The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-01-04


hospital to be erected for the sick
poor of that city, to cost 100000.
WHEN the supposed will OF Joseph
Church, of Allegany, N Y, who died
few days ago leaving an estate OF $780,
900 was opened, a statement was found
in his own handwriting to the effect
that he. had destroyed his will, as he
didn't proposeto have his heirs quarrel
ing over its provisions
GRAND MASTER PowDERLY, OF the
Knights Of Labor, has bought farm
of seventy-one acres at Hyattsville,
suburb OF Washington, for himself and
syndicate of worhingmen with view
to establishing group Of factories and
a cooperative workingmen's town.
THE Bank of Fairfax. Mimi, j. A.
Beard, president, and f. A. Gray, cash
ier, closed its doors on the Goth ult. and
its officers have left for parts unknown.
The failure created great excitement
among business men.
AT Perry, Neb., on the Goth ult
Burlington construction train backed
into bunch of horses on the track.
The engine was ditched and Engineer
Andrew Cumming and Fireman Baxter
w. Goldrich were killed.
APPLICATION has been made by stock
holders OF the Farmers Cooperative
bank of Meadville, Pa, for the appoint
ment of receiver They claim the
bank is insolvent, but it is believed a
reorganization will be effected and the
bank placed on solid footing
Mrs. JAMES BUFoRD wife of promi-
nent Springfield (o.) politician, dropped
dead on the Goth ult from the shock of
discovering in room the dead body OF
a relative who had died suddenly
during the night.
A COMMITTEE of six directors Of the
Union Life Insurance Company have,
through their counsel, requested the
New York state insurance department
to bring suit for the appointment OF
receiver for the company. The charge
is made that the funds of the company
have been misused, that its affairs have
been grossly mismanaged and that 1t is
insolvent.
The Illinois steel mills in Joliet, Ill,
will close down on January for re-
pairs and to settle the scale of wages,
as the present scale expires on Decem-
ber 81. 1t is thought that the mills will
not start until April Over two thou
sand men will be thrown out OF work.
The largest seizure of smuggled
opium in years was made at San Fran
cisco on the goth ult The contraband
drug, consisting Of 1,2O0 half pound
cans valued at $4,000, was discovered
inside Of the sheathing in the hold OF
the steamer Oceanic from Hong Kong
The duty on the opium amounted to
$1,000.
Bob SLAvIN, the famous minstrel, was
found dead in bed in the Merchants
hotel at Toledo, O., on the Goth ult.
The executive council have unani-
mously voted to pardon James Dunlap,
the notorious bank robber now in the
Massachusetts, state prison. Dunlap
was in 1877 sentenced with Robert
Scott to Imprisonment for twenty years
for robbing the Northampton National
bank OF nearly 81, 900, 900 in cash, bonds
and other securities
PETER SUfrER, a retired farmer, aged
55, murdered his wife, Teresa. aged 40,
at Des Moines, Ia, on the Goth ult He
strangled her with a towel aud then
Drained her with hammer. The couple
had been quarreling for long time.
Sutter gave himself up to the police.
He is probably insane.
THE station house at Brighton, near
Sacramento, Cal, was burned on the
Goth ult., and the remains Of Miss L. A.
Ayers, the agent and operator, were
found burned almost TO n crisp in the
ruins
THE differences between the Balti
more g. Ohio railway officials and the
grievance committee OF the Brotherhood
of Trainmen have been settled by the
signing Of wage scale which makes NJ
average increase Of from eight to eight
cen cents per day.
AT Marshalltown, la, on the zoe.
ult, the high school building was en-
tirely destroyed by fire. Loss, sl0O, 600
insurance, 5000 The building wa
one Of the finest educational institu
tions in the state.
THE failure Of Wayland Trask & Co.
Of No. IS Wall street, was announced a
the New York Stock Exchange on tht
Goth ult The firm consisted of Way
land Trask, Theodore Baldwin and A
N. Rankin.
AT Pittsburgh, Pa, on the Goth ult I
boiler In the carpet cleaning establish
ment OF r. B. Hutchinson explodet
with terrible force. ]. O. Cox wa
blown through the wall and fel
through the roof OF a shed fifty feet be
2 low. He was terribly mangled and vii
J die. Clarence Shaw, aged 10, was ter
ribly bruised and scalded, but will prot
ably recover.
. THE eastern and western coal sale
y agents at their meeting at New Yor
City on the Goth ult, decided TO max
no changes in prices for January.
!. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.