The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-06-26

Compiled from the New York sun, Philadelphia
Ledger, Baltimore sun, Baltimore American, Bal
timore Evening News, and Associated Press Dis
patches.
The Baltimore World says:-The prosperity that
is walking up and down the earth is somewhat of
a ghostly nature. 1t is only seen by a few people
now and then, and the description of it don't tally
New Haven, Connecticut, Chair and Bicycle Com
pany have failed.
James A. Bush, dealer in boots and shoes, Balti-
more, Nd, has failed.
The Leibinger and oehm Brewing Company, of
Newton, L. l., has made a general assignment.
Assets S57,267.5S; liabilities Sl249ls.2I.
Bachmann, Masard, DeLeon & Co., wholesale
liquor and wine dealers, Cincinnati, Ohio, have
failed.
The Paine shoe Company of Boston, Mass, have
assigned.
yose Edge Finishing, Co., manufacturers of shoe
machinery and wood working tools, have assigned.
Union India Rubber Company of New York, have
been in litigation for nine years, is now in the
hands of receiver
H. witte & Co., dealers in nattan, New York city,
have assigned.
The creditors of the ST. onge and o'Neil Dry
Goods Company, Providence, r. l., including sew
eral houses in New York, Boston and Providence,
have filed petition of insolvency.
In Chicago bill has been filed to foreclosea trust
deed for sl9O934 the property of the Cheltenham
Beach Company.
On the announcement June II of a 10 per cent.
general reduction of wages at the Worcester Cycle
Shopsin Middetown, Conn.,, 100 men went ON strike.
There was a reduction of wages some time ago at
the shops, which give employment now to about
100 hands, and to about 700 when running on full
time
General regret is being manifested in this coun-
try over the probability Of the closing down of the
susquehanna Water Power and Paper Company at
Conowingo, Nd, which has been operating for
some months under the guidance of d. c. Wharton
smith, as receiver. For time after receiver had
been appointed, and under his economical manage
ment the business of this concern was encouraging,
but since the first of the current year it mas been
unsatisfactory and Improbable.
The five hundred operatives at the Methuen Co S
cotton mill at the Methuen Mass, were informed
by the firm June II that they would be given the
choice ofacccpting reduction Of wages in order
that the mill may he kept running during the sum
mer months, or be discharged at once and have the
mil suspend operations Tine mill Is now closed.
N. Mills X Co, oyster ps,cAers, Baltimore, Md,
E,,vc failed.
AZ salem, Mass, the N.,uniseas steam Cotton
Mills ON Tuesday posted notire, the elect that
.pr an indefinite period The mills will be run only
four days week. Tue assigned is poor
business The mills give clnpio. nlrnt 10 large
force o employees.
4 temporary receiver was appointed in Buffalo,
y ham ri
manufacturers OF bolts and nuts with large works
at Tonawanda, in the matter OF the voluntary dis
solution of the firm The assets of the hrm are esti-
mated nominally at Sl0O,9OO
The Barlow Corn Planter Works at Quincy, nli-
nois were closed on Monday by the creditors,
whose claims aggregate $65,OOO
The Baltimore Evening World says:-"It has not
been stated whe her not the President ran against
that wave of prosperity during his little trip in the
south"
The sheriff has seized the plant of the Bethlehem
(Pa.) Chenille and Tapestry Company on an exc
cution of S., 900, issued by the Lehgh Valley Ma
tional Bank.
Nicholas Curtis, e-president of the Anderson
Harris Carriage Company, Cincinnati Ohio. has
petitioned court for receiver The capital stock
is 100000.
Samuel W. Richards, dry goods, New York, has
assigned.
The Baltimore Morning Herald, of June 49, says
Prosperity is not coming in with hop and jump,
as the calamity howlers persist in saying it was
scheduled to do, but it is coming, all the same, to
the confusion and chagrin of those who, for selfish
purposes, would gladly check its approach" [of
course it is, but when.
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Samuel A. Wood & Co., yarns, both firms of Phila-
delphia, Pa, have assigned.
The operatives from the stitching department of
the Apsey Rubber Company, in Hudson, Massa-
chusetts went on strike on Friday of last week on
account of the alleged failure of the management
to keep the agreement to submit the question of
wages to the State Board of Arbitration, under
which the help returned to work last Monday, after
having gone out in consequence of heavy reduc-
ton in wages.
EAsrOS, PA, June 19-The Northampton Hard
Vein Company and Theodore Whitesell 4 Co., slate
operators at Belfast this county, have notified their
several hundred men that the quarries will shut
down at the end of the present month for an in
definite period There is unusual dizziness in the
trade for this season of the year. and most of the
companies in the slate belt have their banks filled
with slate for which there is no demand, more
suspensions will probably follow
HARRISBURG. Pa, June 2o.-Deputy Attorney
General Elkin gave out Il statement tonight on
the condition of the state finances, in which he
shows that there is deficit of 5OO0OO in the state
treasury. Mr.. Elkin says the Legislature has fol
several years appropriated more money than the
net revenues received by the state, hence the pres
ent large deficiency.
THE above announcements are the last of ouI
Prosperity (?) column For several months passed
we searched the journals named at the head Of
this article for the great business boom that was to
prevail throughout the country after the election
OF Mckinley and we have conscientiously given
all that we could find. Here, at the close of the
eighth month, the situation is nearly as bad as al
the outset and in addition the order has been pass
ed ell along the line for the administration papers
to publish no failures if it can possibly be avoided
and to make the most of the starting of every little
mill or work shop.-EDIToRs ADVOCATED