The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1894-06-27
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AT Iron Mountain. Mich. on the 2lst,
the Pewabic Iron Mining Company, en-
ploying six hundred men. announced a
25 per cent. increase in wages and other
companies will follow suit. The men
have been assured of further increase
as the market improves
THE house committee on public build
ings and grounds on the 21st ordered
favorably reported the following pub
lie building bills: indianapolis, Ind,
sl,25O,OOO; Eau Claire, Wis, $780,
Topeka, Kan, $4,000 Ann Arbor,
Mich. $4,000; Omaha, Neb., s., 900, ,OOO
AT Monticello, n. Y. on the 2lst, the
jury in the case of Mrs. Halliday re-
turned a verdict Of guilty Of murder in
the first degree.
Z. c. KNAPP, trusted bookkeeper Of
the Chicopee National bank Of Spring
field, Mass, Is an embeZzler to the ex-
tent of s25,OOO. Stock speculation is
designed as the cause by Knapp, who
has confessed.
john EVANS, OF New York. share
holder in the Union Pacific, Denver &
Gulf railroad, has begun an action
against that company, the Union Pa
cific Railway Company, Central Trust
Company, the American Loan and Trust
Company and the Mercantile Trust
Company, TO compel an accounting from
the Union Pacific Company Of securi-
ties to the amount Of over 500, 900, 600.
AT indianapolis, Ind. on the 9ist a
scaffolding over stairway in the Etna
building fell. throwing six workmen to
the basement. All were seriously in
jured: two, Christopher Doyle and
Samuel Rickets, probably fatally.
A MOVEMENT for higher wages has
been started at the great Homestead
pa steel works. The engineers and
"hoolers-on" held a meeting on the
9lst and decided TO ask that the 20 per
cent. wage reduction which they sub
mitted to in January be restored.
THE Brazil Und) grand jury has re.
turned indictments against nine of the
striking miners, charging them with
murder in the first degree. They killed
Engineer Barr Of the Vandalia line.
while he was trying to pull coal train
on June o. The men are held without
bail, the court refusing to release them
AT Hazelton. Pa, on the 22d ffty-six
anthracite coal miners employed by A.
Pardee e Co., at South Cranberry mine,
struck for an increase in wages. The
men are paid per car and have been re-
ceiving but one and two cars daily,
which they claim does not give them
living wages
GEORGE COREY shot and killed Eugene
Fray at Alum Cave, Ind, on the night
Of the 2lst, and the only provocation
for the terrible deed was Trays twit-
ting him about a young lady to whom
both were paying attention. Corey es-
capped 10 the woods.
The supreme court Of Ohio on the I'D
held the Holcomb law taxing the bust.
ness Of dealing in cigarettes constitu-
tional and valid, but decided that taxes
under IL could not be collected for 1898.
The American Railway union has de.
clared boycott on all Pullman cars,
TO take effect on June q unless the
company will consent to arbitrate the
difference between IL and the men on
strike.
THE bodies Of Harry and Frank Rice
lO-year-old twins, were found in Hoov'
er's lake at Lima, o., on the 22d. A
man passing by saw a pile OF clothes
on the bank and on polsing in the wa
ter with long stick brought the
bodies TO the surface. The boys had
run away from home 10 60 swimming