The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-11-17
EAST.

The assignment of John Palmer, who
carried on business at New York City
under the name of J. Palmer & Co., re-
tail dealer in fancy goods, novelties
and glassware, is announced. The liza
bilities are estimated at ,S42, 600 and the
nominal assets at $50, 0,OOo,
The report that Gen. Gomez has or
dered Gen. Julio Sanguilly to report
for duty in the insurgent ranks in Cuba
is denied by the Cuban junta in New
York City.
At West Hoboken, N j., Paul Quirk,
u. S. N, retired, died on the 9th. He
was vice president of the st. Vincent
de Paul society.
The Baldwin pa locomotive works
have within the past few days booked
orders for So locomotives. The orders
include 81 for the government state
railway of Finland, the first order of
any magnitude that has ever been
placed in this country from that place.
A report on ticket scalping has been
prepared by Senator Cullom, chairman
of the senate committee on interstate
commerce, the result of which, he
says, will be to send the bill for the
prohibition of ticket scalping through
with rush as soon as congress meets-
On December the blast furnace OPP
orators of the Mahoning valley will
advance the wages of their employees
10 per cent. At least 5000 men will be
benefited thereby.
Rt Rev. Ethelbert Talbot has been
elected bishop of the Episcopal diocese
OF Pennsylvania He is at present
missionary bishop of Wyoming and
Idaho
At her home in Chicopee Falls, Mrs.
Margaret Boughan, the Oldest person
in Massachusetts, is dead She was
born in Ireland 1914 years ago. Her
husband corroborated her story and
says he discovered in the parish records
of her birthplace that she was born in
1773
A three-story brick building which
was being remodelled collapsed at Bos
ton on the 11th severely iniuring four
men, one of whom will probably die.
f. A. Bachmann g. Co., of Philadel-
phia, granted their $50 striking weav-
ers an advance of from to per cent.
and they returned to work on the 11th.
The inventor and patentee of the
1.000-mile mileage book, Charles w.
Reiff, travelling passenger agent of the
New York, Philadelphia & Norfolk
and the Pennsylvania railroads, died
at Philadelphia on the 10th in the 4Oth
year of his age.
For the first week in November rail-
road earnings nearly equal those of
1892 and half the mileage of the United
States shows earnings in October of
$50, ,354, 496, or s per cent larger than
last year and 90 per cent larger than
in 1892.
Charles Gelbarth, cigarmaker of
Philadelphia, on the 9TH shot and IA
tally wounded his father-in-law, Fred
erick Fritz, ST.. and his son, Frederick
Fritz, jr., and then shot himself in the
head. 1t is thought all three will die.
The shooting was the result of family
quarrel.
Albert Thomas, the man who was
recently arrested at New Bedford,
Mass, for passing raised United States
notes, has been identified by Chief Ha-
zen, of the secret service, as Albert
Lientner said to be a noted burglar
and confidence man of Indianapolis.
Chief Hazen has been on Lientner's
trail since May.
Harrison Allen, aged So years, pro-
fessor of comparative anatomy in the
medical school of the University of
Pennsylvania. died suddenly in Phila-
jdelphia on the 14th of heart disease.
he was the author of numerous papers
and books on many phases of medicine.
Judge Jackson's recent decisions
constituting the tenure Of Office features
of the civil service rules and law will
be appealed from. To expedite mat
tiers the appeal will be made directly
Ito the United States supreme court
The Bigelow Carpet company's
woolen mills at Clinton, Mass, have
shut down for an indefinite period.
Over 800 persons were employed there.