The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-05-31
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Gathered from All Quarters.
DOM ESTIc.

from thirty days In jail to two years IN
the penitentiary.
On the cath Lawrence Devinney, an
oiler employed at the Oil Well Supply
Company's rolling mill at Pittsburgh,
Pa, was literally torn imb from limb
and instantly killed. lie was oiling
the machinery when his clothing be-
came entangled in swiftly revolving
shaft.
AT Muskegon, Mich, on the Gath
Harry Dood, aged IS, and Thomas
Slayer, aged II, were drowned in Mus
kegon Lake while out in n small boat
which capsized within one hundred
feet of shore.
N. A. NETTLEsoN, Of Scandinavia,
Wis, while on his way home on the
oath, was set upon by two men who
jumped upon his wagon from behind,
chloroformed him and tied his hands
and feet, robbed him of 81, 200 in bills
and left him beside the road.
AT Scranton, Pa, on the cath, Gus
Fitzpatrick, aged 16 years, and his
brother James, aged 20, quarreled over
the ownership of revolver and James
received fatal wound.
THE Cinnamon working in the Col
umbia river salmon canneries received
a message from the 'SiX Companies
on the 24th, advising them not to regis
ter and that the Geary law would be
changed.
THE Santa Fe California express and
freight engine collided on the Gath
near New Boston, la. Engineer Smith
and Fireman Stephens, of the express,
were pinned underneath the overturned
engine and Stephens died shortly after
from his injuries. Engineer Smith was
seriously injured.
THE worst forest fires for many years
were raging on the cath in Staffordville
and Union, Conn. Already 800 acres
have been burned and the loss can
hardly be estimated.
AT Corunna, Mich, on the cath the
coroner's jury held an inquest in the
case of William Sullivan, who was
lynched the night previous. The YER
dict rendered was that he came TO his
death by suicide. No mention what
ever was made in the verdict of the
lynching.
The suspension of the Elmira IN. "
National bank caused run on the FL
mira Savings bank on the 23d. Depos-
itors will be paid in full.
The recent report that the Standard
Oil Company had absorbed the Tide
water Oil Company is emphatically de-
MED by President Brown, of the Tide
water company.
THE most fabulous gold strike ever
made in the northwest is reported
from the Grand Summit mine ON the
Palmer mountains in the 0kagan min
ing district, Washington. Almost
solid body Of pure gold was found at
depth OF 200 feet. A seven-pound piece
of ore assayed two pounds of pure gold,
which is valued TO s175, 900 to the ton.
II is said there is plenty of the same
ore in sight.
APPLICATION has been made for re.
ceiver for the National Electric Manu-.
featuring Company at Eau Claire, Wis.
Assets, $500, 900; liabilities 100000
SAMUEL Mcl}RIDE, one of the best
known men in the Pennsylvania oil
field, died at Kane, Pa, on the oath.
lie was a sufferer from a nervous dis
ease caused by the morphine habit,
and on that day took a powder which
had been mailed 10 him in an anony-
nous letter from Bradford. Soon after
he was seized with cramps and died.
II is believed he was poisoned.
THE president on the 25th commuted
to Imprisonment for life the death SEN
tence of Edward Pickens, a full-blooded
Chickasaw Indian, who was recently
convicted Of murder in the district OF
Kansas. The court officers all recon-
mended clemency.
AT Chicago on the 25th 500 feet OF
stable sheds at Garfield park, together
with three camels and seven blooded
horses, were destroyed by fire. The
park was used by band of Arabs in
giving performances simi lar TO those
Of the wild west show. Loss $4,000.
AT indianapolis, Ind, on the 25th
Anna Wagner, domestic, was arrested
poisoning five persons in the family
Of William Koesters with trough on
rats"
OWING to the small amount Of gold
bullion deposited and the heavy ex-
pense Of coinage at the United States
mint at Carson City, New, Secretary
Carlisle has directed the suspension of
coinage operations Mt that mint from
and after June /.
WILLIAM PNKNEY, sentenced TO be
hanged June 80 for the murder Of
Francis NJ. Bowie, escaped from jail at
Marlboro, Md, on the 25th.
The cashier of the defunct Green
town Qnd.) bank, l.. d. Walden, was
taken from an eastbound train at
Greentown on the gath and placed un-
der arrest for embeZzlement. He was
on his sway TO his home in Pennsylvania.
THE long distance telephone, whose
stock is owned by the American Bell
Telephone Company, has declared its
first quarterly dividend of " per cent.
THE Yale corporation has authorized
the appointment Of Prof Bernadotte
Perrin, OF Western Reserve university,
TO be professor of Greek in the
academical department, and DR.. j. s.
Robinson, Of Pittsburgh, to be instruc-
tor in Latin for two years. Fifteen
changes were made in the faculty. The
new professorships are those OF rhetoric
and bellies lettres, analytical chemistry
and metallurgy in the scientific school,
and Christian ethics in the divinity
school, TO be filed respectively by Prof. |
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