The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-07-05
General News Summary.
interesting Home and Foreign News
DOMESTIC.

and deportation OF the SIN Japanese
who were recently released from Gus
tody by the federal court on writ of
habeas corpus.
Mrs. Norval Douglass, of San Fran
cisco, has received letter saying her
son, Harry Douglass, with the 70
picked miners from California, who
left in June, 1898, for Siberia, have
perished from privation and cold. The
party went to Siberia under contract
to a New York company, expecting to
be gone three years.
After an unsuccessful strike of II
days duration the freight handlers at
Buffalo, n. Y, returned to work on the
2sth ult. About 2,4O0 men were involv
ed in the strike, and their loss of
wages amounts TO fully $4,000. They
return to work at the old rate of wages,
Is cents per hour, except the Erie men
who were the originators of the strike.
They get an advance of one cent an
hour.
The largest production of Mangan-
ese ore reported since 1891 occurred in
the year 1898, according to statistics
Just completed by the United States
geological survey. The home produc
tion amounted to 1887 long tons, an
increase of almost A per cent. over
1897. ...
Eight miners have just reached San
Francisco with S25O,OO0, the result of
two years digging within two miles
of Dawson.
The large sawmill of the Vinton
Lumber Co., of Vintondale, Pa, was
destroyed by fire on the 2Sth ult. The
..oss is $50, 900, with no insurance.
In room in a house in st. Louis Po-
liceman Hanrahan has found con ceal-
ed in trunk and valise a sum of
money exceeding $4,000 in govern
ment bonds, gold and bills of large de-
nominations. The police think that
this small fortune is the property of
Mrs. Walberger Wackerle, an aged
German woman who is now patient
at the city insane asylum.
An American team, made up OF the
best athletes of American universities,
is to be gathered together to contest in
the games at the Paris exposition next
summer. The team will not only con-
sist of track and field men, but row.
ing, water polo and swimming experts
will be included.
The departure of state troops and
closing of mines has resulted in the
complete restoration of peace at Pana,
Ill. The agents of mining companies
in Missouri.Kansas and Texas have eul-
ployed 30 Pana negroes Bcvier.
Mo-, and other western camps to
take the places of union miners.
terrific storm visited the vicinity
of Morgantown, w. Va, on the night
of the 2sth ult. and dozens of houses
were unroofed. The wind blew like a
hurricane. A rainfall of several inches
accompanied the storm. Bransom
Troy was struck by lightning and
killed. Tremendous damage was
done to crops.
Altman, clerk in dry goods
house at Racine, Wis, week ago re-
ceived silver dollar in payment for
goods that brought him $1,000. The
coin is dated 1904 and very valuable,
ination in existence. Altman sent the
coin TO Chicago, experts. pronounced
it genuine and it was sold for $1,000.
The announcement that portion of
the provisional army was to be raised
has caused swarm of applications to
be sent to the war department by
those who are seeking commissions in
the new regiments.
At a German wedding at Manistee,
Mich, on the night of the 2sth nit.
large crowd gathered to charivari the
newly married couple. The outfit con-
sisted of cowbells, horns and a small
cannon. The cannon was overcharged
and exploded, injuring three bystand-
ers, one probably fatally.
Five men were drowned in the Mis-
sissippi river mile below Clarksville,
NO., on the Goth ult. by the 1verturr-
ing of skiff. They were government
laborers employed in river improve
ment work.
Mayor Van Wyck, of New York City,
has vetoed a resolution of the munic-
ipal council making July 3 holiday,
on the ground that public officials had
no right to holiday not secured by
law to the general public.
Fourteen patent and enameled leath-
er firms, all but one located in New
ark, N. j., have accepted the terms of
consolidation of the industry, but the
three largest firms are out.
Among the producers of small iron
and steel articles, or, generally speak
ing, the hardware trade, old quota
fions are being swept away and their
places superseded by higher range.
The crude products of iron and steel
have been advancing steadily for the
past six months, but vast number of
manufactured articles sluggishly held
onto the quotations of 1898. This
condition of things is now changing.
At Waco, Tex, the BraLos river has
reached the highest point attained in
IA years. Crops in the Brazos bot
toms are inundated from six to fifteen
feet and in most cases are total loss.
Hundreds Of people have fled from the
valley.
The troubles Of the union coal min
ers and the friendly" operators
throughout Missouri have been settled
by the adoption of new scale, with
an agreement for an eight-hour day
and for arbitration of differences
which arise in future.
Articles of incorporation of the
American Writing Paper Co. were filed
at Trenton, n. j.. on the 30th ult. The
authorized capital is $25.00O.0OO The
company is organized to manufacture
and deal in paper. ...
There were incorporated with the
New Jersey secretary of state during
June POS companies. making total
of i,179 companies for the six mouths
of the year.
Business failures in the United
States for the week ended June 30
numbered 81, as compared with 254
for the corresponding period of 1898,
and % in Canada, as against IS for the