The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-10-05

peal
Four companies Of the Sixteenth Reg
iment, who have been in active service
at Homestead, Pa, for the past eighty
days, returned TO their homes on the
Goth ult.
IT Is reported that the mills controlled
by the paper trust, Of which Warner
Miller is president, will be closed on
October until the middle ofNovember,
rendering idle about 80, 900 men through
out the country,
THE postmaster general has author
lied a contract for what will be known
rs the Columbian series OF postage
stamps. The new stamps will be OF
the same height as the present series,
but twice as long, the increased size be-
ing thought necessary in order to prop
erly display the illustrations These
are intended to commemorate the dis
covery Of America by Columbus 1t is
expected that the entire series will be
put on sale ia nuary 1, 1898, and during
the succeeding year will entirely super
sede the present series
M. GUzMAN, Nicaraguan minister to
the United States, received cable mes
sage from his government on the 29th
ult stating that the ports Of Nicaragua
are closed on account Of the feared in
vasion OF cholera
HARRY HULsE, life prisoner in the
Ohio penitentiary, has fallen heir TO
5000 by the death Of an aunt In Gin
cinnati. He was received in 1881.
OK the Goth ult Yale College entered
upon the one hundred and ninety-third
year Of its existence.
The Reading railroad has posted no.
tices in the car shops at Ashley, Pa, OF
u reduction of 10 per cent. in the wages
Of carpenters.
HALF the business portion Of North
Bend, Neb., was destroyed by fire on
the Goth ult Loss $4,000
THE national division of the Sons Of
Temperance, in session at New York,
on the 3Oth elected officers for two years
as follows: Charles A. Everett Of St
John, N. B., most worthy patriarch;
William A. Armstrong, of Washington,
D. C., most worthy associate patriarch;
and Benjamin r. Jewell, Of Southamp-
ton, N. H., most worthy scribe.
DURING the last two weeks OF Sep
tember six children, comprising the
entire family OF Peter Heldt, Of Racine,
Wis, died of diphtheria.
NINE HUNDRED sheep were cremated
in a fire which destroyed the pens Of
the Union Stock Yards Company at
Omaha, Neb., on the SOth ult Loss,
$500.
In the United States district court at
San Francisco Judge Ross rendered a
decision to the effect that the Mckinley
bill did not repeal the act Of 1888 grant
ing the right OF a drawback of seventy
Ave cents per ton on imported bitumi-
nous coal which is afterward used for
fuel on American steam vessels engaged
In the coasting trade.
ALL of the great naval powers and
many Of the smaller ones TO which In
vitations were sent by the state depart
.ment TO participate in the naval display
in New York next April have accepted
the invitation and have signified their
intention TO send some Of their latest
constructed vessels to take part in the
exercises.
AT Springfield, Mass, on the S0th ult, +,
w. w. Windle broke Zimmerman's two
mile worlds record. Zimmerman's mark
was 4:s7 2-5, which was lowered to
4:9s SIS by windle.
Ar Anderson, Ind, on the SOth ult /,
Charles Cunningham was instantly
killed, James Isham fatally wounded
and four other workmen seriously In
jured. While the men were working
with derrick 1t caught freight car
and threw It over, falling on the men
and crushing them with the result
stated above
The Buena Vista hotel at Denver,
COL, burned on the SOth ult Gustave
Kearse, q lodger, perishsd in the flames,
and three other persons were severely
burned. II is believed the Are was OF
incendiary origin for the purpose Of
robbery.
THE new return postal card will be
placed on sale at all post offices on 0c-
tober Is. The two designs, one for the
domestic and the other for the interna-
tional postal union service, have been
approved by Postmaster General Wans-
maker and the work Of printing and
distributing the cards will be pushed
with vigor.
AT Denver, Col, on the 3Oth ult, the
body OF o. L. Prescott, prominent con.
tractor, was found in his room so badly
decomposed that II bore hardly any re.
semblance TO q human being. He had
not been seen in eight weeks and was
supposed to be out of the city on busi-
ness.
THE storage tanks Of the Eureka Pipe
Line Company at Sisterville, w. Va,
were destroyed by fire on the night OF
the 9oth ult. Chief Engineer Davis, oi
Mercer, Pa. was on one Of the tanks
and was burned to death, and A. v.
Jaypoole, Of Belmont, W. Va, was
blown nearly 100 feet and may die Sew.
eral others were slightly injured.
AT Dubois Pa, on the night Of the
27th ult. an engine on the Buffalo,
Rochester & Pittsburgh railroad wai
reduced TO fragments by the explosion
of the boiler and Engineer Wise and
Fireman Flynn were literally blown TO
pieces. The men resided in Dubois and
leave families
On the 3Oth ult Anton Pilger, OF
Grove City, o., received intelligence
from England that he is sole heir TO an
estate OF $4,000, 900, left by William Nil.
Ter, an English army officer, who died
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