New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-08-28
BUSINESS NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

The straw goods and millinery trades have
suffered severely by depreciation IN values, and several
failures are reported The large firm Of S A. Beekman
& Co. manufacturers and wholesale dealers in straw
goods at Nos. 537 and $50 Broadway. and at Franklin
Mass has failed, with heavy liabilities, ysriously esti
,n,+ee M from 100000 10 100000. The hrnihas not
made statement but il is believed that 100000 Is
near the true amount Of indebtedness one-half being
owed i'm this city and the balance at Franklin, where
Beekmau Co. have large factory. Their failure has
caused much surprise and the creditors express much
svmpathv for them statement is being prenared and
Will be- submitted 10 the creditors in few days
The firm was reputed TO be very wealthy, and was
The successor of BENZ f. Beekman aOout six years ago
Harding q Bassett, straw goods iobbers at No. 55i
Broadway are negotiating for compromise with their
creditors at twenty to twntyhye cents on the dol
lar Their liabilities arc about SoSVOO ana theH assels
me failure OF Ira Beard, dealer in millinery goods at
vears ago aud settled with ms creditors. He sos
OOO % which $4,000 due 70 relatives His assets are
valued about $4,000 and lie is seeking settlement
nj thirty cents on the dollar.
meeting % The creditors OF NJ j. steinbegers Sons.
wholesale dealers M millinery goods AT No 800 Broad
Syav was he!d Yesterday az Register Lites Office and
proposition foI compr0m.sa az b cents on the dol
lar was submitted. Liabilities, Sl44,OOO.
TIC schedules of Frederick W Coffin and William Ros-
eoe Lyon, paper manniaciu,crs m Bt.ees9ansi who
itors show that tcir liabilities S1O25f3 GO Their
tsev Ultimate AZ s7si9 o. Their chief creditors are Inc
estate Of Ayth CrooLer $40 900 the Smith Paper Com
L. 81 9
SlO99O 56 William & K. Tddy Go S5,3ij -, ana
The Weymouth Paper Mills CDmnauy $1,000.
Asslumcnt for the benefit OF creditors filed yes
fcr9ay with the County Clerk by Experience ". Free
man and Charles h Woodruff FREEMAN Woodruff,
cOtniera Of No. POI Broadway, To- William H. Cromwell,
and by George j. Harlow TO Jacob Iosenheld,
DEADLY QUARREL BETWEEN TWO BROTHERS.
jacob Blauth, who was so seriously beaten
by his brother Jonn as the Hallway House between
Yok.rs and West Nj Vernon. August 81 fingered in
unconscious slate az St. johns Hospital, Yonkers. until
en- m. on Sunday last when he died. When the news
Jacobs death conveyed TO mis- brother he cried,
{" Meir Colt mem Got :" and rolling himself up IN "a
blanket. lay down the floor Of his cell
and moaned piieously. The post-mortem exam
iuation showed that Blauth came to ms death
from acute Inflammation Of the brain, caused By
a heavy blow Just back Of the RICH; ear.
From arrival at the hospital until his death the
man was unable 20 any questions ntelligbly
number OF examined aud neir story was
that the quarrel about money lent by Jacob to
John Prom words they came 10 blows aud JOhn struck
MS brother several times with base ball bat The jury
exoneraed John, declaring that the killing was not in
feutinnal OF pfemedatcd The Coroner then committed
Bauth the County jail 70 await the action or the
Grand jury.