The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-05-04

and killed at crossing near Clifton,
Kan, by Rock Island train on the
2sth ult. A little child in the buggy
escaped unhurt.
A. X. LINDERFELT, librarian of the
Milwaukee public library, has been ar
rested, charged with the embezzlement
of 1000 1t is said to have been done
by the presentation Of double bills.
THE will of William Astor leaves the
bulk Of his fortune to his son; John
Jacob. Mr. Astor's entire fortune
amounts to $7O,OOO,OOO Each of the
three daughters win receive 100000
and when the other bequests are de-
Quoted there will be in the neighbor-
hood of S60,OOO,OOO to be handed over
to John Jacob. The widow will receive
an annual income while she lives of
s50O,0O0
AT their meeting in New York on the
2sth ult the eastern sales agents of the
anthracite coal companies agreed upon
the following advance in the prices of
| the different sizes of coal: 10 cents on
CRATE, 10 cents on egg, and % cents on
stove and chestnut. The estimated out
put for the month of May is 1850, 900
tons.
THE village of Chase, Lake county,
Mich, was nearly wiped o"t by fire on
the 2Sth ult. SiXty-two buildings on
the main street, including every busi-
ness place in town and five dwellings,
were destroyed.
GEORGE G. BAKER demonstrated on
the Goth ult that water can be navi-
gated at any reasonable depth below
the surface. A final test of his subma-
rine boat was made in the river Rouge
five miles from Detroit, and was enti- -
ly satisfactory.
JACKSON Sewer and Knox counties,
Tenn, are in II panic over the opera
tions of White Caps, who have tri-
county organization, with supreme and
subordinate officers and lodges. The
leader, who is employed on II salary, is
said to have been brought from Indiana
where he was connected with White
Cap methods. So far about fifty per-
sons have been whipped
MICHAEL TAYLOR, the Delaware,
Lackawanna g. Western freight agent
at Oswego, n. Y, was arrested and ar
raigned on the Goth ult. He pleaded
not guilty and was released on $1,000
bail. Taylor acknowledges u shortage
Of "a, 200 in his accounts. He says that
his clerks took the money.
SECRETARY BLAINE has concluded to
establish a system of tolls on Canadian
vessels passing the Sault canal into
Lake Superior, in retaliation for those
charged by the Canadian government
on American vessels passing the Well
land and st. Lawrence canals.
TRAIN wreckers ditched the north
bound California express near Myrtle
Creek, Ore, on the Goth ult. Two ties
were placed crosswise on the track and
the engine, mail and express car left the
rails. Fireman Calling was caught be-
tween the tender and tank and had both
legs broken. He was badly scalded by
steam. The track was torn up for 200
feet There is no clew TO the perpetra-
tors, but robbery is believed to have
been the motive.
MORTON DUNLAP, the county clerk of
Ford county, H., has disappeared, hav-
ing misappropriated the ceunty's funds.
The deficit is placed all the way from
$4,000 TO s25, 900.
FERDINAND WARD was released from
Sing Sing prison on the Goth ult after
having served over six years for com
plicity in the defalcation in the Marine
bank of New York.
The business failures during the week
ended April 30 number for the United
States 1856, Canada 25, total 2ll, as COM
pared with 2Ol the previous week and
255 for the corresponding week Of last
year.
In the superior court at Boston, Mass,
on the 10Th ult., n verdict OF $4,000 was
rendered in favor of w. w. Downs,
against DR.. Noyes, Mrs. Abbie Camp
bell and Alice Newton, in the suit
brought to recover damages for an al
legged conspiracy to accuse the plaintiff
Of adultery.
JACK BARNETT and Got Spencer, des-
perate horse thieves, were killed by
deputy shcriffs in northwestern Wyo-
ming on the 10Th ult., and fifty horses
which had been stolen from the Big
Horn country in Wyoming and Montana
were recovered.
The steamship Karlsruhe, from
Bremen, arrived at Baltimore on the
10Th with 2,2O5 immigrants, nearly 90
per cent Of whom are destined for west
ern states.
The Canadian schooner Glenora,
which broke away from tow in Lake
superior on the 2sth alt has been given
up us lost with the crew Of eight men.
THE storehouse OF the hat manufac-
tory Of Rogers & osgood at Barre,
Mass, together with 500 cases of hats
and the finishing shop, was burned the
other night, causing loss Of s35, 1000.
THE Arlington and the Germania,
beach hotels Mt Hull, Mass, and Il large
bath house. were burned on the 18th.
Loss on the Arlington 10000, and on
the Gc.mania $4,000. The Hull town
records stored in the Arlington were
destroyed.
A FREIGHT train over one mile IN
length and numbering l3l ears, passed
over the Central Hudson road at Amstcr
lam, n. Y, on the 2Oth ult This /,
the longest train that ever passed over
tine road.