The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1894-11-21
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Gathered from All Quarters
DOMESTIC.

upon SUCH salt the rate OF uuty ex-
isting prior to the passage of this act. )"
OWING to the illness of Mr.. Golf, the
work of the Lexow investigating COM
mittee will not be resumed before No
vember 26, and possibly not before
December 1.
On the night of the 18th boarding
house in Elberfeld, Rhenish Prussia,
was destroyed by fire and seven OF its
occupants were burned to death.
THE White Star line steamship
Adriatic took out in her steerage on
the 14th a party of twenty colored
people bound for Liberia. This is
flying column from the army Of 10000
negroes that is said to be gathered in
southern seaports awaiting means OF
deportation. sN'
AT Nashville, Tenn, on the 14th
Chancellor Andrew Allison was shot
and killed in the court house by George
Whitworth, eX-clerl1 and master of the
Davidson county chancery court Whit
worth then shot himself and will prob
ably die. The failure of Allison to set
tie or secure large sum alleged to be
due from him to Whitworth for money
loaned led to the tragedy.
MINNIE METHE of Manville, Wis,
was placed in an insane asylum on the
l4th She was an ardent democrat and
the result Of the election drove her
crazy. There is little hope of her re-
covery.
WALTER d. ALLEN, member Of the
Philadelphia bar, on the 14th pleaded
guilty in the criminal court of that
city to the embezzlement Of over $20,-
200 belonging to clients which had
been put in his hands for investment.
AT st. Louis, Mo-, on the 18th, a party
of schoolboys dug cave on vacant
lot and seven of them were buried by
the roof caving in. Harry Raedner, 8
years old, was killed, and Herman Wal
kenford, aged 10, was badly injured.
The others escaped unhurt.
NEAR Fort Wayne, Ind, on the 18th,
scarlet fever broke out at the home for
feeble-minded children. The institu-
tion contains about 500 inmates and the
greater number of them had been ex-
posed to the disease.
AT Newark, N. j., on the 18th five
hundred hatters in Yales, Wharton &
Co. factory struck for an increase Of
two cents per hat. The firm deliber-
ated twenty minutes and then acceded
to the demand.
GROUND has been purchased and plans
perfected for the erection in st. Louis,
Mo-, of the largest tobacco factory in
the world, for the use of local firm.
The buildings will cover twenty acres
and will cost 81, 900, 600. The plant will
give employment to 5000 workmen.
Mrs. REBECCA MORTIMER, aged 81,
fell asleep at Kent, O., on the 18th and
could not be awakened. She died on
the night of the 18th, after a sleep of
sixty hours.
The state superintendent of insur-
ance at Springfield, ILL.,, on the 18th
received decision Of the supreme court
of Illinois holding all "Lloyd insur-
ance associations" individually liable
for all policies issued by their company.
SEVEN suspected men have been cap
tured, and are now in Jail at Ridgeway,
Pa, under from $1,000 to 1000 bail.
They are charged with conspiracy to
burn and the burning of tipple at
the Paine mines, Luzerne county, last
June; also with breaking in window
Of miners house, and placing explo-
sives beneath the house Of Fritz Sonn-
tag, a miner who refused to strike.
AT New York City in the action Of
Mary Manning for a separation from
the millionaire banker, John B. Man
ming, Justice Barrett, of the supreme
court, has allowed the complainant
$1,000 counsel fees and $500 month
alimony. The parties were married in
1861, and she says that he has more
than So, 900, 900 worth Of personal prop
erty.
THE small schooner Antelope, of Chi
cago, capsized off Grand Haven, Mich,
on the 18th, and the three men COM
prising her crew were drowned.
BUSINESS failures during the week
ended November 16 numbered 270 in the
United States against 1923 last year, and
3s in Canada against SO last year.
AT Philadelphia, Pa, Adam Clark
Tietz, alaborer, who was thrown head
foremost through three panes of glass
and who received other serious injuries
by street car collision two years ago,
was on the 10th awarded $26, 900 dam
ages against the Philadelphia Traction
Company.
AT Philadelphia, Pa, on the 10th
Lawyer Walter D. Allen, who recently
pleaded guilty to embezzlement, died
in Moyamensing prison. The immedi-
ate cause of death was apoplexy, but
the coroner ordered a post-mortem ex-
animation to be made.
AT a recent meeting of the National
Baseball league at New York resolu-
tion was adopted giving the Philadel
phia club the benefit Of the division of
receipts in force prior to 1889, to enable
that club to rebuild its grand stand
which was burned last August.
A MOVEMENT which promises to de-
velop into full-fedged Parkhurst cru
sade, was inaugurated at Buffalo, N
Y, on the 10th, by the police pulling
every house ofill-fame and every gam
bling resort in the city. About 300
prisoners were locked up in the differ
ent police stations,
NEAR Norristown, Pa, on the 10th
by the premature explosion Of powder
in Parsons quarry, George Griffith.
fireman, and Uriah Snyder, engineer,
were killed
AT Pottsyille, Pa, on the night of
the 18th, John Cheatam, young man,
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