The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-01-07

MES that his works will be shut down, and
saws no great number OF men will be dis
charged by tn trust.
Charles Banford, the pioneer in intro
ducing American hog products in Eng
land, died at Liverpool.
The miners in the Broad Top and East
Broad Top bituminous coal fields OF Penn
sylvania are on a strike.
+. +. Dubedot ofF. L. Dubedot & Son,
stock brokers of London, was officially
ad judicated a bankrupt.
S. A. Kean, the Chicago banker. offers
to pay % cents cash and ID cents secured
If legal proceedings are stopped.
Colorado people have taken steps TO
prove that the government has no right to
to refuse the free coinage of silver.
The men at the West End mines, Spring
field, ILL.,, are on a strike. and the opera
tors threaten to shut down the mines.
Thursday 800 miners in the Phillips
burg and Beach Creek districts of Pennsyl-
vania will probably strike for an increase.
The Norwegian ship Struan from Port
Discovery for Melbourne was abandoned
Dec. 10. Her crew was taken to San Fran
cisco.
The Trenton pottery manufacturers
have ordered a reduction of 333 per cent.
in wages, and a national strike may be or
dered.
The long talked of divorce has been
granted to Nine. Eyraud, wife OF Michael
Eyraud, the convicted murderer OF
Gouffe.
The government press at Ottawa urges
the settlement of the Berhing sea diff
Guilty by the purchase of Alaska by the
Dominion.
Business and labor circles in South Chi
cago are greatly alarmed at the prospect
OF a prolonged shutdown of the illinois
steel works.
Leon l.. Stevens. president of the failed
bank of WConsocket, :. d., has been ar
rested. The liabilities are 10000 and
assets mall.
Secy. Window in a Chicago case decided
that an alien could not be employed nom
inally as a sailor while performing an
officers duties.
The Northwestern travelling mems as
ISOLATION at Chicago elected George j..
Reed president and y. j. Shinn ~vice-presi-
dent for Indiana.
The receipts OF Egyptian cotton at Cairo
to date amount to 100000 c~antars,
against 2,200,0 900 cantars at the correspond
ing date last year.
Those opposed to the present anti
bucket shop policy bave put a ticket in
the field for all officers OF the board Of
trade except president.
The Illinois Steel company claims it
shut down Its works merely for repairs
and to adjust a wage scale, which will be
lower than that now paid.
The Truitt block, and stores of Frank
Powers q Co, general dealers. John
Shafer. groceries and s. L. Snow, hard
ware, at Noble, ILL.,, burned.
st. Louis butchers have fully decided to
erect a 100000 abattoir and do their own
killing, so that the Biz Four's deal for the
stock yards will not affect them.
The fight between those who favor and
those who oppose the continuance of the
war on the bucket shops is waxing very
hot on the Chicago board of trade.
NJ. w. Dubois, the cattle man of Elgin.
Ill, places his liabilities at S400, 200, and
assets at 81, 800, 600. lie Will probably
effect a settlement with his creditors.
Schedules in the assignment of the Col
brun Chauncey company, New York bro
kers, show liabilities, S200,147; nominal
assets, S7l0,223, and actual assets, $4,000.
Fire at Clarence, Ia. destroyed the
stores of Hecht * Thorn. Hanna q Co.,
j. l.. Escher * Co, and Rsichart's agricul-
tural store. Loss $4,000, insurance $4,000.
Smallpox is raging alongthe Rio Grande
in both Mexicos, aud a strict quarantine
is being maintained. The Mexican gov
eminent will use soldiers to compel vacci-
nation.
Advices from Uganda state that in a
recent conflict on the frontier the Chr =
tian forces defeated the M,slems and that
peace has been established throughout
the country.
The selling price of billets for the ensu-
ing three months was fixed at S27 per ton.
Under the sliding scale adopted two years
ago this will REFUGE the wage OF the 1000
employees of the Homestead mills over 10
per cent.
The receivers statement of the North
River bank of New York show: Assets,
nominal, s., 436, 944; liabilities, S2,255, sos /;
surplus assets, nominal, SlSl, 28l. Actual
liabilities, S2.255. 693; assets, Sl,S35, l03 ;
deficiency. S430,559. 1t appears that Page,
Cary & CO., of which ex-Congress nan d..
X. Page is the head, owes the bank half a
| million doilors