The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-04-14
GOLDBUG GOOD TIMES.
How Restored Confidence Works In
the Business Community.

How Restored Confidence Works in
the Business Community.
The Louisville, (Ky.) Chair company
has assigned with 100000 liabilities and
assets much larger.
Houston, Texas, has made an assign
ment.
Martin, Wise & Fitzhugh, cotton buy
ers at Paris, Texas, have made an as
signment
The DeKalb County bank, Of Mays
vile, Mo-, is in the hands of the state
bank examiner.
Judgment for $4,000 has been taken
against Luke D. Ralph, dealer in cloth
ing, at Ogdensburg, N. Y. He has been
in business thirty years.
The estimated liabilities of Martin,
Wise & Fitzhugh, cotton buyers, who
failed last Monday at Paris, Tex,
is $S00,000, largely in Liverpool.
A deed Of trust covering the clothing
SlOIc VI ". ". COl1lOl, L cl 1CAuO,
amounting to s32, 100, has been filed.
f. P. Monaghan, general store at
Sunlpter, S. c., has been closed by the
sheriff on judgments %: S4,04S. He has
teen in business many years.
The Farmers and Mechanics Bank,
OF Paris, Tex, has made an assign
n.cnt.
A bill for a receiver for the Christie
pher Columbus Building and Loan AS
sociation was filed in Chicago on Mon
day, by the president of the association.
S. M. Young & Son., grocers at New
Castle, Pa, have made an assignment.
The j. r. Dayton Tablet Company,
CT Quincy, ILL.,, has asked an extension.
Breeden, Talley & Co., dealers in dry
assignment.
The property and plant O. the New
Orleans Sewerage Company has been
sold under receivership proceedings to
N w. Jordan, representing the Ameri-
can Loan and Trust Company, of Bos-
ton, Mass, for $S3 900.
A statement by the asslgnees of the
suspended Commercial Bank. at Selma,
Ala, places the liabilities at $1,000,0 900;
assets, $50 ,266; subject to q reduction of
$25, 900 deposited during the three days
prior to the closing CT the bank. The
books show deposits to be $174 900, al
most double the amount heretofore es-
timated. The depositors will not real
ize over 20 per cent.
Martin, Wise & Fitzhugh, cotton buy
ers. with Offices at New Orleans, Calves
ton, Houston, Dallas, New York, Liver
pool and Havre, made individual deeds
of trust at Paris, Tex, Monday after
noon, this being the FIRMS headquar
ters preferred creditors, $4,000; iia5:l-
tiles, $1,000, ,OOO No official statement
yet made.
The Surety Building and Loan AssO-
citation, whose stockholders are well
known residents of the northwestern
portion of Philadelphia, has made an
assignment for the benefit of creditors.
The firm of Knowles II Poole, shoe
manufacturers, of Pittsield, N. H., who
informed their employees that business
would be suspended if Bryan was elect
ed. made an assignment for the benefit
of creditors on the 10Th instant Tor $75,-
900.
Ex-Governor Tuttle, manufacturer Of
custom clothing, of Pittsfield, N. H.,
made his first reduction in wages during
a business career of thirty years by a
cut down of % per cent since election.
Anna R. Hefferman, engaged in the
millinery business at 926 Ninth street,
has made an assignment to Rosa +.
Downing, placing the liabilities at ST.
4S596 and assets at $557.33.
Adams, Jewett e Co., paper bag man
ufacturers at 20 to 33 Academy street,
Cleveland Ohio, has filed chattel and
real estate mortgages in the recorders
office for about $13O,OOO.
The doors of the American Exchange
Bank, of Buffalo, N. Y, were closed Sat-
urOay IOr the IdSI CInc "A CllCuldI was
sent to the bank depositors, in which it
was announced that the directors of the
bank had decided to liquidate it's affairs.
At a mass meeting of miners in Phil
lipsburg, Pa, Sunday, resolutions were
adopted, declaring against any accept
ance of a reduction in the mining rate,
and calling upon the men who have ac-
cepted a reduction to quit work.
Joseph H. Brooke, engaged at 937
Louisiana avenue in the paint business,
has made an assignment for the benefit
of his creditors.