The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1894-09-26
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Gathered fronn All Quarters.
DOMESTIC.

instantly killed by catching hold of
live wire. A heavy wind storm blew
the wire down, throwing one end
across the street. The officer picked it
up to clear the street and Immediately
fell dead.
OWING to suspension of mining work
at all the copper properties In Kewee-
nav county, Michigan, it is proposed
dropping its county organization and
lapsing into innocuous desuetude. Ke-
weenaw was once the most populous
county in the upper peninsula and con-
tanned the largest towns on Lake
Superior.
GEN. HOWARD has issued orders for
the immediate removal to Fort Sill,
Indian territory, of all the Apache In
dian prisoners (Geronimo's band) now
at Mount Vernon barracks, Alabama.
SECRET service officers on the goth
arrested A. H. Halfey at Ashley, Ill,
for counterfeiting the $50 Manning sil-
yer certificate. Two presses, ink, acids,
paper, ETC., were also captured.
Two fraudulent bonds of 81, 900 each,
purporting to have been issued for
school purposes by the school district
commissioners in Vernon county, Mo-,
have appeared in ST. Louis, No, and it
is believed that large swindling
scheme has been set on foot.
AT New York City on the Goth Dan
iel Mullane, aged II, was killed by an
electric shock. The boy had placed
his hands on an iron railing charged
with electricity, and he received the
full force of the electric current.
WHISKY trust certificates sold at New
York on the 18th for SO per share, the
lowest price on record. The trans
actions were very heavy and many ru-
mors were circulated pointing to a
change in the management
ACTING upon the instructions of the
Clothing Trades council, the garment
makers of Boston, Mass, to the num-
Der of 1000, struck work on the Goth,
and it is expected that $500 operatives
will be idle in few days.
KING BLUE, ruler of the negro Indi-
ans in the neighborhood Of Stonewall,
Chickasaw Nation, is out on maraud-
ing tour at the head of his people and
is terrorizing the whole country.
SIXTEEN men were standing near the
boiler at Frank Carver's sawmill, near
Sulphur Springs, Ark, on the goth
when the boiler exploded. One man,
William Ward, colored, was killed,
five or more will die and all the rest Of
the sixteen were more or less injured.
The mill was completely destroyed,
entailing loss of $4,000.
In the circuit court at Ft. Wayne,
Ind, on the 21st, William Nelson, a
switchman, and Alfred Waterman, a
brakeman, both members Of the A. r.
u, were arraigned on the charge OF
stoning a passenger train during the
strike. On pleas of guilty the men
were each fined $40 and costs and sent
to Jail for thirty days.
In the supreme court at Boston,
Mass, on the 2lst Judge Barker denied
the application of Attorney General
Knowlton for preliminary injunctions
to restrain the American Sugar Refln-
ing Company, known as the sugar
trust" from doing business in that
state until it shall file statement of
its financial standing up to March l
last.
Two-THIRDs of the month of Septem-
ber have passed, and show that treas
ury expenses for the period named have
exceeded the receipts by nearly $8,oO0,-
600, the figures standing; Receipts
$4,000, 900, expenditures $21,OO0,o0o
The gold reserve has increased from
S55, 5,216,00o to nearly $5s, 100000
AT Scranton, Pa, on the 21st Fl. B.
Martin, of indianapolis, member OF
the executive board of the Knights OF
Labor, was indicted by the Lackawanna
county grand jury on a charge of libel
preferred by ex-General Master Work
man Powderly.
WHILE squirrel hunting on the 21st
near North Buffalo, Pa, John Tarr,
proprietor of the Central hotel, was
probably fatally shot by his companion
w. D. Sloan. Tarr wore brown hat
Sloan mistook it for a fox and sent q
full load of shot into Tarr's head an6
neck.
THREE prisoners confined in the coun
ty jail at Springfield, ILL.,, made theil
escape on the 21st by knocking the Jail
er down when he came in with theil
noon meal. One of them, John Geenon
was awaiting trial for murder, and the
other two were serving out sentences
for burglary.
BUSINESS failures during the weel
ended September 81 numbered s12 il
the United States, against 921 last year
and in Canada 4s, against 40 last year
FRANCIS M. LOGAN was sent from
Kansas City to tie Missouri peniten
tiary on the 21st for five years for set
ting fire to the yards of the Kansa
City Lumber Company. He volunteere,
the statement that he had been causing
big fires in all parts of the Unite
States and Canada for thirty years.
THE Northern Pacific Railroad Com
panyS steamer Sausallto ran lnUo IN
new slip and depot at sausalito Cal.
on the 2lst and inflicted damage to tn
amount of $4,000.
NINE. FuRscH-MADI, the noted oper
singer, died at Warrenville, N. j., o
the night of the goth of cancer Of tn
stomach, aged AZ years.
AT New York City on the 21st, cotto
touched the lowest price reached sine
before the war, the quotation bein
ga cents per pound. The crop thi
year is estimated at 9,5OOOOO bales.
A TERRIFIC cyclone passed over th
vicinity Of Bmmetsburg, Ia, on tn
night of the s1st A number of house
were wrecked, two women killed and
dozen persons injured. Reports frol
other points in central Iowa state ths