adolph Dale
mand, Nebraska; lecturer, G. Z. Law
renee, Ohio. The report Of Secretary
Treasurer Post revealed deficit in the
treasury, and the fact that many local
alliances were in arrears.
THOMAS THOMPSON, colored, was
hanged on the Goth ult at Chestertown,
Md, for the murder on August 90, 1891,
of william Adams, also colored. The
hanging was the first in that county
since 1851.
AT Philadelphia on the goth ult John
Schweitzer, Henry Schweitzer and
Henry Shirlock, who several weeks ago
picked quarrel on the street with
William Wiley, with whom they had no
previous acquaintance, and beat and
kicked him to death, were sentenced to
Ave years imprisonment each.
FIRE at Milan, Mo-, on the 2sth ult
destroyed block of business houses, in
cluding the post Office. Loss, 500, 0O0;
we'll insured
A FAcTIoNAL feud that promises TO
rival in blood-shedding the famous Hat
field-McCoy war, has broken out in Bell
county, KY Three men have been
killed so far and the trouble is not yet
ended.
AFREIGHT train on the New York Cen.
tral road was run into at Messina
Springs, N. Y, on the Goth ult by anoth-
er freight train following II, and seven
cars were smashed TO pieces. Brake
man William Cox was killed and Con-
ductor John Welch had both legs
chopped off.
DISPATCHES from Del Rio, Tex, con-
firm the report that there is force Of
several thousand Mexican revolution.
ists in the country about that place on
the Mexican side OF the Rio Grande, In
the state Of Coahuila-
By a premature blast in the Rush Run
coal mines at Fayette, W. Va, on the
goth ult five men were killed and five
wounded. All were colored men.
THE business failures occurring
throughout the country during the
week ending January 20 number for
the United States 259, Canada ~ total