The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-07-27

SAMUEL ii. MAY, noutonhnt III UAlo
United States navy, suicided by shoot
ing himself at New York City on the
90th.
PALo ALTO, the celebrated stallion,
head Of Senator Stanfords stud on the
Palo Alto stock farm near Mayheld'
Cal, died Of pneumonia on the 9lst
Several other fine animals are suffering
from the malady and It seems to he
spreading rapidly.
CHARLES SrEINERT, John Rebachek,
Frank Speckowsld and Albert Schlega
were asphyxiated in a vat at Louis
Huch & Sons tannery at Chicago, ON
the 2lst. Steinert and Rebachek are
dead and the others cannot recover.
SCHEDULES in the assignment OF John
Wesson, ieweler and silversmith at 262
Fifth avenue, New York, show liabili-
ties of S281, ,7l0, nominal assets Of s141,-
$40, actual assets of $43, $50. OF the liza
bilities 1923, ,91S are secured, and $1O7,-
sol unsecured.
ACCORDING to the enumeration of Chi
cago's population by the school census
committee, that city has 1,42s,SlS peo-
pie within her gates.
AT st. Louis on the 2lst Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward Heyd were swindled out OF
81. 900 by two Frenchmen, who induced
them to draw the money from the bank
and then confidenced them out Of It.
The thieves escaped.
IT has developed that the worthless
assets of the Vincennes, lnd. National
bank will amount to 100000 in round
figures, and that the officers, directors
and stockholders will be required to
raise $50, 900 to $50, 900 to pay off the liza
bilities. The failure is one Of the big
gest financial crashes ever known in
Indiana, and startling developments
are expected soon.
GEORGE BARTELs, jr., paying teller OF
the Central Trust and Savings bank OF
Chicago, has disappeared with $4,000 OF
the banks money. The bank was Sc
cured by a 100000 bond of the American
Surety Company of New York.
STATISTICS furnished by the American
Iron and Steel association show that
the total production Of pig iron in the
United States in the first half OF 1892
was 4, 100, ,O5G gross tons, against 4,Oll,-
7G3 tons in the second half of 1891, de-
crease of IL, ,7O7 tons. Adding the pro-
duction of the two half years we have
g,71OSl9 gross tons in twelve months,
which is sos, ZIG tons in excess OF the
! -oduction OF 9,209, TO3 tons in 1890.
THE business portion of Rio Vista,
Cal, was destroyed by fire on the 2lst
together with fifteen or twenty dwell
lings. Loss, sl5O,OOO, and only s2O, 900
insurance.
The city flour millers of New York
have agreed to consolidate and have
perfected an organization with John v.
lIeclSer as president, Thomas Mcintyre,
treasurer, and Herbert Jewell, secre-
tary. The capital Of the organization
Is 81, 100000
THE coroner's verdict in the Licking
bridge disaster near Cincinnati, o., by
which twenty-five men were killed, ex'
onerates the Baird Brothers, contrac'
tors. The jury finds that the accident
was caused by the spreading of the
false work and was Unavoidable.
On the 22d the Louisville and Nash
vile Railroad Company came TO al
agreement with its telegraph opera
tors. A general advance Of Is month
was made in their pay, they are al
lowed compensation for extra worl
and grievance committee will be rec
ognized.
Mrs. DIR. Z. W. STEWART, Of Hicks
Vile, O., while sitting at the brealsfas
table on the 22d, upset pot Of boiling
coffee In her lap and scalded herself II
frightiul manner, dying within ar
hour. She was one Of the leading womer
Of the community and leaves husband
and two small children.
BUSINESS failures during the weel
ended July 20 number for the Unite'
States 16s, Canada 10, total 1877, as com
pared with 100 the previous week ant
2S4 for the corresponding week of las
year.
MEAN Woodstock, Ont, hog cholera
raging with terrible effect In a shor
time over 200 hogs have died with tn
disease.
THE employees Of the Carnegie Stee
Company, located at Duquesne, Pa.
about two miles from the Homestea'
works, about 800 in number, struck o.
the 22d in sympathy with the locked
out men at Homestead
TIE steamship Miranda, loaded wit
q cargo OF contributions for the suffer
ers OF the St Johns, N. F., fire, sale
from New York for the distressed por
on the 22d.
NEAR Ithaca, N. Y, on the 2lst
Charles Giltner, bartender at tn
Taughannock Falls hotel, fell over
2OO-foot prccipice at that resort and wa
dashed to pieces. He had just returne
, from dance and was trying to reac
} his sleeping place by dangerous patti
, DURING the six months ended July 81
1892, there have been 2l6 persons kille
by railroads In Ohio.
THE Illinois Steel Company at Chicag
has signed the Amalgamated scale. tn
plant is one of the largest in countr,
having a capitalization Of CSC, 200, ,OOO
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