The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-06-12
More Mckinley Prosperity(q.

Compiled from the New York SUM-: Philadelphia
Ledger Baltimore Sun, Baltimore American, Bal
timore Evening News, and Associated Press DIS
patches
The entire plant of Jones Laughlin, Pitts
burg, Pa, was closed down last week on ac-
count of the strike. and :, 500 men are idle.
There has been no disorder, but Friday of
last week was pay day and as each man was
paid he was told the mill would start on
Monday, and was asked if he intended to re-
port for work then. Every man said mo.
unless their demands we're granted, and all
were discharged. There are now 8 ZOO men
on strike, ard trouble is feared when an at
tempt is made to start with non-union hands
on Monday.
NJ. V. Monarch Company, distlery cor
poration at Owensboro, Ky, assigned last
week to J. A. Lyddane. Liabilities 100000;
assets, $50, 600
The New York Silicate Slate Company,
dealers in silicate states and blackboards, as
signed to William W. Brawley. Liabilities
| So, 000 nominal assets, $4,000; actual as
| sets, $1,000. The company was organized III
1867, with "a capital stock of $4,000.
The Otto Sutro Company, of Baltimore,
| Nd, one of the most extensive dealers in mu-
/ steal goods in the South, has assigned.
| The stone firm of Dolese & Shepard went
into the hands of a receiver i'll Chicago on
| Friday of last week. The assets 81 ,250, 600;
liabilities 100000.
The creditors of Samuel F. Gosnell, Balti-
more. Nd. want him to be declared insolvent
by the court
A receiver was appointed at Saratoga, New
| York, on Saturday last, for the Horizon I'M
I which q LARGE
amount of Lake George property and the
! Prospect Mountain Railway.
M. Hoyt & Co. S shoe factory at Man
chester. New Hampshire, was shut down on
Saturday last as result of strike OF the
| lasters.
The Wilcox & White Organ Company o.
Meriden, Conn, one Of the largest manutac
tuners of organs in the United States, have
made an assignment.
Sixty pieces of real estate were sold al
Annapolis, Nd, for county taxes on Saturday.
! The highest price, $500, was brought by 8
300-acre farm near Bay Ridge.
The rubber goods factory of Ex-Congress
man l.. D. Apsly, Hudson, Mass, where q
sweeping reduction in wages was announced
last week. did not open Monday. A notice
was posted on the door announcing that the
factory would be closed this week for the pur
pose of taking stock and adjusting prices.
The entire plant of the Standard Oil Com
pany in Cleveland, Ohio, was shut down in
definitely on Monday, throwing nearly 1000
men ont of work.
Danger & Co., millinery goods, New 1orl
city, have been placed in the hands OF the
sheriff.
Coal Oil Johnny Soap Company of New
! W Nj
Waterbury, Cordage Broker, same city.
Frank R. Riley & Co., wholesale paper
Washington, D. c., assigned on Monday
The Hanover, Pa, Shoe Company has
made an assignment.
Hoyt II. Freeman, salt manufacturer, o
Syracuse, New York, has made a general as
signment.
The American is giving under the head o
Industrial Notes all the manufactures tina
are starting or that are liable to start on full
or partial time. The failures that appear II
this department of The ADVOCATE ARR
FACTS, not suppositions.- Eds. Advocate.
The print paper mills of the Fox Rive
Valley, Wisconsin, will shut down two day
each week in order to curtail the output.
Baltimore World Republican speaker
all over the country declare that all indica
lions point to prosperity, but it is a question
whether prosperity is going or coming. Any
way, pointing at it doesn't seem to get it an!
nearer.
The strike at Jones & Laughlin's American
Works. Pittsburg, Pa, was declared off b,
the strikers committee Thursday, and all thu
old men who can get work will go back at thu
reduction. About 500 new men have beer
taken on and probably that many of the ole
employees will be compelled to seek worl
elsewhere.