The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-06-21
General News Summary.
Interesting Home and Foreign News
DOMESTIC.

ment of the differences between the
strikers and the manufacturers have
proved futile. At a mass meeting of
the trousers makers on the 18th ii was
voted to call out the fraternity just
as. soon as the work of organization
now going on among the 5000 menu
bers of that branch of the garment
workers is completed.
Since Dewey's squadron steamed
into Manila bay the last night of April,
1898, twenty-three army expeditions
have crossed the Pacific and four have
gone by way of Suez to hold the new
possessions. These expeditions carried
l,279 officers and 37,2s7 men, but near
Nv 500 additional officers have gone out
TO Manila, and nearly 1000 men who
did not accompany the regular eNpedi-
tions. Of the total force scarcely l.
900 have returned.
The commissioner of pensions has
rendered a decision that the receipt of
a municipal pension by widows of fire.
men, policemen and other municipal
employees does not Nitiate their right to
a federal pension.
Commissioner General Powderly, of
the migration bureau, has decided the
case of the so Hungarians who arrived
in Philadelphia several days ago, and
who were detained by the local immi-
grafton authorities. The commissiNi-
er general directs that they be re-
turned to Hungary, on the ground that
they came to this country in violation
of the alien contract labor law.
Commander and Pay Inspector John
II. Stevenson at the BROOKLYN navy
yard is dead from aPopleXy at his home
in Brooklyn, N. Y. He was 90 years
of age and was in all the battles and
skirmishes of the Potomac tlotilla
from October, 1862, to April, 1863.
The first of number of cases
against Pittsburg butchers for alleged
violation of the pure food law in adul-
terating meat to prevent decomposi-
ition was tried in the county court at
Pittsburg on the 14th and the defend.
ant was found guilty.
The three thousand employees of the
trust smelters in Denver, Pueblo and
Leadyille. Col, struck on the 14th
after having eXtinguished the fires il
the big furnaces and put everything
in perfect order for a season of idle.
Iess.
The statue of Chester A. Arthur
twenty-frst president of the United
States, has been unveiled at New Yorl
City. 1t was erected by personal
friends. of the statesman. The statue
and pedestal are each nine feet high
The statue is of bronze, the pedestal oi
gray marble. .t.
Eight Croatian immigrants from
Austria arrived at Philadelphia from
Antwerp and were detained by Immi
grant Commissioner Rogers on suspi
cion of being contract laborers en-
route for Chicago.
Joe Juneau, Yukon pioneer after
whom the town of Juneau was named
died at Dawson recently. He made
and lost several fortunes in Alaska.
AdYlces from Laredo, lex, say tho
MO Vr@nde rKer IL the highest in II
years. All KINDS OF debris, including
houses, cattle and sheep, is coming
down the river.
Inc academy OF natural sciences OF
fhllaoelphla VIII beneft to the extent
oi %SVo'ooo by an agreement winch mas
Deen reached between the heirs of the
late ROBERT lamoorn and the academy
Inc doctor pequeathed ms entire es'
tate, valued at nearly SIO0,OoO, 10 the
academy. A contest followed and liti'
cation was Kept up for five years unit
the agreement was reached.
Frank II. Cooper, a Chicago mer'
chant, has announced his intention OF
building great hospital in the little
Holland town of Frise, in which he
was born. 1t will be retreat for the
sick and helpless and will cost $500.
600.
The directors of the Federal Steel
Co. have declared q quarterly dividend
of ~ per cent. on the preferred stock
and ~ per cent. on the common stock
According to a general order issued
by the war department. sales may be
made on credit 10 officers and enlisted
men who have not been regularly paid
or who are in the field, Permits will
not be given to a soldier in excess OF
the unencumbered nav due him. noI
in any month in excess of his monthly
nav.
A combination of fruit Gamers ha.
lust been completed in San Francisco
and all the necessary papers, carrying
options on about two-thirds of the can
neries of California, have been signed
1t is reported that the organizers viii
close mp about half of the canneries
under their control. The combine
controls 26 fruit canneries with an an
nual output of 5O,64o,OOO cans.
Two men met death by being cIIt
with nylng boards during the recent
TORNADO at New Ihchmond, Wis. They
were Nlehoias radden' whose head was
severe, from ms nonE py the end OF
Plank' ana Michaei hehron' whose
10y I"H i""'u III ms Daseii,ent c'''
ri" tS - :" d.n ,u'i 90 "erosS l .,e apuoihen
l,nrled aroinst & " hin % no4ni"s no;ns .," WA,