The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-10-13
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS.

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The Wheeling & Lake Erie road will
be reorganized.
Fostoria has the only incorporated
fire cracker factory in the world.
Thieves broke into a store at North
Amherst recently and stole 25 sacks of
the best brand of flour.
A Bellevue man wants 5000 dam
ages from the mayor of Norwalk, for
alleged illegal imprisonment.
One OF the most disastrous tlres in
the history of Huron county occurred
last week, in what is known as the
New Haven marsh, burning over 5000
acres.
A man near Homer, Mich, started a
duck farm last spring with two ducks.
The eggs laid numbered 100, and he
raised to the marketable age, 116
ducks.
Coxey canvassing in a private car
must feel like negro mounted on his
employers horse on Sunday. He is
making the most of his opportunities.
Louisville Dispatch.
One of the hottest fires Norwalk has
experienced in long time occurred a
week ago today, burning three houses.
and two hundred sacks of cement and
an elevator belonging to Tuttle & Jenk-
ins.
The longest stretch Of straight rail
road line in America is on the Lake
Shore railway, beginning at point
three miles west of Toledo, and run
ming sixty-nine miles without curve.
The insect that is destroying cab
bage in Howard county, Md, has been
identified as the harlequin cabbage
hug. 1t came originally from Central
America, and first appeared in this
country in Texas in 1855.
The contract with the electric light
company to light the city OF Lornin,
expired recently and the company re-
fused to renew the contract except at
an increase in price and this the coun-
Gil thought excessive. The company
now threatens to shut off the lights
and leave the town in darkness.
1t is said that the Ohio penitentiary
officials are seriously considering the
scheme of having the criminals that
are sent there, carri ID by the express
companies IN steel wire cages as Ax-
press matter, thus doing away with the
heavy expenses incurred by the depu-
ties, who have heretofore accompanied
them over the road.
Pitt McRoberts veterinary surgeon
at Pittsfield was called to 0berlin, one
day last week to attend to sick horse.
Upon entering the stall the horse seiz-
ed him by the right arm, lacerating
and tearing it in terrible manner 1
Mr.. McRoberts Immediately went to
Oberlin where he had the wound dress
ed. The horse continued to grow
worse and apparently died in great
agony. The SYMPTOMS were the same
as those of rabbies. Mr.. McRoberts
has now gone to Chicago to take the
Pastuer treatment.
Some democrats attemped to cast
slurs at Congressman 4. r. Burton, at
Lorain last week, who was going to
make an address at republican mass
meeting, by posting up a sign in
lot containing the burned ruins of
two story frame building, with tho fol-
lowing inscription on it; Burton will
speak here tonight, prosperity has
come" The artist no doubt thought
the property was owned by Mr.. Bur-
ton, which was not the case. We
think if there is a joke in it, it has
been turned upon the artist.
charter has been granted the new
Ashland Telephone Co., organized
September %, with capital stock Of
$4,000. The object of the new COM
pany is to connect the following cities
and towns making Ashland and Cleve-
land its termini with branch lines con-
Meeting, New London, Norwalk, Well
ington, 0berlin, Sandusky, and Toledo.
The line will be compile ed as far as
Oberlln inside of two weeks. The con-
struction work is being done with full
metallic system, and instruments man
ufactured in Stockholm, Sweden are
to be used.
A Norwalk young man has recently
been paying marked attentions to a
Sandusky girl. They were to have been
married Monday October 4th. The
prospective bride made all prepara-
tions for the wedding, purchasing a
trossesn, decorating the house, and
engaging the minister. When the
time for the ceremony came the young
man did not show up. The young lady
thought something terrible had hap
pened to her lover, and an investiga-
tion was made. 1t was found that the
young man had wife and four child
rem living in Norwalk.