The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-01-06

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A NUMnER of Hungarians were en-
ployed In repairing q furnace In the
National Tube works at McKeesport,
Pa, on the SOth ult when the walls fell
in, burying three men. Two were tar
tally injured. 49," MIi
THOMAS GRIEF, proprietor of the hall
at Chicago raided by the police few
weeks ago to break up an anarchist
meeting, has brought suit against Po-
lice Captain Mahoney and Inspector
Lewis for $25,Ooo damages so
A LETTER has been at Troy, N. T.,
from Canada, written by Oliver G
Perry, once New York Central rail-
road brakeman, confessing the express
car robbery near Utica IN. W recently.
He exonerates two men who had been
suspected and says he alone is guilty.
He will not return to New York, he
Says
WHILE two men were thawing out
dynamite at the Schoomaker quarry
near Milwaukee, Wis, on the 30th ult,
an explosion occurred which blew their
bodies to atoms. Their names were
William Walters and Albert Waters.
John Rogalslsi, another workman, was
seriously injured.
A FIRE at Hardin, Mo-, on the list de-
stroyed twenty-five business houses and
dwellings, Loss S75, 900; little or no in
| surance.
THE revenues of the government for
the month of December were S2S, 5OO.-
900 or $500, 900 less than the expendi-
lures during the same period. This
has had the effect Of reducing the
treasury cash balance TO $50, 4O5, TAO, in
cluding Sl4, ,O0O, 900 in subsidiary silver
and S12, 356, 927 on deposit with national
banks. The principal item in the dis
bursements for the month was Sl3, 1885,
900 on account OF pensions.
THE immigration officials at New
York on the 1st moved from the barge
Office to their new quarters on Ellis ISL
and, in the harbor.
BUSINESS failures occurring through
out the country during the seven days
ended January 1 number 800 as COM
pared with totals of 292 the previous
week. For the corresponding week OF
last year the figures were 34S.
TIE jackson block at Birmingham,
Ala, burned on the 1st, and $3.50, 200
worth of property was destroyed, three
fourths covered by insurance. The
principal losers are F. B. jackson and
DIR. Joseph R. Smith, owners Of the
building.
The president has commuted to ten
years actual imprisonment at hard
labor the sentence in the case Of the
three Yuma Indians convicted In Cali
fornia Of murder and sentenced to be
hanged January Is next
EDNA Z. FoRTNER, Of Wilkesbarre,
Pa, died ON the 1st, aftor eating soue
canned corn beef Four other members
Of the family, who also partook OF the
food, are dangerously i'll but may re-
recover
DURING the year just ended there was
coined at the Philadelphia mint over
ninety-two million pieces, with valua-
ton Of over $4,000 600 Owing TO the
discontinuance OF the silver dollar after
July the totals are not as great as
those Of last year The dies that were
used in the working OF the above pieces
have all been destroyed.
JOHN DIETEL, fat man on exhibition
in Cincinnati museum, died from the
grip In that city on the 1st He was
native of Baltimore. He weighed ovei
70S pounds The deceased was probably
the largest man about the girth on ex
hibition, measuring eight and one-hali
feet
AT Winthrop, Me-, on the list, Emery
& Waterhouses AZ factory was des
troyed by FIRE. Loss $4,000; insurance
$4,000.
FIFTY-sIx 'longshoremen, carpenters
and coopers employed by the Allen ant
Dominion line steamship companies a
Portland, Me-, have received notic'
that they will have TO go back to Can
ada, they having been brought here IL
violation of the alien contract labo
law.
A DISTRESSING affair occurred In th'
mountains near the Peaks Of Otter, Ii
Bedford county, Va, on the night o
the S1st ult, by which an old lady los
her life. Some parties set fire TO tn,
house of Arlington, an escaped hors
thief, which was occupied by his mothe
and grandmother. Mrs Arlington dis
covered that the house was on FIRE an'
ran out Her mother, an old lady, wa
sleeping upstairs and before she coul'
be reached the fire had gained sucl
headway that escape was impossible
and aha vvaa hurnad to death