The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1894-12-12
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AT Pittsburg, Pa, the striking flint
glass workers, associated with business
men, propose to erect or purchase table
ware glass plants, which will be oper-
ated against the United States Glass
Company A capital stock of $500, 600
is being subscribed, of which amount
$50, 900 will be taben from the treasury
of the American Flint Glass Workers
union. The factories will be operated
on the cooperative plan.
THE new treaty with Japan was sent
to the senate on the 9th by the presi-
dent. 1t was accompanied by long
letter from the secretary of state show
ing the Importance of the convention
and urging its ratification by the SEN
ate.
AT Newark, N. j., on the night OF
the 9th Miss Marguerite Linton Glen
worth, young writer, well-known
under the nom de plume of "Gladys
Hamilton, was probably fatally burned
by the explosion of banquet lamp.
THE ]. w. Fowler Car Company, OF
Elizabeth, N. j., announced its suspen-
sion on the 9Th. Liabilities, $1S0,0O0
CAPT. JOHN PRIDaEoN, the million
aire capitalist and vessel owner, is dead
at his home in Detroit, Mich, aged &C
years.
PAUL SMITH, a German boy of Guthrie,
o. T., has invented a railroad tie and
has been offered $50, 900 for the inven-
tion.
JUDGE BUTLER, in the United States
district court at Philadelphia on the
18th, sentenced Jonathan NJ Hunsber
ger, formerly clerk in the Union Ma
tional bank, at Souderton, Pa, who
pleaded guilty to embezzling about
$500 from that institution, to $50 fine
and one years Imprisonment.
AT Philadelphia on the 18th Edward
M. Hastings, convicted in the United
States district court of fraudulently
using the mails in conducting bogus
lumber business was sentenced to
eighteen months in the Eastern peni.
tentiary and fined $780,
THE boards of home and foreign mis-.
sions of the Presbyterian church in the
United States have mortgaged their
property in New York City to the Sea-
mems Bank for Savings, for $1,000, 0O0.
THE Suburban Traction Company, OF
Orange, N. j., with 81 ,500,0OO indebted
ness, went to the wall ON the 7th. The
concerns heaviest creditor is the Amer
lean Loan and Trust Company, of Bos-
ton. L. Watson Whittlesey was ap.
pointed receiver and gave pnds In $780,.
900.
AT Pittsburg, Pa, on the 7th, the
grand jury made q return indicting c.
N. Whisser, an engineer on the Balti
more & Ohio railroad, for murder.
Whisser was held responsible for re.
cent wreck on that railroad by the cor.
oner's jury.
THE treasury department has received
such returns in regard to the produc
tion of gold in the United States during
the calendar year 1894 as warrants the
statement that the output will approx
innate S43, 600 0OO
MYRoN SHERMAN, wife and grandson
were struck by an Erie train while
crossing the tracks between Ashevill,
and Lakewood, N. ", on the 7th. TIL,
child was instantly killed. Mrs. Sher
man was fatally injured while her hus
band received severe internal injuries
A LOT of undesirable passengers were
landed at Philadelphia Pa, on the 80
by the steamship Ohio, from Liverpool
and Queenstown. Fifteen Of them wer,
debarred from landing. The immigra
ton authorities stated that they wer,
the worst class of foreigners ever lande,
at that port.