The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-06-05

Ledger Baltimore SUM- Baltimore American, Bal
timore Evening News, and Associated Press Dis
patches
The Raleigh, N. c., Tribune, Republican
daily paper that started Just after Mckinley s
election, was seized by the sheriff for debt on
Monday, and the publication will be sus-
pended
Coates college for women, Terre Haute,
Ind, Presbyterian institution, assigned on
Monday for the benefit Of creditors. Liabil-
tiles $4,000.
The Georgia Mutual Insurance Company,
a cooperative concern with headquarters at
Atlanta, has been placed in the hands of a
receiver.
President Frank Thompson, of the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company, who has just re-
turned from an inspection tour OF the lines in
the West, said he believed ''the country will
in short while begin to feel the effects of a
general trade revival Philadelphia Ledger.
[When? In the "Sweet By and By?"]
About two hundred electricians are on q
strike in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, because con-
tractors refuse to grant their demand OF 3li
cents as the minimum wage scale per hour,
eight hours to constitute days work for
ieurneymen.
Twenty two Fall River, Mass, corporations
during the first quarter of 1897 distributed in
dividends only 87-l00 of per cent, the low
est in years On total capital of SD, 1873,
600 they paid to their stockholders Sl92, $50.
Fifteen companies have passed without declar-
ing, against II last quarter.
The Beaver Creek Lumber Company, Of
Philadelphia, Pa, on Wednesday attached
the Potomac Pulp Company for SIS, 033.53.
The sheriff laid the attachment ON the pulp
company's property, near Powell's Bend.
along the Potomac river, in Washington coun-
ty, Nd.
John H. Wilkens, druggist. Baltimore,
Nd, has failed.
The Boonsboro, Md, Fruit Packing, Mill
and Saving Co., have asked for receiver.
The Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner
has instituted proceedings to put the Franklin
Mutual Fire Insurance Company into the
hands of a receiver. 1t has 81, 35l, 1854 OF in
surance in force. The company was organ
lied in 1929.
Jacob Sternheimer, live stock dealer, Bal
timore, Nd, has filed papers as an insolvent.
The Vale Mills of Nashua, New Hampshire,
has failed
The Hubbard Milling Company and R. d.
Hubbard, of Mankato, Minnesota, have failed.
Mr. Hubbard estimates his liabilities at $500,
600. and assets not over S350,000
The stockholders of the Lambeth Rope
Company, of New Bedford, Massachusetts,
decided on Saturday to wind up its affairs,
there being deficit of over S88, 900. The
company was involved with the Columbia and
Bennett corporations which recently failed
1t is probable that by the middle of June
the knee pants makers, pantaloon makers and
vest makers, separate organizations, will
strike for higher pay in Philadelphia, Pa.
About 5000 men and women will be affected.
The Baltimore, Nd, Ecening World of
Saturday last says:-The strike of 80, 600 New
York tailors, brought about by the payment
of starvation wages, is still on, and 80, 900 coal
miners in the Pittsburg regions will be order
ed out Monday on account of proposed re-
duction of wages. Ifprosperity is on the way
to enliven American industries 1t begins to
look as If the advance agent is a long way
ahead of his circus,
PITTsBURG, Pa, June IA 10 per cent.
cut in wages, affecting all men not under the
Amalgamated scale, was ordered at Jones u
Laughlin's American Iron Works today. As
a result the open-hearth workers and some
other employees, in all about 200, refused to
60 to work last night. The firm employs
nearly 5000 men.
READING, Pa, June Over 500 men in
different departments of the Reading Iron
Works stopped work today because of reduc
ton in wages-puddlers from 81 to 81
per ton, and others in proportion, about 10
per cent. A previous reduction took effect
March l.
The Great Falls Manufacturing Company
Somersworth, n. H.. on June l started their
cotton mills, which have been running on full
time for many months on a 40-hour-a-week
schedule 1t is announced that the mills will
be run on reduced time until the surplus of
goods on hand is disposed of, or until there is
some marked improvement in the cotton
goods market.
The Merchants Bank, of Lincoln, Neb.,
closed its doors at noon on Tuesday. The
bank had capital of $4,000
Griswold & Gillett, bankers and brokers,
New York, have made an assignment.
Application was made at Pittsburg, Pa, on
Wednesday IN the county court for a receiver
in the Westmoreland Fire Brick Company on
account of its inability to pay $97, 900 now due.