The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-10-05
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Gathered from All Quarters
DOM ESTIC.

navy yard. This modern steel rifle has
total length of forty feet, its diameter
at the breech is an inch more than four
feet and it tapers to thickness Of twen-
ty-one inches at the muzzle. When fin
ished the gun will weigh nearly 15S,OOO
pounds. 1t requires more than ton of
powder to load it for one discharge, but
that quantity is expected to hurl shell
weighing 1000 pounds a distance of
twelve or thirteen miles at the extraor-
dinary velocity of 2, 100 feet per second.
THE residence of Samuel Atkinson,
Teloup, Kan, was struck by lightning
during terrific storm on the 27th ult.
killing Mr.. and Mrs. Atkinson and
their two children, one 4 years and the
other Z months old. The house was
burned to the ground.
THE steamer II. M. Whitney, OF the
Metropolitan Steamship Line, was run
into and sunk in Boston harbor on the
2Sth ult. No lives were lost
AT Durant, Miss, on the 2sth ult j.
X. Altman, editor of the Democrat, killed
Victor Hamilton, who, while drunk,
went to Alman's Office and attacked the
editor with brick. Altman then drew
his penlSnife, stabbing him about the
neck, killing him instantly.
ACLoUDBURsT visited Brunswick Ca,
on the 2sth ult, damaging property
worth 100000 Many streets were in
undated. Rain had fallen for twenty
two days
A PORTION OF the large works of the
Singer Manufacturing Company at
Elizabethport, N. j., were destroyed on
the 2sth ult. Three locomotives and
number of freight and coal cars were
also burned. Loss sl50,OOO; no insur-
ance. Several hundred employees are
thrown out Of work.
THE war department has promul-
gated an order to the army reciting the
war record of the late Maj. Gen. Pope.
The commanding officer at jefferson
barracks is ordered TO take the neces-
sary action for proper and suitable
military ceremonial to mark the respect
in which his memory is held.
Ok the 2sth ult. Judge Kennedy fined
eight aldermen at Utica, N. Y, 5000
each for contempt of court, in overrul-
ing an injunction granted by him.
At Chicago, Ill, on the 2sth ult. tho
indictments against thirteen ticket
brokers charged with violating the law
prohibiting brokerage in railway tick
cts were quashed on the ground that
the law Is unconstitutional
On the 2sth ult while Mrs. Thomas
McGuiness, of Laurel Hill, L. l., was
away from home her 8-year-old child
found flask full of whisky and drank
it all The boy was unconscious when
she returned. A doctor was unable to
resuscitate the child, who died two
hours later.
AT Chicago. Ill, on the 2sth ult the
grand jury returned an indictment
against NJ. C. Mcdonald on the charge
Of attempting to bribe Justice Wood
man TO render favorable decision In
the Garfield park races
AT Port Jervis, N. Y, on the 27th ult
. head-end collision occurred between
two freight trains In the Erie railroad
yard In which Flagman Decker was IA
tally injured and two bral5emen were
badly hurt
AT Terre Haute, Ind, on the Goth
ult, in the first heat of the free-for-all
pace, Mascot made the mile In 2:O4, thus
beating the pacing race record.
A DISPATCH from Buena Vista, Col, on
the 2sth -lt stated that fully twenty
square miles of timber has been COM
pletely destroyed by mountain fires in
that vicinity.
A FATAL gas explosion occurred at the
Edgar Thomson steel works at Brad
dock, Pa, on the Goth ult, by which
Mike Brennan and Joseph Strokol were
fatally burned. The molten material
in the lower part OF one OF the furnaces
had all been run out and gas collected
in the opening, blowing off the whole
upper part of the furnace upon which
the two men were at work. They were
precipitated into the molten metal and
fatally burned
A cAvE-IN occurred at the East Nor.
rie mine ut Ironwood, Mich, on the
Goth ult Ten men were entombed and
it was impossible TO tell at that time
whether they could be rescued alive.
The mine was surrounded by weeping
and frantic women and relatives and
the scenes were pitiful
AT Mansfield, o., on the 10Th ult
Michael Gaul, n workman aged 2s years,
fell distance of fifty feet at the Ohio
reformatory and sustained injuries
which proved fatal
AT Terre Haute Ind, on the 2Sth ult,
Nancy Hanks trotted mile in 2:OI,
breaking the worlds record.
ONE thousand pounds OF dynamite
standing on the depot platform at Busk
station, on the Colorado Midland rail-
road, exploded on the night Of the 2sth
ult and completely wrecked the depot
A Pullman sleeper on the side track
was badly damaged and the track was
considerably torn up. No one was in.
jured.
AT New York City on the Goth ult
the eastern and western agents Of the
anthracite coal producing companies
met and decided 10 make no advance in
the October schedule Of prices
AT New York City on the Goth ult., II
was discovered that DIR. John Kertell,
aged so, a German physician OF some
note, who landed in Hoboken two weeks
ago, was missing and us he is said 10
have had some S15, 900 on his person the
police fear he has met with disaster.
By the premature explosion Of blast
at Dyer's quarry and crusher works at
bonneville, Pa, on the Goth ult, An.
drew Carson and On Italian were killed
and Eve others seriously injured. Oar
aon had drillod three holes md while