The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-12-07
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Gathered from All Quarters
DOMESTIC.

to IS, 203, ,693. OF this amount 81, 4S6, 45S
was paid TO enumerators. The popula-
tion and social statistics cost 81, ,267, sos;
the statistics Of farms, homes and mort
cages sl,0O5.771; printing and station
cry, 1881, ,6S6.
In the suit brought at New York by
George Simon against L. L. Ferris OF
Chicago, to recover s25, 900 for the alien
alton of his wife's affections, the jury
on the Goth ult rendered u verdict of
$1,000 for Simon.
AT Franklin, KY, on the 80th ult. the
wife of James Blackburn, colored, left
her two children aged three and five
years alone in the house. The house
caught fire and before assistance ar
rived the roof fell in, and the children
perished in the flames.
B. Il. RYNp, the Allegheny (Pa. lum-
ber merchant who recently failed for
over 100000, and who is charged with
having committed forgeries aggregat-
ing over So 900, has not fed to Canada
as alleged, but is confined in an eastern
asylum suffering from a serious and
probably incurable case Of paresis.
AT Elmira, N. Y, on the Goth ult
William ConlSlin and wife, Mr.. and Mrs,
Edward Blanchard and Margaret Pitts
were crossing the railroad tracks in q
wagon when the vehicle was struck by
an Erie train. Three of the party were
instantly killed and the other two prob
ably fatally injured.
PRESIDENT #. w. PALMER, of the
Worlds Fair National Commission, is
preparing estimates TO submit to the
next session of congress in connection
with the appropriation to be made for
the Natiorsl Commission. The COM
mission now carrying deficit of s25,
900, and President Palmer will ask for
at least S140,0 900.
STATE AUDITOR HENDERSON has re-
voked the license Of the Ohio Farmers
Insurance Company TO do business in
Indiana
A DAYLIGHT express robbery took
place on the Goth ult. on the Illinois,
Iowa & Indiana railroad between
Dwight and Buda Station. The
amount taken was $4,000 and the
United States Express Company was
the loser. The package was taken on
ut Dwight and placed in the safe by the
messenger Upon arriving at Buda
Station the messenger found the safe
open and the package containing $4,000
gone.
JAMES X. Brooks, wealthy farmer
of Forney. Tex, was assaulted by two
masked robbers at his home on the
night OF the Goth ult and robbed of 81
500. He grappled with the robbers and
was beaten severely over the head and
rendered unconscious.
THE snow storm on Long Island on
the 3Oth ult was the heaviest since the
blizzard of 1888, the fall being from
eighteen inches TO two feet. Heavy
drifts have formed in many places, inn
peding travel on the roads.
FIRE at Gowrie, Ia, on the Goth ult
destroyed the post Office and adjoining
millinery, dry goods hardware and
shoe stores Loss, $4,000.
AT Fayetteville, N. c., on the 30tt
ult fire broke out in one OF the prin
cipal business blocks and in FIVE hours
entirely burned eight stores the losl
being 100000; about half covered by in
surance
OK the night Of the Goth ult "Stub
by" Jones, the 17-year-old son Of n ma
chinist at the Elgin (Ill. J watch factory
was shot and instantly killed by A N
Curtis whose store he was trying TO en-
ter through n rear window for the pur
pose OF robbery.
w. +. SNYDER, confidential booklxeep
er in the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Day
ton freight Office at Indianapolis,
short in his accounts II was stated ol
the 3Oth ult that the shortage woul,
amount TO over $4,000 The none.
was lost in gambling.
AT St Louis, Mo-, on the 30th ult
there were 10 deaths from typhoid fever
The number Of new cases was n, a
against ils the previous day.
Z. G. j. S. SHRA, wanted in Detroi
for alleged embezzlement from th,
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
was arrested at Chicago on the SOth ult
OK the lst Mayor Gleason, of Lon
Island City, L. l., was indicted by tn
grand jury with the other school com
missioners on a charge Of making lille
gal payments in connection with tn
public schools
THE funeral services of Rev. DIR. Johi
w. Scott took place at the White Hous
on the 1st The remains were taken b
Washington, Pa, for interment
ELLSWORTH WYATT, one Of the Dalto
gang Of desperadoes, was captured o.
the 1st at the home Of his uncle 1
Corey q hamlet near Terre Haute Ind
Wyatt is wanted in Kansas for murder
where a reward Of 5000 awaits his cal
tors
]. c. MARSHALL, of Minerva, o.,
childless widower without friend 1
the world, on the 30th ult willed $40
900 OF his estate TO Miss Della Speak
man, u stranger, because her name wa
the same as that Of his deceased wifi
before their marriage
The commissioner Of internal revenu
in his annual report, issued on the Isl
estimates the receipts from interna
revenue next year at si65, 900, 900. Las
year he estimated IL ut $3.50, 900, 900 an
it yielded s15S, 800, ,o00
A GANG OF safe blowers visited III
town Of Blount SprinRa Ala, at miC