The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-06-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Gathered from All Quarters.
DOM EsIIo.

The real estate firm OF Baird ~ Brad
ley made an assignment at Chicago on
the 22d to the Title Guarantee and Trust
Company. The assets are placed at
5000, 900 and liabilities at 100000. The
firm was one of the oldest in that city.
On the 22d Secretary Carlisle directed
Treasurer Morgan to anticipate the
payment of the July interest on the
per cent. United States bonds and on
the Pacific railroad bonds. This action
was taken to relieve the tightness in
the money centers.
EIeHTY-sEvEN special examiners OF
the pension office have been reappointed
to take effect July l. The law has
always limited the appointments to one
year and the salary $ reduced for the
next fiscal year from 81, 400 to $1,000.
A CYCLONE passed through Adair
county, Ia, on the night of the 21st and
devastated strip quarter OF mile
wide. large number Of farm houses
were destroyed, but no fatalities re-
suited,
JoHN A. i. MEAD, a nephew of the
late Maj. A. i. Watson, and one of the
most prominent young capitalists and
business men of Grand Rapids, Mich,
suicided on the 92d by taking chloral.
THE board of managers of the Read
ing railroad have decided to abandon
the rehabilitation plan.
THE Ridgeway pa bank, a private
institution, has suspended. The assets
are estimated at S364,OOO and the liza
bilities at $4,000. Many working peo-
pie have all their means in the banks
care.
HENRY SHELDON & Co., coffee and tea
commission merchants of New York
City, failed on the 29d. Liabilities,
100000. The failure caused great sur
prise in financial circles.
THE Massachusetts, supreme court
has rendered decision to the effect
that the sending of a child to paro-
chial school is sufficient compliance
with the statutes where the child is in
structed in the branches required by
law, even If the school is not approved
by the school committee of the town
or city where the school is situated.
FRANCIS SPIES, merchant and consul
of Honduras, committed suicide at his
home in New York City on the 2lst, by
shooting himself through the head.
The Duryea Portland Cement Com
pany's works at Montezuma, n. Y,
were burned on the 21st. Loss, $685.
900; insurance, $4,000.
THERE will be no pension deficiency
for the current fiscal year which ends
June 80 next. Figures obtained from
the treasury department show that
there has been expended for pensions
for eleven months ending May 81,
S147, ,946, ,S66; for June up to the 22d,
St0,3SO, 900: estimate for next eight
days of June, S1,OOO,OOO total, $780,
S26, ,SG6. This will leave surplus Of
about 81, 100000 which will be turned
into the treasury.
JUDGE HANFoRD, of the United States
circuit court, has rendered decision
declaring the anti-cigarette law of the
state of Washington unconstitutional.
THE bail of ex-Commissioner Charles
F. Peck. of the New York Bureau OF
Labor Statistics, was declared forfeited
on the Esd.
Mrs. c. ii. RODNEY, who Is engaged
in the task OF walking from Galveston,
Tex, TO the worlds fair on n wager Of
$4,000, arrived in Fort Smith, Ark, on
the esd She was two days ahead Of
schedule time, and expects to reach Chi.
cago about August 1.
THE supreme council OF the Order of
United Commercial Travellers met at
Columbus, o., recently. During the
last year sl2, 900 in claims for indemni-
ty was paid at cost of twenty-six
cents for each dollar disbursed. The
order has a membership of $500 in fif-
teen states.
THE sale of the Tacoma Wash. }
Light and Water Company, including
the entire plant and rights, TO the city
of Tacoma, was effected on the 22d, the
consideration being s9,OOO,OOO. c. B.
Wright, of Philadelphia, took s1,75O,-
600 of the amount in city bonds.
NEAR Guffey Station, Pa, on the Esd
as Andy Muldoon, an oil well shooter,
was on his way TO shoot well with
200 quarts OF nitro-glycerine in his
wagon, the wheel struck large stone
and the wagon was overturned. Moth
ing was found of Muldoon or the
horses but few small pieces Of flesh
The shock was felt for fifteen miles
around.
The Cataract bank of Niagara Falls
n. Y, the largest bank in Niagara
county, closed its doors on the 23d
There was great excitement among
business men in consequence, as over
$780, of their money was on deposit
there. The suspension was totally un
expected and was not preceded by a rur
on the bank.
A CONSCIENCE contribution Of $50 from
an unknown person Of St Louis, Mo.
was recently received at the treasury
department
on the 23d Secretary Lamont ISSUED
an order dssolving the military cour
of inquiry ordered in connection will
the Ford's theater disaster and viii
leave the civil authorities TO deal will
the case.
THE State bank at Minneapolis
Mimi, suspended payment on the 2Sd
the assurance being given to depositor
that IL would resume in few days
The bank has a paid up capital of s75,
600. Steady Withdrawals by depositor
was the cause Of the action.
BUSINESS failures occurring during
the seven days ended June 9S, mum
bered for the United States 273 and fol
Canada IA, total 2s7, against s47 for thu
previous week and 100 for the CORE