The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-04-06

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Nelson Neb., on the 3lst ult. unroofing
several business blocks and destroying
I about thirty residences. Five persons
were seriously injured, but no one was
killed. Loss estimated at 100000.
KNAPP, Stout & Co.'S two planning
mills and lumber yards at Cedar Falls,
Wis, burned on the 31st ult. Loss $751;
600.
! AT Cincinnati on the 31st ult. the
| steamer Golden Rule caught fire as she
! was about to start on her trip to New
! Orleans and was burned to the waters
edge. There were fifty persons on board,
five of whom are known to have been
| lost.
THE remains Of the late United States
consul at Antwerp, j. II. Stewart, who
died in Paris on March 5, of a compli-
cation of diseases, arrived at New York
on the 31st ult.
THREE masked men held up passen-
ger train on the Georgia Pacific railroad
near Weems, Ala, or the morning of
the 3lst ult, and robbed the mail car.
Every registered letter in the car, sup
| posed to contain about 50 900, was taken.
There was no express car in the train.
Postal Clerk Hughes and Flagman
Adams were wounded. Officers are pur-
suing the robbers with bloodhounds.
THE new steel armored cruiser Ra-
leigh was launched at the navy yard at
Norfolk, Va, on the 3lst ult The Ra-
leigh is the first cruiser of the new navy
which has been launched from gov
ernment yard. The plans were com
pleted in 1889 and the amount appropri-
ated for her was 81, 1O0,0 900.
AT meeting of the stockholders of
the Standard Oil Company in New York
ON the Slst ult., it was decided 10 in
crease the capital stock from IS, 900, 900
to $1,000, 900, to consist of 10000 shares
of the par value of 500 each. Ninety
per cent. of the stock was voted.
A SUIT for $2,O93,OO0 has been begun
in the common pleas court at Cleveland,
o., by Z. NJ. McGillin against II. b.
Claflin and partners The suit contains
nine causes of action based on like
number of transactions, covering pc
riod of nine years. II. b. Claflin & Co.
are alleged to be the owners of the E.
NJ. McGillin Dry Goods Company, of
Cleveland, whose store was recently de-
stroyed by fire, and writs of garnish-
ment have been issued against the COM
panies in which the firm was insured.
BRADsTREET's report Of failures in the
United States for the quarter ended
March 81 shows decrease in the num-
Der, being S,207 as against 3,4ol in the
same quarter of last year. The assets
are s17,754,944 as against So, 1851, 1888 in
1891, while the liabilities are s35, ,361,-
749 as against ~, ,34s, ,7S3 in 1891.
SECRETARY BLAINE has been informed
of the pardon by the governor of Jalisco,
Mex, Of Samuel c. Graham, imprisoned
under sentence at Chihuahua. Mr..
Graham is en- route for his home at
Bloomington, Ill.
JOHN HocHsTErTER, Of Somerset, Pa,
was murdered on the 30th ult, near
Trent, fifteen miles from his home, by
moonshiners. Hochstetter's life was
threatened when he gave testimony
against some moonshiners at Scranton
some time ago.
j. c. CAMPBELL, cashier for Woods,
jerks & Co., lumber dealers of Cleve-
land, O., was arrested ON the S1st ult,
charged with embezzling funds Of the
firm TO the amount Of IS, 800.
THE mercantile committee Of the Mas
sachusetts Legislature has reported
against requiring foreign corporations
to furnish list of their stockholders.
BUSINESS failures occurring through
out the country during the week ended
April 1, number for the United states 199,
Canada 10, total 21s, as compared with
231 the week previous and 24S for the
corresponding week Of last year.
The Burlington & Northwestern mar
row guage passenger train was blown
from the track forty miles north of
Burlington, Ia, on the 1st by the high
wind that had been blowing across
Iowa all day. Four persons were in
jured.
DANIEL loo, prominent citizen of
Yatesville, Pa, aged 20 years, while at
tempting TO board a moving train on the
Lehigh Valley railroad on the 1st, fell
under the wheels and his head was COM
pletely severed from his body.
DURING a heavy wind storm at Chicago
on the LIST seven-story building was
blown down, crushing several smaller
ones occupied by the families Of labor
ing men. Eight of the inmates were
killed and fifteen injured, some of whom
will die.
EIGHT persons are known to have lost
their lives by the burning Of the steam
er Golden Rule at Cincinn att, o., on the
31st ulk
AT New York on the LIST Henry @.
Tanning, who killed Mrs. Emily A.
Taylor year ago, was resentenced to
die by electricity in the week beginning
May 16, his appeal having been denied.
THE Sterling dynamite factory at Bes-
semer, Ala, was blown up on the LIST.
Three men and boy were instantly
killed, the men being blown into frag-
ments. The cause Of the explosion is
unknown.
AT Trenton, N. j., on the LIST the jury
in the case Of Abbie Van Doven against
the Philadelphia & Reading for $50, 900
damages returned verdict for $1,000.
Miss Van Doven was injured near
Bound Creek by being truck by train
sl..l.