The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-06-14
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Gathered from All Quarters
DOMESTIC.

things of like character no matter now
securely put up, are of the nature OF
poisons and extremely dangerous to
health, and they are therefore abso-
lutely unmailable. Postmasters are in
structed to see that no such things are
allowed to enter into the mails.
AT Chicago on the 9TH Joseph Rath-
bone & Co., lumber dealers, made a
voluntary assignment in the county
court Assets s5OO,000 and liabilities
$3.50, 1000. Robert +. Shenkton was
named as assignee and took possession
of the company's property.
ANDREW SHAW, night watchman OF
the Cambria Iron Company's coke works
at Wheeler Pa, was assaulted and
robbed on the night of the oh by three
masked men. The robbers tried to
compel Shaw to open the safe, but not
knowing the combination he could not
Then they beat him to insensibility.
THE New Albany Qnd.) Banking
Company suspended payment on the 9TH
and closed its doors The company had
been doing a general banking business
in New Albany since 1882. The capital
stock of the company is 100000
AT San Francisco, CAL, on the 18th,
fire destroyed about dozen fine resi-
dences. Three fremen, named Wind
row, Davis and Madison, were instant.
ly killed by a falling chimney, and an.
other fireman, named Henlit was badly
burned. The loss was estimated at
100000
DURING friendly scuiile in the West
ern Union telegraph office at Chicago,
on the 9TH, Thomas Stack, who had an
open penlinife in his hand, accidentally
stabbed and killed George Grain. Both
were messenger boys. Grain made an
ante-mortem statement eXonerating
Stack from all blame.
WHILE a party consisting of Luther
Turner Otto Stevens and daughter,
and Mrs. Morrow, were picknicking
near Spring Valley, Mimi, on the 9TH,
they got into Turner's carriage and
went to the springs for water. The
horses became frightened and jumped
off high embankment into the water,
drowning the entire party, including
the horses.
The National Prison Reform associa'
tion, at It's annual meeting at Chicago
on the 9TH, filed the presidential va
cancy occasioned by the death of eX'
President Hayes, by the election OF
Roeliff Brinkerhoff, Of Mansfield, o..
All the old officers were reelected. St
Paul was selected as the place for the
next annual meeting.
AT Shamolsin, Pa, three hundred
miners struck at the Patterson colliery
out of sympathy for one of the miners
who was discharged for having too
much slate in his coal. Seven hundred
hands were thrown out of employment.
COMMISSIONER LocHREN has organized
n pension board consisting of twenty
three men TO determine whether PEN
sion allowances are in every case in
accordance with law.
THE direct liabilities of Erastus Wi
man rs scheduled are stated at S59l, ,00O
contingent liabilities, sSl5,0OO.
AT jamestown, n. Y, on the sth d.
j. Falls, well-to-do Cincinnati bust.
ness man, was taken off the Bradford
train in half sensible condition and
died in the Erie depot in few minutes
AT Detroit, Mich, on the sth the po-
lice raidcd the house of Henry Jackson
and arrested Jackson and his son. A
search of the house revealed quantity
of bogus money and a good deal OF
countcrfeiting apparatus
Oh the night of the Sth a Mobile &
Ohio train was held up by six masked
men at Forest Lawn, a suburb of East
st. Louis, in Illinois. The robbers made
clean haul Of the contents Of the eX.
press ear after beating the messenger
into insensibility.
AT Chicago, on the sth, three-story
building owned by Thomas Mackay,
was totally destroyed by fire, entailing
loss on building and contents Of $780,.
OOO Daniel Feely, a porter, was burned
10 death.
The casting Of the Columbian liberty
bell at Troy, n. Y, which was TO have
taken place on the sth, has been in.
definitely postponed, owing TO the
mold having broken.
Bonds of Gov. Chase, John w. Paris
and l.. 5. Walden, indicted Greentown
Qnd.) bank officers, were fixed at
$4,000, which they gave. Their trial
will take place in October.
THE Economic society in Pennsyl.
yania has become so depleted that II is
now necessary 10 elect three women
elders. Women have previously been
ineligible.
BUSINESS failures during the seven
days ended June o, numbered for the
United States 322 and 81 in Canada, a
total Of $40, as compared with 23s the
previous week and l6s for the CORE.
spending week last year.
JOSEPH IIIGINs, owning private bank
at Chicago and three corresponding in
stitutiops in Illinois towns, made an
assignment on the 9th TO George w.
Dixon. Assets scheduled at $50, 900 and
liabilities not estimated. Higgins opera.
ted banks at Mascoutah, Sorrento, Gil.
lespie and ST. Ann. The assignment
covers all.
AT Pittsburgh on the 9th the Anal
gamated Association OF Iron and Steel
Workers completed consideration Of
the wage scale. The scale remains up.
changed throughout The workers will
demand It's adoption by the manufac-
turers for the coming yepr.
The Lehigh Valley coal trestle and
coal storage house, containing 10000
tons OF anthracite coal, was burned at
Buffalo, N. Y, on the night OF the 9th,
entailing loss Of 100000.