Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-11-27
Official Paper of County.
oJR CANDIDATE IN 1900

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yR CANDIDATE IN 1900
! THANKSGIVING CRUMBS.
;fasons for Thankfulness(D for Few
: Who Voted for the Advance
il Agent Of Prosperity.
ia soup house will be opened in Des
Dimes and charity ball will be
tYen during the holidays to raise
hds to buy the bovine bones to fla
or the liquid; tickets one dollar.
tJohnson, ohrundro s. Co., the
Agect dry goods and notion house
Baltimore failed the 10th with Ii
eilities OF $1s9,0oO.
1.-THE Probst Construction Company
ailed the 10. 1t was the largest con-
acting concern in the country with
sladquarters in New York. No state
hent of liabilities but understood
ii be heavy.
nsThe Sullivan comfy Savings bank
New Hampshire is called upon to
ace a loss of 81, 100000 The banker
fphn Z. Farwell has gone to Europe
tnd left only worthless or deprecated
aper to the confiding depositers.
uAnother wave of prosperity struck
Eoux City Thursday last when the
ufrst National bank closed it's doors
pon it's creditors. It's statement of
ctober'6 showed capital $14O,O 900, de-
sosits 1857, 998.57. The crash was
tsused by depositors asking for cash
elEtead Of confidence.
~. K. Prugh large crockery dealer
ealer OF Sioux City failed on Thurs
~ last. No statement of liabilities,
Osets in the First National bank.
ILerge cloak house in New York
t,S ade assignment Thursday with $780,
~ liabilities and meagre assets.
CHILLIcoTHE, ILL.,, Nov. 16.-The
dacon Wooden Mills of John Grieves
Son Of Lacon, ILL.,, gave notice last
ight that the night force would be
alu off for an indefinite period on
c,count of lack of orders. They have
TIN night and day for several years
nd few days before election they
sacticed the same game that many
1thers did.
d They showed their men orders for
oolens which would have required
iqli force to make by April /. They
aid that In case Bryan was elected
ne orders would be countermanded.
Q Now that election is over it is ap'
parent that these pretended orders
sere fraud.
1.-The Tribune at Des Moines says:
dmong the reports of many factories
tSarting their wheels is one to the eff
pact that Des Moines factory, EN-.
Toying 200 men, has started up since
Ahe election. Nobody in Des Moines
gppears to know anything about it
Nnd it can't be located. Wonder il
alost of the other reports are moi
ased upon the same kind of ''confi
s9ence" foundation? The opening fac
hories seem to be just over in the
pthcr state.
8 The B. B. Richards Lumber com
pany at Duluth has failed with 1895,
400 liabilities. B. B. Richards il
sfresident of a National bank at Du
hIuqne. thinks there is money enough
N the country, is a protested demo
Israt, who went into the republican
damp and voted for Mckinley the ad
vance agent of prosperity.
g PosTvILLE, Ia. Nov. 2O.-The higt
iuvave of prosperity has swept over
CHE lowe and Dakota division of the
NJ. M. & st. P. railroad, which run!
rom North McGregor to Mitchell
South Dakota and left in its wake
Che mangled remains of 12train crews
sand numerous assistants at the depoti
aTho were laid off on account of "nt
business" AS train crew consists
sof two brakemen, conductor, fireman
and engineer, twill be seen that 81
3cmen who looked forward to steady
;fevork at good wages, when it was an
8o1ounced on Nov. 4th that the ad
eSance agent of prosperity had beer
yslected are now standing around
Awith their hands in their pockets
fasking themselves the quest ion
re scutsWas all this game of bluff or viii
the prosperity came later on?"
3al Under the title, Prosperity i
,essays, 'seven freight crews on tn
IOdu WclO 1CLl0 O1 UAO oeN
Batter election. and five more are t.
tioperators will also have to look else
for for positions This tbs is mp GGI
chat Closed aes yf the day before e Election
Nor the purpose of forcing their EN-
tfployes to vote the gold standard
srhave started up again. The dailiel
/. fare talking about this. have nothin,
Ito say about those who have los
retheir positions since the defeat o
ilnBryan,"
III CHICAGO, Nov. 21.-The South Chi
3tcago Calumet announces that the II
illinois Steel company has posted
swhotice Of reduction in wages paid it
blast furnace men, ranging from 1
Ito 25 per cent, to take effect Decem
Nber 1. The new scale ranges froI
O$2.4O per day for keepers down t
.v81. So for common labor and IS cent
for sample boys. The men affecte
Pwork IL hours per day and numbe
pseveral hundred. Only two out {
Ireight blast furnace at the Sout
Chicago works are now running.
9 SAGINAW, Mich, Nov. 9th
shFirst national bank OF East Sagina,
lis in the hsnds of National Bank E1
faminer Caldwell, who took charge G
its affairs Saturday morning.
a YoNKERs, N. Y, Nov. 2O.-Owin
Ito large surplus of carpets on ham
,rthe big tapestry mill OF the Alexande
!, Smith s. Sons carpet company close
4 down Friday. 1t is rumored that tn
lishutting down of other mills opera
q ted by The company will shortly fol