The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-05-24
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The Greenback Labor State Convention of
Pennsylvania met at Harrisburg on the 18th.
About one hundred delegates were present.
z. Z. Cotton. of Allegheny, was chosen
Chairman of the Convention. Thomas A.
Armstrong, editor of the Labor Tribune, Pitts
burgh, was nominated for Governor; T.
V. Powderly, of Scranton, Lieutenant Cover
nor; J. Lowry -DeWoody, Of Venango, Secre-
tary Of Internal Affairs; J. Adam Coke, of
Northumberland, for Congressman-at-l large.
The platform adopted opposes all monopolies
and fayors free rights and declaring that cor
porations are the creation Of the State, and
shall be governed by the State in the interests
Of the people; demanding q revision OF the
tariff As shall fully protect American labor
and invested capital against the pauper-
lied labor Of foreign countries; that the
Government shall Immediately do justice
to the soldiers Of the late war BY the
equitable adjusting and paying Of PEN
sions and other claims due them; that the
right Of labor to organize for the discussion
and enforcement Of its rights In the State has
been assailed by combined monopolies, there
fore, Resolved, that this legal and constitu-
tional right shall be maintained, and that as
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leges permitted associated capital.
TIE failures throughout the country for the
week ending 18th, reported to New York, were
Ia OF these IL were in the Eastern States,
So Western, SO Southern, 81 Middle, 12 Pacific
States and Territories, 8 in New York City.
This is an increase Of seven over the previous
week. The failures In the city Of New York
were not significant and the business troubles
were seldom fewer than now.
SIX hundred employees were dismissed on the
10th from the wholesale department Of A. T.
Stewart & Co.'s dry goods establishment at
New York. The business of that department
VIII be finished and closed on the LIST OF July
1t is stated that the large marble building be-
longing to the firm, on the corner of Broad
way and Tenth Street viii be converted into q
museum.
A MANIFESTO was issued at New York on
the 10th, signed "By order of the Executive
Council of the Fenian Brotherhood, (" declaring
- every Irish secret organization that the
watchword of the hour has gone forth pledg-
ing themselves 10 apply all their resources
with redoubled energy and devotion, with
even ferocity equal that of their arch enemy,
to the great work fronting them and urging
upon all their brethren At home and abroad
rhe necessity, greater now than ever, of the
consolidation of all available forces and the
hearty cooperation of their common object
destruction and humiliation Of British power
in ireland, whose existence, they claim, is the
cardinal reproach, the supreme and burning
shame ofmodern civilization.
THE American Geographical Society of New
York is making great preparations to enter
tain Lieutenant Danenhauer and comrades on
their arrival at that city.
An explosion of sulphur occurred in the
Breckenridge colliery, near Shamolin, Pa, on
the 10th, causing the death Of James Law
renee, Frank Osman and David Green, and
fatally burning Frederick Hoffman.
TIE following is the weekly statement of
the Associated Banks Of New York City for
the week ending the Goth: Loans increase,
S67S 100; specie decrease, sS,o34, 800; legal
tenders increase, 1851, 100; deposits decrease,
81, ,331, 900; circulation decrease, $1,000; re-
serve decrease, s2o2o, rs. The banks now
hold 90, ,152,225 in excess of the legal require
ments.
TIE large metal importing house of Samuel
May d Co., Boston, suspended on the 9Oth.
The liabilities amount to several hundred
thousand dollars. The house claims to have
ample assets, and that the suspension was
caused by inability to obtain needed ready
funds.