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

From the Baltimore NOrld.
The sugar refinery at Curtis Bay has been
completed again, but it is nnonnced that it
will not be put in operation until one OF the
other refneries of the trust breaks down. 1t
is to be Il sort of a reserve concern, to stand
as monument of how Baltimore capitalists
were hoodwinked by the octopus.
'Workmen of the American sheet iron
company, Phillipsburg, n. j., are On II strike
because of reduction of wages, and 5000
cotton mill operatives At Fall River, Mass,
are idle on account of II shutdown. 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 up and down the country. 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 tie
..Ginerai's" field glasses. they are the only
pair around here through which the country
can be seen humping itself.
CmCAGo. Aug -Four hundred employees
Of the Western Stone Company walked out of
the quarrieS at Lemont today because the
management refused 10 grant an increase of
- cents day in wages. Seventy-hve men
working for the Illinois Stone Company laid
down their tools for the same reason, AM
operations in the extensive quarrieS around
I.emont were at standStill. Later both com
panies acceded to the demands of the men.
The coakmakers employed by +. Siege Il
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 80
per cent. advance.
The street railway company of Hagerstown
reduced the wages of the motormen from 10
cents to Is cents per hour, and the wages OF
conductors from y! cents to IL cent! per
hour The reduction went into effect August
l, 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 a 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 were 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,
panv and the Florence Educational and
DEVELOPMENT Company was sold at auction
ON Monday to n. c. Elting, agent for credi-
tors. for 500, 900.
Thomson. Snow a. Co., lumber dealers,
Philadelphia, Pa, have made an assignment.
At San Francisco, California, on Tuesday,
+. J. Baldwin, better known at Lucky
Baldwin. the millionaire hotel man and race
horse breeder, executed mortgage for 800,
600 in favor of the Hibernian Loan Savings
Society. The mortgage covers Mr.. Baldwin 5
entire estate, including his hotel, ranches and
other property of every nature and descrlp-
ton. 1t is above and exclusive OF all previous
mortgages to the society, which, in the aggre-
gate, reach 81, APO, 900, bearing 6! per cent
On Tuesday notice was posted in the wool
mill at Lisbon Falls, Maine. announcing
reduction of II to l6 per cent.
The Tiden 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, Il.
l., that the mills would be shut down for a
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 Oak ota IS overrun with tramps.
They are terrorizing towns and farmers, ana
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-
ployment of negro help by the management.
Four hundred men also struck and the mills
are closed.
Two hundred and fifty diggers in the Mis-
souri, and Kansas Coal Company 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 So, 600 against
Gen. Edward Burd Grub, of Edgewater,
New Jersey. Gen. Crubb owns property IN
Lancaster county.
At Avoca, New York, Judgment for SlO,;,
500 has been obtained against the Schad
Wheel Company.
Davis & Fish, Fall River, Mass, dealers in
groceries and provisions, have made an as
Segment.
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
$62, 600, alleged to be in his possession.
Fibel & Crabb Eminenee Ky.) distilers,
fled deed of assignment on Thursday. w.
l.. Crabb also fled an individual assignment.
The failure is caused by a number of suits.
which have been fled lately.