The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1885-03-18

shop of the American Tube and Iron Com
pany's mills at Middletown, Pa, on the
night of the 18th demolished the building
and injured number of employees. M. E.
Thorne, engineer, Is supposed to be fatally
injured.
President Costello, of the Pennsylvania
Miners Association, who has been visiting
the scene of the great strike, on the 18th
submitted an official report showing that the
strike embraces 1872 mines employing over
10000 golfers. According to this report
there are III mines idle; five are in opera
tion at the old price of two and a half cents
per bushel; FIVE have made no official re-
turn; five have few men working at the
former rates, and six are not accounted
for. Mr. Costello says it is the greatest
strike which ever occurred among the
miners of this country; that there is not
one full pit on the Monongahela River at
work, and that the miners were never more
determined.
The business failures for the week ended
March II number for the United States
23S, Canada A, total 2S2, as compared with
277 the previous week. The failures seem
to be on the increase in Canada, but in
New York City and the Eastern States
they are below the average. The Southern
and Western States furnish two-thirds Of
the lot In the United States.
Alfred Smiley, of Foxburg, Pa, we'll
known oil country man, has contracted
with the English Government to lay the
pipeline in the Soudan country for that
Government. Mr.. Smiley starts very soon
and will take with him five practical pipe
line men from Bradford, Pa. He will be
absent about three years.
The Henderson steel syndicate at Read
ing, Pa, has collapsed. This was a pool
formed by leading iron manufacturers Of
New York and Pennsylvania to experiment
with the Henderson process of making
steel. 1t was claimed that il was cheaper
than the Bessemer method, and equally as
good steel could be manufactured. The
pool had raised 100000 TO experiment with
and control the new process.
Mary s. Conkling, sister Of Roscoe Conk-
ling, died at Rochester, N. Y, on the 18th.
She was over sixty years Of age and had
long been in poor health.
Statement Of the New York associated
banks for the week ended March Il: Loans
increase, 81 ,437 900; specie decrease, S74,-
900; legal tenders increase, $267,00O; de-
posits increase, Sl,043,000; circulation de-
crease, $l55,0OO; reserve decrease, 500, 900.
The banks held I7,092,o 900 in excess Of
legal requirements.
Charles W. McCune, proprietor Of the
Buffalo Courier died on the 14th, after
three weeks illness of typhoid fever. He
was born in Brattleboro, VT, in 1882.
Audubon Davis, Of the editorial stat Of
the Philadelphia Daily Nelos, and one of
the most brilliant journalists of this
country, died on the 18th Of Bright's dis
ease OF the kidneys. ...
The funeral Of Sergeant Thomas Punk
EFT, the armless veteran, color bearer OF
the Twenty first Massachusetts, Regiment
and for many years an employe at the
Massachusetts State House at Boston, was
attended in Mechanics Han, Worcester, on
the 14th by a large number of distinguished
mourners, including Governor Robinson
and staff, the Legislative Committee, fifty
past and present members of the Legisla-
ture, President Pillsbury, Of the Senate,
and Department officers Of the G.. A. X.
Five thousand persons viewed the remains.
John Kelley, a railroad engineer, re-
Gently convicted Of firing hotel at haha-
noy Plane, Pa, was sentenced TO eight
years. solitary confinement at labor. The
motive for the crime was the belief that
the hotel furnished liquor to his inebriated
wife.
Arthur Coyle, young married man, was
shot dead at Lost Creek, Pa, on the 18th
by John Harris, Reading Railroad coal
and iron policeman, with whom he had a
dispute.
William Fox died at the hospital in Will
iamsburgh, N. Y, on the 18th. Two weeks
ago Fox, while drunk, threw pan OF hot
water at his wife, and the contents burned
their ten-year- -old child so that IL died. The
wife seized an axe and fractured her hus-
bands skull,
While working on a railroad five miles
west OF Huntingdon, Pa, on the 18th two
unknown Italians were struck by the day
express and instantly killed. Their bodies
were horribly mangled.