The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-11-30

THE National Farmers congress nelu
It's final session at Lincoln, Neb., on the
Gath. The laxity Of the interstate COM
merce law was condemned, and a COM
mittee, with Daniel Needham at Its
head, appointed to confer with the
United States congress with view to
having the law strengthened.
AT Kokomo, Ind, on the 25th, Edwin
H. Rymal, travelling for Breymann
Bros, of Toledo, O., committed suicide
in his room at hotel, by hanging. He
made a moose Of sheet taken from the
bed and successfully strangled himself
to death
NEAR Centerville, Ind, on the 25th,
two freight trains collided on the T.,
c. g. st. L. railroad, and Harry Myers,
engineer, was fatally injured, Fireman
Beerman killed and Harry Hendricks
badly scalded. One engine and six cars
were smashed.
On the night Of the gath three masked
men, heavily armed, held up the pas
sengers on q Northern Pacific train,
near Hot Springs, Wash, and compelled
them to yield up their money and yalu-
ables. The robbers secured booty to the
amount of 81, 200 and escaped
THE St Nicholas Park hotel was
burned to the ground at New York City
on the 25th. All the inmates escaped
with the exception Of Rose Ranbuhler,
servant girl, aged "a, who was burned
TO death. Loss $4,000.
SIMON PEoY, passenger agent OF the
Ward steamship line, was sentenced at
New York City on the 25th to five years
in state prison for forgery in the third
degree, and one year and six months
for grand larceny in the second degree.
BY means of false entries, during the
fifteen years that he was employed by
James e. Ward & Co., Peoy stole about
$40, 900.
AT Philadelphia on the 25th an ex-
plosion of gas wrecked the third floor
of Bailey, Banks & Biddle's building,
occupied by S. S. White as a dental
depot Two hundred men and women
employees were at work on the floor at
the time Nine persons were more or
less injured, only one probably fatally.
The Michigan Peninsular Car Com
pany's works at West Detroit burned
on the 25th, involving loss Of nearly
half a million dollars.
AT the Milwaukee wheelmen's tour
nament on the 25th, Ii. A. Gitchens, OF
the Chicago Cycling club, won the ten
mile race by an open length in 29:S9 10
minutes. .....
WITHIN the past few days New York
whisky men have purchased from fifty
TO sixty Thousand barrels OF Kentucky
whisky through Louisville brokers.
Two men who robbed the bank at
Roslyn, Wa, on september "a and So
cured $4,000, have been captured at
Arlington, Ore.
THE Pittsburgh glass companies OF II.
Sellers Mckee, Thomas Wightman &
Co., Ihmsen & Co., William McCully &
Co., d. Cunningham and Cunningham
& Co., limited, have consolidated under
the name Of the Pittsburgh Bottle and
Glass Company. The capital stock OF
the new concern is 100000. I..
THE stove in the pay car of the
Knoxville, Cumberland Gap & Louis
vile road exploded at Luttrell, Tenn,
severely If not fatally injuring Paymas-
ter Claxton.
The paper mills Of G. s. Garrett q
Sons, ut Beaver Dam, Chester county,
Pa, were burned on the 25th, entailing
an estimated loss of $50, 900.
THE war department is negotiating
with the Armstrong Company, of Els
wick, England, for the acquisition OF
the designs for new rapid fire gun
which is said to be 20 per cent more
rapid in action than any other gun. 1t
is also in contemplation to secure the
right to manufacture the guns in the
United States
THE sons Of Charles Cotton, railway
engineer, and a boy named Fox were
drowned on the 25th while skating on
the river at Green Bay, Wis They
were between 10 and 10 years old.
THE total receipts for the great Yale
Princeton football game on the 2ith
were s55, 900. This sum, after paying
expenses amounting TO $4,000, will be
equally divided between the two col