The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1896-08-05
EAST.

= aSane cut the throat Of her child, at
'ittsburg, Pa, will be held to answer
= 0 the charge Of murder, and, pend
.ng action Of the grand jury, will be
laced in hospital under restraint.
The assignment OF the ]. NJ. Lins-
o;ott Cycle Co., Of Boston, is announced.
10 statement OF the assets and liabili.
Jies has been made.
Charles Cory and Miss Kate Fillman,
9th Of Boston, were drowned on the
9Th ult. IN the Niagara river, between
rand island and the Canadian shore,
bove Niagara falls. They were row.
1g in the rough water and lost control
II their boat
While Bheltering In the doorway Of
a barn ct East Webster, N. Y. on the
9th ult J. e. Barden, Of Penn Yam,
!. Y, a travelling agent employed by
The New American Harrow o., of De.
'roit, was killed by shock Of light
ling.
Owing to the great falling off in
''usiness the Pennsylvania railroad
'ficials have laid of 81 section hands
ia the division extending from New
4rk, N. j., to Deans, q distance of 80,
allies, and have reduced the wages Of
hose remaining 20 per cent.
A boiler exploded in the Eagle oil
works. at Caven Point, Jersey City, N.
:, on the SOth ult while half dozen
'onermakers were working at it. All
he men except one were injured, two
4 them fatally.
The republican superintendent Of
campaign literature, Mr.. Heath, has
sent to press 20 campaign documents,
learly all of them bearing ON the
money question. Orders for 1900, 900
"opies of anti-silver literature and Ave
riders for 100000 each on other topics
lave been signed by Mr.. Heath.
For the week ended July 81 business
failures in the United States numbered
81, against 281 for the corresponding
week last year, and 40 In Canada,
,.gainst 2S for the same period in 1895.
1t is announced that John r. Hardin
',as been appointed receiver in New
York and New Jersey for the Liberty
ycle Co., whose salesrooms are In New
York City, with factories at Bridge
ort, Conn.,, and Rockaway, N. J. Liza
,ilities 5000, 200; assets $ls7,OoO.
An explosion of gun cotton in the
hemical works at Newark, N. J., oc.
urred on the S1st ult that caused
.-a-n ~ Aha ao,ouot ~ 90 nnn III a
aock was felt two miles distant No
atalities are reported.
MacGrane Coke, Of New York, has
neen appointed by the president as en-
10y extraordinary and minister plen-
potentiary Of the United States TO
'uatemala and Honduras
All departments of the Waterbury
,JOnn.) Watch Co., have been closed
,own until September.
At Philadelphia on the 9d fire de-
stroyed the plant of the Philadelphia
i'aving and Constructing Co., manu-.
iacturers Of asphsltum. Parnell Dough
rrty, aged II years, who was sleeping
ia the boiler house, was fatally burned.
A loss of $4,000 was sustained by
he Cramp Ship and Engine Building
O., At Philadelphia, ON the I'd, by the
turning Of the big paint shop with
lost Of Its contents. Fully insured.
Patrick Coyle, q miner, aged 70, wal
choked to death by his son, Walter
'oyle, aged "a, at the village of Oar
agh, near GreOnburg, Pa, on the
light Of the 1st The murderer was
i.rrested.
Orders have been issued by the Penn
tylvania Railroad Co. to reduce the
yorking time in their shops at AL
,oona to five days a week. About
900 men are affected.
Mrs. Lydia Ralston started from
"ittsburg on the night Of the 1st fol
Iuffalo where Khe was to have beer
married. Her body was found neal
Ill City on the I'd by track walker ol
ne Allegheny Valley railroad and 1t i
hought she walked off the train whil
sleep.