The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-07-26
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Gathered from All Quarters.
DOM ESTIC.

burned, causing loss Of $3.50, 900, only
about one-quarter of which was COW
cred by insurance. In all sixty build
ings were burned.
The remains of Andrew j. Drexel,
the banker, were inferred at Phila-
delphia on the 10th. There was no
ostentation.
DURING June last, 67,726 immigrants
arrived at United States ports from
foreign countries. The number during
the year ending June 80, 1898, was 497,-
936.
THE ST. Louis Journal of Agriculture
says Of the wheat crop that the worlds
deficiency will be 100000, 900 bushels.
Farmers, it says, should not sell at
present prices
A VIOLENT storm which recently
passed over Hartford, Conn, and vicin-
ity, damaged the tobacco crop to the
extent of 100000.
LLOYD AsPINwALL, the well-known
club man, is in prison at New York in
default of 81, 900 bail on the charge of
forgery.
The failure of the plate glass manu-
facturers of the country to perfect an
organization of the National Plate
Glass association, and the decision not
TO ask their employees to accept 10 per
cent. reduction in wages, smashes the
$4,000, 900 trust. The combine was pro-
jected two years ago, and all but few
big concerns had joined the trust
E. II. TAYLOR & SoN, of Frankfort,
KY, one of the oldest whisky firms in
the country, assigned on the Goth for
the benefit of creditors.
NoRwALK Conn manufacturers are
experiencing the dullest season ever
known. Shirt, corset, hat and lock
factories have been closed down.
The business portion Of Even, Mich,
a town of 1000 inhabitants, was entire
ly destroyed by fire on the Goth. Loss,
$3.50, 900; insurance, $50, ,00O The fire is
said to have been of incendiary origin.
Two sons of Andrew Peterman, of |
Braddock, Pa, aged and IL respect |
lively, were drowned while bathing in |
the Monongahela river at Pittsburgh |
on the Goth.
THE building at New York City oc-
cupied by the Eighteenth street CEN
tral telephone station and several bus
mess concerns burned on the Goth,
a loss of 100000.
A CAN of naphtha exploded in the
sweat-band factory of J. d. Campbell,
at Brooklyn, N. Y, on the Goth, killing
J. d. Campbell, Samuel Campbell, his
son; John Weiss, 25 years old, and
Jacob Weiss Matthew Deering was
badly injured The building was com
pletely wrecked.
DAVID ARNT, Lemuel Loclhart and
David Ramsay were burned TO death in
a fire at an oil well near Toledo, o., on
the goth.
AT Pittsburgh, Pa, on the Goth car
On the West End electric line ran down
and instantly killed Maggie Pixter and
fatally injured Emma Pixter, her cous-
n. They were 5 years of age. The
w. A. Wilson, was arrested.
THE last will and testament of An
.hony j. Drexel was admitted TO pro-
pate at Philadelphia on the Goth. The
estimated value of the estate is be-
,ween s25, ,OO0, 900 and $50, 900, ,OOO One
thousand dollars is bequeathed
% the German hospital of Philadelphia.
LOUIS JEROME, an agent Of the Ma
.ional Cash Register Company, was ar.
'ested at Atlantic City, N. j., on the
10Th, on the charge of embezzlement.
OK the Goth 1000 boilermakers went
,ut on a strike at st. Louis, Mo- They
lemand nine hours work with ten
lours pay. They are well organized,
lave a large strike fund and declare
hey will not yield an inch.
THE agent Of the Waumbeck Com
amy has issued orders for closing the
Mills at Milton Mills, N. H., for six
months as soon as the goods now in
'rocess Of manufacture are finished.
he reason assigned for this action is a
ack Of orders except at ruinous prices.
FRANK S. BEEDLEsoN, the one-legged
icycle rider, arrived at New York on
he 2lst from San Francisco, having
eat the time between those points
wenty days. Beedleson's time was &C
ays, hours and IS minutes.
THE Commercial bank Of Milwaukee
iade an assignment on the 21st to A.
l. Geilfus, the cashier, who filed
ond of 81, $500 The troubles of the ,
ank are said TO result from its ac. !
eptance Of large amount Of paper OF ,
orrigan, Ives & Co.
AT a directors meeting IL was de- :
ded TO shut down the mills of the
lestbrook (Me.) Manufacturing Com. ,
any, makers Of ginghams, from July ,
until September 4. The monthly !
ay roll is $4,000.
THE treasury department on the 21st ,
as offered $40, 900 ounces of silver at
rices ranging from 70 TO 7oH cents. ]
4 this amount 80, 900 ounces were pur- :
iased at 10 cents, the balance being ;
eclined and the same rate rendered. :
AT St Louis, NO., on the 21st the /
al estate exchange passed resolutions
Illing on congress 10 repeal the Sher. !
an law at once, and denouncing that Q
easure as detrimental TO the business a
Iterests OF the country.
AT Columbus, Ind, George snively, d
no was recently granted \ pension I
TO over $500 for services in g
le late war, refused TO execute the I
,ucher or draw the money. He said q
} had conscientious scruples and was I
Die TO earn living without govern. 4
ent aid.
The idle miners at Aspen, Col, have G
dressed q letter TO Master Workman 5
owderly, asking him to raise his voice /,
their behalf. BY the closing OF sill. q