The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-07-12
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Gathered from All Quarters
DOM ESTIc.

al department to hereafter buy the seed
for the use of the department direct
from the grower, thereby saving the
profits that have accrued to the mid
dlemen.
GEORGE L. CRAWFORD, master in the
Philadelphia & Reading railroad re-
ceivership, fled u report in the United
States circuit court favoring the grant
ing of receivers certificates to the eX-
tent of s8, ,742, SGS.
THE anniversary of the battle with
the Pinkerton men at Homestead, Pa,
occurred on the 9Th A demonstration
had been talked of, but the Carnegie
management gave notice that every
man not working would be discharged
and the men remained at work.
EDWARD CARLIN, aged 30, one of the
best known citizens of Wheeling, w.
Va, committed suicide on the 9th by
Jumping into the Ohio river. Carlin
had secured position requiring bond
and when he asked old acquaintances
to become his bondsmen they refused
He became despondent and committed
suicide
FRANK VAN Loon, the Columbus
Grove robber, who was sentenced to be
hanged on the 7th at Columbus, o., was
granted a respite of four weeks by Gov.
Mckinley.
DURING storm on the night of the
5th Van Dusen Brothers powder mag
azine at DEVILS lSlse, n. Y, was struck
by lightning and completely demol-
ished. Fifty-five kegs of powder ex-
ploded. destroying several buildings
and severely injuring nine persons.
On the 9th Mr.. and Mrs. A. L. Has
kins, of Litchfeld, Sherman county,
Neb., arrived at North Adams, Mass,
having travelled the entire distance,
over2, 900 miles, in prairie schooner"
one of the old-fashioned emigrant
wagons.
AT Chicago on the 9th Abraham +.
Becker, partner of the late Herman
Schaffner, whose bank failed about a
month ago, was arrested, charged with
receiving a S365 deposit the day before
the bank closed its doors.
THE New Jersey Sheep and Wool
Company and the Gansevoort Market
Sheep Company, both of Jersey City,
have failed. Liabilities over 81, 900, 900;
assets unknown.
THE military cadets will leave West
Point August II and remain at the
worlds fair ten days. The expense OF
transporting the cadets to and from
Chicago will amount to $4,000, which
will be taken froHf the general appro-
priation for army transportation.
A MAN calling himself j. j. Fuller
and claiming TO be nephew of the
chief justice, is attempting TO swindle
military men in the west. He offers to
obtain repeal of the laws preventing
reenlistment after ten years service
and prohibiting a man purchasing his
discharge.
BANKER WARD, of Forestville, n. Y,
committed suicide on the 9th, it is be-
lieved, because of his financial losses.
Depositors fear their $4,000 in his
bank will be lost. !
THE Choctaw Indians sentenced to be
shot on the 9TH for the murders COM
mitted during the war between the
Jones and LoclSe-Jackson factions were
reprieved by Secretary Smith.
NEAR Terre IIaute, Ind, on the 9th,
two boys were walking up the slope of
a coal mine, when three empty cars
rushed down and caught them. Joseph
Crave was instantly killed and Otto
Crogan received fatal injuries.
The chamber of commerce Of New
York City adopted n resolution on the
9Th throwing the responsibility for the
money stringency TO the Sherman law
and demanding its repeal.
NEAR DEVILS Lake, n. d., on the 18th,
d. S. Krider, his wife and four children
were murdered by Albert Baumberger.
The murderer escaped
A NUMBER of buildings were demol.
ished in Norway township, Wright
county, Ia, by a terrible storm on the
night Of the 7th. One old man named
Labien and a girl named Schmidt were
killed and a number Of others were Sc
rlously injured.
AT gardwell, KY, on the eth the ne
gro Charles Miller, charged with the
murder of the two Ray girls, was taken
from Jail by n mob Of 1000 men, who
hung him to telegraph pole.
THE United States treasury depart
ment resumed the purchase of silver
bullion on the eth, buying 100000
ounces at S027.
DURING the seven days ended July
business failures numbered for the
United States 324 and for Canada 90
total 847. For the corresponding weel
OF last year the figures were 1888.
GEORGE CARROLL, aged %, and Georg,
Hale, aged 10 years, were drowned il
the Wabash river at Terre Haute, Ind.
on the 9TH.
DURING the past two months Nationa
banks have increased their circulation
nearly s7,OOO,OO0. Orders for new cir
culation of s2,277, 900 have been re
ceived since July l.
NEARLY eighteen hundred pounds o
tobacco, which had fraudulently passe,
by the custom house at odgensburg
n. Y, were seized by special agent o
the treasury department on the 7th.
JOHN w. FLOOD, who was convicte
at San Francisco Of embezzling t164, 90
from the Kelly bank, was granted
new trial on the 7th.
THE Kansas wheat crop will show
decrease OF 50,000,0O0 bushels as con
pared with last year.
THE Lincoln hotel on Edgerton av,
nue., near the worlds fair grounds
was burned on the 7th. Five person
were injured, two probably fatally.
OK the 7th judgment was entered 1
the supreme court Of New York 4
faunr Of the First National bank q