The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-10-12
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The stove manufacturers of west
ern Pennsylvania have entered into
an agreement with the manufactur-
ers of the east, through which prices
will be pushed up per cent on No
vember l.
The American Sugar Refining Co.
has announced another reduction in
the price of refined sugar. All grades
are reduced is cent pound, which
brings granulated sugar down to 1-S
cents per pound.
A heavy rain storm ragged at Ans
terdam, N. Y, on the 5th for two
hours, causing great damage. The
West Shore railroad was washed out
in two places and travel entirely sus-
pended. The New York Central rail-
road tracks were washed out at Akin,
three miles west of Amsterdam, and
travel suspended for several hours.
After an existence of three years,
during which time a uniform price
was maintained, the hoop iron combi-
nation has been dissolved by the
mutual consent of the firms which
were parties to it's formation. I'm
usual prosperity in the business is
the reason given for the demise of
the combine.
There was another cut in sugar on
the New York market on the 9th.
Domestic refined opened 1-sc lower
per pound for all grades except cut
loaf and crushed, which are un-
unchanged and Nos. Z, s, 9 and 10,
which are 1-16 lower. This makes the
price of granulated sugar All cents.
-Four persons were drowned in the
Hudson river by the capsizing of a
yacht few miles north of Troy, N.
Y, on the night of the 5th. The dead
are: N. L. Weatherby, commodore of
the Troy Yacht club; Stephen w.
Mallory, for many years bookkeeper
for Superintendent Collins, of the
state prison, of Troy; Mrs. Nellie
Breslin, widow, of Waterford; Miss
Lizzie Savage, also of Waterford.
At a foreclosure sale held in Pough-
keepsie, MY. ,on the 9th by Referee
Brown, the Philadelphia, Reading &
New England railroad was bid off,
together with the lease of the Hart
ford & Connecticut Western road and
10000 shares of stock of the latter
road, owned by the Philadelphia,
Reading & New England railroad.
The bidding ran up to $3,S7O0O0, at
which figure it was sold to the reor-
ganization committee.
The striking wiredrawers of the
Shenango mills at New Castle, Pa,
have returned to work at the scale of
wages offered by the company. The
strikers have been out for over three
months. ..t. n ,t, s.,
Three men were burned to death on
the 18th in box car standing in the
yard of the Boston & Maine railroad,
at Northampton, Mass. They are sup
posed to have been tramps who
crawled in for a nights rest, and set
fire to the car by smoking.
Business failures in the United
States for the week ended October z
numbered 1863, as compared with 212
for the corresponding period of 1897,
and 90 in Canada, as against 30 for the
same time last year.
The entire rear of hotel owned by
William Leslie, at Waterbury, Conn,
was destroyed on the night of the 9Th
by the explosion of dynamite bomb.
The person who threw the bomb is not
known. Had the bomb done the work
that it was intended to do it would
have killed 16 persons.
BY the will of the late w. S. Jordan,
of Brookline, Mass, bequests amount
ing to $4,000 are left to various chari-
table and missionary organizations.
Fire in the brewery of Lembeck &
Betz, Newark, n. j., on the 9th, de-
stroyed the interior of the main build
ing, six stories high, with the stock.
Loss 100000. The fire was caused by
spontaneous combustion.
Fire at Atlantic City, N. j., on the
Sth destroyed 20 buildings, entailing
a loss of over 100000.
The leather firm of Hickman, Bis.
sell & Co., of Boston, has assigned
They have been doing business OF
between $5OO,OOO and $75OOOO a year
Congressman James j. Belden, in q
letter to the republican voters of the
Twenty-seventh New York congress.
sional district, declines the nomina.
tion recently offered to him by the
Madison county republican delegates
and the Mckinley league of Onoudaga
county. He recommends that the
voters support the candidacy of M. E
Driscoll, the regular candidate.