The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-08-31
EAST.

The Worthwhile house, one of the
largest hotels at Worthwhile, n. Y, a
summer resort, was destroyed by fire
on the Goth.
The tug boat Marian, belonging to
the Pennsylvania Railroad Co., sunk
at South Amboy, N. j., on the oath.
All the crew escaped except the pilot,
James Hennesby, who was drowned.
The steamer Vigilancia left New
York ON the Gath en- route to Cuba
with the Twenty-third regiment, Kan
sas volunteers, consisting of SIS i'm
munes.
1t is reported that curtailment by
individual corporations at Fall River,
Mass, is likely to prove more extern
sive than by an ironclad agreement
and large stoppage of spindles is
probable during the next month. The
effect of this is already shown by an
increased demand for goods.
Mrs. Patrick Devlin, aged 70, was
burned to death in a fire at Seneca
Falls, N. Y, on the 25th and her house
was destroyed.
Two fishing schooners which have
arrived at Gloucester, Mass, from
Quaro bank, each report the finding
of victims of La Bourgogne disaster.
in each case the body after being
thoroughly examined, was sewed up
in canvas, weighted and then con-
signed to the deep.
At Suffield, Conn.,, on the night of
the Gath severe wind storm leveled
ten tobacco barns, blew down many
trees and crippled the electric light
service. The damage caused is esti-
mated at $4,000.
Thirty-two fishing tugs and 300
fishermen that fish off Erie, Pa, are
tied up. The fishermen have gone on
strike on account of the wholesale
fish dealers cutting the price about 25
per cent. for the product of the nets.
The brickmakers' strike at Haver-
straw, n. Y, has ended, the laborers
yielding to the manufacturers, who
would make no concessions. The
strike lasted over two months and re-
suited in the loss of nearly $5OO,OOO
to Haverstraw business interests.
special freight train, with a long
string of empty cars from Camp Wi
koff, crashed into a freight train at
Farmingdale, N. Y, on the night of
the 25th, causing bad wreck. Percy
Schroeder, fagman, was fatally in
jured. Four other trainmen were
seriously hurt.
The navy department has ordered
the cruisers st. Louis and St. Paul
TO the League Island navy yard at
Philadelphia, where they will be re-
stored to their condition as liners and
returned to the American line, from
which they were chartered.
The Twenty-second Kansas volun-
teer infantry, now at Middletown, Pa,
has been ordered to Fort Leaven-
worth, Kan, where they will be mus
tered out, and the First New Hamp-
shire volunteer infantry, now at Lex
ington, KY, to Concord, N. H., to be
mustered out.
The worlds record for high kite
fight has been broken at Mr.. Rotch's
observatory at Blue Hill, Mass, by
Messrs. Clayton and Feguson, who
sent a tandem of kites into the air. un-
ill the highest one reached an altitude
of 12,124 feet above the sea level a
height 277 feet greater than any kite
has reached heretofore.
The associated banks Of New York
for the week ending August 81 show
a shiSakage in surplus reserve of near.
1y $7,50O,OOO, bringing the excess cash
down to $21 ,343, 300. decrease of $41,-
100000 since June 25.
Marion Mills, the famous guideless
pacing mare, died al Cortland, N. Y.
on the 27th ult. Marion Mills STUN
bled and fell on the track of the Co~t.
land County Agricultural society, sus-
tanning concussion Of the brain.