The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-11-08
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On the s1st ult. the Hackettstown
IN. j. seminary was destroyed by fire.
Only the gymnasium building is left
standing. All the students got out
uninjured.
More than 20,000,000 pieces of money
were coined at the mint in Philadel-
phia during October, representing a
total value of $3,263,563.
At the present time "a blast fur
naces are in course of erection in the
United States. These furnaces will
have a capacity of from 600 to 700 tons
a day, or total annual capacity of
5,0OO,O0O tons of pig iron.
The steamer Comanche arrived at
New York on the I'd from Jacksonville.
Fla, having on board Capt. Stiles and
several men of the schooner Napoleon
Boughton, which sprang leak and
foundered five miles southwest of Fry
ing Pan Shoals. The crew were taken
off by the Comanche only five minutes
before the schooner sank.
A contract has been taken by the
National Conduit and Cable Co. of New
York City for supplying and laying
the conduits for conveying the cable
for the Glasgow municipal tramways
and also for supplying the cable. This
means that practically the whole pro-
ject of building tramways in Glasgow
VIII be carried out by Americans. An
American firm has also secured the
order for theAfirst thousand ears to be
put in operation on the tramways.
The whole affair will cost about S15,-
100000.
It is announced that the oystermen
of Long Island sound are preparing to
consolidate their interests. Such an
attempt was made last spring. but the
movement proved unsuccessful, be-
cause many of the % dealers who had
combined became afraid of being un-
dersold by other members of the COM
bine and began cutting prices. The
present movement is said to deal with
interests capitalized at s20,OOO,OOo
Such combination will save about ST.
100000 year.
Dispatches from Key West, Fla,
state that the yellow fever epidemic
which has prevailed there for the past
six weeks has about run its course.
Only one or two new cases day are
now reported.
Receivers have been appointed for
the Heaton Peninsula Manufacturing
Co., of South Boston, Mass, makers OF
shoe machinery. No statement OF
liabilities has been made.
On the Sd at a meeting of the Fall
River (Mass.) Cotton Manufacturers
association, called to consider the de
mand for an increase of 10 per cent
made by its employees, the manufactur.
ers voted not to grant the increase al
the present time, tempering the re
fusal, however, with the statement
that an increase may be granted later
The Reading Railwey Co. has issued
new freight tariff, to take effect No
vember 15, whereby freight rates will
be generally advanced. Other eastern
roads are expected to make the samt
changes.
A number of corporations have sem
letters to the New York state boarC
of tax commissioners demanding Sc
crecy as to the contents Of their re
ports under the franchise tax law anC
protesting against publicity of an,
kind. The board has the matter un
der advisement
On the I'd the Methodist Episcopa
home for the aged, at Bala.a suburb o
Philadelphia, was dedicated by Bishol
Foss. The services were participates
in by 1G bishops.
A combination has been effected be
tween eastern capitalists and J. N
Guffey, of Pittsburg, and as resul
$4,000 acres of the richest coal land
in West Virginia, including a networl
of railroads from the mines, valued il
all at $3,OO0,0Oo, pass into the contro
of company that will be one of tn
largest coal producing concerns in tn
United States. The land lies in Pres
ton county, West Virginia.
In the weekly statement issued Of
the 4th the clearing house banks o
New York City, for the first time sine
the panic of 1893, report deficit il
reserves, the cash on hand falling be
low the required limit by 1896, $50. Tn
deficit is due to the heavy Withdraw
ais in cash.