The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-10-20
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cOnCernS ali Jne WlHuoW BldSS manu-
facturers of the country have com
pleted an organization at Camden, N.
]. The gigantic combination is named
the American Window Glass Co.
Ex-Banker F. V. Rockafellow, con-
victed of receiving deposit at his
bank at Wilkesbarre, Pa, after he
knew 1t was insolvent, was sentenced
ON the 18th to pay fine of 81, 400 and
serve one year in the penitentiary.
There are many other indictments
hanging over his head, and he can be
rearrested and tried in each case The
prisoner is over 70 years of age.
The first run of clean white granu-
lated sugar ever made in the state of
New York has been turned out at the
New York beet sugar factory in Rome.
There are about four tons of sugar In
the run, which went into the factory
in the form Of beets on the 11th.
John A. Chanler, the divorced hus-
band of Amelia Rives and great grand
son of John ]. Astor, is confined in the
Bloomingdale, N. Y, asylum.
Supreme CoHrt Justice Gummere has
decided at Trenton, N. j., that Capt.
Herdman and the Salvation Army have
no right to congregate in the streets
The streets are only to be used for
vehicles and pedestrians to pass to and
fro. The conviction of the army cap
tain for disorderly conduct was, there
fore, confirmed
Michael Sweeney, a professional
baseball player, while attempting to
board fast-running freight train at
Reading, Pa, on the 14th, fell under
the wheels and II heavy cars were
thrown from the track by his mangled
body. 1t was one of the most remark.
able railroad accidents on record
Sweeney's death was instantaneous.
Victor Hugos masterpiece of fiction
and sociology, Lies Miserables," has
been barred out Of the girls high school
of Philadelphia, on the ground that it
is impure.
The registration returns of the voters
of Boston show the number qualified
TO vote in the coming state election in
that city to be 95, 324, or $50 names be-
hind that of the city registration for
1896.
The career of Mrs Frank Atwood
and w. H. Matthews, who were ar
rested in Boston on the 14th, charged
with post Office box robbery, is being
investigated Mrs. Atwoods state
ments reveal the fact that an organ
lied gang of post Office robbers has
been working in several of the princi-
pal cities.
At S:15 a. IN. on the 18th First Lieut.
W. A. Wise arrived in New York City,
having ridden on his bicycle from
Washington in 81 hours and SO min
utes, official time. This breaks all
records, the best previous time for the
distance being S6 hours.
For the week ended October Is the
business failures in the United States
numbered 223, as compared with S2s
for the same period of last year, and SO
in Canada, as against 40 for the corre-
spending week of 1896.
In Allegheny, Pa, on the 10th an ex-
press train on the Cleveland & Pitts
burg road ran into shifting engine
Ross Griffin, fireman, was fatally hurt
and number of passengers were cut
and bruised. Both engines were ruined.
The steamer Paris arrived at New
York on the 10th, bringing $4,000, 900
in gold, and about So, 900, 900 more is on
the way to that port.
The managers of the National woolen
mills at olneyville, R. l., have granted
the request of their weavers for resto-
ration of the scale of wages prior to
the reduction of 1893 The new scale
will go into effect December /. The
reduction made in 1893 amounted to 90
per cent.
Much damage is being done in Potter
county, Pa, by the forest fires that
are raging there. About 90 lumber
camps were burned on the 10th, the
occupants having barely time to escape
with their stock, leaving all their goods
and working outfits behind.