The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-04-20


estimated from 81, 900 to $4,000.
ADYNAMrTE explosion occurred on the
Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh rail-
road extension near Riderville, Pa, on
the 14th. One Italian was instantly
killed and four others injured. The
cause of the explosion could not be as
certained.
PASSENGERS of the southbound Bur
lington, Cedar Rapids & Northern train,
which arrived at Burlington, Ia, on the
14th, report terrific snow storm which
blocked the road for thirty miles south
of Albert Lea, Mimi. Drifts were from
six to ten feet deepand traffic was much
obstructed.
BIsHoP HURST, Of the Methodist
church, chancellor of the American
university, which it is proposed to es-
tablish in Washington, has issued an
appeal to the Methodists of the country
for fund of ten million dollars with
which to establish, equip, and endow
the institution in manner that shall
be creditable to the denomination for
which it stands.
A DYNAMTTERs' camp, with a quantity
of dynamite and bombs, has been dis
covered in the midst of dense wood
several miles back OF the village of
Brockport, in Monroe county, n. Y.
In the New York senate on the 14th
the State elevator bill, providing for two
elevators at Buffalo and four at New
York, was reported adversely and was
killed. The senate agreed to the ad-
verse report.
A SHORTAGE of $4,000 has been dis
covered in the funds of the Kingsessing
Building and Loan association at Phila-
delphia. Thomas f. Clegg, the secre-
tary, in whose books the shortage Is
said to have occurred, is unable to ac-
count for the deficit.
THE reservations formerly occupied
by the Sisseton and Wahpeton Indians
in South Dakota were opened for settle
ment at noon on the 18th and about o.
900 people took advantage of the oppor-
tunity to locate land claims in the new
territory.
AT Terre Haute, Ind, on the 18th,
Judge Taylor sent George NJ. Allen,
proprietor of the Terre Haute Express,
to the county Jail for twenty days and
fined him 800 and costs for contempt OF
court, and Allen is now locked up in a
cell at the Jail
THE Pennsylvania, Monon and Big
Four rate war is growing hotter every
day and spreading rapidly all over the
southeastern country. II promises TO
disturb rates to every point in Ohio and
western Pennsylvania.
TIE business failures during the week
ended April Is number for the United
Staets 191, Canada 35, total 22G, as COM
pared with POS the previous week and
PSI for the corresponding week of last
year.
The mill at Pittsheld, Mass, where
the distinctive paper used by the gov
ernment in printing paper currency is
manufactured, was destroyed on the
10th ana the entire government supply
Of paper, with the exception of 10000
sheets of treasury paper upon which
currency Is printed and 10000 sheets Of
paper upon which treasury checks are
printed, was burned.
RAILWAY, N. j., has another murder
mystery which from the present outlook
will remain unraveled. The bodies Of
two men were found in a patch of
bushes half mile east OF that city on
the 18th by an officer. One Of the bodies
had bullet wound in the side Of the
head, but the other showed no external
signs Of violence.
JEDwARD SIMMONS, as receiver Of the
American Loan and Trust Company, OBJ
tanned Judgment at New York on the
18th against tha firm of w. v. Nc
Craclsen & Co., formerly railroad con-
tractors Of that city, for slO1 1924 on notes.
THE survey of the Chicago & St Louis
electric railway has been completed.
The total length of the route is 252
miles, thirty-one miles shorter than the
shortest steam road.
GEORGE WILKES, known the country
over as the king of forgers," died few
days ago at Bellevue hospital, New
York, where he had been taken with
fractured skull II Is not known how
he received his injuries.
AT Xenia, o., on the 18th, while Z. B.
Conwell was handling rife in his hard
ware store, the weapon was discharged.
The bullet struck keg Of gunpowder
and caused II TO explode. The front Of
the building was blown out and three
hen were injured, Conwell probably
fatally.
THE stockholders Of the Lebanon
PA. Match Company have sold all their
stock TO the Diamond Match Company
Of Chicago for s125, 200. This company
was the last of those not originally in
the trust to surrender TO the Diamond
people.
The Boston & Maine freight depot at
Lawrence, Mass, burned on the 18th.
Six loaded freight cars and large stock
of merchandise were consumed. Loss,
l2S,5OO. Several firemen were injured.
j. e. MULHoLLAND, chief of the immi-
grant inspectors at New York, having
refused to resign when requested, has
been summarily removed from office by
Secretary Foster.
THE house committee on post Offices
and rost roads has completed its appro-
priation bill for the next fiscal year.
The bill carries an appropriation Of
about $50, 900, 900, against s77 1921, ,29s mp
propriated for the current year.
RITA BooTH, who was said to be the
laughter Of Wilkes Booth, the slayer Of
President Lincoln, and who for years
mas been the wife Of AL Henderson, a
orchestra leader, died at
N. Y, on the 10Th.