The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1894-10-24
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Gathered from All Quarters.
DOMESTIC.


20 recover $50, 900 for the publication in
the World of the Columbian ode,"
written by Miss Monroe. The ode had
been copyrighted.
EUGENE ScHAwECKER, a wholesale
yrocer and liquor merchant, of Cincin-
natl, committed suicide on the 18th at
Mount Carmel cemetery, Baltimore,
Nd, on the grave of his first wife, by
shooting himself through the heart,
The trial of Kristian Kortgaard, in
1icted for the larceny of $4,000, the
funds of the State bank, of which he
was president, was concluded in the
district criminal court at Minneapolis,
Mimi, ON the 18th and verdict of
yuilty, specifying the amount at S13,-
700, was returned The minimum pen
atty is five years. Imprisonment.
A DESPERATE attempt at train wreck
ing was made on the night of the 18th
on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. An
east-bound accommodation train ran
over dynamite cartridge near Bis
sell, about fifteen miles from Pittsburg,
Pa. The fange of one wheel was
blown off and one end of coach was
wrecked.
THE Grand Rapids, Mich, syndicate
0f furniture manufacturers who opened
warehouse and sample room in Man
chester, England, recently, has secured
several heavy contracts in competition
with English firms, from British whole
sale dealers, and the firms in Grand
Rapids are making up the goods. The
largest orders are for desks and side
boards
NEAR Rockford, ILL.,, on the 18th Mrs.
ieorge Eddy and Mrs. Painter were
.un over and killed at railroad cross
ing, by passenger train. Mrs. Eddy
was "Beekmanite," her husband be-
ng superintendent of Schweinfurth's
Heaven" near Rockford.
AT Baltimore, Md, on the 18th DIR.
John d. Kremien, who was recently
ldjudged guilty of murder in the Sec
md degree for poisoning John Foirre,
llias Herman Hanburch, was sentenced
TO ten years Imprisonment in the state
penitentiary.
On the night of the 18th, for the fifth
time in as many years, the business por-
tion of the village of Latham, near
Springfield, ILL.,, was destroyed by fire.
The depot, bank, hotel, fourteen busi-
ness houses and two residences were
consumed. Estimated losses $4,000,
with an insurance of about 10 per cent.
of that amount
IT was announced at Baltimore, Md,
ON the 18th by the reorganization COM
mittee of the Mary land Steel Company,
that the immense plant at Sparows'
Point would resume operations about
November l. Three thousand men
were employed when the works shut
down several months ago.
On the 18th large part OF the eX-
tensiye plant of the famous Tredegar
iron works of Richmond, Va, was de-
stroyed by fire. The fire originated in
the car shops and spread to the horse
shoe, blacksmith and pattern shops, all
of which were consumed. The loss is
about $3.50, 1000; fully covered by insur-
ance.
NEAR Ebensburg, Pa, on the night
of the 18th Donald E. Duffton. promi-
nent lawyer, was shot at Hungarian
settlement and will probably die. Duff
ton had been drinking and, while en-
deavoring to obtain lodgings, was mis-
taken for burglar. Four shots took
effect.
BUSINESS failures for the week ended
October 10 numbered 253 in the United
States, against S41 last year, and 43 in
Canada, against 20 last year.
The post Office department has issued
an order declaring that the Cooperative
Loan and Investment Company, of
Mississippi, is engaged in conducting
lottery or similar enterprise, which
declaration, under act of congress, ex-
cludes said company from the use Of
the mails.
Two young murderers, Otto Wonig-
keit and Charles Ermisch, suffered the
death penalty on the gallows at st.
Paul, Mimi, on the 10th. The crime
for which the two boys were hanged
was the shooting of Bartender Lind
hoff, on the night of May last. The
boys We're II and 10 years old.
On the 10th ten tramps became en-
gagged in quarrel at South Waverly,
Pa. Nine of them took the tenth,
strung him up against wall and shot
him through the head, killing him.
The tramps, who are believed to be
foreigners, escaped.
AT Detroit, Mich, on the 10Th School
Inspector Walsh, who was charged
with accepting a bribe, was adjudged
not guilty. The jury were out nearly
twenty-four hours.
AT Milwaukee, Wis, on the 10th two
hundred molders struck for an increase
in wages at the Wisconsin malleable
iron works.
The cruiser Detroit, in sailing from
Norfolk for Newport, R, l., a few days
ago, is ascertained to have left behind
about twenty-five of her crew, who de.
serted while she lay at the navy yard
These desertions were caused in great
part by the overcrowding of men in
small and uncomfortable quarters.
OK the 10th Judge Lacombe, in the
United States circuit court at New
York, rendered decision in the case oi
John James Howard Levi P. Morton'c
coachman. The judge dismissed the
writ of habeas corpus and ordered How
ard back to Ellis Island. He will be
sent back to Europe.
MRS. MARY SAWYER and two young
daughters, aged 16 and 1s, were killed
on the 10Th while driving over the Bur
ington tracks near Dorchester, Neb
The trainmen are charged with failing
to conform to regulations as to speed
and whistling.
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