The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1895-05-22
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The New Jersey nOaru OF paruOnS on
the 10th pardoned the Guttenburg big
four, Walbum, Crusius, Carr and Nc
Laughlin, who were convicted of keep
ing a disorderly house (Guttenburg
race track and sentenced to one years
imprisonment and a fine of $500 each.
The fine was not RENTED.
Jones & Laughlin, operating the
American iron works at Pittsburg, Pa,
on the 10Th voluntarily advanced the
wages of all their skilled worlmen 10
per cent. The wages of laborers re-
main at $1.2O per day. About 1900
men participate in the advance. The
Republic iron works will resume with
500 men on the goth, paying Amalga-
mated association rates.
Sixteen basket factories in Chautau-
qua county, N. Y, have closed owing to
the ruin of the grape crop by frost,
thereby throwing large number of
men out of employment. Merchants
who have been carrying the grape
growers along and taking as security
the prospective crop of 1895 are in an
uncomfortable predicament because of
the crop failure, The calamity is so
great that every kind of business will
feel the loss severely.
Fire at Coney Island, N. Y, on the
10th destroyed ninety buildings, mostly
dwellings, rendering many families
homeless and causing loss of $25O,OOO
Six hundred delegates were present
when the 1O7th general assembly of
the Presbyterian church convened at
Pittsburg, Pa, on the 10th. Rev. DR..
Robert Russell Booth, of New York,
was elected moderator.
In the miners convention at Pitts
burg on the 10th resolution ordering
general suspension of work in all the
mines in the Pittsburg district was
adopted. 1t was also decided to estab
lish camps at all pits working below
the rate.
Arthur NJ. Wellington, editor of the
Engineering News, died at New York
City on the 18th, aged 4S years.
During the week ended May II the
business failures in the United States
numbered PAL, against 219 for the cor
responding week of last year, and 81 il
Canada, against "a in 1894.
The coal miners convention of thu
Pittsburg Pa.) district on the 18th re
solved almost unanimously to immedi
ately call out every miner working il
the district, irrespective of the wage
they may be receiving. There ar
nearly 10000 miners in the district
About 1000 of this number are working
under scale rates.
Miss Rosalind A. Richmond filed wit
the surrogate at New York City on tn
18th a notice of the contest of the wi
made by the widow of Dean Richmond
Mrs. Richmond died in Batavia, n. Y
ON April 6, leaving an estate estimate
at $4,000, 900, to her four surviving chi
dren, to the exclusion of Rosalin
Richmond, granddaughter.
The Young Mems Christian Associi
at Beverly, Mass, on the nth. II
object of the society is to form an il
surance annex to the Y NJ. c. A.,
which members of the association on
are eligible. The state legislature wi
be asked to incorporate the societ
which will pay sick and death benefit
as well as insurance.
Three persons were killed and elevC
injured by the collapse of a wood'
tenement owned by Joseph LEMON
and occupied by several French famili
in Coventry, r. l., seven miles fro
Providence, on the nth. Two of t
injured will die. The building hi
been raised to permit of another sto
being built beneath it,