The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1895-10-23
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Near Boston on the 10th the battle
ship Indiana was given a preliminary
run over the official trial course and
was so successful that when the boat
reached the upper end of the course
those in charge decided that it was un-
necessary to speed her back again.
A collision occurred on the 10th on
the Hollidaysburg branch of the Penn
sylvania railroad near Altoona, Pa,
between train of tank cars and a pas
senger train. Engineer Woodring and
Fireman Good were killed, and Engi-
neer Arthur was fatally injured. Four
other trainmen were badly hurt. The
passengers escaped serious injury.
At Marblehead, Mass, George w.
Grader, the inventor of the Grader cot
ton press, died on the 10th. He was in
his eth year.
A strike has occurred at the four
Scott mines at Scott Haven, Pa, among
the drivers and dead workmen, and also
at the Ellsworth e Morris mine on the
b. & 0. railway. The trouble is over
the rate established at the recent con-
vention, which seems to be misunder-
stood by the men.
The decision of Judge Simonton, of
Dauphin county, has been reversed by
the supreme court of Pennsylvania,
the latter declaring that the act Great
ing the superior court of the state was
constitutional. The opinion sustain
ing the new court act was handed
down by Justice Dean, who decided
that but six of the candidates can be
voted for by an elector.
A six-year-old girl named Ida Block
was crushed to death beneath the
wheels of cable car at Pittsburg, Pa,
on the 18th. The accident occurred
almost directly in front of her home.
For using the mails for fraudulent
purposes j. F. Loucks, of Bittersville,
Pa, has been arrested. He is alleged
to have defrauded manufacturers and
merchants out of many thousands Of
dollars. He ordered goods through
the mail, disposed of them and issued
worthless checks in payment.
At Buffalo, N. Y, James Dixon, one
of the prisoners locked up in the Jail
on account of the tragedy at Tona-
wanda in which Capt. Phillips and his
son were murdered, hung himself in
his cell on the 18th.
Smith & Wesson, of Springfield,
Mass, will dismiss all their employees
on November l, as after that all their
work will be done by contractors. The
object is to avoid weekly payments of
wages, which the law now requires.
c. A. Muhlanbring, a merchant
tailor, so years of age, shot himself
with fatal effect in the head in his
room in the Times building at Pitts
burg, Pa, on the evening of the 10th.
Mrs. Annie Bowen, aged so years,
was shot in the head by her husband,
John II. Bowen, aged 55 years, a
weigher in the United States apprais-
er's stores at Philadelphia, on the 18th.
He then fired shot into his own
brain, dying instantly. Mrs. Bowen
may recover
Ex-Judge George s. Wardwell, one
of the best known and most prominent
members of the bar in Buffalo, N. y,
died at his home in that city on the 18th.
After a session of four days the
American board of commissioners for
foreign missions concluded its labors at
Brooklyn, N. Y, on the 18th and ad-
journed to meet in Toledo, O., the first
Tuesday in October, 1896.
Morris Schoenholz, the convicted
frebug, was sentenced to forty-eight
years in states prison at New York
City on the 18th.
Col George c. James, of Cincinnati,
was elected national commander by
the Union Veteran Legion, in session
at Buffalo, N. Y, on the 18th.
On the night of the 18th at colored
cake walk near Moorestown, N. j.,
James Haggerty shot Charles McKim,
Mrs. Silas Vessels, George Whitaker
and Charles Wiman. None of them
are expected to recover. Haggerty is
in jail.