The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1894-11-14
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Gathered from All Quarters
DOMESTIC.

cutlOn.
On the 7th at Billings, Mo-, by tn,
premature explosion of a cannon will
which he was celebrating the republic
an victory, Peter Knox had his right
arm torn off and will lose both eyes
He is otherwise injured and his recov
cry is doubtful.
Gus CoLEANDER, Judge of election in
the Ninth precinct of the Twenty-third
ward, at Chicago, who was shot on elec.
tion day by crowd of hoodlums who
attempted to steal the ballot-box al
that precinct, died at the hospital on
the 18th.
AT New York City on the 9Th forty.
nine students of the General theologi.
cal seminary were before Judge Barrett
in the supreme court, to show cause
why their names should not be stricken
from the registry lists. After hearing
arguments Judge Barrett said that a
student could neither acquire or lose
residence in seminary. The students
did not, therefore, vote.
THE expert who has been at work on
the books of the Stark county (O.)
treasury declares that the shortage is
$l9,44022. He says in his report that
the treasury has been robbed by an
office employe by making duplicate en-
tries in the cash. book.
AS the result of a collision between
passenger and freight train on the b.
& o. railroad at Rosensteel siding, near
lockwood, Pa, on the 18th, Henry Bush,
engineer, and Simeon Mccarthy, fire.
man, of the passenger train, and En-
gineer Browning and Brakeman Man
ming, of the freight train, and two
postal clerks were killed. None Of the
passengers were injured.
AT Philadelphia, Pa, ON the 7th a
passenger train on the Philadelphia &
Reading railroad, crashed into horse
car at crossing. James Connors,
driver of the horse car, and William H.
Tilton, a passenger, were seriously in
jured. The accident was caused by the
watchman failing to lower the safety
gates.
AT the second days session of the
general missionary committee of the
Methodist Episcopal church in Brook
lyn, N. Y, on the Sth, the annual ap-
preparation for general missionary
work was taken up and $4,000 for the
fixed official expenses was appropriated.
GENERAL orders from the war de-
partment, issued to the army on the
Sth, announced, by direction of the
president, the retirement from active
service by operation of the law, of
Maj. Oliver o. Howard, commanding
the department of the east, with head
quarters at Governors Island, N. Y.
THE Central Trust Company, recent
ly operating in Philadelphia, but now
in Washington, has been declared
fraudulent organization by the post
office department and denied the use
of the registered letter and money or
der systems of the department.
AT Lexington, KY, on the Sth Isaac
Douglass, John Trainor and Louis
Sharpe, prominent Fayette county
farmers, met and discussed the Ovens
Denny y-Breckinridge election and then
quarrelled. In the fight that followed
Trainor shot Douglass through the
heart, killing him instantly, and IA
tally stabbed Sharpe In the side,
THE will of the late Prof. Swing, of
Chicago was offered for probate on the
Sth. The estate is estimated at $50, 900.
The will gives $40, 900 to the Illinois
Humane society, and most of the re-
mainder goes to the two daughters of |
the testator.
In the New York supreme court on
the sth Justice Barrett rendered iudg-
ment for $22, ,17L51, a board bill, in
favor of Julia Shaw, former owner of
The Grand Union hotel, against Carolan
pBrien Bryant. Bryant, his two
daughters and maid lived on credit
1T the hotel during the three years be-
tween 1882 and 1885.
THREE masked men entered E. c.
store at Thermopolis, Wyo.,
On the 9th, covered the proprietor with
guns and compelled him to give them
81, 300. Enderly and others pursued
lhe robbers and shot one, who will die.
The others escaped with most of the
olunder.
AT Chassel, Mich, on the night of
he sth two 'children of Alfred Hind
trom were burned to death. The chill
Iren had been left alone in the house.
On the occasion of the funeral of the
Ear, November II, 25, 200 of st. Peters
'urg's poor will be provided with din
lers.
BUSINESS failures during the week
nded November numbered 27l in the
United States against 1853 last year, and
2 in Canada against 81 last year.
AT Memphis, Tenn, on the 9th A. G.
iitchell, a prominent citizen of that
ity, fell from moving passenger train
n the Chesapeake, Ohio Il Southwest
rn railroad and broke his neck. He
arried $4,000 accident insurance, pur-
hased for the trip.
FRED t. ADAMS, the New York
roker who has been offering so much
loney and such heavy odds on Nor
on's election, won $4,000 on election.
Hill had been victorious Adams
'ould have lost more than $3.50, 900.
Four hundred men employed at the
anton copper works at Baltimore, Md,
ere notified on the 9th that on next
ny day their wages would be increased
y 10 per cent The proprietors say
he new schedule has been struck ow-
lg to the result of the elections and
le consequent prospective increase in )
le profits Of the concern. y /.
o. G. PETERS, one of the best known
anufacturers and capitalists in Ohio,
licided in the Jackson sanitarium at !
awhile, N. Y, on the 9th.
AT New York City on the 7th Katie I
ilespie, 1S years old, saleswoman in !
le employ Of Hilton, Hughes & Co.,
lille stepping from the elevator in the