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


The Chicago platform is being gen.
orally indorsed by the democratic coun-
ty conventions now being held in New
York state.
The trial of Martin Thorne, accused
of the murder of William Guldensuppe,
has been set for October 1S in the
Queens county court, Long Island City.
Mrs Mack will be tried after Thorne's
case shall be settled.
At Plymouth, Pa, on the 5th an ex-
plosion of gas occurred in No slope
of the Parish Coal Co., by which three
men lost their lives. The names of
the victims are Isaac Edmunds, George
Eddy and Louis Richards.
The national council of the Knights
of Columbus at New Haven, Conn, on
the eth voted to refuse membership to
all liquor dealers and to ask all liquor
dealers now members to resign. This
takes effect next March.
Fire destroyed the Guggenheim
smelling works at Perth Amboy, N. j.,
on the 9th. The property of the smelt-
ing works covers about 80 acres of land
and is the largest of the kind in the
country. Loss about $3.50, 000
Notices of a general advance in
wages have been posted in the factories
of the Goodale Worsted Co. at Good
ale, Me. The firm employs zoo hands,
running day and night.
prnoly1vY, ~, k1a Ht1 sn
high class horses perished in the stables
of the Cheshire Improvement Co.,
which were totally destroyed by fire.
The loss is $5O,OOO
The death of Hon. Lemuel Ammer-
man, of Scranton, Pa, capitalist and
ex-congressman, occurred at Bloss-
burg, Pa, on the 7th.
In hand engine contest at Nashua,
N. H., on the 7th the Union fire COM
pany, of Pepperell, Mass, beat the
worlds record, the playing being 292
feet 4 inches. The record had been
held for % years by the Eureka COM
pany, of Hudson, Mass, which won
it by playing 229 feet.
Sister Gonzaga, the superioress of
st. Joseph's orphan asylum in Phila-
delphia, died on the sth. She was born
near Emmetsburg, Nd, in 1912, and
was the oldest sister Of charity in the
United States.
For the week ended October bust
ness failures in the United States num-
bered 212 as against 296 for the same
period OF 1896, and go in Canada, as
compared with 46 for the correspond
ing period of last year.
Representatives of 10 breweries To-
Gated in the central eastern part of
Pennsylvania, practically the anthra-
cite coal mining region, at a meeting
in Philadelphia on the Sth signed an
agreement for the consolidation of the
10 concerns into one corporation to be
known as the Central Pennsylvania
Brewing Co. The combined capital
will amount to $lO,OOO,00O
While in a state of dependency
caused by poverty at York, Pa, on the
sth Mrs Jerome Shonberger, widow,
shot and killed her 4-year-old boy and
then placed the revolver to her own
head and fred The ball glanced off
without making dangerous wound.
Her mind is now unbalanced.
While an attempt was being made
to remove the boiler of the torpedo
boat Stilctto at the torpedo station at
Newport, R. l., on the 9th the vessel
sank. Some of her plates were badly
damaged and will have to be repaired
before she can be raised.
The decrease in legal tenders in the
New York banks reserve since Sep
tember II has amounted to $21, S51, 800
and the specie has increased nearly
Sl,e00,000 in the same time, notwith-
standing large exchanges of specie for
legal tenders at the sub-treasury.
Fire destroyed the extensive chair
manufacturing plant of the Artemus
Merriam Co., at Westminster, Mass,
together with other property, on the
9th. Loss $4,000
A terrible fire is raging at Tona-
wanda swamp, on the south border of
Orleans county, N. Y. Hundreds of
acres Of farm lands have been burned
over and great damage has been done.
Two lumber camps in the swamp have
been utterly destroyed
WEST AND SOUTH.