The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-05-11

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431 1856, as compared with 30,855, 760 in
| 1890.
THE case of w. T. Jordan and J. G.
McLaurin, of the Harrisburg Call,
charged by Gov. Pattison with criminal
libel, was called for trial Mt Philadel-
phia on the 5th. Pleas of guilty were
entered by both defendants. The libel
complained of was published in the Call
on October %, 1890. The article pur-
ported to state the secret history of the
passage through the executive chamber
of the South Pennsylvania railroad
bill, and in its character was most libel
Gus. Sentence was deferred.
GREAT excitement prevails in Tennes-
see, bordering on the Kentucky state
line, owing TO the discovery of vast pc
troleum fields, Many companies are
sinking wells and present indications
nre that there viii be found the largest
oil field ever found in the United States.
AN express train on heAtchison, To
pelIa & Santa Fe railroad dropped
through bridge near Mcdill Mo-, on
the 18th. The entire train with the eX-
ceptinn OF one sleeper went down into L
stream fcarfully swollen by storm.
Seven people were killed and about
thirty injured.
THE president has signed the Chinese
exclusion act.
'fnE dead body of Arthur Brown, a
well-known citizen of Bryan. o., was
found on the 5th in that city with the
pockets turned inside out and every evil
dence that he had been murdered by
tramps for his money. There is noclew
to the murdcrers
jog Frost. notorious crook, we'll
known in police circles throughout the
middle and western states, suicidcd 10y
cutting his throat at the police station
in Nashville, Tenn, on the 5th. lie has
served terms in state prisons in Illinois
and Missouri and has been a known
thief from childhood.
THE largest horse in the world, stand
ing twenty-five hands high and wc!yh-
ing $500 pounds. owned by T. Il. Ridge
way, of Fort Worth, Tex, died on the
5th. This horse has been ON exhibition
in various states. and it was cOntem-
plated sending him to the worlds fair.
PATRICK 0SULLIvAN, one of three
men sentenced TO states prison for life
for the murder of DR.. Cronin, died in
the prison hospital at Joliet, H., on the
5th. 0'Sullivan maintained his inno-
cence to the last and an hour before his
death he said he was guiltress.
A SECTION of the lower floor in the
fourtecn-story lIavemeyer building in
course of erection in New York City
fell on the 5th. Two workmen were
killed and two others badly injured.
HENRY NJ. MILLER, ex-treasurer Of
Crawford county, Pa, who is charged
with the embczzlement of $50, 900 of the
county's funds, has been arrested in
Chicago
L. ID. SLAUGHTER and Tom Bailey
were hanged on the 9th at Little Rock,
Ark. Both executions took place at
the same time and on the same gallows-
| The men were negroes.
The business failures during the week
ended May number for the United
States 1856, Canada 12; total 200, as com
pared with 2ll the previous week and
242 for the corresponding week last year.
WHILE circus parade was passing
through Mt. Sterling, KY, on the 9th,
and the cashier and tellers Of the
Traders Deposit bank were taking it
in, man entered the building from the
rear, went to the safe and got $4,000.
The alarm was given, the man captured
and the money recovered.
A BLOCK of buildings in New York
City occupied by Schwarzchild & Sulz-
berger, extensive meat dealers, was al
most totally destroyed by fire on the
9th. Loss 100000.
The Frankfort Rothschilds have sue
ceeded in tracing their absconding
cashier, Jaeger, who robbed them of
1000, 900 marks. He took vessel bound
! for Colombo, Ceylon. kilograms have
been sent which will doubtless result
in his arrest.
AT Pratt Mines, Ala, on the 9Th, L.
L. Liddell and c. L. Miller, white burg
lars broke into Gifts jewelry store
Ten officers who were hid under the
store waiting for them rushed out and
called on the burglars TO surrender
Liddell ran and was fired upon and
killed. Before dying he confessed that
he was the leader Of the gang Of train
robbers that held upa Georgia Pacific
train at Weems in March. Miller was
jailed.
/ HALsTEAD WATRoUs, n broadway
broker, suicidcd at his residence in New
York City on the 9th by cutting his
throat with razor.
A New YORK dispatch says shortage
of $40, 900 has been found in the assets ol
the Bank of Harlem The discovery was
made in the course ofGn eXaminat ~ Of
the bank rs part of n plan 20 unite it
with the Hamilton bank. The bank is
in good condition and amply solvent.
MEssRs. KrTTREpGE 4 Willy, who
served aS attorneys for Receiver Alrn-
strong. the manager OF u fairs 81 sne fa-
nous Fidelity National Bank of Cincin-
matt, wrecked by L. l.. Harper, have
been awarded verdict of 100000
against the receiver for attorneys fees.
AT the annual meeting Of the Ameri-
can College and Educational society at
Boston on the 9Th the reports OF the dircc-
tors stated that the department of stu
dent aid enrolled during the past year 40
men in ten theological seminlrics and
thirty-two colleges The society aided
into the ministry nearly 5000 men and