The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1895-01-09
DOMESTIC,

VOWGo W.
THE detailed official statement OF
government receipts and expenditures
for the month of December and for the
six months of the current fiscal year
was issued at the treasury department
on the 3D.. The receipts for December
were $21, sGG, 1856; expenditures, S27, 1885,
4s0; receipts for six months, $l59, $780,
457; expenditures for six months, $780,
953,922.
AT El Paso, Tex, on the night OF the
1st experienced cracksmen entered the
iewelrv establishment of llic';ox d
Hickson and drilling the safe open OBJ
tanned $4,000 worth Of diamonds,
watches and other valuable jewelry.
THREE families at Sherman, N. Y,
were burned out on the I'd in fire
which destroyed the post Office and
twelve business places and offices,
Loss, $4,000.
A SYNDICATE composed OF capitalists
of New York, Boston and Michigan
have completed the purchase of 100000
acres of timber lands in Nova Scotia.
THE Monongahela river has been
closed to navigation for more than a
week. In consequence of this every
mine in the Monongahela valley is
closed to the coal miners and in all
about 5000 men are idle
AT Columbus, O., on the Sd Guard
Temple, who recently shot and killed
Convict O'Day in the Ohio penitentiary,
was exonerated by the coroner. who
rendered verdict of justhiable homi-
eide.
COUNSEL for Theodore Lambert, who
was to be hanged at Camden, N. j., on
the Sd, served writ of stay of execu-
tion on the sheriff. The writ was issued
by Justice Shiras, of the supreme court
of the United States. The sheriff de-
clared the execution off.
AT Detroit, Mich, the local weather
bureau has compiled the losses to lake
marine shipping for the year 1894, due
to, weather cor, litions. The number of
vessels that mot disaster on the great
lakes is 1l9, and the number of lives
lost sixty-eight
AN alarming epidemic of measles pre-
walls at indianapolis, the board OF
health on the Sd reporting 1000 cases
in the city.
The wool schedule of the new tariff
law went into effect on the Sd. In the
matter of receipts that day is thought
to have been the greatest in the his
tory of the New York custom house.
The total duty collected was 81, ,627, 1855,
of which no less than 81, ,097, ,656.95 was
for woolens. The number Of packages
of woolens Withdrawn was 21,017.
On the Sd the treasury department
was informed of the withdrawal Of
$500, 900 in gold from the sub-treasury
at New York for shipment to Canada,
thus reducing the gold reserve to $s3,.
494, ,032.
AT Springfield, o., on the Sd the
palatial home OF P. P. Mast, the widely
known millionaire manufacturer, was
destroyed by fire, entailing loss oi
$4,000.
JOHN MARSHALL, grand nephew Of
Chief Justice Marshall, was found dead
boarding house at Washington OF
the 4th, the gas being turned on full
and the doors and windows closed
The man had been unfortunate in at
tempting to secure good permanent
position under the government.
NEAR Pottsville, Pa, on the night OF
the 4th Jacob Fisher and wife, Will,
crossing the Ringtown bridge on tn,
Catawissa branch of the Philadelphia
& Reading railroad, were struck by {
locomotive. Fisher was beheaded an(
his wife had both legs broken.
The president has issued an ordel
placing superintendents of post offic'
stations throughout the country undel
the classified service. There are abou'
200 of these officials and vacancies IL
the service will now be filed by pro
motion from the ranks, instead of from
outside sources as formerly.
AT Jersey City, N. j., on the 4tl
Frank Murphy, aged 81, was almost in
stantly killed in the Pennsylvania rail
road depot. Murphy started to climl
a long ladder, leading from the grount
to the roof of the depot shed. Whei
about forty feet up he lost his footinl
and threw out his hands to save him
self. In so doing he grabbed a liv
electric light wire and fell dead.
OK the 4th Mayor Strong, Of Ne,
York City, said it was his intention t
investigate every department of tn
city government from the top to tn
bottom. II there is any corruption h
proposes to find out
At Albany, N. Y, Judge Parker rer
dered decision that state railroa
commissioners can use railroad passe
issued by the secretary Of state. II
holds that the new constitution doe
not prohibit the legislature from prC
viding that passes may be issued {
state officials when travelling on officis
business.
WHILE crossing the Lehigh Vale
track near Ithaca, N. ", on the I'd
cutter containing Mr. Robert Hughe,
his mother, and Mrs. Owen Lariin wa
struck by passenger train. All thre
occupants were instantly killed Th
horses were killed and the cutter n
a,,o.d t<, 1~;u udl,nO yyood