The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1894-09-05
DOMESTIC,


INTERNAL revenue receipts for the
fiscal year to date have reached $54,-
OOO,OOO against S26, ZOO, 900 for the cor
responding period last year.
A MAN who gave his name as Edward
Stolz and said he came from Meadville,
Pa, was arrested at New York City on
the Goth ult. for uttering threats
against the life of Mgr. Satolli, whom
he declared he had been commanded to
kill. He was arraigned and committed
for examination as to his sanity.
On the 3Oth ult Chattanooga, Tenn,
was selected as the place of meeting for
the next biennial international confer
ence of the Epworth League, to be held
in June, 1885,
In collision between an electric car
and a fast train on the Northern Pacific
road at Chicago on the Goth ult, John
Briggs, the motorman. was thrown
from his car and killed Several pas
sengers were slightly injured.
The International Migration society,
which was incorporated in Birming-
ham, Ala, last February, and whose
object is to send southern negro colo
nists to Africa, has closed deal with
steamship company, and the first boat
will leave Philadelphia about Septem-
Der Is and touch at different southern
ports and go to Liberia. 1t is expected
that by November 5000 negroes will
have been transported.
Mrs. LIZZIE BENT, of Lynn, Mass,
has just recovered her daughter, who
was stolen from her thirteen years ago.
The child was born in New Hampshire,
and when but three years old its father
eloped with another woman, taking
the baby.
AN English syndicate has practically
closed deal for the purchase of all
the paper and pulp mills in Wisconsin.
The mills in the deal number thirty
four, and the price agreed upon is $14,-
100000.
AT Woonsocket, R. l., on the 9lst ult.
one hundred employees of the River
Spinning Company went on strike,
because of the company's refusal to re-
turn to day pay system instead of pay
ing every employe by the pound of
yarn, which, according to the help, is
an additional cut down of Is to 90 per
cent. on top of a 20 per cent. cut last
spring.
THE coke plant of the Stewart Iron
Company, near Uniontown, Pa, started
up in full on the 31st ult. This plant
was one of the first in the region to
close down after the strike began and
is the last In that section to start up.
AT Fort Wayne, Ind, on the 3Oth ult
Robert j., the PAGER owned by c. J.
Hamlin, was sent against his record Of
2:O44 and finished the mile in 2:03H,
thus dethroning Nancy Hanks, whose
record was 2:04.
The miners and coke drawers in the
coke region about Dunbar, Pa, have
unanimously decided to go on strike
again on the Sd. The men returned to
work about three weeks ago after their
long strike.
AT Bath, Pa, on the 31st ult. Palmer
Smith, aged II, was fatally shot in the
abdomen by Harry Meyer, of Allen
town, his guest. The young men were
engaged in shooting at a target when
the accident occurred.
In round figures the receipts of the
treasury for August were $4,000, 600
and expenditures SS1, 100000.
THE business failures during the
week ended August 81 numbered 1SS in
the United States, against 1856 last year,
and 40 in Canada, against 80 last year.
Two men entered the picture frame
factory of S. F. Rankin, at Chicago, on
the 3lst ult., during the absence of the
proprietor and held up the office boy at
the point of revolvers. They secured
81, 100 and made their escape,
DUNN WILLIAMS, nephew of Hon.
Allen G. Thurman, on the S1st ult.
jumped from the window of the flag
room in the state house at Columbus
o., and died in less than an hour. He
was farmer and suddenly became in.
same
The report of the commission ap.
pointed TO investigate what length OF
span, not less than 1900 feet, would be
safe and practicable for a railroad
bridge over the Hudson river between
New York and Jersey City has beer
made public. The commission finds
that 2,OOO-foot span cantilever bridge
with pier in the center of the river
would be safe and practicable, and that
its cost would be Ss6, ,7@S, 900.
ALL the engineers and iremen en-
ployed by the Oregon Railway and Nav
igation Company have been notified by
Receiver McNeill that the proposed cut
in wages will go into effect September
]. The men will appeal the case to the
United States court for restraining
order