The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-09-20
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At New York City on the 14th the
price of beef took another jump Car
casses that sold for 9H cents a pound
on the 18th now bring 1917 cents. Meat
men say there will be further advan-
ces. II is said the short supply iG
responsible for the advance.
In addition to the advance made Sep
tember /, The American Steel &. Wire
Co. announces another advance in
prices, which took effect September II.
All grades of wire were advanced Is
cents a keg. The test'advance in
creases the price of nails 80 per cent.
a keg since the first of the year.
At Philadelphia on the 18th nearly
100 painters, members of the Anal
gamated Journeymen House Painters
association, went on strike. The men
want eight hours day, 35 cents an
hour, time and half-time for over time
and double time for Sunday. They
also demand the recognition of the
union.
On the night of the 18th two men
were killed and two injured in col
lision on the Pittsburg, Virginia &
Charleston railroad near Baird station,
Pa. between the pay train and d
freight train.
An assignment was made hy II. +.
Larrabee &, Co.. proprietors of large
department store mt Boston on the
18th. A large stock, high prices. dull
trade and limited capital are given as
the causes of the assignment, which
may be only temporary.
1t is announced that there will be no
mass meeting in New York City to
protest against the condemnation of
Dreyfus. Efforts were made to ar
range such Il gathering, but the men
who were asked to take n leading part
declined to do so and expressed the
opinion that the movement was mis-
take.
At Allentown, Pa, Judge Albright
has ordered the removal of the bronze
tablet on the soldiers monument in
that city containing his name, that of
the county commissioners, their clerk
and their solicitor. The Judge said
that the monument was erected to per \
petuate the memory of the soldiers.
and not as an advertisement for coun- |
ty officials.
For the week ended September Is
the business failures in the United
States numbered l4o, as compared with
174 for the corresponding week of last
year. and 32 for CANADA. as against %
for the same period in 1895.
The subscriptions for the Dewey
memorial fund in New York now
amount to $4,000. The building is
to be erected at Nortbfield.
New York capitalists have ARRANGED
for combination of chair making
plants. About So per cent. of all tbc
manufacturers in this country are in
terested in the union. The capital
stock of the new combination will ba
S10.000,0O0.
The will of Cornelius Vanderbilt will |
not be probated nor its contents made
public until Alfred Vanderbilt. the
second son. ca:l reach home. He is
now in Japan. 1t will be four or five
weeks before he can arrive in New
York.
AT New York City the meat combine
has made another advance in prices.
Pork has. almost doubled and veal has
advanced 25 per cent. The butchers
throughout the city have been com |
PEELED, owing to these advances to
raise veal and pork from . to 5 cents
pound to consumers. Lambs have
jumped $l.5O per 100 pounds in
week.
On the 18th Charles Holmes spd
wife, colored, of Jordantown. n. j..
were killed by West Jersey RAILROAD
train near Collinwood, y. J. They
were crossing the track in wagon.
At Philadelphia the master painters
are gradually signing the agreement
for the new wage schedule of 35 cents
m hour and a working day of eight
hours and the existing strike is de-
creasing the number of men involved.
A loss of 100000 was entailed by
fire at Rochester, \. Y, on the 10th |
which destroyed the siX-story Desbro |
box factory and the Chase Touring
mills. besides damaging adjoining
property. ....
A combine of granite manufacturers
In the Massachusetts territory made |
famous by Quincy granite" is pro-
posed, with capitalization of over ST.
100000 1t is understood that nego- |
tiations for control of all the quarries
are well under way.
II is stated by James A. Chambers,
president of the American Glass Co.,
that a window glass combine has been |
effected. The new company will take |
in so of the largest concerns in the
country, their aggregate capacity be-
ing about 1000 pots. This is said to
leave only about 600 pots outside Of
the combine. |