The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-11-15
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Gathered from All Quarters
DOM ESTIO.

en- lady at Berlin Center, o., and made
her disclose the hiding place Of her
money by knocking her down and fill
ing her eyes with pepper. They Sc
cured $50. Miss Hull will lose her eye
sight s-,
FIVE Russians who escaped from the
island Of Saghalien, a notorious Sibe-
rian penal prison, and were picked up
by the whaler Charles w. Morgan in
the 0khotsk sea, after fourteen days OF
suffering in an open boat, arrived at
San Francisco on the Sth.
On the sth Adolph Gloeser, treasurer
Of the Cigarmakers' union, committed
suicide at st. Paul, Mimi, by shooting
himself At the last election he ran
for the state legislature and was de-
feated and since that time his mind
had been unbalanced.
AT Carthage, Mo, on the night OF
the 9TH because George Williams, a
wealthy farmer, refused tramps supper
they set fire to his barn. Six horses,
several thousand bushels of grain and
much other property was destroyed.
A GAS motor in the North Side street
railway barns exploded at Chicago on
the 9th and the explosion OF ten more
motors Immediately followed. A dis
astrous fire followed, resulting in the
total destruction of the eleven motors
and the buildings, with forty street
cars. Loss, sl0O, 600; covered by insur-
ance.
AT Buffalo, n. Y, on the sth, over
six thousand copies of Town Topics
were burned in the furnaces OF the post
office because of violation Of the postal
laws.
A. GEAY, Government agent sent out
by the general land commissioner to in
vestigate the Rainy river gold fields in
Minnesota, reports that there is un-
doubtedlg plenty of gold in that coun-
try. lie recommends the withdrawal
of such lands from entry under the tim
Der and homestead acts.
THE general missionary committee
of the Methodist Episcopal church in
session at Minneapolis, on the 9th de-
cided upon the sum Of 81, l5O,OO as the
total TO be appropriated for the work
of domestic and foreign missions for
the ensuing fiscal year
OK the night of the 9th several young
men created a disturbance in a Saliva
ton Army meeting at Pittsburgh, Pa.
While attempting TO eject the offend
ers, Christopher Starr, aged 60, was set
upon and choked in such a manner that
his neck was broken and he fell dead
after crossing the room
DURING the five months the Ferris
wheel revolved on Midway Plaisance
1,458, OIL people paid total of s726,-
s05.5O TO ride. The company paid of
bonds amounting to $500, 900 and after
paying operating expenses and dividing
with the exposition, over sl5O,OoO was
left for the stockholders.
THE will OF A. Montgomery, who
died recently at San Francisco, be-
queaths $3.50, 900 TO his widow, 500, 00C
in trust for his two minor children and
$50, 900 for monument The remainder
of the estate is left to the San Fran
cisco Theological seminary. his for
tune is estimated at sS, 900, 900.
]. J. ARNOLD, ex-county treasurer OF
Niagara county and ex-cashier Of the
Merchants National bank of Lockport
n. Y, is in Jail at that city, and his ac
counts show deficit of more than 600,
900 as treasurer and $780, 900 as cashier
He has been unable to secure bail,
THE report is confirmed at Pitts
burgh that the Carnegie Steel Com
pany, limited, had broken away from
the steel combine and cut the prices OF
steel rails So per ton, from 500 to s24
and s25. The depressed condition q
trade is given as the reason.
THE committee recently appointed
by the supreme lodge of Knights ant
Ladies of Honor to examine into tn,
condition Of the books of ex-Suprem
Treasurer Mcbride, has made repor
and finds that shortage of nearl.
sl6, 900 exists. The shortage dates bael
eight years.
1T is stated on the highest authorit,
at Washington that there is no founda
tion whatever for the published stor.
that the English government through
its ambassador here has urged tn,
United States 10 exert its mediatinI
influence between the conflicting ele
ments in Brazil in order to bring TO
speedy close the internal strife which
is now in progress there.
The Columbian Exposition Compan.
has sued the Ferris Wheel Company 70
$4,000, which, IL Is claimed, the latte
owes under its contract and Is wrong
fully withholding. The wheel compan
claims that the exposition people brolk
the contract by closing midway.
AT Chicago on the 10th five NOR
deaths resulted from the recent COLI
sion on the Rock Island railroad. The
were: Lottie Brigham, Dwight W
Snow, W. r. Jamison, w. j. Churcl
and Mrs. Lapham.
The president ON the 10th pardone,
Clarence IL Harris, the Dubuque, Ia
banker, convicted Of violating tn
banking laws, and sentence is suS
pended.
BUSINESS failures for the week ende
November 10 numbered for the Unite
States 3s1, against 21o for the sam
week last year, and 81 In Canada, a
against 20 last year.
AT Dowagiae, Mich, on the 10th, tn
Round Oak stove works, employing
about 800 men, closed down ~ they ha'
not enough orders 10 keep thu work
men busy.
GEoBsE DAWSON, OF England, wa
one Of the victims Of the Grand Trunl
wreck at Battle Creek, Mich. His bod.