Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-10-07
SOME RESULTS OF PROTECTION.
Dental administration and also prox-
unity to tariff legislation.

unity to tariff legislation.
Week ending July "a, 1S93.-Failure Of
Bozeman, Mont, National Bank. Four
Denver banks closed their doors. Bank
suspensions in other Western cities. Two
bank failures in Milwaukee and runs on
numerous other banks. Commercial
Bank of Denver fails, capital $250,OOO.
Bank failures at Vernon, Tex, and Knox
vile, Tenn, capital 100000. Failure Of
Tacoma, Wash, National Bank, capital
100000; also failures of banks at Great
Falls, Mont, and Orlando, Fla, capital
100000. Suspension of work in manu-
factories reported from all sections.
Week ending Aug. 1, 1S93.-National
banks at Manchester. N. H., and Indian
apolis, Ind, fail, capital 100000. Fail
ure of First National Bank at Spokane,
Wash, capital $25O,OOO. Ten banks sus-
pend in one day (July 20, capital 3d.
100000. Bank failures in South Dakota,
Montana, Illinois, Kansas, Texas, Wash
ington, New Hampshire, and correspond
ingly large number of business suspen-
sions.
Week ending Aug. 8, 1S03.-Collapsc of
Chicago Provision Deal and many fail
ures of commission houses. Failure of
National Bank of Ell Paso, Tex. Failure
of National Bank of San Antonio, Tex.
Failure of National Bank Of Muncie, Ind.
Fifty-third Congress meets in special ses-
sion to begin its destruction of the Nc
Kinley law
Week ending Aug. %, 1S03.-- Encounter
between the anarchists and socialists
averted by New York police. Meeting of
anarchists broken up by New York po-
lice. Failure of national bank at Hind
man, Pa. Failure of national bank at
Tacoma, Wash. Suspension of manufac-
turing establishments in numerous States.
Announcement by Comptroller of the Cur
rency that 155 national banks and $50
private banks had failed during the year
ending Aug. %. Railroad receivers APP
pointed during August for Northern Pa
cific, Philadelphia and Reading, New
England, and Pittsburg, Akron and West
ern.
eptember.-Rairoad receivers appoint
ed for Wisconsin Central, Chicago, Pc
oria and ST. Louis, Cleveland, Canton and
Southern, and Evansville and Terre
Haute railroads. The mileage of roads
placed in the hands of receivers during the
year 1893 was 25,375, nearly one-seventh
of all the lines i'm the United States, and
their Indebtedness $1,212,217, 033. Dur.
ing the year there were 1915 mercantile
suspensions, involving liabilities amount
ing to 1916, 779,SS0. During the bank
suspensions of July, loans were made on
call Mt the n. Y. Stock Exchange as high
rs ~ per cent.
Sixty Days of Observation-Disclosures
The following statements of revival of
manufacturing industries during the sixty
days following the enactment of the Ding
ley law, the period corresponding with the
similar dates in the first year of Cleve-
lands second term, show the contrast be-
tween present conditions and those of the
corresponding months Of the preceding adj
ministration. The statements which fol-
low are from Bradstreet's Financial Jour-
nal:
Week ending July "a, 1S97.-Twenty;
thousand workmen resume work in the
iron and steel Industries. Bigelow Car
pet CO., at Clinton, Mass, resume work,
900 hands. Packer Colliery at Rappahan-
mock, Pa, resumes work, 1000 hands. |
Columbus, o., Buggy Co., resumes, 400
men. c., b. & Q. Co. reports full COM
plement of hands at work in its railroad |
shops for first time in several years. Chat |
tanooga Tradesmen announces large num- |
Der of iron furnaces in South resuming |
work. McKenna Steel Works, Joliet, !
ILL.,, resume, 400 hands. Spinners at silk |
mill, Paterson, n. j., receive increase in |
wages from to 20 per cent. Pittsburg |
Plate Glass Co., Kokomo, Ind, resumes, |
800 hands. Jones & Laughlin Iron |
Works, Pittsburg, resume, $500 hands.
Maine Central Railroad increases wages
Of employees.
Week ending July 81, 1S97.-Tod fur
naces, Youngstown, o., resume work. |
Numbers of manufacturing concerns in
Connecticut and Pennsylvania resume |
work. Furnaces ut Birmingham and Bes-
semer, Ala, resume work. Algonquin
wooden mills, Passaic, n. j., increase
wages 10 to 10 per cent. Atchison Rail
way Co. announces inability to supply |
new cars to meet demands Of shippers.
Week ending Aug. Z, 1S9T.-Ensign Car
Co., Huntington, w. Va,
resumes work. Cleveland, o.. rolling
mills resume, 1900 hands Sugar pro-
ducers of Louisiana advance wages 16 per
rent. Cotton mills at Lancaster, Pa, re-
sumo, 1000 hands. American Watch Co.,
Mass, resumes In oil depart
ments. Iron works at Mahoning and Leb-
anon, Ohio, and Birmingham, Ala. re-
sumo.
Week ending Aug. %, 1S97.--Fall Riv-
err Iron Works resume on full time, 100
hands. Fab River Printing Co. resumes
ON full time. Columbus, Hooking Valley
II. II. shops increase from half time to
lO-hour schedule. Illinois Steel Co an