The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-02-24

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large SPOT heretofore observed upon the
sun, which covered space equal to
one-sixteenth of the suns surface, or
an area of II, 900 miles long by 100,
wide, has, by some great cataclysmic
operation been broken into twenty
smaller spots. In addition to this,
other spots have appeared which are
situated vast distance from the origi-
nal spot and are evidently totally in
dependent from it
NEAR Washburn, COL, on the 18th
two children of Mr. Oliver, while play
ing in an organ box, built fire which
ignited their clothing and they were
burned to death The house also caught
fire and was consumed Mrs. Oliver
was so shocked that it is thought she
will die
A SMALL boat containing Capta Gault
and four seamen of the schooner Oscar
and Hattie was capsized near Newport,
Ore, on the 18th and all hands were
drowned.
ONE of the largest timber land sales
ever made in California was closed on
the 18th. Twenty-eight thousand acres
or thirty miles square of sugar pine
timber in Sisliiyou and Shasta counties
were sold to Miller & brewster, of
Green Bay, Wis, and Tatum & Bowen,
of San Francisco. The average price
was Sl5 per acre
THE total loss by the fire at New Or
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$50, 00O Insurance covers the loss;
mostly in foreign companies The local
companies lose 5000, 900
In the New York assembly on the
18th the bill for the consolidation of
New York, Brooklyn and other muni-
cipalities bordering on New York har-
Dor was killed by being laid on the
table
d. LAWSON, a prominent attorney of
Clarion, Pa, charged with the embez-
element of $1,000 while county clerk,
gave bail on the 18th for hearing.
His friends express their belief in his
innocence
JAMES MARTIN and Frank Farrell,
aged about 16 years. were drowned in
Sandy Lake creek, near Reynoldsville,
Pa, on the 18th.
DAVID WITHERs, a wealthy New
Yorker who has for many years been
recognized as the leader OF the Ameri-
can turf, died in that city on the 18th.
FIRE Mt Cleveland on the night Of the
18th completely destroyed the five-story
building and stock OF the McGillin Dry
Goods Company, causing total loss OF
between $3.50, 600 and s5OO,OOO.
WOLVES have made their appearance
in West Seneca, suburb of Buffalo,
N. Y, and women and children are
afraid to go out of doors. They appear
in the village at night and escape to the
woods about mile away.
The supreme court OF New Jersey
has affirmed the conviction OF the off,
cials of the Clifton jockey club, who
were sentenced to one years imprison-
ment and fine Of $500 each for main
tanning race track at Passaic. This
was test case and the decision puts an
end to legal racing in New Jersey.
THREE employees of the Edgar Thorn
son steel works at Braddock, Pa, were
fatally injured on the 18th by the mol
ten cont ents of q steel converter falling
upon them.
FIVE scene painters were injured,
two fatally, by the falling of scaffold-
ing upon which they were working
fifty feet above the stage of the Colum-
bia theater at Brooklyn, N. Y, on the
18th.
LIGHTNING struck the glazing mill OF
the Lafin.R Rand powder works, situated
about four miles north OF Columbus,
Kan, on the 10th, exploding 440 kegs Of
powder which were undergoing the
process of glazing, scarcely leaving
enough Of the building to mark the site
THE strike OF the union carpenters
employed by contractor John Downey
at New York City is spreading On the
10th walking delegates called out 400
more OF his men.
BUSINESS failures occurring through.
out the country during the week ended
February 10 number for the United
States 251 and for Canada As, a total OF
300, as compared with totals OF 276 the
previous week. For the corresponding
week Of last year the figures were 300.
MAcKsBURG, town OF 500 inhabit.
ants in southern Ohio, has been quar-
antined, an epidemic OF diphtheria pre-.
vailing there. The public schools are
closed, no public meetings OF any kind
are allowed and no children are per-
mitted on the streets. Quite number
Of deaths are reported.
Phil d. ARMOUR, OF Chicago, denies
the story that John d, Rockefeller,
John w. Maclsay and Col North, the
Nitrate King" have cornered the
worlds wheat market
A LARGE majority Of both the Thomp-
son-Houston and Edison stocks have
assented TO the electric consolidation
agreement, the assent OF more than
800, 900 shares out OF the total 400, 900
shares having been made.
GEORGE ALLEN, clerk at the Pennsyl-
vania steel works at Steelton, near
Philadelphia, suicided on the 10Th by
cutting his throat. He was chief ac-
countant in the frog switch signal and
bridge departments and had charge Of
the semi-monthly payment Of 1000 men.
He was deranged from overworlS.
The official order dishonorably dis
charging Col. william u. Smith, Third
regiment Pennsylvania National Guard,
from the service OF the state, has been
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