The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1895-04-03

| den money, cruelty tortured MIS- mary
Berger, aged SO years, at Springfield,
Ill.
Four counterfeiters, jefferson May
and John, James and Chauncey Boyer,
were arrested at Rockford, Ill.
THE Clarence bank at Clarence, Mo-,
suspended with liabilities of $4,000.
ATTORNEY GENERAL OLNEY says that
the printing of facsimiles of foreign
postage stamps is violation of the act
of 1891, which prohibits the counter
feiting of foreign obligations or Sc
curities
THE Auburn state bank, located at
the village of Auburn, ILL.,, vas robbed
of something over $1,000 by burglars.
OFFICERS of the Queen & Crescent
railroad intercepted train robbers at
Greenwood, KY, and killed two of
them.
Miss AMY THILL, an actress, aged "a,
was murdered in New York by John
Bigelow, an actor who then ended his
own life.
MRS, FRANK ANNIs perished in her
burning home near Fenton, Mich.
The firm of Malcolm & Waterbury,
of Chicago, which did an extensive
bucket-shop business in Illinois, Mis-
souri,, Nebraska and Iowa, failed for
100000.
STATISTICS show that 373 railroad
companies in this country are now
building, or contemplating doing so
soon, 2O,547 miles of new road,
By the bursting of reservoir near
Newcastle, Col, several bridges were
swept away and many farms were
ruined.
A FIRE at st. Augustine, Fla, de-
stroyed forty-nine residences and bust
ness houses, besides several smaller
structures, entailing loss of 100000.
AT jackson, Miss, negro who in
sisted upon riding in wagon with
three white women was shot to death.
TREASURY officials in Washington
agree in the opinion that the income
tax applies to foreigners owning any
property in this country, whether resi-
dents or nonresidents
THE entire business portion of Can
nseraga, N. Y, and thirty dwellings
were burned, the loss being 100000.
THE St. Paul Railway company dis
charged eleven engineers and thirty
five firemen from its division running
into Fort Howard, Wis, because they
frequented saloons.
MRS. REACH, an eccentric character,
died at Oshkosh, Wis, aged 100 years.
Twenty years ago she purchased
coffin, and at her own request she was
buried in it after she had used It
score of years for bed.
TERRIBLE prairie fires were raging
in the Otoe and Ponca Indian reserva-
tious several miles north OF Perry, 0. T.
The district between Pleasantville,
n. j., and Brigantine Junction was
burned over by forest fire, many
buildings and large quantity of tim
ber being consumed, the loss aggregat-
ing thousand of dollars.
c. L. WILLIAMS of st. Louis, while
temporarily insane, killed Catherine
Kaeser, his aunt, and then committed
suicide.
WYCKoFF, Mimi, a town of about 600
inhabitants, was almost completely
wiped out by fire.
The New England coast was visited
by hurricane, the wind attaining
velocity of seventy-fve miles an hour,
and doing much damage to shipping.
CENTRAL Iowa was swept by dust
storms, which partially obscured the
sun and hindered railroad traffic.
THE boiler of the Langston sawmill
near Apple Valley, Ca, exploded, kill
ing William Goode, John Langston and
n negro woman.
THE Nonpartisan Womens Christian
Temperance union at Kansas City de-
cided to remove their hats at church
services and all indoor meetings.
SAMUEL MCWILLIAMs, a notorious
bandit, and a companion were shot
down while robbing store at Braggs
Station, Ark.
FEDERAL officials at San Francisco
unearthed gang engaged in circu-
lating forged Chinese residence papers.
, THE wind reached velocity of 75
miles an hour in New York, doing
much damage to shipping
THE theatrical company that left st.
Louis to walk to New York in 105 days
on wager gave up the job at Efing-
ham, Ill.
A MYSTERIOUS man, alleged to have
been private secretary to the king of
Sweden, died in poverty at Clinton, la.
Two AMERICAN warships were or
dered to Nicaragua, presumably topro-
tect American interests.
THE exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the Goth aggregated
ssSs, 1853, ,464, against 1852, ,491 ,395 the
previous week. The increase, COM
pared with the corresponding week in
1894. was 20S. ......
AN anti-cigarette ordinance went into
effect in Lawrence, Kan, and no
cigarettes can be purchased in that
city.
SILVER in very rich quantities was
discovered in the mountains in Wayne
county, w. Va. ag~ai ea,,.
TIE Bank of Canton, Kan, sus-
pended. 1t had $4,000 capital end ST.
900 deposits and was a private'concern.
ALL the plate glass factories in the
country, With few exceptions, have
closed down and will not resume until
May i. d't 81
THERE were 234 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the GOTH, against 97s the
week previous and 2Ss in the corre-
spending time in 1894
The Bristol (Tenn.) Bank and Trust
company assigned with liabilities OF