The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-02-06

timore Evening News, ard Associated Press Dis
patches
The -four mills of the G. A. Cambria Man
ufacturing Company, at Orange Grove, How
ard county, will dispense with half its work
ing force on the first of March, These mills
give employment usually to about thirty men,
and there are as many more coopers making
-four barrels for the product of the mills.
Twenty or thirty men altogether will be thrown
out of work.
VIM. +. Cotton, timer and plumber, Balti-
more. Nd, has failed.
The Henry Sears Company, of Chicago,
wholesale dealers in cutlery and hardware
assigned Tuesday Liabilities about $50, 900
and assets $4,000.
The Moscow, Idaho, National Bank has
been closed by the bank examiner.
Z. c. Hodges & Co., bankers, Boston,
! Mass, have failed.
The Pennsylvania Lead Company, of Pitts
burg, went into the hands of receivers on
Tuesday The application was made by Geo.
S. Griscom, as trustee, and H. E. Anderson,
who set forth in the bill that the defendant
company is indebted TO Grscom in the amount
of $96S, 900. and that Anderson holds 100
shares of It's capital stock of par value OF
500.
The Chester County Guarantee, Trust and
Safe Deposit Company, of Westchester, Pa,
claiming assets aggregating $1,000,000, and
with deposits of $500, 600, suspended business
on Tuesday. The directors claim that it is
solvent and will pay all Indebtedness, if given
time. There has been run on the company
for two weeks, in which time $4,000 were
paid out.
At Sterling, H., on Tuesday the extensive
works Of the Keystone Manufacturing Com
pany were closed by the sheriff.
On application made by creditors in the
Cleveland 20. Common Pleas Court, w. d.
Saye was appointed receiver for the Ajax
Manufacturing Company. The liabilities of
the company are placed at S37 500 and assets
at SS5. 900.
In Louisville, KY, S. T. Moore & Co., do
ing an extensive business as manufacturers
agents and housefurnishers, have assigned.
In Chicago the Lonis K Comstock Com
pany, contractors for electrical works, have
assigned.
Two judgments, aggregating s., 925, have
been entered against Max Oppenheimer d
Co, furniture dealers, New York, and execu
lions against their property were issued TO the
sheriff
A Butte, Montana, despatch, says that a
strike, inaugurated on the Butte, Anaconda
and Pacific Road by thirty members of the
freight crews, on Tuesday night, because one
of their number was discharged, threatens TO
result in a closing down OF all the Anaconda
Mining properties, which are dependent ON
the road for supplies, and the enforced idle
ness of over 5000 men,. The labor unions are
opposed to the strike.
The entire force in the Chicago and South
eastern Railway shops at Lebanon, Indiana.
struck on Tuesday for seven months back pay.
As result the entire road is tied up.
The employees IN the tin manufacturing
plant of Norton Bros, haywood, Illinois,
struck ON Tuesday against a ten per cent. re-
duction in wages. A compromise was subse
quently reached, the men accepting a ent of
FIVE per cent.
The works of the Case Threshing Machine
Company at Racine, Wisconsin, are to re-
sumo operations next week, after six months
shut down.
The United States Rubber CompanyS
factory at Millvile Massachusetts,, will close
on Saturday night for an indefinite period,
owing, ii is stated, to over production of
rubber boots Eight hundred people have
been employed there on short time for the
past few months, following almost years
idleness.