The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-06-07
General News Summary,
Interesting Home and roregn News
DOMESTIC.


old landmarks in Wall street will have
been removed. Negotiations a:e pend
ing by which the firm will cease to
exist and it's business be taken over
: by a trust company which is to he or
ganized. The new trust company
will bear the name of the Morton Trust
Co, of which Levi p, Morton, now the
head of the firm, will become the
president.
The cruiser Brooklyn recently struck.
n hidden obstruction in New York har-
NOR. 1t is thought the cruiser hit
sunken wreck She will go into dry
dock, when the extent of her injury
will be ascertained.
Ernest Devree, of Grand Rapids,
Mich, who claimed to be the cham
pion tattoo artist of the world, was
killed at Blue Island. ILL.,, on the 3lst
nit. by Chicago & Grand Trunk
train. He fell between the cars and
was crushed under the wheels.
Advices from Dawson City state that
there are evidences of the most Won
herful gold output yet recorded. Five
thousand men are waiting at Daw-
son to take the first boats up the river.
Half of them are miners who have
from 81 900 to $4,000 each in dust.
At Chicago the Lincoln park board
has decided to erect a 100000 monu-
ment to Admiral Dewey, the amount
to be raised by subs ription.
New York City's board of aldermen
has adopted the report of the commit
tee on finance recommending an ap-
preparation of $150,O00 for the expense
of welcoming Dewey home in October.
George w, Howard, notorious pen
sion swindler has been captured at
Arkansas City, Kan, where he was
practicing dentistry under an assumed
name.
The Milwaukee Brewers association
has announced that its 1000 employees
will hereafter be paid at the rate of
ten hours for nine hours work, an in
crease of 1G per cent.
The excitement in Henderson
county, Texas, because of the lynch
ing of the three Humphreys on May
% is still intense. Eight prominent
farmers in the vicinity of Alley, where
the lynching took place, have been
placed in Jail at Athens, charged with
participating in the crime. The state
and Henderson county have offered re-
wards approXimating $4,000.
The governments receipts from GUS
toms last month amounted to $685.
DOG, a gain as compared with May,
1898, of nearly $5,000,000. For the
eleven months of the present fiscal
year the receipts were S469,0S9,S29 a
gain as compared with the correspond
ing period last year Of over sos, 100000.
A 25 per cent. advance in rates on all
freight from the Atlantic seaboard to
points in the northwest is to go into
effect on June 20.
During the burning of the general
store of Edward Townsend at Macks-
burg, Ia, on the 1st, an explosion of
gunpowder wrecked the building,
buTying a number Of people. Thomas
Wheeler was killed and several others
injured.
The total coinage at the United
States mints during May, 1899, was
$7SO4 ,566.
Word comes from Nebraska. Iowa,
northwestern Kansas, northwestern
Missouri and northwestern 1rado
that winter wheat has suiic from
winter-kill enough to affect tnc yield
at least one-half.
John Lind, Chicago coal dealer, and
his 4-months-old son Raymond were at
tackled by vicious horse in barn in
that city on the 1st. The child was
trampled to death and Lind received
fatal injuries.
The supreme court of Idaho has de-
MED the petition for a writ of habeas
corpus brought by the imprisoned
Couer d'Alene miners.
The navy department has ordered a
court of inquiry on the recent ground
ing of the cruiser Brooklyn in New
York harbor.
f. Loeb, OF San Francisco, president
of the Stanford University trustees, is
quoted as saying the property decided
to that insinuation by Mrs. Stanford is
worth $3s,000,000 and could be convert
cd into $15,000,000 cash.
The S5,OOO,0O0 combine of Pacific
coast cracker factories has fallen
through, owing to the failure of its
eastern promoters to make the final
payments. Options We're secured on
all the large bakeries on the coast but
one. Some of the bonds of the COM
bination were foated in the east, but
the western agents met with little sue
cess in disposing of the portion allot-
ted to the coast.
Secretary Alger has directed the
commanding general of the Depart
ment of Dakota, TO order a
troop of the First cavalry to
proceed TO the Tongue river
agency and prevent conflict between
the northern Cheyenne Indians and the
white settlers residing in the yicin-
i:y.
The monthly statement of the comp
troller Of the currency shows the total
circulation of national bank notes on
May 81, 1899, to have been $242 064,
554, decrease for the month of $685.
779 and an increase for the year of
S14,451 700.
A sharp earthquake shock was felt
throughout northern and central Cali
fornia on the night of the 1st. The
vibrations in San Francisco continued
for four seconds. No serious damage
is reported, but glassware and win
dows were broken and plastering
cracked in various parts of the city.
About one-tenth of the wheat crop
in the neighborhood of Geneva, n. Y,
has been destroyed by the Hessan
fly. 1t is thought that within a weeks
time much larger part of the wheat
in that section will be entirely laid to
waste.
Business failures in the United
States for the week ended June mum
bered 14j, as compared with 222 fol
the corresponding period last year,and
IA in Canada, as against is for the
emma xvaaG In 1909