The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1895-08-21
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large OOllcr eNplOueu at lne HILLS OF
the Fort Orange Paper Company
James Lawton, Il watchman, was in
stantly killed and William Johnson,
fireman, was scalded so badly that
death ensued soon after.
Fire destroyed the largest business
block in McKeesport, Pa, on the 14th.
The property was brick structure,
four stories in height. The fire origi-
mated in Dunlay's grocery store. Sew
eral people who occupied the three up
per stories narrowly escaped with their
lives. Loss, $4,000.
At New York City on the 14th 5000
jacket and pants makers went on
strike. Besides these, 1900 unskilled
workers are thrown out of work. The
jacket makers demand new fifty
nine-hour week agreement and a
wage scale of from S6 to SIG per week,
according to the work done.
On the 18th the White Star steamer
Britannia, which sailed from New
York for Liverpool, carried Captain
AlChNlSL oOll lOil OCNh OOllCA oul
vivors of the Prince Oscar disaster.
At New York City on the evening of
the 14th the search of the ruins of the
wrecked building on West Broadway
way was completed. The total number
of killed is fifteen. Every inch of the
debris has been gone over and every
body has been recovered.
P. r. McGuire and Samuel Gompers,
delegates of the American Federation
of labor to the British Trades Union
congress, at Cardiff, Wales, left New
York on the 14th for Europe on the
Berlin.
An elevator used in hosting building
material on the Martin block at, U Utica,
N. Y, with 1900 pounds of stone was
raised seventy-fve feet from the
ground on the 18th, when the rope
broke, causing it to fall to the bottom
of the cellar. jeremiah Hess was killed
and five others were injured, two
fatally.
Syracuse was selected by the New
York democratic state committee as
the place for holding their state con-
vention, which will occur on Septem-
ber "a.
The famous artist, ?. j. Rothermel,
died at Pottstown, Pa, on the 18th.
His most celebrated picture is the Bat
tie of Gettysburg" which hangs in the
state library at Harrisburg, Pa.
On the farm of l.. Z. Oleweiler, near
East Prospect, Pa, on the 10th terri
BILE accident occurred, resulting in the
death of farm hand named Wilhelm.
He was assisting in feeding the thresher
when he fell feet foremost into the ma
chine, the lower portion of his body be-
ing ground to pieces.
Near Mehaffy, Pa, on the 10th a
olast prepared on the Pittsburg &
Eastern railroad was exploded prema-
turely. Six men were killed and as
many more badly injured.
Marshall, Coleman & Fox, who were
sentenced at Brandon, Miss, for the
murder of r. I. Dinkins at that place
)ne week ago, were landed in the
state penitentiary at jackson, Miss,
IN the 10th to begin their life sentence
On the night of the 10th the New
York Jacket Makers Union formally
declared the strike over and announced
hat the contractors had acceded to the
erms demanded by the strikers. More
han 5000 men and women will resume
work in $50 shops at once.
James Rhodes steam sawmill in the
Adirondaclts burned to the ground on
he 18th with large quantity of lum
Der. The loss is estimated at 500, 900
No insurance.
At Pittsburg on the 10th the thir
teenth annual reunion of the Brother
lood of Locomotive Engineers opened
with about 5000 visitors present, in
luding 1000 members of the Brother
hood.