The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-06-28
General News Summary.
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the 2lst destroyed the business portion
of Livermore Falls, Me. Loss $4,000.
Thirty families lost everything but
their clothes.
The Erie road has cut the tourist
rates from Chicago to Boston IS. The
Michigan Central and other roads will
meet the cut and rate war spreading
over the whole eastern territory is i'm
minent.
A big strike of coal miners is on at
Arnot, Pa. The trouble has been
brewing for some time, and finally 500
miners quit work, demanding 60 cents
a ton. They have been receiving AZ
cents. The Arnot mines are owned
by the Erie Railroad Co.
Two dies and several bottles Of acid,
portions of a counterfeiter's outfit,
have been unearthed by wood chop
per in the outskirts of San Rafael, Cal.
One die was for silver dollars of 1895,
the other for $5 gold pieces of 1897.
Both are well executed.
A letter from Dawson says the clean
up for the present season will amount
TO at least $1s,OOO,0oO, more than twice
last years yield. The increase is due
to the fact that Dominion, Sulphur
and Hunker creeks, which were prac-
tically unworked last season, have been
developed to considerable extent.
The Second immune infantry regi-
ment was mustered out Mt Camp
Meade, Pa, on the 22d. The regiment
at the outbreak of the Spanish war
was recruited in Louisiana and Texas
md served II months in Cuba.
Continued drouth has nearly de-
stroyed all the large Colorado cattle
ranges. Hundreds of cattle and sheep
are reported dying in the San Luis val
ley. Northern New Mexico, parts Of
Oklahoma, the Indian Nation, western
Kansas and southern Utah also report
the ranges almost bare and it is feared
the loss of cattle will be heavy.
The 200 furnacemen and laborers
employed at the Carbon and Steel
Co.'S plant at Parryville, Pa, have
been notified that beginning July l.
their wages will be increased ten cents
per day. This is the second advance
In wages since the plant resumed oper-
ations ten weeks ago.
Owing to the advance in the price of
iron and copper it has been found that
the plans for several public build
ings which were made year or more
ago, will have TO be modified.
An explosion of gas occurred at
Wilkesbarre, Pa, on the 22d in one of
the lower lifts of the Maxwell colliery
of the Lehigh and Wilkesbarrre Coal
Co. Three hundred men were at work
in pthe mine at the time. All made
their escape except three, who were
slightly burned.
There is steady increase in the
immigration of Firms 10 the United
States. During the month of May
$40 Firms arrived at New York City.
This is a decided increase over last
year-about so per cent.
A certificate of incorporation of the
United States Vehicle Co., with an
authorized capital of S25,0O0,O0O, was
filed at the Offices of the secretary of
state in Dover, Del, on the ed. The
company was incorporated for the
pressed air as motive power.
While driving in buggy along the
right of way of the Chicago d North
western railroad at Chicago on the
23d August Werner was killed and his
nine-year-old son fatally injured. For
some unaccountable reason Werner
drove down the track fully mile and
apparently made no effort to get out
of the way of the Grain.
The contributions to the Dewey
home fund received by the national
committee up to the 22d amounted to
$10130.
Justice Nash in the supreme court
at New York City on the 22d tried %
divorce cases with an average time of
ten minutes for each case. One case
occupied four minutes. All records
were broken.
The health department of Chicago
is considering the feasibility of provid-
ing sterilized milk for the use of small
children in the districts where it is
most needed. 1t is suggested to
place in the public parks stations
plicants, as is done in New York.
Near Ainsworth, Neb., on the 23d
a heavy rain was preceded by great
clouds of sand driven at furious pace
by strong wind from the west, doing
a good deal of damage. tearing sheds
and outbuildings into fragments and
passing eastward with roar that
could be heard for miles.
A tornado passed over the vicinity
of Waterloo Ind, on the night of the
21st, leveling many buildings. Much
stock was killed.
Business failures in the United
States for the week ended June %
numbered l7s, as compared with 2S5
for the corresponding period of 1898,
and is in Canada, as against Ii for the
came time last year.
Breaker boys at Spencer's mine at
Dunmore, Pa, have inaugurated a
strike for more work. They have
been getting but four hours a day and
demand five hours, or pay at the rate
of five-hour day. The mine was
obliged to shut down and over 300
workmen are idle in consequence.
The Carnegie Steel Co. has contract
ed with representatives of rne Russian
government to furnish that country
with 10000 tons of steel rails for its
immense railroad enterprises in ST.
IBERIA and China. This, it is said, is
the largest order ever placed with one
Arm in the world and represents an
outlay of between $i,jOO,O0O and So
100000.
A dispatch from Austin, Tex, says
hat an English syndicate with cap.
ltal of S1OO.OOO,0OO has started in to
purchase all of the cattle in Texas,
: with a view to cornering the cattle
market in this country.
A number of mirror manufacturers,
Rho control the business of the United
States in that line, met at Pittsburg on
.he gath and formed a combine for the
regulation of prices and production.
The transport Sheridan has sailed