The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1894-12-05
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Gathered from All Quarters
oMEsTIo.

opinion in the United States circuit
court at Philadelphia dismissing the
petitions OF Levi Hicks and other mem
bers of the Brotherhood of Trainmen,
who brought suit to compel the receiv-
ers of the Philadelphia & Reading
Railroad Company to retain them in
their employ.
AT Waterbury, Conn, on the 27th
ult, the city was shaken from end to
end by the explosion of 100 pounds of
illuminate of mercury in a powder house
of the Waterbury Brass Company. John
Kelley, powdermaker, who was alone
in the building, was blown to pieces.
The explosion destroyed several thou
sand dollars worth of large plate glass
windows.
SECRETARY GRESHAM, who has charge
of the matter, has decided upon the
erection of q monument Of American
granite as the most suitable method of
marking the birthplace of Washington
at Wakefield, Va. The amount availa-
BILE for the construction of the monu'
ment is about 81, 900.
THE steamer Indiana, from Liverpool
November Z, arrived at her dock in
Philadelphia on the 27th ult., eight
days overdue. Chief Officer j. P. Ste
venson announced that the trip was
the toughest he had experienced in his
twelve years of seamanship.
The business portion of Athena, Ala,
was almost entirely destroyed by fire
on the 97th ult The losses aggregate
$15O,0o0; half insured.
REVENUE officials raided the whole
sale commission house of Stolze Bros,
at Wheeling, w. Va, on the 27th ult.,
seized their stock and books and began
an investigation with view to Grim
inal prosecutions for selling oleomar-
gerine without so marking it.
THE annual report of Joseph S. Mil
Ter, commissioner of internal revenue,
shows the total receipts from all
sources for the fiscal year ended June
30 1894, to have been SAT, 1853, 449, a de-
crease for the year of $13, $50, $40
NEAR Scranton, Pa, on the 2Sth ult
John James, Edward Eagan and
Thomas Cawley, miners, were killed in
the Pine Brook shaft by fall of rock.
AS a result of the findings of the
court of inquiry at Sacramento, Cal,
which investigated the actions of the
state militia during the recent strike
troubles, Gov. Markham has ordered
that Company A of the Second infantry
regiment and Company A of the Third
infantry be mustered out of the service.
AT Wilkesbarre, Pa, on the 2sth ult.
William Penn Bowman, charged with
the killing of an Arabian peddler, was
convicted of murder in the first degree.
THE American consul at Ghent re-
ports to the state department that the
German government is about to place
or has already placed proposition be-
fore other countries for an internation-
al postage stamp. 1t is intimated that
only certain European countries are ex'
pected to adopt such a stamp, but the
hope is suppressed that the United State:
will enter the agreement.
AT New York City on the 2sth ult
orders were issued from the headquar
ters OF .he American sugar refiners tx
shut down completely all the rein
cries of the company in Boston, New
York, Philadelphia and other cities
Fifty thousand operatives are affected
by the closing of the sugar works.
On the night of the 9sth ult. BURGLAR
blew open the post Office safe at Ticon
deroga N. Y, and secured $500 il
money and many valuable packages.
FIRE on the night of the 2sth ult. to
tally destroyed the Lozier Manufactur
ing Company's bicycle plant at Toledo
o. Loss $500, 900; insurance $780, ,000
THE report of Secretary of the Int
rior Hoke Smith shows that the tota
disbursements to date for the eleventh
census amount to $10,365,676. II will
require about $275, 900 to complete tn
work.
THE bones of mastodon were foun'
few days ago on the Rupel farm nea
North Liberty, Ind, in clay soil eigh
and one-half feet below the surface
The tusks were eight and one-half fee
long and the teeth weighed from fiv
and one-half to six pounds each.
The extensive pottery of the Gallo
way Terra Gotta Company at Philade,
phia, burned on the Goth ult., entailin
a loss of 100000.
THE annual report of Superintendent
Kimball of the life saving service, fC
the year ending June 30, 1894, is sun
married. as follows: Number of disa
ters, S54; value of property involved
$4,000, 42O; property saved, S7,763,21;
property lost, 50. 237, 9O5; number of pc
sods involved, 4,521; persons lost, 6S
shipwrecked persons succored at ST
tions, 65S; vessels totally lost, 91
AT TT. Smith, Ark, on the 30th ul
Thurman Balding alias "Skeeter,
Jesse Snyder and Will Farris, all men
bers Of the Cook gang, were sentence
in the United States court 'Skeeter
received thirty years and Snyder an
Farris twenty. years each. The hous
of correction at Detroit, Mich, was de
ignated as the place where they mu
serve their long sentences.
THREE negroes, Henry Butler, 0sc'
Thompson and Hamp May were burne
to death in the jail at Polkton, N.
on the night OF the Goth ult.
DURING the week ended November
business failures numbered 2s9 in Il
United States against 27l last year, al
Sc in Canada against 40 last year.
On the 3Oth ult. the state board
arbitration resumed at New York Cit
the investigation of the cloakmakei
strike Some OF the cloakmakers test
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