The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-08-11

fields OF West Virginia, Wheeling Is
now In telephone connection with about
5000 cities and towns,
Getting Under Cover Before uo Heriiner
Storm freaks.
1.-THE Trenton, New Jersey, Standard
Telephone Company has surrendered to
the secretary OF state Its certificate OF
Incorporation. This formally puts the
concern out OF business, The company
was formed some time ago, by proml-
nent business men Of that city TO con-
duct a general telephone business Poles
were erected, wires strung, and rev
machines put Electrical Review,
"In the judgment OF the board of d.
rectors of the Passaic and Bergen Mu-
tual Telephone Company, a corporation
organized under the laws of New Jer-
sey, It has been deemed advisable and
most for the benefit OF such corpora
ton, that the same should be dissolved
before the expiration OF the time limit
ed IN Its certificate OF Incorporation. =
Paterson Volksfreund.
"A mechanics lien was placed on re-
cord yesterday by Paca & Newbold, at
torneys for the Eastern Electric Com
pany, against all the property of the
Home Telephone Company. 1t Is claim
ed by the Eastern Electric Company
that they have lien for balance of
S9,2i9 70 due them by the New York
Telephone and Telegraph Company for
work done In building the lines OF the
Home Company as b-contractors. =
Baltimore Sun, july 49,
The New York Telegraph and Tele-
phone Construction Company, through
David NJ. Newbold, jr., attorney, enter
ed two suits in the superior court yes
terday by titllng-one against the
Home Telephone Company, and the
other against the Home Telegraph and
Telephone Company, claiming 100000
damages in each case. Baltimore
American, July 90,
The Newark Evening News, OF July
20. publishes some interviews with
prominent capitalists, In which the lat
ter deny any intention OF putting funds
in the Newark Telephone Company.
Evidently there Is no unseemly haste
about investing good money In proper
ty handicapped as an opposition tele-
According to legal notice in the
Evening Journal OF Jersey City, the
Standard Underground Cable Company
has placed n mechanics lien OF 1881 Ga
on the four-story brick building occu-
pied by the New York Telephone and
Telegraph Construction Company and
the Hudson Telephone Company OF Jer-
sey City, aud certain cables and wires
extending out from said building.
An assignment has been made by the
Northern Wisconsin Telephone Com
pany, of Glllett, Wisconsin, TO the Sec
rotary of the company, A. Il. Miniely,
of GIllett. Legal publication of such
notice has been made, creditors of the
company having been given three
months from June %, In which TO file
with the assignee OF with the clerk OF
the circuit, Charles D. Powers. OF Ocon-
to, certified statements as 20 their
claims against the company.-Green
Bay. Gazette, June 20, 1897.
II The various independent telephone
companies represented this week In
Detroit furnish no better service than
the Home Company, of Cleveland, they
might as well save the Incorporation
fees. The local concern appears to veg
etate In an insane sort Of way-waking
up now and then with the announce
ment Of big trust company as fiscal
agents for the sale Uf half a million dol
lars worth Of bonds that nobody seems
to want, or advertising the tearing up
Of a rod of street. which II contem-
plates, But It gives no service that Is
commercially worth a hill Of beans
Cleveland Town Topics, June &c, 1897.
on February T. the Jersey City Even
Ing Journal devoted Its frat column to
booming the stock Of the Hudson Tele-
phone Company, In which $4,000 had
been subscribed and Is being paid In
monthly instullments OF 10 per cent" In
the July 2S issue of the Evening journal
the following advertisement appears;
FOR Sale.--Tifteen shares Of Hudson
Telephone Company's stock; s.. Delat.
ush, 1856 Newark avenue"