The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1895-10-09
EAST.

On the morning of the 1st the Mum
hall mansion, owned and occupied by
John Munhall, coal dealer near
Homestead, Pa, was burned to the
ground by FIRE of incendiary origin.
The damage is about $4,000.
A dispatch from New Haven, Conn,
announces the death at Hampton,
Conn, on the 1st, of Prof Eli Whitney
Blake, lately Hazard professor of ply
sizes at Brown university.
Mrs. Clara Buckalew, fifty-fve years
old, and her niece, Miss Griggs, of
Monmouth Junction, N. j., were killed
while crossing the tracks of the James
burg branch of the Pennsylvania road
near Monmouth junction on the 1st by
a fast train bound for Philadelphia.
The failure is announced of j. Ablo-
wich & Co., cloak manufacturers at
New York City. julius Ablowich, the
senior partner, was for twenty years in
business at Chillicothe, o. The liabili-
ties are about 500, 900.
Fire destroyed the Gormully e. JEFF
frey Manufacturing Companys bicycle
academy at Brooklyn, N. Y, on the
I'd. Loss, $G5,0OO.
While workmen were hosting a
twenty-foot iron beam at New York on
the I'd a spar of the derrick broke and
instantly killed Patrick Reid, of Brook
lyn.
At Cramps shipyard, near Philadel-
phia, on the I'd the United States arm
ored cruiser Brooklyn was launched
into the waters of the Delaware.
The building occupied by Horn,
Brannon, Forsythe 6 Co., manufacture
ers of gas fixtures at Philadelphia, Pa,
was totally destroyed by fire on the
night of the 1st Loss, 500, 900; fully
insured
Pension Agent Edwin Boollmyer and
his son, Edwin H. Bookmyer, a clerk,
were arrested at Lancaster, Pa, on the
Sd, charged with violating the pension
laws in trying to procure fraudulent
pension.
The veteran baseball manager Harry
Wright died at Atlantic City, N. j., on
the 3d. Mr.. Wright was born in Lon
don, England in 1882, and came to
America when boy.
The Warren Manufacturing Com
pany's mills located at Warren, r. l.,
were destroyed by fire on the night of
the Sd. Loss, $1,OOO,OOO; insurance,
S650,00
George F. Williams, of Dedham, was
nominated for governor at the Massa-
chusetts democratic state convention
held at Worcester on the I'd.
The Osborne &c Saeger Company
closed down the three big coal mines
owned and operated by them at Smith
ton, Pa, on the 4th rather than pay
the advanced rate.
By an explosion of natural gas at
Pittsburg Pa, the liquor store owned
by LenniX & Cashmere was almost COM
pletely wrecked on the 4th. John
Smith, plumber who was looking for
a leak, was badly injured and may die.
Bridge builders and structural iron
workers at Pittsburg to the number of
1000 have struck for nine-hour work
day at 81. so per day. Several employers
have granted the strikers demands.
The old Liberty bell, attended by the
mayor and many city officials, left
Philadelphia, Pa, on the 4th for At
lanta, Ga, where the bell will be on
exhibition at the Cotton States expo
sition. All along the route the precious
relic was greeted by big crowds at the
various railroad stations.
At Philadelphia, Pa, on the 4th the
sash and door factory of Rufus B.
Thomas was totally destroyed by fire.
The flames spread to a row of dwelling
houses in the rear, causing a total loss
Of S155,00O. The fire was of incendiary
origin,