The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-05-08
More Prosperity(q)
Compiled from the New York SUM- Philadelphia
Ledger Baltimore Sun, Baltimore American Bal
timore Evening News and Associated Press Dis
patches

timore Evening News, and Associated Press Dis
patches.
PrrTsBURG, Pa, April 30.-The Wrestling
house Air Brake Company yesterday posted
notices in It's foundry department, announcing
ii reduction Of wages ranging from 20 10 40
per ceut. In some cases the eat equals 30
cents day. There Is considerable talk among
the 500 men affected of refusing to aeeeptthe
reduction.
WlNsrED, CoNx., April 3O.-All the con-
ductors, engineers. brakemen and switchmen
on the Philadelphia and Reading and New
England Railroad have been notified of 10
per cent reduction. Already many of the
engineers and switchmen are working on short
time.
Coal miners employed at the Anderson,
Eclipse. Hackett, Nottingham and Germaaia
mines. ON the Wheeling Division of the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad, met at Finleyvlile
on Thursday and unanimously decided to de-
maad an advance in the mining rate from "a
10 so cents per ton, TO take effect May l.
Over 900 men are employed at these mines.
Jerome A. Bacon, of the Bacon Paper Co..
Boston, has assigned.
The Chicago Superior Court was asked
April 30 to appoint receiver for the Galena
Trust and Supply Vault Company, owner OF
the GOIJ OGdGbOfH W 1@t't D'.N
of the stockholders. Mismanagement is al
legged. The company was organized in 1924
with a capital stock of 100000.
The stockholders and creditors of the John
NJ. FISHER Coal Company, of Pittsburg, Pa,
have made application for the appointment oil
receiver.
A. S. Nicholson 4 Co., confectioners and
iobbers, of Cumberland. Nd, have executed
deed of trust
Nonantum Paper mill at Newark, Della
ware closed for want of orders.
Six hundred marble workers struck in New
York on Saturday for an increase OF 70 pei
cent. in the daily wage scale. The employ
ers offered an increase of Is per cent, but
this the employees refused to accept.
About 400 mascns, hod carriers and laborerS
struck for higher wages in Milwaukee on Sat
nrdav. Bv afternoon the strike had been
adjusted in Il number of cases, and 1t IS be-
lieved work will be generally resumed Mon
day.
What promised few days ago to be gen
eral strike of all unions affiliated with the
Chicago Building Trades Council dwindleo
on Saturday to the walking out OF about oOU
hod carriers, bricklayers and plasterers.
A Birmingham, Alabama, despatch says
the differences between the miners in the EN-.
ploy of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad
Company reached critical stage on Satur
day and general strike is threatened. About
10000 men are affected.
Eight thousand organized carpenters ano
other wood workers in New York began wal
on Saturday on non-union trimmings anc
other material not made at New York wages
At Newark, New Jersey, on Saturday, 25C
union plumbers, steam and gas filters struck
for eight hours as a days work.
Receivers have been appointed for the At
antic Iron and Steel Company, OF New Cas-
tie, Pa. This action was caused by the fail
IRE of large creditors in Buffalo, n, \
At Rochester, n Y, on Monday, Cauff
man, Dinkelspiel & Co., wholesale clothiers
made general assignment. The failure was
/ not expected by the business community
/ Carson & Wood, furniture manufacturers
also closed.
The Joseph Calm Clothing Company o
Kansas City, Missouri, failed Monday.
The Wisconsin Beet Sugar Company, which
has Just completed plant at Menomlne'
/ Falls, Wisconsin, assigned on Monday, The
assets are estimated at $2l5, 900 and the la
/ bilities are unknown. 1t is thought probable
| the bondholders will continue the business.
f. Richter & Sons, foundrymen and ma
chinis,s. of Milwaukee. assigned Monday
/ The firm was largely interested i'll the WIS
consia Beet Sugar Company The assignee
/ bond was fixed at S150.000.
A receiver was appointed in Knoxville
| Tennessee, Monday, for the Interstate Librar,
Association, which has 100 branches in SIN
Southern States. The affairs of the Associa
ton are said to be very mucn involved.
| About 1900 plumbers went on strike il
| Chicago, Monday, OWING to a difference witt
the employers over the number of helpers tc
be employed in each shop.
Two hundred subway laborers in Boston
struck Monday on the ground that they hav'
not been paid the contract price OF 20 cent
an hour in weekly payments.
Gilbert Manufacturing Company, woolelI
and cotton goods, New York city. have closed
1t has been in operation Is years.
Vice Chancellor Reed has appointed Rod
erick Byington receiver of the Warwick Tub
Works, manufacturers of shade rollers, New
ark, n. j.
Dazlan and Burchel Bros, manufacture
Of umbrellas at 442 Broadway, New York
have assigned. Liabilities, $40, 900; assets
| S22, 900. The firm has been in business three
| years.
| CldS. NJ. NODle. cOdl anu NN"ASA -
| Norristown, Pa, has failed; liabilities abou
$75, 900.
The Engle Brewery, at Allentown. Pa, ha
a. G, Fontaine banker of Pittsburg, Pa.
has closed.
James Fl. Aldrich, of Kansas City, Mis-
souri,. is defaulter for $4,000. He wa
cashier of the paymaster of the Kansas City
Fort Scott and Memphis Railway and it
branches, appeared in the Criminal Court
plead guilty to the charge of embezzlement
and was sentenced to two years in the penn
Tertiary. He had been an employe OF tn
Memphis Road for eighteen years, and stoo'
high in business and social circles. EXtrav
agant living caused his downfall.
On Saturday last the sheriff of Adam
county, Pa, sold the Gettysburg Electric Com
pany's Plant
Advices from Upper East Tennessee an(
Southern Kentucky show that a general strik
! in all the coal mines in that section will prob
ably occur during the next few days. Al
ready the miners at Jellico, Glenmary, Rob
bins and Helenwood, numbering $500, ar
out. and the indications are that every min
| between Chattanooga and Somerset, Ken
lucky. will soon be abandoned. The caus
| of the trouble is a general reduction of Is pc
cent.
The S. H. Howe Shoe Company, Of Mari
boro, Massachusetts, employing 1900 hands
Tuesday announced reduction of 10 pc
cent. in wages, to take effect next week.
VIM. B. Meyer and Henry B. Christhilf
wholesale grocers, trading at 131 Cheapside
Baltimore, Md, as James Meyer 4 Co., made
an assignment Wednesday for the benefit o
creditors. Slow collections are said to b.
the cause of the failure.
The report of the expert accountant wit
has been examining the books of the Suret,
Building and Loan Association of Philadel
phia, Pa, shows shortage of $22, 900. Tn,
! secretary of the Association, George G
Thompson, mysteriously disappeared a feV
weeks ago upon the eve of a contemplate
investigation.
In Chicago the A. L. Lustgart Sausage AM
Packing Company have failed.
Thomas D. Neal, Jr., Richmond, Virginia
leaf tobacco dealer, &C., has assigned. Liza
bilities S198,000.
Father of 35 Children.