The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-10-26
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Gathered from All Quarters
DOM ESTIo.

The bricklayers' unions at Roston
will establish an eight-hour Sork day
ION November /. This is the first branch
of the building trades in Massachusetts,
to obtain the eight-hour work day. The
men, in order to gain their object with.
out strike, agreed to sacrifice one
hours pay.
EPHRAIM YOU'VE, Spring Garden
bank director, wanted in Philadelphia
for embezzling $1,000, was arrested at
Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 18th.
SEvENTY-fIvE pounds of dynamite ex.
ploded on government dredge boat six
miles below Chattanooga, Tenn, on the
l1sth, tearing the deck out Of the boat
and sinking it. Charles Gums head
was blown off and two laborers named
Sharp and Thompson were fatally in
ljured.
AT New York City on the 18th Mrs
Minnie Gomez and her husband, Jose
Gomez, were arrested and held in the
sum of $1,000 each on the charge Of
swindling a jewelry firm out of $40, 900
worth Of jewelry. Seven Thousand dol
lars worth of the jewelry was recov-
cred.
FIRE in Englewood, suburb Of Chi
cago, on the 18th, did damage to the ex-
tent of 100000 Mrs Ada Butler was
killed by jumping from third-story
window in the Kent hotel and John
Howard, baker, was burned TO death.
A number of business blocks were to-
tally destroyed
AT Bessemer, Mich, on the 18th, by
the giving way of q brake at the Colby
mine, when the day shift was going
down, the cage, containing nineteen
men, dashed down 700 feet TO the bot
tom One man was instantly killed and
the balance all had legs broken. 1t is
thought at least four will die.
THE immense forest fires which started
east Of Frankfort, Del, a few days ago
are increasing and on the 18th six farm
houses were destroyed.
The executors of John Roach, the
shipbuilder, will receive from his as
signees about $4,000, 900, the surplus Of
his assigned estate.
THE government of Guatemala has
officially notified the United Stetes that
quarantine has been raised and that
ports Of that country were open to the
commerce of the world.
GEORGE w. QUINTARD and George Z.
Weed, assignees of the late John Roach,
the shipbuilder, have practically wound
up the estate, and their accounts were
passed by Judge Gugerich, Of the New
York court of common pleas.
]. s. GEIsER and wife, who had a
farm, about seven miles east OF 0tay
station, Cal, were found murdered at
their home on the 18th
A STATEMENT has been received at the
war department from General Manager
odell, Of the Baltimore & Ohio road,
which shows that in case of an invasion
of the United States, the four trunk
lines leading to New York from the
west could land $4,000 troops within
thirty hours, with horses and all neces-
sary equipment, and at the same time
move enough commercial supplies to
meet the current needs Of the country.
The city of Raleigh, N. c., was one
hundred years old on the 18th and cele-
brated the centennial by an elaborate
street pageant The city was gaily dec
Grated There were thirteen divisions
Of the procession, which was mile and
. half in length.
SAMUEL FLAcK, agent OF the United
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dead In his room at Allegheny, Pa, on
the 18th by his brother, J. h. Flacl,
who had called TO see him. His death
is shrouded in mystery. The body was
badly decomposed, and life had evident
1y been extinct for several days
AFRE at Petersburg, Va, destroyed
Simon Stewards trunk factory and stor-
age warehouse, with their contents,
,albo s. +. Hunts corn flour mills Loss
$4,000; insurance $4,000
THE test OF the long-distance tele-
phone between New York and Chicago
took place on the 18th, and was an abb
solute success. Mayors Grant and
Washburne exchanged congratulations,
while the strains Of America" and
the "Star Spangled Banner" rendered
by cornetists at each end OF the line,
were sent and received 10 the satisfac-
ton OF all. This new connection be-
tween New York and Chicago Is the
longest telephone line In the world,
nearly 900 miles.
AT Munford, Tex, on the 18th the
powder house Of Ed Wilson exploded,
totally wreching the building and fa.
tally injuring ]. F. Edgar and Lee Nor
gan.
JUDGE CLUTE, of the circuit court at
Albany, N. Y, says he will not hand
down decision in the Peck case during
the present term Of court He will have
his decision ready at the opening Of the
next term Of the court, November Z, the
day before election.
THREE men were killed near Waverly
N, Y, on the 18th In o collision between
two locomotives on the Lehigh Valley
road. Engineer Patrick Layen was
standing with his engine on the frog
when yard engine came up the main
line with box car in front and smashed
into Laven's engine. Laven and his
fireman were killed and Edward Pass
more, brakeman, was struck by ca
boose and fatally hurt
SECRETARY OF STATE FOSTER and the
Spanish minister recently signed list
specifying the articles Of export under
the various schedules under the recent
reciprocity treaties The List was very
long, covering some eighty pages Of
printed matter. I T''
at Anderson, Ind, on the 10th .