The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-05-24
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Gathered from All Quarters
DOM EsTIc.

urAlBluR Jlc UObdi dBuihSVV VhS SObP"hJ
up to s04, 1000 The firm hopes, however,
to weather the trouble and soon resume
business.
Gov. RICH, of Michigan, has signed a
bill fixing the qualifications of deputy
sheriffs The act prevents the appoint
ment of Pinkerton men as deputy
sheriffs
In a suit against the collector of Gus
toms at Buffalo, N. Y, by the Buffalo
Natural Gas Company, natural gas is
pronounced crude mineral, exempt
from duty.
AT Columbia, S. c., on the 18th Gov.
Tillman commuted the sentence of La
veil, the Charleston wife murderer, to
imprisonment for life. The commission
appointed to pass upon his sanity hav-
ing disagreed, the governor gave the
prisoner the benefit Of the doubt.
Much anxiety is felt in shipping
circles at Philadelphia concerning
the fate of the American barks.
Cheshire and G. N. Stanwood, both of
which left Cienfugos, March 81, for
Philadelphia and have not yet reached
their destination. The wreck of these
vessels would be sacrifice of thirty
lives, and entail a loss of 100000 to
the Philadelphia insurance companies.
THE German warships Kaiserin Au-
gusta and Zadler, which have been ut
anchor in the North river at New York
since the naval review of April 81,
sailed on the 18th.
A COAL company with $1,000, 900 capi-
tal has been organized in New York
and Philadelphia to operate in Colorado.
TEE Chinese Six Companies say that
within ten days they will proceed to
disinter 600 bodies of Chinese in San
Francisco and send the remains to
China.
AT Brunswick, Ca, on the 18th, the
First National bank and the ogle-
thorpe National bank of that city closed
their doors and Mr.. Ulman, president
of the latter, committed suicide.
HARRIS BLANK and Isaac Rosenweig
were hanged at Tunkhannock, Pa, on
the 18th. The crime for which they
were executed was the murder of fell
low peddler named Jacob Marks, on
March IS, 1892. They lured young
Marks TO lonely spot in the noun
tains and then murdered him for his
money and stock of goods The muir
derers were % years Of age.
AT Washington, on the 18th, about
225 employees in the government print
ing office were relieved from duty and
granted furloughs. This is the com
mencement of the usual reduction
which occurs during the congressional
interim.
THE Michigan house on the 18th
passed the Klein capital punishment
bill by vote of SO TO 25.
The establishment of the Yonkers
IN. W Hat Manufacturing Company
was almost entirely destroyed by fire
on the 18th. Loss, estimated at $780,
900. About six hundred hands are
thrown out of employment.
NEAR Dubois, Pa, on the night OF
the 18th freight train on the Jeffer-
son division of the Buffalo, Rochester
& Pittsburgh road, ran away down a
long heavy grade and collided with a
work train. A freight brakeman was
killed and three men on the work train
were buried under the wreck. The
wreck took fire and the bodies were
consumed.
SEVENTEEN business buildings and
residences at Montford, Wis, burned
on the 18th. entailing loss of s75, 600;
uninsured.
THE chief of the bureau of statistics
reports the total values of exports OF
merchandise from the United States
for the twelve months ended April 80,
1903, at ssis, ,59i, 427, n decrease of s162,.
74s, 74O over the corresponding months
of last year. Values Of imports during
same period, s92G, ,151, ,10s-an increase
of S94, ,OO0,6 Exports of gold during
same period amounted TO s11O, ,O26,
and imports TO sl9,541, ,000-an excess Of
exports amounting to 500, ,49s, ,026.
A FIRE ut Starbuck, Wa, on the 18th
destroyed the Union Pacific machine
and car shops, the round-house, thir-
teen locomotives, and all the other
railroad property except the coal
bunker Loss, 100000.
A LONE robber held up the eastbound
Texas e Pacific train at Kemp, Tex,
on the night of the 18th and rifed the
express car of all the valuable pack
ages in sight. The station agent was
made TO go into the train and wait till
the robber finished his work.
THE 105th annual session of the Pres
byterian General Assembly opened at
Washington on the 18th. DIR. Willis @.
Craig, of Mccormick seminary, Chicago,
was elected moderator and a resolution
passed prptesting against the opening
Of the wurld's fair on Sunday.
SUIT was commenced at Chicago on
the 18th Ny the state authorities of Illi-
nois, TO break up the Distilling and Cat
tie Feeding Company, known as the
whisky trust.
Six men attempted to shoot the rap
ids in boat at Sewall's falls, near
Concord, N. H., on the 18th. The boat
filled with water and capsized and
three Of the occupants were drowned.
THE extensive plant of the King
Bridge Company at Cleveland, o., was
almost entirely destroyed by fire on the
10th. The loss is estimated at s195, 900;
fully covered by insurance. Three
hundred men are thrown out of work.
BUSINESS failures occurring during
the seven days ending May 10, num-
ber for the United States 247 and for
Canada IA, total 9o1, against 1o2 for the
corresponding week Of last year.
AT Normal, Ill, on the 18th w. II.
proprietor Of the Ex-