The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-04-05
General News Summary.
Interesting Home and Foreign News


DOMESTIC.
Claude Holiday, one of the mail
clerks injured in the Santa Fe wreck
at Lang, Kan., in 1897, has just settled
with the company. He received Sill
500. This is said to be the largest sum
ever paid mail clerk by any railroad
for injuries sustained in a wreck.
It is announced that the combination
of manufacturers of clay sewer pipe,
fire brick chimney tops and Innings,
and similar products, is now definitely
completed. The new concern will
be called the Federal Sewer Pipe Co.,
and win have a capital of S25,OOO,OOO,
The Allentown (Pa.) rolling mills on
April / increase the wages af their
200 men 10 per. cent. A pig iron fur
mace is being gotten ready to put in
blast.
Damage to the extent of S1sO,000 was
caused by fire at Hartford, Conn, on
the goth ult. which destroyed the Of
flee building of ]. L. Howard, the j.
L. Howard Co.'s factory and damaged
several adjoining buildings.
Michael Shea is dead in Indianapolis
at the advanced age of lis years. He
was born in Ireland in 1871 and was a
friend of Daniel O'Connell. Shea was
married when he was 81 years old and
has children 60 years of age.
The formation of a candy trust is
again in progress. The present deal
is expected to go into effect by June
1. The combine is to be capitalized
at $25,OOO,OOO. Leading houses of
Chicago, Boston, New York, Buffalo,
Baltimore, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Gin
cinnati, Detroit, Minneapolis and St.
Louis are to be included.
The president has pardoned Oscar
Dawson, who was convicted in 1895
and sentenced to five years imprison-
ment for robbing the post Office at
Salem, W. Va. The prisoner is in the
last stages of consumption and it is
on this account that executive clem-
ency is granted.
Nearly 81 100000 of the $4,000 600 that
the citizens of St. Louis have been
called on to subscribe for the worlds
fair in 1908 has been pledged. 1t is
now evident that the entire stock of
the exposition corporation will be dis
posed of before May 1.
The prospectus of the Kentucky Dis
tilleries and Warehouse Co., just issued.
has caused furry in whisky. 1t
shows that the company is holding all
the goods at high prices. Prices of
some whisky are quoted at an advance
of 80 per cent. and few brands are
held at almost 100 per cent. in ad-
vance of what they have been selling
for.
The Davis & Thomas Iron Co., of
Gatasaqua, Pa, has increased the
wages of its 200 employees 10 per cent.
Fur bearing seals have been unusual
dy plentiful off the California coast dur
ing the past winter. The British seal
er Geneva put into Monterey after a
cruise of little over two months off
shore.with 1,243 skins.
Miss Edith Boone, of Philadelphia,
mas begun a suit for $4,000 damages
against Frederick r. Farrow, a young
drug clerk for squeezing her hands SC
violently that the smaller bones of one
of them were broken and both hands
were, rendered practically useless.
Judge Shiras, in the federal court al
Dubuque, Ia, has decided that under
the bankruptcy act innocent third par
ties can hold their securities. The
court holds that mortgages cannot be
compelled to yield possession of prop
erty in their hands which passed into
their possession before the proceedings
in bankruptcy were begun.
Business failures in the United States
for the week ended March 81 numbered
1914, as compared with 220 for the same
period last year, and 26 in Canada, as
compared with 81 for the corresponds
ing week of 1898.
2. J. Morgan's $4,000 collie Hurri-
cane is dead at Highland Falls, N. Y.
Hurricane was descended from gen.
-erations of prize winners. Mr.. Nor
gan had refused to sell Hurricane at
any price.
The census office has called attention
to the large number of applications
for places that have been filed and to
the fact that for some time but a small
skeleton corps engaged for prelimi-
mary work will Ibe appointed. ISo
far there have been $500 formal ap-
plications for Office under the census
A serious shortage of vessels in the
grain trade, which is likely to result
in the diversion of large traffic from
the lakes to the rail lines eastward, is
threatened for the coming season. The
shortage is due in a large degree to
the heavy chartering in the iron ore
trade.
The monthly statement of the treas
nry department shows exceptionally
heavy receipts and material decrease
in the expenditures. For March the
total receipts amounted to over $751;
100000.
A syndicate of anthracite coal opera
tors from Luzerne and Lackawanna
counties, Pennsylvania, have arranged
TO take 100000 acres of coal lands
along the line of the Western New York
& Pennsylvania railroad, in the north
western part of Pennsylvania.
Harry Lappin and his wife, aged As
and AZ years respectively, were burned
TO death late on the night of the 3Oth
aIlt in their home in Philadelphia.
A remarkable suit has been com.
menced in the superior court, at Mil
waukee, Wis, by Hector Leublow, who
wants $4,000 damages from the 10
iurymen who convicted him on a
charge of conspiracy six years ago
The Oldest lawyer at the bar does not
remember similar instance.
Gen. Alger has approved circular
authorizing candies in half-pound pack
ages to be kept on hand for sale as
staples to officers and enlisted men Of
the army. This is similar to action
taken in European armies, based on
recent discoveries as to the food value
of sugar.
The transport Logan has broken the
record, making trip in 30 hours from
Savannah to Havana, loading the One
Hnndred and Sixtv-firef Indiana re0i.