The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-06-21
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Gathered from All Quarters
DOM ESTIc.

trade was reported in New York City
on the 14th, being that of Ernest e.
Kipling, importer of precious stones at
Nos. 1S2 and 1Si Broadway, with offices
at Providence, Il. l., and Paris, France.
For the FIST time in American his
tory there was general celebration at
fhiladcl phia, on the 18th, of the ami
ys-Sacy of the adoption by congress,
Juae Il, l777, of the stars and stripes.
!Tis stated that ID. Tompkins, pay
ing teller of the Irving Savings institu-
tion at New York, has absconded. lie
and two other officials abstracted S70,-
900.
, On the night of the 18th Charles b.
Wooley postmasterat Long Branch, n.
j., disappeared suddenly. Assistant
Inspector Parham, of New York, had
been examining Wooley's accounts and
discovered shortage of S2OSO in the
money order department.
THE entire plant of lIavemyer's Sugar
refinery at Brooklyn, n. Y, was tied
up on the 14th by reason of strike on
the part of their men, who demand
shorter hours during the summer
months.
Mrs. SARAH =. BoGARDUs, widow
nearly So years old, at Newburyport,
Mass, loses about $4,000 through the
disappearance of Moody Merrill, of
Boston.
NORRIS NIcKsoN, the seventh victim
of the recent fire at New York City,
died in the hospital on the 14th.
AT Fairfield, ILL.,. on the 18th, the pri-
vate banking house of Mr.. Bonham
closed its doors. Liabilities s225, 900;
assets about the same.
AT Washington on the 18th the names
of thirty-seven clerks were dropped
from the rolls of the general land office.
This reduction was made obligatory by
the executive appropriation bill passed
by the last congress.
BIsHoP TAYLOR, of Africa, has ad-
dressed IA letter TO Secretary Gresham,
calling attenttbn to the fact that the
United States government bears no
legal responsibility for the protection
of Liberia and stating that every ef.
fort should be made to use moral sua-
sion as a shield against oppression in
that country.
AT San Francisco on the 18th the Jury
in the case of John w. Flood, ex-cash-
Ter of the Donohue Kelly bank, charged
with embezzling slG5,OOO, returned
verdict finding Flood guilty, with u
recommendation TO mercy.
SHERIFF Il. A. DENNIS, of Culbertson,
Neb., in attendance at the interstate
sheriffs' convention, was found dead in
his bed at Council Bluffs, Ia, on the
18th, asphyxiated by gas.
THE relay bicycle riders carrying a
message from the governor of Illinois
10 the governor of Wisconsin, arrived
at Madison on the 18th few minutes
before noon. The distance, 205 miles,
was covered in 20 hours and 80 minutes.
AT meeting of the stockholders of
the Chicago Chemical National bank on
the 18th, it was decided by a practically
vote TO resume business.
THE prosecution in the Borden muir
der case at New Bedford, Mass, closed
on the 18th and testimony began for
the defense
AT a meeting of the board of direc-
tors of the Union seminary on the 18th,
II was decided that Prof. c. A. Briggs.
d. d., will continue his work in the
in the biblical theology as
hitherto. The directors also decided
that special provision should be made
so that none of the students of Union
will suffer from the restric-
ton which has been put upon the board
If education.
OK the night of the 18th the dormi.
-ory of the Central Wesleyan college at
Mo-, was totally destroyed
by fire. Prof. Kessler, one of the facul-
ty, fell from the roof of the building,
breaking both legs, besides sustaining
internal injuries
HENRY $. BYERs was killed and Al.
bert Il. LaGrange fatally injured dur.
ng an electrical storm at Martinsville,
md, on the 10th.
AT the Office of the American Sugar
Refining Company in New York City,
I was announced on the 10th that a
of the men on strike had gone
pack 10 work and that the places Of
hose who persisted in staying out had
)een filed.
AT Buffalo. n. Y, on the 10th, the
ienesee oil works, limited, made gem
raj assignment. The liabilities Of the
are about 100000 The cause
II the assignment was the inability to
meet several large notes when they be-
,ame due, or TO have them extended.
Oh the night Of the 10Th Mrs. John
raggart, of St. Clairsville, o., aged OF.
mother Of William Shannon Taggart,
.he $4,000 forger arrested lately in
)ceana, Va, dropped dead OF heart
disease. caused by the disgrace of her
,on and from grief.
AT Scranton, Pa, on the 10th DIR.
iulick, one Of the best known physi-
,ians of that city, committed suicide
by thrusting the muzzle Of a shotgun
nto his mouth and pulling the trigger.
BUSINESS failures occurring during
he seven days ended June IS, num-
,ered for the United States 2l3 and for
)anada "a, total 847, against 322 for the
previous week and 1853 for the CORE.
ponding week Of last year.
RECEIVER TRAsK, of the Order of the
unity, has discovered a deficit in the
reasury accounts Of the order amount
ng TO between $4,000 and 1000.
The Indiana supreme court has de-
Jared unconstitutional the law as
essing FIRE insurance companies on