The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1894-10-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Gathered from All Quarters.
DOMESTIC.

on the 25th.
PRESIDENT HAvEMEYER, of the Amer
lean Sugar Refining Company, has is
sued orders for the closing down at
once of one-half of the refneries under
its control, and in few days the rest
of the refneries will be ordered to shut
down. This action is taken because of
the large amount of refined sugar on
hand.
THE glove contest at New Orleans on
the night of the Goth ult. between Bob
Fitzsimmons and Dan Creedon, for
purse of IS, 900 and the middleweight
championship of the world, resulted in
a victory for Fitzsimmons. Creedon
was knocked out in the second round.
THE stable of Daniel Mooney was
burned at Philadelphia, Pa, on the
Goth ult and twenty horses perished in
the flames. Five dwellings in the rear
Of the stable were badly damaged, the
occupants escaping in their night
clothes.
AT Omaha, Neb., on the Goth ult the
democratic state convention by close
vote decided to endorse the populist
candidate for governor. When the de-
cision was announced half the dele
gates left the hall and held separate
convention.
THE schooner William Home, loaded
with $40 tons of pig iron, was lost in
Lake Michigan on the night of the 25th
ult. Six of her crew were drowned.
CAPT. HENRY w. HowGATE, formerly
chief signal officer and fugitive from
Washington, D. c., since the winter of
1881, was arrested at New York City on
the 27th ult., charged with embezzle-
nent and forgeries aggregating $780,
900. He was committed to Ludlow
street jail by United States Commits
sioner Alexander.
OK the 27th ult. fifteen men charged
with keeping gambling houses were in
dicted by the grand jury at Chicago
FIFTEEN hundred coal miners along
the line of the Cleveland, Lorain &
Wheeling railroad were laid off on the
27th ult. because of the inability OF the
railroad to furnish cars to handle the
output, which amounts to about 500
cars per day.
AT Parkersburg, W. Va, on the night
of the 27th ult. three notorious desper-
ADDE'S and post Office robbers, members
of the Farrell gang, broke jail and are
atlarge.
The president on the 27th ult. issued
proclamation granting pardons to all
Mormons convicted of polygamy.
On the 27th ult. judgments aggre-
eating $4,000 were entered against the
Altoona Manufacturing Company, Of
Altoona, Pa, manufacturers of engines
and machinery. The First National
bank, of Altoona, is an execution cred
itor on claim for $4,000. The company
gave employment to 300 men. The
plant is mortgaged for $54, 900.
T.W. PORTER, auditor Of the Chicago,
Rock Island & Pacific road, and one of
the most prominent Masons in the west,
died at Cincinnati, o., on the 27th ult,
from a stroke of apoplexy.
AT Clarion, Pa, bursting pipe at a
gas we'll killed j. Weitz and seriously
injured J. Banners and j. H. Cook.
THE coal operators of the Massillon
(0.) district on the 97th ult agreed to
pay their miners fifteen cents more per
ton and it was thought the strike
would terminate in day or two. The
matter was put in the hands of the state
board of arbitration.
Tom SMITH, noted negro desperate,
shot and killed three colored United
States deputy marshals and seriously
wounded two white officers while they
were attempting to arrest him at the
Muskogee q. T.) fair on the 27th ult.
A posse is in pursuit of the murderer.
ANDREW HANswIRTH, Chicago po-
liceman, was shot and fatally wounded
on the 2sth ult. by footpad whom he
was trying to arrest. The officer shot
the robber and he will probably die.
AT Princeton, N. j., on the 2sth ult., i,
the practice of hazing was formally
abolished at Princeton college by the
unanimous action Of the students as
sembled in mass meeting.
THE steamer Lucania arrived at New
York on the 2sth ult from Liverpool
and Queenstown. Time of passage five
days, seven hours and forty-eight min
utes, fastest on record beating her
best former and last run of five days
eight hours and thirty-eight minutes
AT Madison, w. Va, on the 2sth ult
Lee McDorman went to take down his
double barreled shotgun tog go hunting
when the hammers caught and both
barrels were discharged, tearing his
head to pieces.
BUSINESS failures during the week
ended September 2s numbered 935 in
the United States, against 934 last year,
and in Canada 55, against 33 last year.
AT Frankfort, Ind, on the night oi
the 2sth ult the jury in the Greentowr
bank case, in which John w. Paris
president of the concern, has been OF
trial for embezzlement, were dis
charged, being unable to agree on 9
verdict. The jury was out twenty-foul
hours and stood from first to last to 1
for acquittal.
The organization of the Commercial
Wheel Company was perfected at In
dianapolis recently, by which 90 pei
cent of the product Of the wagon whee
factories west of Pittsburg will be solo
by the company.
CHECKS to the number of 26,s39, ag
gregating S4, s95, ,O59.bO, quarterly inter
est on the United States registered
ner cent. consnls Of 1907. were mailed