The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1894-10-31
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Gathered from All Quarters.
DOMESTIC.

of Milwaukee, Wis, whose scheme for
making fortunes quickly was similar TO
the Missouri bank schemes, was de-
clared illegal by the state supreme
court on the oath.
LABRMER BROS photograph gallery
in Marion, Ind, was completely
wrecked on the oath by an explosion OF
natural gas. Miss Grace Speakihan'
retoucher, received fatal injuries. Ben
Larrimer, the proprietor of the gallery,
and Alfred Greenman, an employe, |
were seriously burned and bruised,
The property loss will be about IS, ,OOO.
A DISPATCH. from Calverton, Va,
says the bag containing the money
stolen from the Adams Express car
at Aqua creek was found under log
on the cath. Part of the funds recov-
cred were government bonds and ne
gotiable paper.
THE Farmers National bank, OF Nal
vern, Ia, was wrecked and looted by
robbers on the morning of the Goth.
The vault and safes inside the vault
were blown to pieces, the concussion
completely wrecking the inside fixtures
of the building. 1t is estimated that
the robbers got away with about $40, OoO
A FEARFUL and death-dealing plague
of diphtheria is raging near Casey
vile, KY, and coffins can hardly
be furnished fast enough with which
to bury the dead. Forty deaths have
occurred within week, and 1T is not
uncommon to bury two children in
single coffin.
THE Central hotel, frame structure,
at Ration, N. NJ, was destroyed by fire
on the night of the 24th. James La
Point, James McCool and AL Kennedy,
railroad men, who boarded at the
hotel, perished in the flames The lire
was caused by the explosion of lamp
AT Denver, Col, on the 25th ). j.
Reithmann, the millionaire druggist
and capitalist, made d personal assign
nent and the firm Of j. j. Reithman Il
Co. also filed an assignment with the
county clerk. No statement of assets
and liabilities was given.
Mrs. ROSETTA SEXTON, aged 102 years,
mother of the late multi-millionaire
and banker, A. NJ. Sexton, died OF old
age at st, Joseph, Mo-, on the gath. She
was born in Syracuse, N ~ October
21, 1892, and enjoyed excellent health
almost up to the time Of her death.
On the 25th Prof Wylie Mellette,
son of ex-Gov. Mellette and instructor
in the mechanical department OF the
agricultural college at Brooklyn, s.
D., cut his throat with razor.
On the 25th Eli Krause and Edward
Wardmise, owners and operators of a
large grist mill at Reelsville, Ind, were
instantly killed by passenger train or
the Vandalia road. The train caught
the men as they were crossing the track
in a two-horse wagon. The vehicle was
demolished and the men frightfully
mangled.
The Gay Woodman Company, th'
only shoe manufacturing concern II
Lewiston, Me-, assigned on the 25th OF
account of business depression. Th
liabilities amount to 100000.
MANY of the Connecticut saving
banks have given notice to depositor
having more than $4,000 to scale dow,
their deposits, so as to relieve tn
banks from the operation of the incom
tax law.
CHIEF HAzEN, of the secret service
has received from Rochester, N. Y,
new counterfeit SIS treasury note wit
the Thomas head. The bill is from
very poorly executed etched plate
The features of Thomas are blurre
and the lettering and lathe work yer
poor. The panel containing the trea
ury number of the bill has parall'
lines in the counterfeit and in tn
genuine they are oblique.
AT New York City on the Goth IL
amalgamated board of cloakmakers an
cutters announced that seventy man
facturers have now conceded their d
mands. Over 5000 men and women a,
again at work.
On the Goth the creditors in Ne
York City of the Yonkers Manufactr
ing Company, manufacturers OF +
hats at Peekskill, N. Y, said that
application had been made for dis'
luton of the company and the appoil
ment of receivers. The liabilities a
said to be $4,000 and nominal asst
$170,OOO.
THE president on the Goth granted
In,
case of Thomas st. Clair, of Californ
now under sentence for murder on
high SEAS This is the second resp
granted St. Clair and is given in
der to allow a determination upon
appeal pending on behalf of two 9th
convicted of the same crime.
BUSINESS failures for the week enc
October 20 numbered 231 in the Uni
States, against 1852 last year, and So
Canada, against "A last year
THE first meeting of the cabinet 81
the Wilson bill became law, occur
at the White House on the 26th, all
members attending except the secret
of agriculture, who is in Europe.
AT New York City on the Goth C
nization frauds were discovered in
Twelfth assembly district by wh
Superintendent Byrnes says, 400 +
names would have been entered u
the registration list. Nine of the p
cipals in the plot were arrested
other arrests will follow.
], ALLEN FRANCIS, teller of the
Bank of Hartford, Conn, since 1856
defaulter for about $4,000. He
confessed and is in Jail.
A DISPATCH from Columbus,
saws: Daniel McClintic, for four y
past the trustee OF Clifty towns
and the defeated democratic candi