The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-08-16
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ON Jne vtn neaVy earthquake SHOCKS
were felt at San Francisco, San Diego
and other cities in California. No dam
age was reported.
The Linden Steel Company, one of
the largest manufacturing concerns at
Pittsburgh, Pa, suspended operations
on the 9th on account of the stringency
Of the times and inability to make col
lections All the employees, about 800,
were discharged.
AT Denver, Col, on the night of the
Sth A. L. Schoppe, prominent drug
gist, was shot through the head by q
burglar who was trying to rob his store.
Schoppe's wound is considered fatal.
THE national banks of New York
City on the 9th unanimously decided to
increase the rate on call loans of re-
cent date tn ~ per cent per annum,
and on those of long standing to 10 per
cent.
ALFRED PACKER, the man-eater, who
ate five of his comrades in a mining
camp some ten years ago, and who is
now in prison at Denver, Col, under a
cumulative sentence of forty years, is
reported TO have become insane and an
investigation has been ordered.
ROBERT II. COLEMAN, a millionaire
iron manufacturer Of Lebanon, Pa, as
signed on the 9th, with liabilities ap-
proximating So, SOC, 900, which sum ex-
ceeded the assets.
The Wyandotte steel ship yards, lo-
Gated at Wyandotte, Mich, closed on
the 10th, throwing 500 men out of en-
ployment.
The largest steamboat in the world
was launched from the yards Of the
Delaware River Iron Ship Building
Company's yards at Chester, Pa, on the
10th. She is sister ship to the Puri-
tan, OF the Fall River line. The new
boat is 440 feet over all, or twenty feet
longer than the Puritan.
The August report of the department
Of agriculture shows that the condition
of corn has declined little over per
cent during the past month, the aver
age for the entire country being 81
against 93.2 for the month of July.
AT Chicago, on the sth, Armour & Co.
bought $500, 900 in gold In Europe for
immediate importation. This is said to
be the first purchase Of this kind ever
made by purely commercial house.
A HEAVY rain, insuring full crop of
corn, fell all over the eastern part of
Kansas and western Missouri on the
10th.
THREE employees of the Marshall
Lumber Company's, planning mill at
Marshall, Tex, were killed by an ex-
plosion on the 9th, and two others
badly scalded.
NEAR Springfield, o., on the 10th
seven carpenters were working on the
roof of new Methodist church, the
rafters of which broke loose. Five fell
forty feet and two, Oliver Swager and
Clarence Morrow, were fatally injured.
AT Great Bend, Pa, on the night Of
the 9th Assistant Yardmaster Flynn, of
the Delaware, Laekawanna e. Western
railroad, was shot and fatally wounded
by the town con stable. Both parties
were searching for burglar and Flynn
was mistaken for him.
AT New York City on the 11th 81 1,5OO,-
600 was lent at per cent for six
and the total transactions in
this line for the day footed up fully
"a, 900, 900. The clearing house commit
tee issued s25O,0OO certificates, making
the total 10 date S36, OH, 900
AT Philadelphia on the 10th special
committees Of the Green Glass Bottle
Manufacturers association and the
Green Glass Bottle Blowers associa-
tion met to arrange schedule of
wages. The manufacturers asked for
a general reduction of IS per cent, but
the bottle blowers declined to accept IL.
Two large pouches of mail for Chi
cago were stolen from mail car at
Springfield, ILL.,, on the night Of the
10th, taken to the edge of the city on
the same train and completely rified of
their contents. They were extra large
pouches and the loss will probably
reach into the thousands.
The Terre Haute lind Car and Man
Company's immense plant
In that city was partially destroyed by
FIRE on the 10th. Loss $1,000; almost
covered by insurance. Fifty
,ars TO be repaired were burned mp, en-
lailing . loss Of $4,000; partially In.
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