The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1894-09-12
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Gathered from All Quarters.
DoMEsTIc.

Provision Company.
Gov. TURNER, of Tennessee, has Of
fered reward of $4,000 for the appre-
hension of the persons engaged in the
recent lynching of the six negroes near
Millington.
HOWARD WHITE, the leading bicycle
dealer at Trenton, N. j., has absconded
after disposing of a large stock at a
great sacrifice and pocleting the pro-
ceeds. He is heavily indebted to
wholesale dealers
THE Anchor Fire Insurance Company,
one of the numerous wildcat insurance
companies, chartered in West Virginia,
collapsed at Wheeling on the 9th, judg-
ments for over $4,000 being issued
against it in favor of policy holders. G.
E. Merwin, the principal promoter of
the scheme is missing as is also about
$4,000
AT New York City on the 9th the po-
lice commissioners announced that they
had found Police Captain Stephenson
guilty of bribe-tal1ing and he had been
dismissed from the force.
AT Washington on the 9th the much
mooted German question was decided
by the supreme lodge Of the Knights of
Pythias by decisive vote against per-
mitting the use of the ritual in other
than the English language.
The senatorial committee which is
investigating the frauds against the
state OF Minnesota into the cutting OF
pine school lands, is now ready with
evidence necessary to begin suits ag-
gregating S5OO,oO0 against various lum-
Der firms in that state. They have un-
covered frauds which will sum up to
S1,O00,OOO and the investigation has
cost the state $4,000.
AT Springfield, Mass, on the 9th,
j. p. Bliss went, on Hampden park, the
fastest mile ever made on bicycle,
making the record for the paced mile,
flying start, 1852 3-5 and incidentally
lowering the three-quarter record to
1923.
The cloak manufacturers contractors
held meeting at New York on the
9th with committee from the strikers
and agreed to take back strikers with
out the conditions which the contrac-
tors had previously demanded.
Four THOUSAND tailors belonging to
the Knights of Labor in New York
City went on strike on the 9th.
i THE Middletown pa National bank
closed its doors on the 9th. Assets and
liabilities unknown.
AT Wichita, Kan, on the 4th, the
lower portion OF the town was inun-
dated by cloudburst. The lightning,
which was incessant, killed the little
boy of Thomas Herman, fatally burned
9-year-old daughter and tore the
house to pieces
INDIANAPOLIS now holds the worlds
pacing record and came within frac-
ton of second on the 9th of the
worlds trotting record. Robert j. made
the second heat in his match with Joe
Patchen for $1,000 in two minutes two
and one-half seconds, being the fastest
mile ever paced.
HIRAM AGLER, president of the A. R
U. at Ashley, Ind, where Wabash trains
were stopped, was found guilty of vic
lating the restraining order of the
court at indianapolis on the 7th. Sen
tence was suspended. Arthur Desheno
who led riot at Hammond during the
strike, was committed to jail for twenty
days.
On the 18th eighty-six ladies, the upper
crust of Frankfort (Ky.) society, signeC
a bitter denunciation of Breckenridge
begging the people not to return hin
to congress.
AT Valparaiso, Ind, on the 7th, Pete
Rourke, who claimed to be 115 years old
was found dead in bed at the count,
house, where he had been an inmat
twenty-eight years. He came to Amer
lea eighty-fve years ago from Ireland
On the 7th Chief Post Office Inspecto
Wheeler received information of the al
rest of Louis A. Droffner, general de
livery and stamp clerk at the Williams
port Pa.) post office, for stealing ord
nary mail with valuable contents.
Two counterfeiters who refused t
give their names were captured nea
st. Joseph, Mich, on the 7th, by Unite
States officers. They have been man,
featuring silver half dollars.
THE Toledo passenger train on til
Wabash railroad ran into some co;
cars at Staunton, ILL.,, on the night {
the 7th, and completely wrecked I'll
engine, mail and baggage cars KILN
two tramps who were stealing rid
and seriously scalding and maimir
Engineer S. G. Fleming and Firema
c. A. Sammis
AT Wampum, Pa, on the 18th, it WI
discovered that Miss Daisy Major, tt
postmistress, was short about 81, 800
her accounts. Miss Major is only
years old.
THE business failures during Il
week ended September numbered 2
in the United States, against 323 La
year, and AZ in Canada, against 25 la
year
THE secretary of the treasury havil
received official information that Ca
ada imposes no export duty and no d
eliminating stumpage dues on lumbe
logs, timber and other articles me
toned in the free lumber schedule
the new tariff act, has instructed cC
lectors of customs to admit such ar
cles free Of duty when imported frc
Canada. 1
The umbrella trust, organized thr
years ago under the name of the "Uj
brella Company" with $s,OOo,OOO ca
tai and a large factory in New Yo
and another at Lancaster, Pa, whi
went into the hands of a receiy