The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1895-03-13
DOMESTIC.


boiler in Kinncy'S sawmill exploded,
badly demolishing the mill and in
stantly killing Al Kinney, the proprie-
tor
THE barn of John Conroy, township
treasurer of East Fremont, Mich, was
set on fire on the 7th, presumably by
thieves During the excitement Con-
roy's house was entered and $1,000
stolen.
AT Trenton, n. j., on the 18th three
fourths of the 700 employees in the
wooden mills of Samuel X. Wilson quit
work, because their employer had not
restored the second 10 per cent. reduc-
ton to which they were subjected last
summer
AT Boise, Idaho, on the 7th George
L. Shoup was reelected senator on the
first ballot, receiving the entire Nor
mon vote.
REPORTS received at the miners head
quarters in Pittsburg, Pa, on the 18th,
indicated that the strike order had
been very generally oheyed through
ont the Pittsbury district At least
1000 coal miners joined in the demand
for an increase of pay.
CHANCELLOR McGu.L has appointed
ex-Judgc Henry w. Stevens, of New
ark, N. j.. permanent receiver of the
Employers Liability Insurance Com
pany. The assets of the concern are es-
timated at S995, 900. The liabilities
amount to S50O,0OO.
HENRY f. WING, cashier of the Graf
ton (Mass.) Savings bank, committed
suicide by shooting himself with pis-
tol in his barn on the 18th. He had
been brooding over financial troubles
for some time.
AT meeting held in New York City
on the 7th the directors of the Ameri-
can Sugar Refining Company declared
the regular quarterly dividend of
per cent on the common stock The
directors also declared the regular
quarterly dividend of IA per cent. on
the preferred stock, both dividends
payable April and both are free from
the income tax.
ACCORDING to the report of the audi
tor of state, there are 10, 1856 saloons in
Ohio.
AT Lexington, Va, on the 7th the
grand jury found indictments against
c. NJ. Figgat, late cashier of the Bank
OF Lexington, for embezzlement;
against II. X. Goodwin, bookkeeper for
making false entries, and against c. !
w. Irvine for receiving money, know
ing his bank account TO be overdrawn.
On the Sth Burt and Willie Coleman,
brothers, aged respectively % and 16,
were shot and killed near Newkirll,
O. T., by Cyrus Cowan, contestee for
the claim occupied by the two brothers.
Cowan gave himself up after the kill
ing.
AT Minneapolis on the Sth the jury
in the Hayward case brought in YER
dict of guilty of murder in the first de-
gree against Harry Hayward.
BUSINESS failures for the week ended
March 8 numbered 234 in the United
States against 24s last year, and So in
Canada against 60 last year
AT Jefferson City, Mo-, on the Sth the
state board of health met with Gov.
Stone and issued proclamation pro-
hibiting sheriffs of all the counties in
Missouri from bringing prisoners to
the state penitentiary while the small
pox exists in so many towns of the
state.
On the night of the sth the large pa
per mills of W. A. &c A. L. Mullen, ut
Mount Holly, Pa, together with paper
and machinery, were totally destroyed
by fire. Loss, $1,000; insured.
On the sth Mary and Eliza Shelter,
two aged ladies of Shrewsbury, Pa,
were found dead in bed, having suffo- I
Gated from coal gas. Not having seen
the ladies for several days, the neigh ;
bors broke in the house and made the
startling discovery. The house was a
filed with gas. i
CHARLES II. ROBINSON, pension agent
at Des Moines for the district Of Iowa !
and Nebraska, received official notifica- }
tion from Washington on the Sth to the
effect that all pensioners receiving less J
than Sc per month shall hereafter re- :,
ceive that amount. =
AT Pittsburg, Pa, on the sth, seven
,oal operators in the Pittsburg district :
engaged in supplying the local market, =
lad granted the sixty-nine-cent rate
demanded by their miners. u
The Southern Memorial and Literary
lociety at Richmond, Va, has decided g
20 expend the sum of S13, 900 for the pur- q
bose of converting the jefferson Davis h
mansion into museum for confederate 4
'elics. n
The charges brought by Mayor &
'chieren, of Brooklyn, N. Y, against e
Police Justice Quigley for failure to
properly discharge his duties during O
he recent strike, have been sustained +
n the general term of the supreme n
'ourt. The decision redered dismisses p,
luigley from his Office. n
FIRE at Detroit, Mich, on the sth q
destroyed four-story block occupied n
" the Detroit Stamping Company, the
Detroit Corkscrew Company, the De. II
roit Dynamo Company and Erdmann il
Co., tinware manufacturers Loss. r,
100000
THE iron works of Spang, chalfant n
! Co., at Pittsburg, Pa, have returned e
o the use of coal as fuel For years G
he supply of natural gas has been 4
ailing and the mills suffered much u
rom the shortness of gas. The Spang, (,
halfant mills were the first in the W
TorId to use gns as fuel. =