The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1895-03-06
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the mine explosion at Cerrillos, N. NJ,
placed the number of dead positively
at twenty-five. The superintendent of
the mine says that the explosion was
caused by the carelessness of two min
ers, who passed the danger line with
unprotected lamps against orders.
THE Colorado senate on the 2Sth ult
passed the bill prohibiting capital pun
ishment in that state
ANTHRACITE coal sales agents met at
New York City on the 27th ult. and
fixed the production OF coal for March
at 5000, 600 tons. No change was made
in prices.
AT Stafford Court House, Va, on the
2sth ult. the jury in the case of the
Aqua Creek train robber, Charles
Morgan, brought in a verdict of guilty
and sentence was placed at eighteen
years in the penitentiary.
AT Johnstown, Pa, on the 2sth ult.,
the large st. Joseph's German Catholic
church, which stood the brunt of the
terrible food of May 81, 1889, was total
ly destroyed by fire. After the fire was
under control, Louis Pfarr was fatally
injured and a man named Boltz badly
injured by being caught under falling
wall while looking at the ruins.
On the 1st tenement house in course
Of construction at New York City col
lapsed, burying number of workmen
in the ruins. Several of the men were
fatally injured. The owner of the
building and the contractor were ar
rested.
AT the annual meeting of the Grant
Monument association held in in New
York City on the 2sth ult. it was an
nounced that the fund amounted to
$522, 351 and that this sum was suffi-
cient to complete the monument.
The certificates of incorporation Of
the Western New York Railway Com
pany, were filed at New York City on
the 1st. The company has a capital
stock of S1O,OOO,OO and it succeeds to
the rights and privileges of the West
ern New York & Pennsylvania Railroad
Company, which was recently sold un-
der foreclosure proceedings.
BUSINESS failures for the week ended
March numbered 200 in the United
States against POI last year, and in Can
ada 3s against AZ last year.
AT New York City on the 1st five men
were killed and seven injured by the
collapse of building known as the
old malt house. The men were en-
ployed in tearing down the structure
when the accident occurred. The con-
tractors, Patrick Keegan and George
0'Keefe, were arrested on the charge
of manslaughter.
The jury in the trial for the murder
of Alfred Barnes, janitor of the Hia-
watha fats, returned verdict at Chi
cago on the 1st, holding Edmund Jor-
dan guilty of murder and sentencing
him to the penitentiary for life; acquit-
ting John B. Jersey and finding Anna
Mahoney guilty of being an accessory
after the fact, leaving her punishment
to be determined by the court.
The public debt statement issued on
the lst showed a net decrease in the
debt less cash in the treasury during
February of S34,O33, 1877. Total cash in
the treasury, SOS, 900, 9O1.
The towboats Pacific No. 1 and
Charley Hook, of Pittsburg, Pa, were
sunk by the breaking of an ice gorge
at East Liverpool, O., on the lst The
former is valued at ST., 900. The Charley
Hook is valued at $4,000
AT Detroit, Mich, on the eth ult.,
Adjt Gen. Charles L. Eaton dropped
dead at the residence of thelate Greene
Pack, in that city, while attending the
funeral services over the remains Of Mr..
Pack, who died in New York few days
ago. The cause of the death was npo-
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