The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-08-07


Union, branch of the Socialist Trade ALI
ance, went into effect Sunday in the $50 shops
in the Greater New York district. There are
nearly 5000 operators out, and IN consequence
of the strike 5000 fnishers are idle.
Thirty-two employees of the San Francisco
Mint have been laid off on account OF the
stoppage of the coinage of silver.
From the Baltimore World.
1.-The sugar refinery at Curtis Bay has been
completed again, but it is nnonnced that 1t
will not be put in operation until one OF the
other refneries of the trust breaks down. 1t
is to be a sort of reserve concern, to stand
as a monument of how Baltimore capitalists
we're hoodwinked by the octopus.
"Workmen of the American sheet iron
company, Philipsburg, N. j., are en- strike
because of a reduction of wages, and 5000
cotton mill operatives at Fall River, Mass Mass
are idle on account of shut down. These
are more evidences of the prosperity which
Republican papers claim that indications have
been pointing to for months past.
Strikes and prosperity don't usually travel
together. but the former are plentiful now,
and some people claim that the latter is walk
ing ND and down the country. A good many
persons. however, are addicted to seeing
ghosts.
REV. Sam Jones says there are few people
who 90 up and down this country more than
he does. and he hasn't seen the boom the
country was Ding to have by the election OF
Mckinley. Rev. Sam ought to borrow the
Generals; field glasses, they are the only
pair around here through which the country
can be seen humping itself.
CHICAGO. Aug. -Four hundred employees
Of the Western Stone Company walked out OF
the auarries at Lemont today because the
management refused TO grant an increase OF
IS cents day in wages. Seventy-fve men
working for the Illinois Stone Company laid
down their tools for the same reason, am
operations in the extensive quarries around
Lemont were at q standstill. Later both COM
NAMES acceded to the demands of the men.
The cloakmakers employed by F. Siegel y
Bros, in Chicago, went on strike because the
firm refused to meet demand for higher
wages. The strikers number about $50. The
firm says the men are asking from 30 to gu
per cent. advance.
The street railway company of Hagerstown
reduced the wages of the motormen from 10
cents to 10 cents per hour, and the wages OF
conductors from 121 cents to IL cents per
hour. The reduction went into effect August
|, and, as the trolley line has been and is now,
apparently, making much money, the action
has been very adversely criticised, and there
is some talk of boycott until the old schedule
of wages is restored. The trolley people say
that there are 500 men in Harrisburg, Pa,
ready and anxious to take the places at the
reduced wages.
All departments of the Cleveland CO.,
Rolling Mills opened Monday. About 1000
men we're given work. Several departments
which had shut down at the time of the coal
strike resumed operations. General Manager
Chisholm said he did not know how long the
works would continue in full operation.
All of the property of the Florence, Ala
bama, Land, Mining and Manufacturing Com.
pany and the Florence Educational and
Development Company was sold at auction
on Monday to n. c. Elting, agent for credl-
tors, for $4,000.
Thompson, Snow & Co., lumber dealers,
Philadelphia, Pa, have made an assignment.
At San Francisco, California, on Tuesday,
E. J. Baldwin, better known at Lucky
Baldwin, the millionaire hotel man and race
horse breeder, executed a mortgage tor $780,
600 in favor of the Hibernian Loan Savings
Society. The mortgage covers MIR. Baldwin
entire estate, including his hotel, ranches and
other property of every nature and descrp-
ton. 1t is above and exclusive of all previous
mortgages to the society, which, in the aggre-
gate, reach 81, 42O, 900, bearing 81 per cent.
On Tuesday notice was posted in the wool
mill at Lisbon Falls, Maine, announcing
reduction of II to is per cent.
The Tilden mine, at Bessemer, Michigan,
has closed down completely, throwing out $50
men indefinitely. The officials say there is no
sale for ore. The mine is a Rockefeller prop
erty.
Cornelius Geesey and wife, of Dallastown,
Pa, have made an assignment.
Notice has been posted in the Hope and
Phoenix Mills, in the Pawtucket Valley, X.
l., that the mills would be shut down for
time.
The directors of the Peabody Cotton Mills,
Newburyport, Massachusetts, have decided to
close the mills indefinitely after using the
stock now on hand, which will take about four
weeks.
South Dakota is overrun with tramps.
They are terrorizing towns and farmers, and
holding up freight and passenger trains.
At Atlanta, Georgia, on Wednesday, 200
women and girls employed at the Fulton Bag
and Cotton Mills struck because OF the en-
plovment of negro help by the management.
Four hundred men also struck and the mills
Two hundred and fifty diggers in the Mis-
souri, and Kansas Coal Companys mines, at
Ardmore, Mo-, have gone on strike for an ad-
vance from 40 to so cents for mining The
company discharged all other employees and
closed the mines.
At Lancaster, Pa, on Saturday, Hugh NJ.
North issued an execution for $50, 600 against
Gen. Edward Buri Grub, of Edgewater,
New Jersey. Gen. Crubb owns property in
Lancaster county.
At Avoca, New York, judgment for $lO,
500 has been obtained against the Schad
Wheel Company.
Davis & Fish, Fall River, Mass, dealers in
groceries and provisions. have made an as
signment
James NJ. Smith, Houston, Texas, has
made an assignment
Homestead Building Association No: 4, of
Reading, Pa, has brought suit against Joseph
P. Kremp, the former treasurer, to recover
S62, 600, alleged to be in his possession.
Fibel & Crabb, Eminence (Ky.) distillerss,
fled deed of assignment on Thursday. w.
l.. Crabb also filed an individual assignment.
The failure is caused by number of suits,
| which have been filed lately.