The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1896-04-22
DOMESTIC.

THE brig Leonora, which cleared from
Philadelphia on April for Lisbon, and
which laid off New Castle, Del, for
several days, is reported to have sailed
on the 18th for Cuba with cargo of
arms for the insurgents.
AT Asheville. N. c., on the 14th the
Ninth district republican convention
renominated Richmond Pearson for
congress, elected delegates to the ST..
Louis convention and indorsed McKin-
ley for president.
WESTERN roads have agreed to max e
rate of one fare for the round trip
for the republican national convention
at st. Louis the democratic conven-
tion at Chicago and the prohibition
convention at Pittsburg.
BERTHA HAWKINS, aged II, and Alice
Woodin, aged 0, were burned to death
at Winstead, Conn, on the 18th in fire
in the home of their grandfather, Mel
son Bishop, with whom they lived.
The court of appeals at Washington
has granted the writ of error asked for
in the case of Broker Chapman, the re-
calcitrant sugar witness, and admitted
the defendant to bail in S., 600 until
the supreme court takes action in the
matter.
INTERNAL revenue receipts for the
nine months of the current fiscal year,
from official figures made public by
Commissioner Miller, aggregated $11O,-
179,O75, an increase over the CORE
spending months of 1895 of S1S3, ,957, de-
rived fromtobacco and beer.
MRS GEORGE WHITE, of Mononga-
hela City, jumped from the Smithfeld
street bridge at Pittsburg into the Mo-
nongahela river on the night of the
10th. She was quickly swept away by
the current and her body has not been
recovered.
WESTERN roads have agreed on rate
of one fare for the round trip to the
Christian Endeavor convention to be
held in Washington, D. G., July 7-13.
MURDERER H. H. HOLMES has been
baptized into the Catholic faith. Rev.
Father Daley, assisted by three other
priests, performed the ceremony
THE ways and means committee has
ordered favorable report on the bill
repeating the clause of the Wilson tariff
law providing for free alcohol in the
arts.
BY the explosion of converter al
the Lower sugar works at Peoria, Ill.
on the 18th two men, named Barnes
and Hoey, were instantly killed and
two Others were seriously injured. A
large force of men were at work in the
upper part of the building and many
narrow escapes are reported.
The Baltimore reorganization com
mittee of the b. s. 0. railway gave out
statement on the nth which shows
that the floating debt of the company
is S16, 900, 900.
GEORGE D. WETHERELL & Co., oi
Philadelphia, manufacturers of paints
white lead and whiting and dealers in
window glass and painters supplies
have assigned. The liabilities amount
to S175, 900 and it is said that the assets
will exceed this sum. The firm is the
OAuOSI al luS llHe III OndJ Guy anu lew
years ago it celebrated the centenary
of its establishment.
For the week ended April II the
business failures in the United States
numbered 1913, against 241 for the cor
responding period last year, and SO in
Canada, against "a for the same time
in 1895.
Four rock miners were killed in tn,
Eddy Creek shaft at Olyphant, Pa, OF
the 18th by falling rock. The names
of the unfortunate men are: John Nc
Hale, William Harvey and Ralph anC
James Abbott.
TEE battle ship Massachusetts sailed
on the 18th from Cramps ship yard,