The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1894-09-19
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Gathered fron All Quarters.
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the cash drawer of $4,000. A reward
of 81, 900 was offered for the capture of
the man.
FIVE Cinnamon were arrested and
locked up at Ogdensburg, N. Y, on the
18th by Special Agents Jenkins, Ses-
sions and Chance for attempting to
enter the country in violation OF the
Chinese exclusion law.
AT Hermann, Mo-, on the 12th Rev.
Pierce Anderson, the Baptist preacher
who was confined in Jail on charge OF
horse stealing, pleaded guilty and was
sentenced to four years imprisonment
The first snow fall of the season oc-
CURED at Havre, Mont, on the night Of
the 18th. There was deposit of over
four inches.
THE case against Postmaster Harry
Marietta and Others of Connellsville,
Pa, was given to the jury at 9 o'clock
on the night of the 18th and no verdict
was reached until II o'clock the follow
ing day. They were all convicted of
unlawful assemblage in connection
with the coke region riots.
A TERRIFIC natural gas explosion oc-
Cured at Alexandria, Ind, on the 18th.
The Free and Galloway blocks were
completely wrecked and the family of
e. 0. Myers was buried in the debris.
E. o. Myers and his sister were fatally
injured. Loss, $4,000.
THE directors of the Western Union
Telegraph Company have declared the
regular quarterly dividend of IL per
cent, payable October Is, The net
revenues for the quarter ending Sep
tember 30 will be about 81, 100000.
SECRETARY CARLISLE, although he
has not yet written formal letter to
that effect, authorized the official an
nouncement on the 18th that he would
not pay any sugar bounty earned but
unpaid when the new tariff bill went
into effect August 80.
On the night of the 11th thieves eff
fected an entrance 10 the residence Of
Alexander Woodring, at Riceville, Pa,
and stole 81, ,O4O in cash and $7OO worth
of notes. The money consisted Of $50
bills and $50 gold pieces. The money
was all marked, which may lead to the
discovery of the thief.
SECRETARY CARLISLE has issued Or
ders, in accordance with the law passed
by the last congress, that after October
the head tax on immigrants shall be
raised from fifty cents per head to one
dollar, and that the money thus col.
lected shall be covered into the treas
0ry.
On the night of the 18th the police OF
Shelbyville, Ind, captured gang OF
counterfeiters and their outfit in that
city. The leader Of the gang is the no
torious Buck Hart. They have been
making and showing" the queer on an
extensive scale in Indiana.
A VERY rich strike has recently been
made in the Sierra Chultz mine, Pine
Nut district, Douglas county, Nevada.
Six hundred dollars were taken out in
two hours. During one day ore was
extracted that is estimated to be worth
S., 400
THE steamship Lucania recently ad'
ded to her laurels by reducing the time
of the eastward passage between New
York and Queenstown by over two
hours. The time of her passage was
five days, eight hours and twenty-five
minutes.
THE delegates to the twenty-eighth
national encampment of the G. A. R.
completed the business of the session
at Pittsburg, Pa, on the 18th after
electing the following officers: Com
mander-in-C Thomas G. Lawler
senior vice commander, A. P. Birch.
field; junior vice commander, Charles
Shute; surgeon general, o. w. Weeks;
chaplain-in-chief, T. II. Haggerty.
AT Newark, o., on the 18th an un
known tramp called at the home occu
pied by three young girls named Rank
and at the point of revolver compelled
Florence, the youngest, to hand owe,
800. He then fled.
E. II. DENNIsoN, of Olean, N. Y, granC
treasurer of the Select Knights, dice
or committed suicide at Buffalo, on the
night of the 13th. He is said to have
been over 81, 200 short in his accounts
The Post Office Clerks National as
sociation in session at Boston, Mass
elected Benjamin Parkhurst, of Wash
ington, president; E. L. Denton, O
New York, treasurer, and w. E. Crum
hacker, of Chicago, secretary. 1t wa
voted 70 hold the next meeting in st
Paul, Mimi, next September.
HEAVY rains fell throughout tn
state of Minnesota on the 14th, and re
ports from the fire threatened district
were to the effect that the rain ha,
quenched the fires which have beel
smouldering for the past few week
and removed all danger of their spread
ing.
On the 14th thousand hop picker
struck work at Pleasanton, Cal, be
cause, owing to the thinness of tn,
crop, they could not make living wage
at the present rate. The strikers in
clude whites, Portuguese and Chinese
NoRvAL HAWKINS, the local cashie
of the Standard Oil Company, who wa
arrested recently, charged with embez
zling $1,000, was on the 14th held 70
trial at Detroit, Mich. Bail was fixe'
at So, 900, which was furnished.
The American line steamer New Yorl
on the 14th broke the Southamptol
westward record for the second time i,
four weeks, her time being six. days
seven hours and fourteen minutes
beating her own best record, made las
trip, by one hour and twenty-four min
utes. N
THE post Office department., becaus