The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-03-29
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Gathered from All Quarters
DOMESTIC.


wire facsimile Of his handwriting to
a distance An ordinary pen or pencil
is employed. AS it moves pen at the
other end Of the line moves simultane-
ously and forms the words and letters
in precisely the same way. Whatever
is written at one end OF the line is re-
produced in fac-simile at the other.
Or the 1O5 deaths reported to the
New York health department on the
21st, five were caused by the grip.
The public debt statement for Febru-
ary shows decrease in cash during the
month Of about s5OO,OO0, making the
cash about s24, 100000. The receipts
were $50, 900, OOO and the expenditures
nearly s3l, 100000.
FIRE at Athens, Ala, on the Goth, de-
stroyed several stores and small build
ings. The total loss was about $4,000.
William Chandler and Owen Brown
were caught under falling walls and
crushed to death.
The Western chemical works, tho
only laboratory manufacturing carbolic
acid in this country burned at Indian
apolis on the 2lst This is the third
time the works have been destroyed by
fire in six months
At San Francisco on the 21st the out
fit of the California Athletic club, on
which more than 100000 has been
spent in the last ten years, was knocked
.Io,,,, ~ motion for AKIN
THE steamer Alexander, which left
San Francisco early this year, is al
ready in the Bcring sea Her actions
were suspicious, us eighty men were on
board. 1t is supposed that 1t is intended
TO make n successful sealing voyage.
THE Cincinnati and Covington Ice
manufacturers and dealers have formed
a combination with capital stock OF
5000, 900, incorporated under the laws
of Kentucky. The new company will
begin the season by raising the price Of
ice.
A GREAT storm ragged on the 22d in
western and southern Minnesota and
South Dakota At Faribault Mimi,
and ncighboring points eight inches OF
snow fell and this was followed by q
heavy fall of hail.
A SECRET meeting of the promoters OF
the tanners combine was held at Bos-
ton on the cod and it is understood that
II was decided TO fix the capitalization
at $50, 900, 600.
AT San Francisco on the 22d District
Judge Morrow sentenced Capt Deering,
of the schooner Louis Olsen, convicted
of smuggling twenty-nine Chinese into
this country at Monterey, to one years
Imprisonment and to pay a fine of s14,-
500, which is at the rate Of $500 for
each Chinaman landed.
Two men from New Orleans commit
ted suicide at Monte Carlo on the Esd.
Their names are given as Well and
Robh They had been playing heavily
at the Casino for several days, and lost
enormous sums
THE o'Neill block, four-story brick
structure at Binghampton, N. Y, was
entirely gutted by fire on the Esd. Mrs
Eta Fancher, n tenant was horribly
burned and died.
AT Jeffersonville, Ind, ON the Esd,
the dining hall OF the southern Indiana
prison took fire and the Claggett sad
dlery shop was also ruined. Claggetts
loss will be $4,000; damage TO other
buildings s25, 900. None OF the convicts
were hurt and none escaped.
A WIND storm OF remarkable violence
visited indianapolis on the Esd, doing
about 500, 900 damage and injuring two
persons
DoBBTNs & DAISY, cotton brokers Of
Nashville, Tenn, with branch houses
in ST. Louis jackson, Tenn, and New
Orleans, have failed. Their liabilities
nre about 100000.
JAMES NJ. ANNoS, cashier in the
United States Express Office at Phila-
delphia, absconded with 81, 400 Of the
company's funds March 1S The theft
was not made public until the esd.
AT North Adams Mass, the 17C
weavers employed by the johnson
Manufacturing Company, makers Of
fine ginghams, struck on the Esd for
more pay, and in consequences the en-
tire mill, employing 400 hands, has
been shut down.
THE Trunk Line association has de
cided to divide all the eastbound grain
traffic that reaches Buffalo and Erie by
the lakes in accordance with certain
percentages TO be determined by the
commissioners
AT Newton, Ksn., on the nigat OF the
Esd the vault In the register Of deeds
Office was broken open and the county
records destroyed. A hole was made
through two-foot brick wall into the
vault with n pick. The records were
piled on the floor. saturated with kero-
seue and set on FIRE There is no clew
TO the perpetrators The loss cannot
be made good for less than 800, 900
The secretary Of the interior decided
on the gath that a grant OF several
thousand acres OF land in California,
made by the government TO the South
ern Pacific Railroad Company, had been
forfeited for noncompliance with the
conditions OF the grant
BUsNEss failures during the week
ended March "a number for the United
States 2l7. Canada 90, total 243, as com
pared with s2o the previous week and
200 for the corresponding week Of last
year.
THE Summit Seed & Feed Compauy's
building at Denver, Col, was destroyed
bp firo on the oath. Two firemen were
killed by falling walls and two others
were badly injured The burned build
ing contained 2Ooo bales OF hay and .
large quantity OF seed Loss 900, 200.
The New York Associated Press has
sued the Western Associated for about