The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-11-29
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Miss Eliza Works, the Oldest resi- |
dent of Monroe county, N. Y, died at
her home in Henrietta on the 21st,aged |
1O5 years, 10 months and 10 days. She
was born in Westmoreland, N. H.,
January 8, 1894.
The Warwick farm of 105 acres in
Chester county, Pa, has been sold for
$4,000. On this property the old
Warwick furnace, probably the first
to make iron in the United States,
was put into blast about the year
1880, and here many of the cannon
used by the patriot army in the revo-
luton were cast.
On the 22d the steamship Lokania
arrived at Baltimore with the crew
of the British steamship Manchester
Enterprise, which foundered on No
vember Is, 4s0 miles southeast of
Cape Race. The rescued men num-
ber SO, of whom nine are cattlemen
returning from Liverpool.
Thomas w. Bracher, the inventor of
30 different pieces of machinery and
articles connected with and used in
the hatters' trade, is dead at his home
in New York City. He was Sc years
old. One of the most important of
his inventions was machine for
stitching leather sweatbands in hats.
At Brooklyn, N. Y, on the 22d the
appellate division of the supreme
court denied the appeal of Elizabeth
Cisco, colored, from the decision re-
fusing peremptory writ of manda-
mus to compel the school board Of
Queens borough to admit her children
to the public school at Jamaica. L. L.,
and make no distinction on account of
color
Freedman Bros, one of the most i'm
portant cloak manufacturing firms in
New York City, is in financial diff
Guilty and has placed its affairs before
its creditors with view to settlement
and continuing in business. Liabili-
ties of the firm are $s49, 166. The total
assets at bottom figures are S7O3,37O.
The meeting of the executive board
of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
fireman held az Pittsburg a few days
ago developed into demand for high
er wages. A committee from the
board called on General Manager Lo-
rec, of the Pennsylvania lines west,
and proposed a higher rate of wages
for the firemen. The demand was
taken into consideration, but no
answer was given.
On the 23d the Hustled Milling and
Elevator Co.'S elevator aU Buffalo, n.
Y. was burned. The elevator had
a capacity of 100000 bushels and was
filed with wheat and corn.
William l.. Elkins, the street railway
magnate of Philadelphia, is about to
establish in that city a college for
girls that will rival Girard college in
beneficence and scope.
The steamer Turcoman arrived al
Boston on the 23d from Liverpool and
brought seven men, comprising the
shipwrecked crew OF the British brig
antine Cleduu Bello, who were rescued
from their sinking vessel on Novem
Der Is about 300 miles from the Irist
coast.
VII N7Ntl SCNOHu lIlul COdI
ing a ship at sea by the United States
steamer Massachusetts and colliel
Marcelius was. executed off SANDY
Hook, n. J. II was more of success
than the first one. A continuous tes
of Al minutes resulted in the transpor
tation of nearly Is tons from the col
lier to the battleship. Two bags o
coal, each weighing 400 pounds. wer
sent by wire, each trip across the 30
feet of space between the vessels tax
ing just one minute for the round triI
For. the week ended November 2
the business failures in the Unite
States numbered 191, as compares
with 1888 for the corresponding perio
of 1875, and 90 in Canada, as agains
21 for. the same time last year.
The firm of Stahl & Straub, banker
and brokers. Philadelphia, was force
to suspend business on the oath as
result, it is said, Of demand for
large call loan.
1t is stated that n large number q
forged Virginia state per cent. bond
are afoat and comparatively larg
number have found purchasers i
New York City.