The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-03-15
General News Summary.
Inssgsstiog Home and Foreign News
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Oklahoma. The governor, it is said,
wnl sign the bill.
The Whitinsville (Mass.) cotton mill
and the cotton mills at Linwood and
Gaundersville, Mass, haze announced
an advance in wages to take place
April 3. About 1000 operatives are at-
fected.,.
The Thomas Evans glass factory at
Pittsburg, employing $50 men, has
closed down indefinitely on account of
ahe poor demand for lamp chirnneys.
In view of the failure of the Ameri-
pan Canadian joint high commission to
come to any agreement on the subject
of the seal fisheries, the treasury de-
partment is considering the question
Of sending revenue cutters to Bering
sea to protect the interests of the
United States from illegal sealing.
The most original plan ever pre-
scented to legislature to discourage
lynching has been proposed in the Mis-
souri house of representatives by Mr..
Nichols, populist member. His meas
mre would have the sheriff arm prison
ers who are threatened with lynching.
Any sheriff or deputy failing to protect
such prisoners shall be fined not less
than $500 or more than $1,000, and
shall be dismissed.
Melville Scudder and Allan Moran,
each IS years old, lost their lives near
South Norwalk, Conn, on the night of
the sth, while duck hunting at Cedar
Hammock island. Their boat was up
set, and Moran, who had the guns,
sank and was drowned. Scudder swan
to some rocks where he was frozen to
death
Arrangements are nearly completed
for the incorporation under the laws of
New Jerseyof the International Cement
Co, which is to be consolidation OF
the cement industry of the United
States. The new company will have
an authorized capital of $5O,OOO,OO
Reports from the Upper Delaware
river near Milford, Pa, indicate q
serious state of affairs. Meadows and
fields are overfowed and the stream
Is gorged for long distance. The
Jersey flats across the river are alsc
submerged and three bridges have
been carried away by ice near Milford
Steel billets took another jump up
ward on the Sth and sold at $24 ton
ahe highest price since 1890.
The examination made upon the
stomachs of the four members of the
underwood family who were recently
found dead in tenement house a
Marlboro, Mass, gives as the cause o.
death, in every case, the drinking, O.
wood alcohol.
~ The army winter hospital at Savan
nah, Ca, AZ buildings, containing 1,0Ot
scots-was opened for patients on tht
!Sth. A trolley car with double row
of suspended cots, accommodating l.
iinyalids, will be used as an ambulance
Subscriptions have been received fol
more than the amount offered of the
American Woolen Co.'s stock. Thi,
company is a corporation formed J%iti
q capital stock Of s2O,OOQ.0OO. ~
"A Aistrike of furnacemen and helpers
at the South Chicago mills of the I'LL
mois Steel Co. is threatened. About
LOO men are involved. In the recent
ady<nce in wages the furnacemen aRd
helpers claim to have been neglected.
Deeds have been signed by the heirs
of Peter Cooper by the teens of which
$550,000 win be added eventually to the
!. endowment fund of Cooper Union al
New York; City. This sum is the prin
cipal Of the trust fund left by Peter
Cooper for the support of his family
Under the agreement between the
heirs his entire estate will thus have
been devoted to the institution which
he founded.
Business failures in the United State!
for the week ending March 10 mum
bered 1872, as compared with 24S for thu
corresponding period of 1898, and 81
IN Canada, as against 81 for the SAM
time last year.
The returns for the various crop re
porting agencies of the department O.
agriculture show the amount of whea
remaining in farmers hands on Marcl
I to have been the equivalent of 30;
per cent. of last years crop, or abou
ds,0O0,0O0 bushels.
The war department has commenced
dhe work of recruiting tho additiona
$4,000 men. The number of recruiting
stations has been increased from abou
30 to between 70 and so.
The Chicago has been detached from
the squadron of Rear Admiral Samp
son and has sailed from Havana Il
Hampton roads. The Chicago is t,
become the flagship of Rear Admira
Howison, who has been assigned II
command the South Atlantic station il
South America. This station wa
abandoned at the beginning of tn,
Spanish war.
At New Castle, Pa, on the 10th TIL
Atlantic Iron and Steel Co. resumed
operations in full after long idleness
The firm employs several hundred
men and signed the Amalgamated scale
5The Ohio river ran into Shawnee
town, Ill.,, on the 10th, through
break in the leyee. Knowing that n
flooding of the town was inevitable
the break made in the levee last Apri
mot having been repaired, the citizen
prepared for its coming by removing
their household goods to upper storie
and anehoring their fences and build
3ngs. s
According to the annual report Q
the chamber of commerce just issued
the foreign commerce of New Yor
City for the year ended June 30 las
was ssg,255,756 less than during th
previous year.
The American-Hawaiian Steam Nav
cation Co. has been incorporated undc
the laws Of New Jersey for the purpos
uf operating line of steamships be
4ween the United States and the la
waiian islands. The company will a
once begin the construction Of seyers
large steamships 10 run from New Ior
and philadelphia to Hawaii. KS
Orders have been given for an indef
mite suspension Of work at The Jeanei
vile. Pa, collieries Of the Leligh Va
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