The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-03-09

S2UU,UOO OF the de1uncJ Drinks Iunus,
committed sticide at San Diego, Cal, on
the Sd by shooting himself.
AT Detroit, Mich, on the Sd, while
fremen were playing on the ruins of
William Reids glass warehouse, which
burned, causing $3.50, 900 loss, joist
broke, carrying down to the ground
floor the portion of the fourth floor upon
which the men were at work. Four
men were injured, one fatally.
THROUGH the carelessness OF switch
tender, two c., B. & Q. freight trains
collided at Hinsdale, Ill, on the Sd, kill
ing two men and injuring another.
Switch Tender Miller confessed that he
went to sleep and forgot to close the
switch.
THE Coldwater mich. National bank
was robbed of $4,000 on the night OF
the I'd. The job was the boldest and
most complete piece of work of the kind
ever performed in Michigan, and was
undoubtedly the work of experts They
blew open every safe and vault and took
every bit of cash, including bills, silver
and pennies they could find. They also
secured $4,000 in Reading railroad
bonds.
AT Bridgeport, Conn, on the Sd
Charles Waterbury and Samuel Suth-
erland were sentenced to four years and
John McCann to two years in state
prison for kidnapping little Ward Water
bury some time ago.
A FIRE at Philadelphia on the Sd de-
stroyed j. B. Ryers & Co.'S extensive
upholstering goods factory, causing a
loss of $3.50, OOO Several employees were
dangerously burned before they could
escape.
AT Syracuse, N. Y, on the Sd Mrs.
Callahan left her fve-year-old child in
charge of her sick baby while she went
after some medicine. In some unknown
manner the house caught fire and
burned and both children perished
A STATEMENT prepared by the COM
missioner of internal revenue in regard
to sugar bounty shows that 2, 629 claims
for bounty, amounting to $5,914,654,
have been received, and that 925 claims,
amounting to 81 952, O20, have been paid
The payments were as follows: On cane
sugar, S2,715, 74s; on beet sugar, S215. 400;
and on sorghum, 800, s68.
STEPHEN P. HOPKINS, an ex-congress-
man from the Seventeenth New York
district, was found dead on the railroad
tracks near Pleasantville, N. j., on
the Sd.
The many recent lynchings of negroes
in Arkansas, and especially the burn.
ing of Ed Coy at Texarkana, have
caused an extraordinary large exodus of
blacks from that state.
A FATAL explosion occurred at the
Marea colliery mine at Shenandoah,
Pa, on the 4th. John Butt and David
Roberts were boring hole in rock
tunnel. While preparing blast it sud-
denly exploded, killing Butt Roberts
injuries are fatal
AT Indianapolis on the 4th Judge Tay-
lor discharged President Frenzel on the
charge OF contempt and turned the
property of the street car company back
to him. Frenzel will discharge all men
who deserted the company during the
strike and another strike is possible
AN explosion Of firedamp occurred on
the 4th in the Elmwood colliery at Ma
hanoy City, Pa Five meR were so bad.
ly injured that they can not recover
BUSINESS failures occurring through
out the country during the week ended
March number for the United States
2Os and for Canada S2, a total of 24O as
compared with totals of 27O the previous
week. For the corresponding week Of
last year the figures were 266.
A TREMENDOUS explosion occurred in
the store of Marks b. Cohn at ST. Louis
on the 4th. Marks B. Cohn and his
brother, Abraham, were in the store at
the time and were burned to crisp.
The police say the men were setting
fire to the store in order to secure the
insurance.
AT Charleston, S. C., on the 4th Sam
Randall, negro, was convicted OF as
saulting a negro girl While the Judge
was passing sentence of Imprisonment
for one year for the crime, Randall
drew q knife and deliberately cut his
throat in the presence of the court, Of.
fcers and spectators.
THE naval appropriation bill for the
coming fiscal year will carry an appro-
priation of s24, 100000, or about IS, ,O00,-
900 less than the estimates
FIVE men have been missing since
the recent accident in the Niagara Falls
hydraulic tunnel, and their bodies are
supposed to be under the debris. One
Of them is Charles Deggs, n negro, and
the others are Italians and Hungarians.
TIE first Of the trials at Springfield,
Kan, Of the parties accused Of COM
plicity in the murder Of Sheriff Dunn,
when Judge Botkin was aimed at, re-
suited in verdict Of not guilty, much
TO the surprise Of every one.
AN important seizure of smuggled
jewelry was made by custom house in
spectors at the Bremen steamship pier
in Hoboken, N. j., on the 4th. It was
found in possession OF Gustav Waust-
niger and Gustav Kuhn, employed as
cooks aboard the steamer Lain. The
jewelry consists Of chains, bracelets and
rings and is valued at $4,000
THE house committee on military af-
fairs has completed the army appropri-
alton bill The bill carries an appropri.
alton Of S24,245,G49, against S24, ,643, 500
appropriated for the current fiscal year,
being a reduction of S367, $50.
AT Dubuque, Ia, on the 4th, Mrs
Banworth mistook box of arsenic for
one containing baking powder and
mixed the poison in the batter Of
pancakes she was preparing. Herself,
husband and daughter partook Of the