The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1893-08-02
OVER THE WORLD.
Items Of Interest from all
Parts of the World.

'lIc, July So.-OHOIciu uuo oio
zen out in st. Louis, Senegal. The
leatbs have reached an average
If fifty daily. A panic prevails
among the inhabitants. The dis
ease is spreading among the Euro
pean residents, three of whom have
died. The population of st. Louis
is about $4,000.
Tuesday of last week nine more
banks went to the wall and ten
other businesses either made as
or went into receivers
hands.
Biddeford, Me-The York mills
will shut down Saturday for two
weeks.
Mason & Hamlin's organ and
piano factory at Cambridge has
shut down for three weeks owing
to the dull business.
Fitchburg.-Another shut down
has come in the closing of the Put
nam Tool Company's works. The
company does not know when it
will resume work.
The Vermont Marble Company
has notified its men that wages will
be reduced 10 per cent. on August
l. The company is the largest mar
BILE concern in the world and en-
ploys about 1000 men.
Middlctown, Conn.-The Middle.
town Plate Company, which has
been shut down for two weeks, has
started up again with about ninety
hands, one-half the former number.
A cut in wages of 10 per cent. has
been made.
Lowell, Mass.-Work at Pilling's
shoe factory is being finished, pre-
paratOry to temporary shut down,
made necessary by the stringency
of the money market and the nu-
merous failures in the West, where
the greater part of Pillings custom
ers are.
Ware, Mass.-The Otis Com
pany's cotton mills will shut down
Saturday for one month. The
number of hands employed is 1850
and the pay roll is $4,000 per
month. The company's mills at
Warren, Palmer, Thorndyke, Bond
Vile and Three Rivers will also be
shut down for u month.
We noticed accounts of eleven
business failures last Thursday.
Ashland, Wis, July 26.-Saw mill
owners of Chequamegon Bay, rep
resenting all the mills of Ashland
Washburn and Bayfield, met at
Ashland this morning. They de-
Ecided to reduce the wages of their
employees 10 per cent, with the
exception of those who receive $l5(
per day or less. The reduction is
to take effect August /.
Little Rock, July 27.-The Arkan.
sas Lumber Manufacturers Asso.
citation has decided, rather than
make further concessions, to shut
wherever practicable, until the
country's finances are placed on a
sound basis.
Dunkirk N. Yin the last ten
days a number of employees of the
Brooks Locomotive Works have
been laid off because of a like OF
work. During the present week, il
is said, between thirty and forty
more will be laid off in the black
smith shops, and a proportionate
number in other departments.
Philadelphia.-The wooden inill:
of Scatchard Brothers, which have
been giving employment to abou
$50 men, have shut down indeti
nitely owing to the depression o
trade.
Montreal.-An era of retrench
ment has begun on the Canadian
Pacific Railway, the first result il
the dismissal of 800 employees.
Terra Haute, Ind.-The failure o
N. Benjamin of Milwaukee has
thrown the property of the Morton
Creek Coal and Mining Company
in Vermillion county into thu
hands of the sheriff. The shutting
down of the mines throws 600 min
ers out of work.
Rutland, Vt.-The Vermont Mar
BILE Company will reduce wages l,
per cent. On August 1. The com
pany is managed by United State
Senator Proctor, and is the larges
in the world employing nearly 200
men.
| Yonkers, N. Y, July 26.-Ther
have been rumors for some tim
| naSSed that the Smith Carna