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The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-07-27
FOR RECIPROCITY.

A Big Convention with n Thousand Dele
gates VIII be Held At Grand Forks, N.
D.. In September.
GRAND FORKS, N. D., July 21.-The
chamber OF commerce has selected
September and 3 as the date Of the in
ternstional reciprocity convention to be
held in this city. Excursion rates will
he offered on all railways Us far east as
New York. Arrangements will be made
for the attendance of 1000 delegates.
Invitations will be issued TO the boards
Of trade and all cities in northwestern
states, Manitoba and on the Canadian
frontier as far east rs Detroit and
Buffalo. Among the speakers Of ma
tional reputation to be invited are
Erastus Wiman, Joseph Nimmo, Ben
Butterworth and Consul Taylor ex-
Premier Greenway and others from
Manitoba. Extension Of railway com
munioations trade relations, lake nayi-
CATION and deep water channel TO the
sea will receive large attention in the
convention proceedings
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-07-27
CONVICT LABOR
said to be Employed In the Manufactur
OF Pearl Buttons.

said to be Employed In the Manufacture
OF Pearl Buttons.
ST. LOUIS, July 2L-The Chronicle
prints description of one of the pearl
button factories recently established
This factory is located in the southern
Illinois penitentiary at Menard and en-
ploys sixty men. The plant is owned
and operated by the Chicago Pearl
Company, company formed by Carl
Plum, Of Chicago, and two Boston but
ton makers They have contract for
convict labor at price that amounts TO
fifty cents per day per man. The con-
victs also manufacture the machinery
used In making the pearl buttons. The
Chronicle says that Of the other fac
tories established one is In the Auburn,
y. Y. penitsntiary; one in the Elmira,
y. Y, reformatory and one In the De
troit, Mich, house Of correction.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-07-27
victims OF Fire.

ST. JOINS, =. T., July 2O.- Forest
fires are again raging in the country.
At Bay Bulls large fire is in progress
and another between here and Topsail
is assuming serious proportions. Be-
yond that the whole country along the
railway line is in flames. Manuels,
Holyrood. Kelligrews and Salmon Cove
are threatened, and five houses were
burned at Whitbourne and fourteen at
Blaketown.
Bannernan park contains nearly / 800
persons living in huts, and widespread
generation Of disease is feared. Doctors
visit the camp frequently TO direct the
sanitary operations
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-07-27
OBERLIN.

County Commissioners Fauver, Phe-
Ion and Wallace looked over the proposed
Plumb creek improvement last Saturday,
The Lake Shore railroad has let the con-
tract to A. Fike, of Sandusky, for build
ing a new $4,000 depot in that city, A
new depot is also to be built at Paines.
vile. Both are to be Of buff Amherst
stone, trimmed with blue stone furnished
by the Cleveland Stone company.-News.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-07-27
Won't Ashore at south roInt,

MILWAUKEE, July 21.-The big pro-
peller Wisconsin went on the rocks on
the inner bar at South Point yesterday.
She had seventy passengers and mer-
chandise for Grand Haven, Mich, on
board. The life saving crew took off
the passengers and they were brought
back 10 this city on tugs
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-07-27
A LARGE SHORTAGE.
In the Accounts OF an Insurance Agent
Who Has Gone to England to Spend His
Vacation.

In the Accounts OF an Insurance Agent
Who Has Gone to England to Spend His
Vacation.
NEESAH, Wis, July 81. - Edmund
Dodgson, an insurance agent and broker
of this city, has created a stir in insur-
ance circles by his sudden disappear
ance from the city and his supposed
trip TO England. Monday his Office
clerk received letter from him dated
New York, July IS, saying he had de-
cided to spend his vacation in England
and would be back about September l..
In his career of six years here he at
times created some suspicion, but had
gained the good will of many Of the
business men and did large business.
The fact that he has been collecting
premiums for his companies and not re-
mitting them has now become evident
II is expected that the amount accumu-
lated in this way and the debts he left
will reach between $4,000 and $40, 900.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-07-27
aIoo.oo0 Loss hx Fira

MEMPHIS, Tenn, July 21.-The Cot
tonwood Lumber and Manufacturing
Company's sawmill was burned last
night The loss will reach 500, 900;
partly insured.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-07-27
OBJECTIONS!

Some have been mised by the fact that still remains
business block the uppoon that still doing business
that place. Objections having
having removed wish distinctly
clothing the block north side
where bed prices expected clothing
w. w. EARVE j; Y.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-29

THAT gift from John d. Rockefeller
of another million dollars to Chicago
University loses something of its spon-
taneous character in view of the fact
that the trustees had urged him to give
two millions. 1t is q generous and a
magnificent subscription, but. under the
circumstances, has q suggestion of COM
pulsion. of giving to be rid of impor-
tunity. 1t is we'll understood that per-
sistent begging is one of the duties of
trustees and managers of colleges, but
to ask two millions more of Mr.. Rookie
Teller after his first liberal endowment
shows q development of the begging
faculty that Is somewhat startling, even
in the trustees of a Chicago institution.
They probably sustain themselves with
the reflection that their cause is good,
as no doubt it is, but with oil their sue
cess in extracting funds from the mill
ionaire they must look with envy upon
Stanford University, which was given
an endowment of twenty millions at the
start. Mr.. Rockefeller need not hope
that this gift of a million will cause the
institution to cease calling for more.
The wants of the modern college are
boundless. and perhaps he cannot find
q better place for his money.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-29
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

A PIECE of land in Yorkshire is called
"PettIcoat Hold" because every year the
tenant must give q new petticoat to some
poor woman by way of rent.
RICHARD CROKER. the Tammany sachem,
has bought o new house on Fifth avenue in
o fashionable quarter, where he will have
q fine view of Contra park. The house
will be finished in white and gold. and it
Will cost Mr.. Croker not less than SIS. 600.
Mi. GLADSTONE. within the most exclu-
sive official circles in the English govern
ment. Is known as plain Mr.. Gu Thus
John Morley will tell Sir William Harcourt
what Mr.. g." thinks about it. And it's
generally understood that what Mr.. G.n
says goes.
Mr.. AND Mrs. ROBERT LOUIS STEVEN
SON. says q voyager in the South Seas.
conform with frank simplicity to many Of
the habits and fashions of the regiau.
There is q pleasant glimpse of the pair
wandering on lovely Tahiti with bare feet,
and dressed in the graceful flowing gar
ments worn by the natives.
HENRY SHAW. who is regarded by st.
Louis as its greatest benefactor. was m
Englishman by birth. who made his fortune
in the hard ware business and retired at the
age of forty. Passionately fond of flowers
he established q botanical garden Just out
aide the corporate limits of St Louis. and
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-29
CENTURY AND A QUARTER OLD.
Death Of q Russian Jewess Who Claimed to
Have Been Born in 1858

NEW YORK, Dec. 2S.-Liel Lesbtoynski, q
Russian Jewess. who died from old age on
Sunday, was certainly one Of the oldest
women on the earth. if the statement che
made was true. She once told her relatives
that she was born in Odessa. Russia. in
176S. which would make her 124 years old.
According to her story. when q young girl
she went to st. Petersburg and was en-
ployed as q governess In q noble family.
The eldest son fell in love with her, and in
consequence she was sent away. She mar
ried a government clerk, who was subse-
quently banished' to Siberia for getting
was left with four daughters. At rhe
time of her death she was living with
her daughter, Mrs. Kamenski, now eighty
three years old. and her granddaughter.
Mrs. Spiech, q middie-aged woman with q
large family. The old woman had been in
this country nineteen months. She was
well known. for she was to be seen often
wandering along the She was
bent double. and her skin looked more like
parchment than flesh. She was held in
superstitious awe by tho women and hill
dren of the neighborhood. The old woman
often said that she remembered well when
Catherine Ill was Czarina. 1762-1796; the
wars against Poland. Turkey and Persia
az the end OF that reign, and the accessions
of the Cars Paul 1. Alexander 1, Nicholas
1, Alexander III and Alexander III. She
remem bersd also the Napoleonic wars. and
the invasion of Russia By the French in
1912. the burning of Moscow and the return
of the Russian troops after Napoleon bad
been finally crushed. She Was q we'll
educated woman. being able to speak He
brew. French and German besides hex
native language.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-29

UNLESS John Duss, the new leader of
the Economic community. proves to be
q man who wants to try experiments
and to depart from the ways Of the
fathers, the affairs of that society are
likely to be carried on without much
change. AS Duss has for years been in
the confidence of Father Heinrich, it Is
probable that he is In sympathy with
the ideas held by the deceased trustee,
and that he is planning no innovations.
As Duss is a young man, however. and
most of the brethren are aged, with few
new converts coming in. time itself will
bring inevitable changes in the condi-
ton of the community before many
years. Curious people who are anxious
to know the secrets of the society and
10 see its wealth-doubtless largely
oyerestimated-put to other uses must
be content to wait.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-29

IT was an interesting coincidence that
on the day that the leaders of the Popu-
list party, assembled in this city, were
demanding cheaper money and a lower
rate of interest the city controller was
opening bids for q loan of $50. 900, and
was offered the money by q local bank
at 8 $40 per cent. per annum, consider.
ably the lowest rate ever obtained by
the city. Within q few days. also. an
insurance company that loans money
has placed $4,000 in this city at o per
cent. In addition to a like sum, at the
same rate, loaned afew weeks ago. The
latest r~efunding operations of the gov
eminent were made on the best terms
ever obtained, and the rate of interest
in New York on call loans is lower than
ever before. These facts prove con-
~clusively that there is an abundance of
money in the country. and that it is
seeking good investments at a very low
rate Of interest. Anybody that can give
good security can obtain money at tho
present time lower than ever before.
and good money. too. II tho volume
Of currency were increased ton or TWEEN
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-29

M~oNsIGNoR SAToLLI'sconciliatory pol
icy does not seem to be conciliating
everybody. The restoration of DR.. Nc
Glynn, or perhaps mostly the manne of
it, has given great offense to the friends
of Archbishop Corrigan. They insist
that McGlynn should have been required
to make a public apology and recanta-
ton of his offensive utterances, and
that his restoration without this is part
Of a p~remeditated plot to snub and hu-
miliste Archbishop Corrigan. 1t is not
claimed that the Pope or MonsignOr
Satolli were priyy to this plot, but that
they have been used and misled by
others. Altogether, Mgr. Satolli seems
10 have stirred up something of q hor-
nets nest Perhaps the Pope himself
had better come over and pour oil on
the troubled waters.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-29

The commissioners of Montgomery
eounty have decided in a contested
election case that distinguishing marks"
ON ballots must consist Of marks that
had been purposely made by the voter.
and not marks which had been made by
blots from the stamp-mark made by the
voter. This is good sense, and obvi-
ously the intent of the law. 1t is mon
strous to say that a nan shall lose his
vote because of accidental blots on his
ballot or other marks which, by their
nature, plainly show that they were ac-
cidental. In the two general elections
that nave been held under the Aus
tralian ballot law thousands of Repub-
lican ballots have been thrown out for
distinguishing marks hat were plainly
accidental and without any significance
whatever. There should be a decision
of the Supreme Court obtained on this
pOint.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-29
DISMISSED on A TECHNlcALITY.
Millionaire Doane's Coschman Escapes Being
Fined for Docking the Tails Of Horses.

CHICAGO, Dec. 28.-The case for docking
horses tails against William Leddy, In
Judge Brad welrs court. to-day. attracted
great attention. because il was q test case
and because Leddy's work was really done
for John w. Doane. the wholesale mer.
chant, who has been mentioned for q Csbi-
net o"ice under Mr.. Cleveland. and who
likes 10 drive q fashionable tosm. On the
prosecution side appeared President Short
eli, Of the Society for the Prevention Of
Cruelty to Animals. For the defense Alex
ander Sullivan was counsel, n he was
lanked by Potter Palmer. General Tor
renee and other leading citizens who con-
sidered the prosecution unjustifable.
The prosecution ugh unayailiDgly
for delay. Nr. Sullivan insisted upon
securing animmediate hearing. One wit.
ness swore that he saw Leddy docking The
tail of one OF Mr.. Doane's horses. He said
the operation was painful, but on CROSS
examination by Mr.. Sullivan, taid he was
not an expert. admitted amid great laugh
ter that he had never been locked. and ac-
kuowledged that Teddy used cocaine free
ly before using the knife. The prosecution
rested. and. on SIR. Sullivan's motion, tho
case was dismissed because the complaint
and testimony did not bring the case with
in the statute which declares docking shall
be an offense subject to certain punishment
unless IL was for the benefit OF the horse.
Mr.. Sullivan commended that the complaint
should have charged that the act was not
for the benefit of the horse. and that tho
prosecution was bound so TO prove before
q prima facie case was established. The
court held with him and dismissed the
case. The society swore out o new CON-
plant conforming TO Mr.. SuIlivan's tech
meal requirements. and the case will be
heard on it's merits next Wednesday. 10
was manifest that the society was sorely
diaappointed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-29
A WIDOWS DOUBLE LEAP.
Jumped Blindly Into MatrimonY and then
Jumped Out Of a Hotel Window. 81

CHICAGO. Dec. 2s.-"For Gods sake save
me. / don't want e 60 back there any
more" shouted q thinly. clad woman who
ran into a policeman's arms at the corner
of Sherman and Van Buren, streets this
morning. The woman had just jumped
from q second-story window of the Atlantic
Hotel. A remarkable story was elected
when the woman was taken to q police
station, where her husband hurriedly put
in an appearance. He gave his name as
Winifred s. Jefferson, of Douglass county,
Oregon. and told the following story: II
was married to this woman. whose name
was Mrs. Matte Alexander. in the Atlantic
Hotel yesterday. / am the owner of a ranch
in Douglass county. Oregon. and two
years ago inserted an advertisement in a
farming paper. published in this city. for a
wife. The advertisement was answered
by Mrs. Alexander. living in Undertook.
N. Y, the widow Of a wealthy bottle manu-
facturer. We have correspondent ever since,
and met in this city. by agreement. to be
married and 60 to Oregon to live. ar
rived in the city last Friday. and she ar
rived from the East on Christmas day. We
talked the matter over. and every thing was
rran0ed satisfactorily We were married
yesterday by the Rev. Nicholas. Last
night we took rooms In the Atlantic Hotel.
about 10 O'clock. At midnight / awok ,
and found my wife missing. / at once
dressed and went down stairs and made
inquiries of the clerk If he had seen q wom-
an. and was told that a woman had left
the hotel a short time before. i went out
and found two policemen, who advised me
to 40 to the Har~rison-street station. / did
so. but / could get no trace or her, and
spent the night In looking for her. This
morning i learned that q woman had
jumped from the window of the hotel. /
found IL to be my wife," MIR. Jefferson says
he believes his wife to be temporarily de-
mented, and will be all right In a few days.
When the matron at the police station
searched Mrs. Jefferson she found on her
person $500 in cash and 80, 700 in certified
checks. She Is about thirty-twO years old,
Rood-looking. weighs 40 pounds, and doee
not In any way appear insane. She de-
clared that last night she became confident
that the ranchman had married her simply
on account of her money. and that she had
been duped by him. He had already bor-
rOwed $3.50. She confded her fears to the
night clerk and asked him to assist her IN
getting away from her husband. The clerk
agreed to keep her and gave her a room in
q remote part of the house from that Occu.
pied by her husband. saying that he would
assist her to leave the house In the morn.
ing. Later the clerk entered her room and
locked her only means of escape was by
Jumping from the window. The woman
was badly bruised about the feet and
ankles by tho jump. Mrs. Jefferson's mar
rage took place In the parlors of the At.
Iantlc Hotel. and was witnessed by two
mon and two women, neither of whom she
knew. The police are looking for the night
clerk.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-29

there he lived in the summer time. return
ing to the city In the winter. he con-
stantly improved and added TO the terri
tory of his fiower-land until "Shaw's Gar
den" became one of tho most famous re-
sorts for visitors in the Southwest.
AMONG the foremost realistic novelists of
Spain is Sonora Emilia Pardo Bazan, who
not only writes powerful fiction. but is dis
tin guished for her erudition and scholar
ship. Her life of st. Francis of Assist has
received the appreciation of the Pope as
well as that of the cardinals of her own
country. and she also speaks before the
academy.
Ii Is promptly announced that Paderews-
ki's lair has not been cropped after all.
The value of this name seems to be con-
coded on all sides. Even Paderewski him.
self. when suoken to on the subject with
the freedom which belongs to newspapers
interviewing. smiled and said: They might
have known that ] never would have re-
turned TO America without M hair. 1t
would have been O breach of faith coward
my managers."
Mrs. NOBLE, wife of the Secretary of the
Interior, has . way of writing postal-cards
to herself one day as reminders of special
duties to which she needs to give attention
on the She employs for this purpose
abbreviated memoranda Ineligible only
~
mentions this habit, adds: Whenever in
yltatlons are issued for an entertainment,
Mrs. Noble pursues the same plan, and
sends herself q postal. as by its prompt re-
invitations have been properly mailed. in
stead OF reposlnR in the oblivion Of the
messengers pocket"
THE Foreign Book Club of Chicago is q
most interesting organization OF women.
Its small nom bership has been most care
fully selected. and em as varied and
brilliant q coterie of women as could be
brought together. Each member repre-.
sents a certain intellectual bias, and each
selects . now foreign book and presents it
In turn at the fortnightly meetings of the
club. Tho reader for tho day takes only
the first course of the menu, but while the
luncheon. which Ia always the ecene of
their discussions. progresses she reads, and
the debatable points are seized upon and
argued by every one as the subject appeals
to them. Margaret Sullivan. q writer on
the Herald. is the president and founder of
the club.
AMONG the people who suffer by the
denth of Jay Gould Is DR.. J. p. Mum, but
he is not likely to worry much over it. He
had a salary Of $500 . year to attend
upon Mr.. Gould. While Mr.. Gould was in
Now York the duty was comparatively
easy, for IL did not necessarily involve any
service unless he was summoned; but IL
limited his work as q family physician.
because when Mr.. Gould was going away.
even upon the shortest notice. DIR. Munn's
trunk had to be packed too. and the inter-
ests of Any other patient, no matter how
serious the case. had to give way. Since
the contract was made the physician and
patient have been ~inseparable when out
of town. and Mr.. Gould even made DIR.
Mum q director In the Western Union and
the Missouri Pacific. go that he could be
In the room at all directors meetings.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-29

YESTERDAYS Journal contained ac-
counts of the burning of three public
buildings in this State-the Orphans
Home building in Montgomery county.
the courthouse at Muncie and q large
school building at Wabash. INT took
fire from a furnace, another from a
lighted gas jet in the courtroom, and
the third from a natural-eas heater. 1t
is evident that in each instance the fire
was the result of defective construction
or carelessness. Perhaps some time the
American people will learn that it pays
to build for safety, and that precau-
tionary measures against fires are
cheaper than expensive fire depart
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-29

any of equal extent In this locality. Pre-
Wins TO this time but little effort has been
made to offer other Inducements to manu-
facturers than natural advantages and free
gas. Tho methods OF other towns from
this time on will he adopted. and subsidies.
already provided for, Will be freely ex-
tended.
Some of the industries already in opera
ton or under construction hero are:
The Paramount window-glass-worka
The Big Four window-glass-worka
The Fairmount canning-works.
The Paramount brick-worka.
The Enterprise furniture workA
The Fairmount furniture-w works.
La Rue's p~lanIng-mill and excelsior fac
tory.
The Dillon glass-works.
Falrmount foundry and machine works.
King CITY Rlass-works.
Pearson x Cos stave factory.
Most OF these concerns are In operation.
and among them all employ several hum
dred men. T.. p. A.