The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-08-30
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The chairman of the committee on
invitation of the G. A. Il. encampment,
which opens at Philadelphia Septem-
Der 4, has received President McKin-
ley's acceptance of the invitation to
attend the reunion.
The statement is made that the net
profits of the beef trust in New York
City alone have increased about So, 600
q week from the advance of two cents
q pound in the price of beef. The con-
Germs in the beef trust now get about
S14 per head more for beef than two
weeks ago.
At Pittsburg on the 23d Michael
Titzhenry was almost instantly killed
and his brother John probably fatally
injured by the breaking of scaffold
on which they were standing painting
one of the towers of the Twentv-sec-
ond street bridge. They fell about
40 feet to a concrete floor.
The dead body OF Caspur Puberl, n
sculptor whose works brought him
fame and who was engaged on the
Dewey arch to he erected in New York,
was found in his studio in New York
by one of his workmen on the 23d. He
had suffered a stroke Of apoplcXy. He
had Just finished his last great work,
II statue of Admiral Semmes. of the
Confederate navy, the commander of
the cruiser Alabama.
Plans are being perfected for the
organization of Sj0,000,000 dry goods
corporation in New York City to CON
troll and operate dry goods and de-
partment stores throughout the coun-
try. The Mercantile Reorganization
Co. has recently been Incorporated in
Trenton, \. j., as a preliminary TO
creating the big corporation.
Philadelphians have subscribed $50
4s0 to the Porto Rican relief fund and
the relief committee will send another
ship load of supplies if the govern
ment will provide the vessel.
At Brooklyn, \. Y, the retail butch
ers have decided TO advance the price
of meats three to four cents a pound
and to join hands with their Manhat-
tan brethren in the war on the beef
trust.
For the week ended August 25 the
business failures in the United States
numbered 1863, as compared with 10
for the corresponding period of last
year, and 16 in Canada, as against 26
flor the same time in 1898.
The United Mine Workers Of Ameri-
Ca are endeavoring to organize the an
,thracite miners in Pennsylvania.
whose union collapsed 90 years ago.
The American Automobile Co. has
been organized in New York City TO
control the manufacture and operation
of all the automobiles and keromotOrs
in which kerososne or gasoline is used,
not only in this country but in France.
Germany and other countries in con-
tinental Europe.
On the 25th Tyne Grove, farmer re-
siding near Franklin. Pa, fatally shot
Edith Dunn, daughter Of f. V. Dunn, ii
neighbor. Miss Dunn returned from
II party at . o'clock in the morning
and. being unable to arouse her par
ents. went to the Grove residence and
knocked. Fearing burglars, Grove
ordered her away. Receiving no reply,
he fred through the door. The shot
took effect in the girls groin.
On the Goth ult. the glass works OF
Gill & Co., at Philadelphia, were de-
stroyed by FIRE. A dozen dwelling
houses adjoining the works were dam
ngcd by fire and water. Loss $10O.OO0.
The recent conference at New York
City between representatives OF the
Independent Kentucky distillcries and
the officers Of the Kentucky .Distiller-
les and Warehouse Co., one of the con
stituent companies Of the so-called
whisky trust, resulted in an agree
ment to limit the output of bourbon
whisky this year to 1S,000,000 gallons.
On the 26th uH. Harry d. Elk of
Boston, the champion middle Distance
bicycle racer of the world, broke the
records for II, 10. IS, Il and IS miles
at the Wopdside park track, near Phil
ndelphia.
At Catskill. Y. V. on the 26th nit.
four men were killed in the Wash
burn brick ward by the fall of kiln
of brick. The men were buried un-
der 100000 bricks.