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

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
IL ghostly nature. 1t is only seen by 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 general assignment
Assets S57 267.53; liabilities SlA,9lS.24.
Brachmann, Masard, DeLeon 4 Co., wholesale
liquor and wine dealers, Cincinnati, Ohio, have
failed.
The Paine Shoe Company of Boston, Mass, have
assigned.
Nose 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 ola receiver.
H. White 4 Co., dealers in rattan, New York city,
have assigned
The creditors of the st. Onge and ONeil Dry
Goods Company, Providence r. l., including sew
eral houses in New York, Boston and Providence,
have filed petition of insolvency.
lii Chicago bill has been filed to forecIosea trust
deed for Sl9O93I the property of the Cheltenham
Beach Company.
On the announcement June II of 10 per cent
general reduction of wages at the Worcester Cycle
Shopsin Middletown Conn, 100 men went on strike
There was IL 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 i'll this coun-
try over the probability of the closing down OF the
Sisquchamna Water Power and Paper Company at
COnOwin3O Md, which has been operating Tor
some months under the guidance of ID. c. Wharton
smith, as receiver. For time after IL receiver had
been appointed ami under his economical manage
nent, 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 Mctnucn COS
cotton mill ut the Mcthucn, Mass were informed
by the firm June / that they wouId DC given the
choice of accepting reduction OF wages i'll ORDER
that the mill may be kept running du;mG the -url-
Icr MONTHS ur bc discharged and have the
mn. suspend operations. rhc mil i no" closed.
H. Mills y TO-. "!st"! lstc~cr>, baltimore, Md,
nave tl!cd.
At ',tcm, Mas, ;hc %,,urnMca- S.c.,lg Cotton
Mii, uu Tuesday posted G"tl'"> IL "a eject that
nr II ,!"Iiuil.. lcrioG ii!> nili hc lun oniy
tour G..y> ~rck. Ilsr reason ">>.e,,cd Is poor
business. The mills give cmp", meat IL" i" large
force ut vmp"!c>.
\ temporary receiver MAS appointed III Buffalo,
New York Jumt. Ii, for Plumb BurtlIc& " Bannard,
manufacturers of bolts AMI nuts. with large works
at Tollawanda, in the matter OF the voluntary dis
III ,,,,ttI ,,t firm.
mated nominally at 100000.
The Barlow Corn Planter Works at Quincy, Hi
noS, were closed on Monday by the creditors,
whose claims aggregate $4,000.
The Baltimore Evening World says:-"It has not
been stated whether 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
Qa.) Chenille and Tapestry Company on an exc
cuton of s. O0o issued. by the Iehigh Valley Ma
tiola Bank.
Nicholas Curtis vcc-prcsident of the Anderson
Harris Carriage Company, Cincinnati, Ohio, has
pctitioned court for receiver. The capital stock
is 500 600
Samuel W. Richards, dry goods, New York, has
assigned.
The Baltimore Morning Herald, Of June IL, SAYS
prosperity is not coming i'll with IL hop and jump,
as the calamity -howlcrs persist i'll 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.
Blamklcy Brothers x Co., iron founders, and
Samuel \. Wood X Co., yarns. both firms of Phila
dclphia, Pa, have assigned.
The operatives from the stitching department of
the ApSley Rubber Company, i'll Hudson, Massa
chuscttS, went 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 i'll consequence of Il heavy reduc-
ton i'll wages.
EAsroN, PA, June 19.-Thc Northampton Hard
Vein Company and Theodore Whitcscll x Co., slate
operators at Belfast this county, have notified their
several hundred men that the quarricS will shut
down ut the end of the present month for in
definite period. There is unusual dizziness i'll 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.
HAGEBBuEG, PA, June 2O-1cputy Attorney
General Elkiu gave out statement tonight on
lhc c"iIdltloh Oh the STATE iltllccS, ~ Wllch he
shows that there is deficit OF ;,o 600 in the state
treasury. Mr.. Elkim says the legislature has Tor
several years appropriated more money than tile
net revenues received by the state hence the pres
cnt large deficiency.
THE above announcements are the last of our
Prosperity (?) column. For several months passed
we searched the journals named at the head of
this article for the great business boom that to
prevail throughout the country after the election
of Mckinley, and we have conscientiousy given
all that we could find. Here, at the close of the
eighth month, the situation is nearly as bad as at
the outset and i'll addition the order has been pass
ed all along the line for the administration papers
to publish no failures if can possibly be avoided
and to make the most of the starting of every little