The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-10-19
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j. Med. Scott & Co., wholesale shoe
dealers of Pittsburg, have made an
assignment. The liabilities are stated
to be 100000. The assets cannot be
learned. The creditors are all eastern
concerns.
The Adams & Bishop Co., manufac-
turers and wholesale dealers in paper,
with offices in New York City and
mills at New Windsor, N. Y, have
made an assignment. 1t is thought
the liabilities may reach 100000.
Christian Dancel, inventor of a dozen
important machines used in shoe man
ufacture. is dead at his home in Brook
lyn, N. Y. His machine was the first
used for sewing welts in shoes.
Four men were killed and dozen
others injured by an explosion of gas
in colliery No. s of the Lehigh Coal
and Navigation Co., at Coledale, Pa,
on the 18th. ---.'.
The failure of the glass cutters
scale committee and the committee of
the American Window Glass Manufac-
turers' association to reach an agree
ment on the wage question for the en-
suing year prevented a general re-
sumption of the factories in the coun-
try on the 14th.
The ruling. price for seats in the New
York stock exchange is now $25,0O0,
which is the highest price in more
than five years. The low price was
$14,500, about two years ago. The ad-
vance recently is ascribed to the i'm
provement that has taken place in
Wall street business.
Business failures in the United
States for the week ended October 13
numbered 2O5, as compared with 223
for the corresponding week Of last
year, and 25 in Canada, as against/36
for the same period in 1907. n
The lucigraph, new invention for
night signaling at sea, stood sue
cessful test in New York haGbor on
the night of the 18th. The lucigraph
is a powerful magic lantern, with a
typewriter attachment, which is fitted
with four-inch condenser and'a a two
inch lens. Plates containing letters
of the alphabet are connected with a
keyboard and the operator projects
the desired letter, ten feet long, on a
strip of canvas. This, it is said, can
be seen two miles.
The Spanish tugboat Humberto
Rodriguez, which was captured off
Nuevitas, Cuba, by the cruiser Badger
on July 26, has been released by order
of Judge Brown in the district court
at New York City.
James w. Glendenin, millionaire
coal merchant of New York, died on
the 18th from injuries received from a
runaway horse at Central Park circle.
Charles f. Cornelius, one of the most
prominent attorneys of Pittsburg, was
killed by a Fort Wayne train at
Sewickley, Pa, on the 18th Mr.. Cor
nelius was waiting on train to come
to the city and when it was within
ten yards of passing the point where
he was standing he fell forward and
was killed.
Complete returns of the first day of
registration in Greater New York
show a total of 163,332, against 199,-
5Ss the first day last year.
Elevator manufacturing interests of
the east and west will be revolutioniz-
ed in the course of the next month il
negotiations toward the formation of n
big combine, now apparently near a
successful conclusion, are carried
through.
1t is reported on good authority
that, instead of being mustered out OF
the service the First New Hampshire
volunteers will be ordered to Porto
Rico this week. Nearly all the officers
and over 800 Of the men are said to be
anxious to remain in the service.
The National league base bali season
closed on the 18th and Boston again
won the pennant. The majority of the
team managers have nothing but tales
of woe to tell. There are three notable
exceptions-Boston, Chicago and Gin.
cinnati. These are away ahead finan.
cially. The rest of the clubs declare
that the war almost ruined them.
WEST AND SOUTH.
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