The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-04-12
General News Summary,
Interesting Home and Foreign News,
DOMESTIC.


of an advance of rs cents ton for
pudding and corresponding increase
for all skilled laborers.
The trustees of Norwich university
at Mortified, W., have decided TO be-
gin the foundations for Dewey hall on
May 1.-the anniversary of the battle OF
Manila bay. This testimonial to the
admiral has received his approval.
The Keystone Slate Co., of Bethle-
hem, Pa, has increased the wages OF
its employees Is per cent.
At Coffeyville, Kan, daughter OF
Capt. D. S. Elliott, OF the Twentieth
Kansas regiment, who was killed at
Manila recently, has been elected city
clerk without opposition, her name be-
ing on both tickets.
All the troops which are to return to
the United States from Cuba for mus
ter out are expected to return before
May /. About $4,000 returned in
March and it is expected that $4,000
more will arrive during April. Every
precaution is being taken to prevent
the introduction OF infection from
these troops.
The Dunkards Of Indiana, Michigan,
Illinois and Ohio are preparing for an
exodus to Limestone county, Georgia,
where tract of 10000 acres has been
bought for the establishing of a
Dunkard colony. If the colony is sue
cessful It is stated that there will be a
general exodus of Dunkards to Georgia
and other southern states.
IA syndicate with S200,OO0,00O back
ing, composed of New York, Philadel-
Fhia and Chicago men, has been formed
ehd is now negotiating for the pur-
chase and consolidation of all the Chi
cago traction companies, surface and
elevated, with good prospects or a
successful conclusion.
Rapid progress has been made in the
details of the combine of writing paper
mills of the country and it is now as
Eured that the new corporation will be
in operation about June /. The capi-
talization of the combine will he S42,-
100000, and it will include Al mills.
A comprehensive scheme has been
adopted by the navy department under
which coaling stations will be placed
at strategic points in the West Indies,
so as to give the United States control
of the Virgin, Mona and Windward
passages and the approaches to the
Gulf OF Mexico. l'H
About $500 cotton mill operatives
are out in Rhode Island and there is
some, danger of the strike spreading
in the Pawtuciet valley. The entire
force of weavers in the two mills of the
Quidsick- Co. are out, as well as the
frame spindlers and back boys.
Nearly all the wheat through cen
tral Illinois from Danville to Havana;
considered the best portion of the state,
is dead. idc. zen
I. Another heavy snow fell over north
western Missouri on the 9th. The
continued bad weather is preventing
farm work and farmers are discour-
aged. T..
The three largest OF 20 pearl button
factories operating at Muscatine, Ia,
have announced advances of Is and 10
per cent in wages,
Fire at Lead, s. D., on the 4th de
stroyed property worth 100000. The
FIRE department was helpless, owing to
low water pressure.
A fire which originated in the build-
ing at Reading, Pa, occupied by the
Lancaster caramel factory did over
100000 worth of damage on the 9th.
The Z. g. G. Brooke Iron Co., of
Birdsboro, Pa will increase the wages
Of its puddlers 10 per cent, commence
ing April Is.
The failure of the firm Of Dimock &,
Co., stock brokers, was announced on
the New York stock exchange on the
9TH.
On the 25th of May the American
Sunday school union, whose headquar-
ters are in Philadelphia, will cele brate
its 18th anniversary. The Academy Of
Music, one of the. largest assembly
rooms in Philadelphia, has been Sc
cured for the meetings Many prom
, inent speakers will attend This is
Oldest and largest Sunday school mis-
sionary society in America. 1t has or
ganized more than 100000 Sunday
schools, during the 70 years of its ex-
istence, and its field extends all over
the United States.
Admiral Dewey has cabled the navy
department asking that six months en-
gineering supplies be sent to him at
Manila. The admiral's request is an
indication Of his belief that it will not
be possible to materially diminish the
American fleet in the Philippines in the
near future. tT, t" fa
Less than 1000 volunteer troops re-
main in Cuba. The war department is
awaiting itself of every resource to get
these men out before the rainy season
and this can be completely accom-
plished by the 25th of April. '
AT Atlanta, Ga, on the 18th a receiver
was appointed for o. A. Smith & Co.,
extensive manufacturers of acid fer
tilizers and roofing. The liabilities Of
the firm are approximately 100000 and
IL is expected that the assets will be
very near the same amount.
AT meeting in Omaha, Neb., on the
9TH of the board OF directors of the
trans-Mississippi exposition the pay
g9ent of 121a per cent. dividend on
paid-up stock of the association was
ordered. When paid this will make a
total of s7la per cent. that the expose
tion has disbursed to the stockholders.
At 0elwein, Ia, on the 9TH, Judge
Hobson, of the district court, sentenced
J. H. Easton, ex-president of the First
national bank of Decorah, to five years
In the penitentiary, he having been con-
victed of fraudulent banking.
Business failures in the United States
for the week ended April numbered
141, as compared with 232 for the same
time llast year, and II in Canada, as
against is2 for the corresponding period
of 1898. aY.,, uH
The California state fish commission
is about to undertake the task of ex-
terminating the sea lions that infest
the California coasts, which destroy
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