The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-05-17
General News Summary.
Interesting Home and Foreign News
DOMESTIC.

nute 'DlaSt IN the Sone quarry OF
Daniel Leonard & Son, near Baltimore,
Nd, on the 10th. Both had their eyes
completely torn out and sustained 9th
er injuries which will prove fatal.
A strike is threatened by the brick
layers of New York City, who demand
IS cents an hour instead of 50, their
present pay.
A trolley line between Philadelphia
and Atlantic City is to,be built. The
company will be known as the West
Jersey & Seashore Electric railroad
and it is expected that it will be in
full operation before the summer rush
commences.
Negotiations are in progress, with an
excellent prospect of soon reaching a
successful conclusion, for combina-
tion of manufacturers of all grades of
carpets in a corporation which will be
known as the National Carpet Co., and
will be capitalized at between 100000
900 and S50,000,000.
Three men were seriously and two
probably fatally injured by the eXplo-
sion OF boiler at the works of the
New Jersey Iron and Steel Co. in Tren-
ton, n. j., on the 10th.
A cyclone struck Coldwater, Kan, on
the night of the 9th, completely de-
stroying ~ houses and killing Joseph
Powers. Aldrich's general store was
wrecked and a brick block was blown
away and the court house unroofed.
After a confinement of about six
years in political prison in the repub-
lie of Colombia, Archie McCarter, civil
engineer and contractor prominent in
Fort Scott, Kan, until 1891, when he
left for Yucatan, has lust been liberat-
ed. He has made demand upon the
Colombian government for $1j000O in
demnity.
Three men who were playing cards
in freight car at Baltimore, Nd. on
the 11th, set it on fire, and one of them,
Clarence Kepner,, was burned to death.
William Alders, another of the trio, was
badly burned. The flames spread to
the cotton warehouse of the Mount
Vernon cotton duck mills, DESTROYING
the building and causing $4,000 loss.
An extraordinary movement is on
foot looking to the consolidation of
Presbyterian congregations in New
York City, some of them being among
the richest in the United States.
Assistant Attorney General BOYD has
rendered decision which has been
approved by the attorney general, in
which he holds that. transactions
known among stock brokers as puts"
are not taxable under the war revenue
act, although "calls" are subject to the
tax.
Twenty-one mills are already inchd
ed in the combination of manufactur-
ers of fine writing paper and arrange
ments are well advanced for the organ.
ization of the new company. Its nro-
posed capital is S25. 900. 900 =
The Third Nebra ska Col Wi1l;o, 7
.Bryan's old regiment was mustered
ont AT Augusta Ca. ON ybe 11tb
.t5-iiThe {tuickest t6Tn blildinp on rec.
ord ialOlSlahoma has been recorded bv
Mountain View. Washita countv In
one day it was surveyed and platted
and large portion of it sold and
settled upon. The town was orpan-
lied and ofTicered and all lines of i.usi-
ness were started. The town in one
dav became n CITY of nearly sOO neo-
nile.
The good feeling in this country IN
ward France is shown in three distinct
projects for erecting statues in France
during the Paris eXposition. The lat.
est of these is TO erect a statue of
Rochambeau in the French village of
his birth. The plan originated in
PHILADELPHIA. where $1,000 will be con-
tributed: another 81 900 will be raised
in the country at large. and another
81 900 in France.
Puddlers who are members of the
Amalgamated Association of Iron. Steel
and Tin Workers will receive during
Nav and June an advance of 25 cents
per ton over the wages they have been
receiving. Finishers and boop mill
workers will receive an advance of .
per cent.
The war deartment will not send any
more troops to Manila by way of New
York and the Suez canal. AL troops
now under orders for Manila. or TO be
ordered there during the next few
months will be sent bv way of San
Francisco.
The American Steel Hoop Co, has lust
purchased over 100 900 tons of steel for
use during the second half of the wear.
Thirty thousand tons of this amount is
10 be used in Pittsburg mills. 1t is
said the price paid was S25 at the mills.
Experiments in wireless telegraphy
that for some time have been in pro-
gress at Purdue university at Lafa.
yette, Ind. have demonstrated the pos
sibility of the transmission of signals
across two miles of brick and stone
buildings.
The Leland Hotel Co.. owners of the
Leland hotel at Chicago. has made n
voluntary assignment. Assets are es-
4imated at $50, 900. with liabilities twice
as much.
Three year-old Lawrence Engein. of
Chicago. met death through a strange
accident. The child was playiny ON n